Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-07-04
"Turn The RascaIs ont ,


ing up the filth and corruption Of ii
own party, is doing its utmost 4 pres
ent to purify the Democratic marty or
ganIzation in this State. Like all hon
est Republicans aud intelligent citizens
It has at last concluded, that is if we ar,
TO judge from the following article which
We quote, that publication can onl,
come after the present corrupt Demo
cratic political bosses are dead anc
bnried out Of the sight Of decent men
and while it is still vigorous in its de-
nunciation of the Republican party il
believes that Democratic success will b.
bought at too great a sacrifice If it con.
tinues longer in power the politician,
who with rods of iron corruptly rule thi,
State. The Sun says:
The present demand for the reor.
ganization Of the Democratic party 10
Maryland is based upon the existence Of
divisions and dissensions in the party,
especially in this city. which have alrea-
dy weakened its strength and suggest
she possibility Of future defeat. These
divisions have. as every one knows, a
far deeper root than any personal ieal-
ousies or differences about Offices. They
have arisen from the profound disgust
with which a large number of the very
best men in the party haye viewed the
growth of corruption and 'b0sism' and
'ring-rule' in this city and throughout
the State. resulting in the complete sub.
ordination Of every public interest, as
well as of all individual freedom of ac-
ton, to the iron despotism and selfish
greed of few prominent politicians -
1t Is this division of the party strength
which the Sun deplores, not as a partisan
but in the interest of good government !,
and which it would gladly help to heal
by assisting in the removal of the causes
which have led to it, in the eradication
of the abuses which have alienated and
disguised so many good Democrats, and
in the substitution of better methods and
better men in the party management.
It is impossible to look upon the pros
pect of continuance of the Republican
party in power as anything but nation
al calamity, and to avert that calamity,
the restoration of confidence, harmony
and union among Democrats in every
Democratic State and in every doubtful
State and congressional district through
out the Union is matter of the utmost
Importance.
But it is equally important to recog-
nize the fact that even success may be
purchased at too dear a price if II in
wolves a sacrifice of personal manhood
and principle or voluntary submission
TO what is intrinsically base and wrong.
The Sun has no sympathy with that spe-
cies of political prostitution which avows
=
its readiness. provided il can acc0E ls
its own purposes, to ally itself with any
body. with Republican bosses to-day
aud if need be, with the Democratic
bosses tomorrow, and which merely
masks under the affected term 'oppor-
tuusm,' a lack OF earnest stable convic-
tons and a cynical indifference to the
use of any means by which success can
be purchased, no matter how reprehen-
sible. Let our ends, by all means, be
clean and such as good men may APP
prove, but let the same be true of our
methods also. Nine-tenths of the po-
litical decentralization and corruption
which exis.s in this community to-day
has grown out of the methods employed
in politics and the character, consequent
~, of the men who employ them-de
yious and corrupt methods in legislation,
at the polls, and the gnoble crew Of FOB
byists, heelers, FOUNDERS, busters and
repeaters, whose services such methods
necessarily call into play.
Therefore we repeat. and it cannot be
repeated too often, that the true and
only basis of Democratic reorganization
aud the surest foundation OF Democratic
strength and victory in this State should
be sought, not in new combinations
or deals with one set of politicians or
another, but in the spontaneous union Of
honest men in the earnest effort and de-
termination to put an end to 'bosslsm
and ring rule and to call new men to
the front whose hands are unstained by
participation in the infamous spoils of
the lobby or by completely in the fruits
of canal mismanagement, treasury de-
falc .tions, or any of the scandals, legis-
lativc or executive, for which the pres
ent party managers are responsible =
Thi, is not hostility to Democratic prin-
ciplcs or to the Democratic party, but to
the individuals whose evil influence.
reputation aud practices are the real and
only hinderances to Democratic unity
and Democratic success"
The Louisianl legislature has passed
the Lottery bill. It has the
majority of the Democratic party
of Louisiana on its side to tie last