Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-11-04
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM M. McKAIG,
OF ALLEGANY COUNTY.
THE FAREWELL OF THE CAM.
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PAIGN.
Before another issue of the SENTINEL
shall have reached our patrons and friends
the people will have decided not only as to
the political complexion of the popular
branch of the Fifty third Congress. but they
will also have determined who is to be the
chief executive of the nation for the four
years from the 4th of March next ensuing
The time for argument has passed. The
people have been educated and instructed
upon the two great cardinal principles at
issue between the two great parties not only
through the columns of the press, but ex.
iensively so from the hastings, and, we may
add with truth to considerable extent,
from the pulpit. The issues involved are such
as to appeal to the honesty, integrity and pa
iriotism Of every voter, since they not only
affect his individual welfare and happiness,
but the stability and permanency Of the in.
situations Of the best government ever de.
signed by man in the interest of his fellow.
man.
No other people were ever blessed with so
vast and rich country as this. With unlim.
tied resources, in the full possession of every
tlt ment necessary to make 1t one of the
grandest and richest nations of the earth,
yet TO day we find the existence of that
same greed and avarice that has cursed and
caused the downfall of other nations. If
there is hunger to day in this smiling land
Of plenty there is wrong beneath that hum
ger If toll looks up from its humble homes
upon the dust covered and blood stained
wheels Of silent factories there is an injus-
lice OF law Or individual power. Political
economists with personal ends and aims to
serve may build fair theories to the con
trary, but the practical illustration of thou.
sands of men and women who are out of
employment, and hundreds of thousands
who are laboring at wages scarcely sufii-
Gent to bring toll and life together dash
their theories into atoms.
If there is to day depression with the agr.
cultural and laboring classes, it is because of
the unhallowed legislation that places tax
upon every article Of consumption and gives
protection to the manufacturers, trusts, com
bnes, &c. That we have drifted into great
agricultural and laboring despond there
Tan be no question of doubt, and 1t becomes
now the duty of every citizen, who fully
appreciates his duty as such, to search out
the legislative error that has brought it
about and to correct II 80 far as it lies within
his power.
Equal rights TO all men, exclusive privi-
leges to none, was living principle with
the great father of Democracy-and 1t is q
living principle with the Democracy of to.
day. 1t is in defence of this great principle
that the people of this country will be
called upon TO decide on Tuesday next
Whether the outrageous burdens and cruel.
ties imposed by tariff in the interest of a
favored class shall be continued at the ex-
pense of the people who are the consumers.
As we have said the hour for argument
has passed, the time has arrived for action,
and the great question which now confronts
us are the people prepared to act, and will
they so act that in the future we may have
such tariff law-such policy as will har.
monte, stimulate and encourage the di
versified interests OF the entire Countrywide
formation and enactment of such tariff laws,
such line Of policy as will cause the cur.
rent Of civil power to flow so easy and
smoothly that they, the people, will forget
It's existence in its security, or will they
suffer the continuance OF party 10 power
that is lending its aid and influence in the
interest of individual advancement and the
straining OF the national resources in the
fostering Of general corruptionp
The cause of Democracy is essentially the
cause Of the people, and we believe the PEG.
pie have made up their minds TO ave an
able and honest man at the head OF the gov.
ernment-one who will give them not only
clean but economical government. That man
is Grover Cleveland. In his patriotism the
whole country has confidence. He has been
tried in council and never flinched, and in
the duties of the executive chair he has been
bhhiuehibb nc hC Wao courageous anu ut-
termined in the interest of the whole people.
We believe that the people have grown
tired Of the wild extravaganza of the Repub.
lican party-tired Of It's misrule, tired of its
shameful payment in tariff bountles, tired
Of the manufacturers and monopolies which
are supplying the campaign funds for the
Republican party, tired Of the robbng the
poor for the b,neht of the rich. That they
have made up their mind TO hurl from
power and place the men who have pros.
iituted the honest sentiments of those for
whom they were called 10 act and put in
their place men who are struggling hard
TO lie deep the foundations OF national
wealth and secure the progress Of national
government. II was Larmartine, a great
French writer, who said revolutions never
go backwards" and we feel satisfied that
the elevation OF Grover Cleveland 10 the
presidency and the consequent indication
Of his tariff reform policy will be the cul.
mination Of that revolution which two years
ago swept over this country with such un.
bhdled fury, giving us the popular branch !