The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-10-09

Mr.. German pointed out the danger which
still menaces the country In the Force Bill, if
the. Republicans regain complete ascendancy.
He said;
mo wonder the farmers have organized; no
wonder you hear OF labor organizations and Dus-
ness mems associations and alliances. The people
are waking up to their true condition. They begin
to realize how audacious the Republican party has
been. They have kept themselves in power by
tanning the flames of sectiOnalism and by using
the peoples money to corrupt them at the ballot
box. They have gone to such an extreme that
neither money nor offices could keep them in
power longer. There was and there Is but one
hope of their being able to continue In power. and
that BY trampling upon the rights of the people at
the ballot box-to take from them that most sacred
right of selecting their own representatives. I'm
der the cover OF demand for free ballot and
fair count they are pledged to destroy the autono
my OF the States and make you their slaves win
the history of that contest during the last Con-
gress you are all familiar Their determination,
no man can doubt. Its passage would have been
secured but for the manly independence OF eight
Republicans who were better Americans than he
THE action of the Farmers Alliance in saying
that they would protest against the passage OF
such an i1gutous measure ,S dld o more toTar t
proclamation was more valuable than any docll-
ment promulgated in this country since the Decla-
ration of Independence. God bless the Farmers
"But that bill will come again if Harrison is re-
elected: Do not mistake the signs OF the times;-
Massachusetts had Lodge, who introduced the
bill, chairman of its Republican convention; its
resolve was for the force BILL Ohio and every Re-
publican State that has acted are for it. The Re-
publican party is irrevocably committed to it;
their very existence depends upon it, That queS-
ton is above taxes and extravaganza; it deter
mines the question of the continuance of the form
of government under which we live.
Here in Maryland last year the Republicans
were bold enough to advocate it, and now they re-
solve that they are proud of the Fifty-frst Con-
gress Reed, Harrison and all. Here they could
not make contest if they had proclaimed their
adhesion to the BILL But they are for it; they are
stealthily at work for control; their sappers and
miners are at .work. A few old stagers with Re-
publican money in their pockets, and suppose the
devil in their hearts, are trying TO sow dlssensOns
among Democrats. A few good men may be de-
ceived, but not many. The people are aroused l.
they not in humor to be carried off on side
issues"
Upon the subject of the election in Mary
land Senator German said:
This election determines who is to be Governor.
Comptroller, Attorney General and all the State
officers and two United States Senator's who for
six years must be in Washington pledged to stand
by the people against Republican doctrines and
land in the great contest of '92. Will you do your
duty? This you always have-you have never fal-
tered. In this county, of which l am native.
(HowardO in Baltimore and in Carroll, the very
home of liberty and the seat OF Democracy, here
where the men and the women love their govern
ment you will see to it that in this hour OF peril
to your liberties not Republican be given pub
lie trust, from constable to the g0vernorship."