The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-01
The Three Tickets.

The three old parties have placed, each
its ticket before the voters of Cecil. We
say three old parties, for sprinkle Of gray
hairs begins TO show 10 the once youthful
locks OF the Prohibition party, and the
weight of years is stealing upon it.
In point Of merit, ability, state-craft and
whatever goes 10 commend public servants,
whether in embryo, still-born or alive and
kicking, the tickets are about evenly bal
anced. The prohibition convention had
the grace or courage-perhaps both-to
leave the following resolution on record
along with its ticket, for which it deserves
the thanks of the taxpayers al any rate:
"The salaries attached to some of the
county offices are now out of all proportion
to the wages of labor or rewards of industry
in other occupa tons, we pledge orr repre-
sentatives TO use their influence to reduce
them to scale in accordance with present
times, and prevent their future use as
rewards for party services"
The regret no doubt is very general that
they will not have an opportunity to make
so commendable an effort. Some good
people think the prohibition party should
not have put any county ticket in the field.
While they propose TO keep up that poit
ical organization about the proper thing to
do was to place ticket in the field. AS a
medium through which TO make formal
protest against present conditions and
parties the ticket is always handy. The
party has ceased, however, 10 exert any
influence on public thought. AS a disinte-
orator and disorganizer of the old parties il
exerts some Influence, besides providing a
handy medium for conscience vote which
some people love to indulge in.
AS far as any practical results appear the
republican party might as we'll have not
nominated any ticket. If there is any
prophecy in the signs of the times, that
party is passing into history, unless the
people of this country have made up their
minds TO establish firmly a corporation and
wealth class government. If the republi-
can party stands for anything else we have
been, after the most careful and unparalleled
search, unable to find it, and will feel very
thankful to any person who will point any
other possible policy it is shaping for.
The democrat party is not party of
principles as all know, but Of get-oiiice. Ii
has all times and all seasons for its own.
Uninfienced by change, unaffected by results,
it moves onward as the viewless shadows.
Its god is the man who has offices to dis
pense; the Mecca of its hopes the public
crib.
But it were idle to hope for any changes
in the matter of political reform in Mary.
land. She is covered several layers deep in
moss, where she will continue to peacefully
slumber till at some future period she is
uncovered and resurrected by the incoming
tide from her sister States.
| The three venerable tickets are htched
up for their autumn journey to the ballot
box. The vans will rumble along the same
we'll worn tracks they have so often been
driven before, humping oyer the familiar
rock, dropping into the old ruis, till the
procession ends in November, with the
solemn farce of popular government again
played and the newly filled tax boxes in
sight.