Montgomery County sentinel., 1890-08-29
THE DUTY OF DEMOCRAT rs IN THE
SIXTH DISTRICT

IHE DOI UT DEMOOItA1 L - LA' AAD
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Whatever differences may exist within
the Democratic party In regard to party
management in the State, there can be no
manner of doubt as to their duty in the ap-
preaching Congressional election; and while
IL frank discussion of all political questions
is proper and timely, there is no reason why
Democrats should not act as unit in those
matters about which all agree. 1t is not
often that in an off-year the party lines are
so sharply drawn as at this time, and there
are few districts in the country where the
well defined principles of the two great
parties are more clearly presented than In
this.
BY reason of his advocacy Of the utmost
limit of protection, and the pains he took
To press himself forward as champion of
the election bill, Mr.. McComas has thrust
upon his constituents the necessity of meas
uring him as they have never done before.
The Mckinley bill is an outrage upon
common sense; the Lodge bill is an outrage
upon common decency. The first, by seek
ing to increase the already enormous profits
oi manufacturers and the price of many
necessarles of life, tends to place still heav-
Ter burden upon the shoulders OF the many
for the benefit of the few, and to emphasize
the antagonisms between classes which may
one day lead 10 dire results. The latter, by
giI'GgSss-it a. vfssatiol Of elections to Fsieral
oaiciala ans saa@iing The ballot 10 thesar.
veillance of the soldier, snDSsts the nader
lying principle'of republican governmenr
and destroys at stroke the only security
he people have against despotic and irre-
sponsibe power Both measures are inim-
ica to the interests and the liberties of the
masses, and both are intended to continue
the Republican party in power by means
which the Constitution never contemplated
and which will corrupt and disintegrate the
country. The methods by which these meas
ures were rushed through the House of Rep
resentatives without allowing full and free
discussion of them, shows with how little
respect the Republican party regards the
wishes and welfare of the people, and add
another proof to the many already existing
that i: will stop at nothing that stands in
the way of success. Backed up as it is by
The great money power of the country and
living by the needless taxes it wrings from
the hands of toll, deaf to the cry of hunger
and the manly protest Of the poor, it presses
on as if human patience had no limit and
the day Of reckoning never came TO the
spoler and tyrant In all Of its latter day
deviltry, Mr.. McComas has been a conspic.
Rous actor. Living in district in which
iho intelligent and responsible voters and
property owners are overwhelmingly against
him, he has invariably cast his vote in Con-
grcss with as little regard to their real in
terests as if they had been stones upon the
highway No partisan measure was too ex-
,reme for him. He not only supported the
Lodge election bill, with all of its enormi-
ties but after it had been modified in the
Senate he still vindicated his vote, and be.
came the eulogist Of Speaker Reed. In his
blind party ZEAL he voted to turn from their
seats Democrats who had been elected to
Congress by majorties larger than his own,
in order 10 defeat the will of the people
and still further oppress and plunder them.
In his effort to stand we'll with his party he
has not scrupled to vilify the State Of his
birth and cast sur upon the men who
honored him.
He is asking another election. He is ap-
pealing to the people whom he slandered
aud whose interests and honor he treats so
lightly, to indorse course in Congress
which has aroused widespread hostility
even in his own party, and is condemned by
patriotic and seli-respecting men of all
shades of political belief except the most
radical At each recurring session of Con-
gress he has become more rabid in his par
tisauship; at each election more arrogant
and egotistic in his attitude towards the
people.
Il is in the nature of things that these
facts should materially weaken Mr.. Nc
Comas' hold upon the people of the district
and render his defeat easy of accomplish
menl by united opposition. The time has
passed when man of Mr.. McComas' bold
ness of assertion can dupe the intelligent
citizen. Those who believe in tariff reform
have not been idle during the past two years,
AID a great flood of information has been
poured out for the peoples education upon
this and kindred subjects Mr.. McComas
will find vastly different audiences from
those he last addressed, and will discover
that their good opinion of him has been
Cancelled by his own msdeeds.
In such case, the plain duty of the Demo
Gratis of the district is to remember that, as
to this election, they are Democrats only,
and that the great principles of their party
nay, of the country-are assailed with
vgor and cunning hitherto unknown. Il
does not involve a forgetfulness of home
matters or less watchfulness for the future
in regard to them. What y does require is
the highest exhibition Of party loyalty
that in the presence OF eommos foe all
Democrats are comrades, ready and willing