The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-10-16
FOR county surveyor,
WILLIAM T. CLARK.
The Coming Election.

Two weeks from Tuesday next the voters
of Hartford county will be called on to de-
clare their choice of persons to ill various
Offices, from Governor down to County Sur
veyor. Constituted as our government is the
people ought to make choice between par
ties, for upon the carrying out of one line of
policy or another the safety of our republic
must depend.
The Republican party, judged by its past
record, holds principles and maintains line
of policy which experience has shown to be
be dangerous to the rights of indivi-
yiduals and to the perpetuity of sgovern-
ment of the people, by the people, and
for the people. 1t was to secure free
dom from oppression and tyranny that
the forefathers of the republic braved the
perils of the ocean and hszsrded th cir
lives and fortunes in q wilderness infested by
ssvages and wild beasts. 1t is this instinct
Of Opposition to arbitrary and unequal laws
which has given power and strength to the
Democratic party in Its contests with other
parties, by whatever names they have been
called, which have advocated principles sub
versive of free institutions. For seventy years
he country prospered under the benign infiu-
ences Of Democratic policy, administered by
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and
the lesser lights of Democracy. The civil
war, involving, as it did, the question of the
continuance of African slavery, subordinated
all questions of governmental policy to this
one issue, and upon it the Republican party
came into power. Enfranchising the blacks
1t has been enabled, chiefly by their votes and
by the power of capitalistic monopoly and
corporate influence to retain control of the
national government ever since, with the ex-
ception of the brief period when Grover
Cleveland filled with honor and usefulness
the executive chair at Washington.
1t is between these two great parties that
voters must choose. Dishonest men, it is
true, are not likely to carry out honest prin-
ciples, but in this election it is satisfac-
tory to know that the Democrats have
nominated q clean, honest and good
ticket, for State and county offices. At its
head Is the name of Farmer Frank Brown
If there is any virtue in having been reared
on farm Mr.. Brown possesses this, at least
He was born on farm, worked on farm and
Is to-day the manager of large farm. He
knows and has felt where unjust and unequal
laws pinch farmers, and if elected may be
relied upon to stand up for the rights and in
terests of the farmer and laborer. Mr.. Brown,
besides his practical knowledge of farming,
Is business man of no ordinary capacity
In everything he has undertaken he has
shown rare executive ability which abund-
antly qualities him for the exalted and dig
nifed position of Governor.
Upon the State ticket with him are Hon.
John P. Poe for Attorney General; Hon.
Marion DeKalb Smith for Comptroller and
Hon. ]. Frank Ford for Clerk of the Court of
Appeals. All Of them good men and good
Democrats.
We can refer 10 our county ticket with
pride, and 1t is gratifying to note that the
natural feeling of soreness and disappoint-
ment which prevailed after the primary cleo
tons is rapidly passing away, and is giving
place to an earnest desire for the election of
the whole ticket. There is not candidate
whose name was printed on the Democratic
primary ticket, as far as we know, who is not
now openly In favor of the election of the
Democratic candidates. 1t Is this feeling of
loyalty to party-ofbeliefin Democratic prin.
ciples and pride in Democratic success which
leads alltrue Democrats to make their contest
within the party lines. and when this is over
msnfully and chivalrously to aid in electing
those whom they may have opposed at the
primaries.
The Democratic ticket, we repeat, is
good one. 1t measures up fully to the Jeffer-
sonian standard of honesty and capability
and no Democrat should hesitate for an in
slant to vote for ever man upon it.