The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
Who Will Help?

Wudt oiS SOibS w Wv oSo"e 49, N'~
republican division has been throwing its
vote away in the last 20 years, and the dem
ocrat division has voted as The galley slave
works. There's your seat and there's your
oar, pull The bosses have said to the
voters: This is your party. Here's your
ticket, vote! And the command had TO be
obeyed. The galley slave was compelled TO
pull or suffer the blows from the cat or
rope's end. The voter had 10 cast the
ticket given him or be DISTINGUISHED. This
is pretty hard contrast but it's pretty
fair one. When party becomes crysta-
lized majority in town or county, the man.
ayers of the party machinery have plain
sailing. All they have to do is to manip-
Mate the primary meetings, secure major
ity oil the delegates TO the county convention
and the thing is done.
Managing the primaries is not difficult
matter. After count of noses has been
made and the purchasable vote of the party
numbered, 'practical politics" is resorted
to, which consists in raising a purse suf-
fcient to pay the mercantile voter to vote
the ticket at the primary given him by one
of the managers. That ticket has on it the
uames OF the delegates which have been
selected by the ring or machine organization.
The future officers have been selected in
advance, end the office each aspirant is
10 fill, has been named. The only uncer-
tain factor 10 be met is the faction in the
party. There are generally several ambi-
tious patriots who want the best offices. A
good deal of "internecine" strife that arises
can be compromised but there is almost sure
to be two competitors for the same office if
the office is fat. Then the battle lines are
formed inside the party, and the faction
that can raise the most funds, make the most
promises; in short, knows how TO place the
money "where it will do the most good"
invent the most ingenious lies and swear to
Ghem if need be, and hustle the most lively
in all directions, succeeds in securing a
majority of delegates to the nominating
convention. If they fail, however, in this
but hold good hand, then trading must be
resorted TO in the convention. The captain
battle field is the strategist who is most apt
10 win.
The nominations having been made, the
ticket is represented as the very best that
could be made, and the "choice of the
party" The defeated faction is disgruntled
more or less, of course, bit what can they
do? They have taken an oath, like young
Hannibal, on the altar of their country, to
fight all enemies of the party, and the super
stitious fear of party has so completely de.
bauched their manhood, they are actually
afraid TO vote for any candidate whose name
is not on that particular ticket, although
they know that many of the names have
been placed on the ballot by fraud, the
fraud Of practical politics."
Everybody knows, who has the gump.
tion to go in the house out of the rain, that
the democrat party of this county has been
solidife'l and handled in this manner for
the last twenty years at least, and that Just
such an organization spreads over the whole
State with headquarters in Baltimore.
They also know that the people are restive
under it. They also know that a prejudice
against the republican party in the State
was worked up during the war, organized
and consolidated after peace returned, and
has been cemented by the spoils of Office
and the promise Of Office through all these
gears.
The republican party in the mean time
has waxed weaker, till now the earnest men
of the party have lost hope, and with hope
gone have lost interest. The republican
sees nothing in the democrat party to invite
him 10 vote that ticket, and the dissatisfied
democrat eau discover nothing offered BY
the republican party to induce him to
change, and so each votes the ticket he cares
little for the success of, in liGtless, perfume
lccy manner.
This is a fair statement Of the case, isn't liz
The republican party of the county and
State has been virtually dead for 20 years,
but has maintained galvanic animation by
being connected with the national party.
The republican party of the nation has been
stricken with paraiStic from which II can
never again recover. C.1e or two more
slight shocks and all life will become
extinct. We believe that every 1De who
has given political matters any atteation
admits this.
To sum up; the republican party is a
paraiYtic and the democratic party of Cecil
and the State needs killing. Are the live
people ofthis county willing to remain in
this torpid political condition, or are they
prepared to strike out boldly for freedom
aud an improvement in political measures ?
Who is willing to sign for a new ticket mex,
fall?
There will be State Senator, three Del,
egates to the other House, one Sheriff and