The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-10-30
The Election Next Tuesday.

A political campaign of almost unexampled
detraction and abuse on the one side and OF
calmness and moderation on the other is
about drawing to a close. On Tuesday next
the voters of Hartford county will decide who
shall fill the public offices. We have conf
dence In their desire to do right and believe
they will not suffer themselves to be deceiv
upon some of the Democratic candidates by
their political opponents.
As we pointed out last week the election
next Tuesday has deeper significance than
the mere choice ofindividuals to fill the State
and local offices. The Democratic party and
all the friends of tariff reform everywhere are
struggling with might and main to free the
country from the burden of the war tariff,
which is crushing out the energies of the far
mer and of all who depend upon his prosper
ity for their support. Amy success gained by
the Republican party this year will weaken
the Democratic party next year in its great
contest for restoration of the general gov
eminent to the tariff principles which made
our country so prosperous before the war.
1t ia true, local interests can not and ought
not to be lost sight of, and we congratulate
our fellow Democrats that they have on their
ticket the names of candidates in every way
worthy of their support. As whole the
ticket presented for the suffrages of the people
Of Hartford county is an excellent one. 1t is
Democratic from top to bottom. 1t repre-
sents the farming interest-the most import
ant of all interests in this country, because it
il the source from which all other industries
derive their prosperity.
The Republican party is committed to the
high tariff policy which finds expression in
the Mckinley bill, in which the interests of
the farmer are entirely ignored and by whose
odious provisions he is made to pay more
than his share of the expenses of supporting
the national government. The Republican
party is also pledged, by its acts if not in so
many words, to the infamous Force Bill,
which, if it becomes law, would enable its
party leaders at Washington to control cleo
tions in the Southern States and dictate who
should represent those States in the Senate
and House of Representatives.
To carry out the line of policy they have
chosen the Republicans are striving TO place
Maryland among the Republican States, and
to this end they are making desperate efforts
in all the Democratic counties of the State TO
win few of the offices this year, hoping by
means of these to make our State Republic
can next year.
Their chief points of assault in Hartford
are the Clerks Office and the County
Commissioners board. To win two or
three County Commissioners or to gain
the Clerk they are willing to sacrifice
all the other candidates on their tick
ct. There can be no trading, however, unless
Democrats themselves are party thereto,
and we caution every Democrat who desires
the success of his party in the future, to reject
with scorn every offer to sacrifice any one of
his party's candidates for any supposed ad-
vantage to be derived by an exchange of
votes.
The Democratic party in Hartford is suf1-
GENTLY strong to elect all of it's candidates
without resorting to trading.