The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-07-16
j. FRED. C. TALBOT,
Only Democrats Wanted.

Its support of Mr.. Stevenson rs enthusiastic,
bat no occasion is neglected to covertly stab
Mr. Cleveland, in spite Of loud professions o.
loyalty to the party and its nominee,
The defunct Force bill is dragged from 1T
grave and proclaimed as the leading issue o.
the campaign, while tariff reform and civil
service reform are denounced as undemo
cratic.
The party has declared Mr.. Cleveland its
leader and tariff reform its watchword. The
SIN, representing nothing save the vindictive
personality of "a disappointed old man, tries
10 reverse the partys decision and substitute
Stevenson and the Force bill in place OF the
man and the issue chosen at Chicago.
The Democracy is now at the height OF It's
power. But even in its weakest days 1t could
well have afforded to lose the support OF a
journal whose principles on nearly every sub.
iect have been directly opposed to those oil
the marty: a journal which has been repeatedly
areacherous to those it professed to support,
and whose influence. whether thrown for or
against the party it misrepresents, will not
affect handful of voters.
The Democracy desires the adherence OF
none save those who believe in Democratic
principles Let the Sun, therefore, pursue
the same erratic but harmless course as here
tofore, but let it no longer claim to belong to
che party it has so often betrayed, and whose
platform is so radically opposed to its views.
The foregoing extract is taken from the
Baltimore Ne,cs of Tuesday last, 18th
instant. The NelnS is playing a somewhat
similar role in Maryland. Not against Mr..
Cleveland, the head of our ticket, but
against prominent and leading Democrats
in. MARYLAND who have rendered the party
most essential service, which service should
entitle them at least to respectful consider
alton and decent treatment at the hands of
that portion of the metropolitan press claim
Ing affinity, however falsely, with the dom
inant party of the State. While not so
virulent and vindictive, perhaps, as the
New York luminary, against which the
bolts of its righteous indignation are launch
ed, in its degree it is not far behind it in
persistent malevolence and seeming pur-
pose to create, if possible, feeling of dis
cord In its exegesis of hate and con-
tumely against leading Democrats, it has
an active co-worker in a luminary nearer
home, par sOble .fidt,1tm. We call spe-
cial attention of the true Democrats and of
the Democratic press of the counties to the
attitude of these neutrality-suspicious. Demo
cratic dailies, which are posing as purists
of the most immaculate order, while insid-
iously thrusting their pOinards into the
most vital parts of the Democratic organi-
cation of this state. They have long been
engaged in this labor of love, which has
been patiently borne with, not only by the
gentlemen so yirulently assailed, but by
the Democratic press also, whose conduct
ors have constantly aimed to promote bar
mony and not to foment discord, because
harmony is essential to success. But,
iaatieata Lssa tit Juror. Patience abused
may be turned into fury, and it is about
time that the true Democrats Of the State
should vindicate their organization in Mary
land, and with fan in hand, winnow the
chat from the wheat. \ recalcitrant
pseudo Democratic New York journal un-
dertook to play the same role, not very long
ago, when it was taken in hand by the
Democracy and its circulation run down
fully forty thousand. Will these journals
persist in similar course and force the
Democrats of Maryland to mete out SIM
liar treatment to them as q necessary meas
IRE Of self protection and self7defence ? In
the arrogance of fancied security they may
bristle with indignant defiance, bat lei them
remember that eff they SOW the wind they
shall reap the whirlwind" The strongest
castles have not been able to withstand the
assaults of united and determined foes.
The Ae,os is scarcely behind the New
York &u in its Disagreement with the
national Democratic platform. That doc
ament declares the Force Bill liy-
ing issue The Netos says it is defunct,
in the face of the fact that it forms a
part of both the Democratic and the
Republican platforms, and in the Demo-
cratic is given a leading place. IF it be
wrOng in the New York San to undertake
80 eliminate any part of the platform, is it
not equally wrong in the Baltimore NesoS
to undertake to do similar thing? Not
less important than taTif reform is the mat
ter of the Force Bill, for if such bill
should be enacted into law, it would not
OGncern the people so much as to what sort
of tariff they had, as would the question
whether they could preserve their liberties
with statute that would strike at the very
vitaIs of all that constitutes liberty. When
bayonets take possession ofths polls, either
despotism or revolution must follow, A
Force Bill would be the knell of American
freedom unless it worked recurrence to
the principles enunciated by the sage of
Monticello in his immortal Declaration of
Independence '.That whenever any form
of government becomes destructive of these
ends-the inalienableFights of the people
it is the right of the people to alter or
abolish it," Nothing would more surely
lead to revolution than the passage Of the |
Force Bill, which would be utterly at war
with the genius of our Institutions, and sub
versiye of liberty.
Besides the labor trouble in Pennsyl
vania, serious riot has occurred in the
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