The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-05-06
The Called jade winces.


The expose of the motives Of the Balti-
more Sun by a number of leading Demo-
cratic county journals of the state, and the
effectual answer to its fallacies, has stirred
the malice of its purse-proud proprietors,
and its hired attorney gave tone to it in
Tuesdays issue. The SIN falsely says it
doesn't care what the Democratic press say,
and that it really feels proul of its
enemies Its vanity leads it to affect to
believe that the people applaud it, and 1t
assumes an air OF the highest esteem for
itself and a supreme contempt for its critics
We assure our supercilious contemporary
that the contempt it has for the Democratic
press is mutual, and whether it cares to
notice them or not, is matter Of no i'm
portance. They would not feel at all
complimented. But it can count upon the
Democratic press meeting it at every turn.
We do not propose to let it sow heresy in
this state, under the false assumption that
it is Democratic paper. 1t is not, and
has repeatedly said so-that it was allied
to no party and no principles. 1t forgot to
mention, however, the principle of gain,
for which it ever trims.
Its intinlation that the criticism of the
Suns course is inspired from a common
source, is a bold falsehood, and 'cilfut, too,
because the Sun has no knowledge to that
effect. But truth is not regarded in the Suns
editorial course. Deception suits its pnr-
pose better, and it constantly uses it, For
the present it is pretending to be Demo-
cratic paper, in order to have party stand
ing to SOW disscnsion in the Democratic
ranks, so that enough members of the
Legislature can be elected to secure to the
Tax Dodgers, whose organ it is, the ex-
emptions they now enjoy.
The Sun need not now be putting on
airs. because it has grown rich by trim
ming for patronage. The time was when
the Sun was less in circulation than any
respectable county paper now published in
this state, and its plant was very insignia
cant as compared with that of most of the
county journals. And itsprOprietors, too,
believed they we're prosperous on yearly
income that was scarcely equal to the daily
revenue of some papers today.
In its arrogant assumption, its vaporing
and swelling, the Sun forgets the early days
of its existence. Itprobably would not now
wish to recur to them. Its course is well
known, from the time of its inception until
now, from the days when it was not larger
than sheet of foolscap, penny daily
experiment of Yankee printers, who earned
their bread, in part, in those early days of
its insigniicance, by catering in its local
department to the prurient tastes of the
rabble and the habitues of the purlieus of
the city. Proof of these facts is of re-
cord in its own files. Its Slight for all
was irradiated from the obfuscated brain
of an adventurous Briton placed upon the
tripod, brain, however, in its normal state,
respectable in comparison with that of the
hireling who now processes to dispense
light to the readers of that phosphorescent
luminary, whose lofty pretensions of supe-
ror wisdom and responsibility serve only to
excite the derision and contempt of those
who know the origin of this vain-g glorious
boaster, and have followed its chequered and
tortuous course from start to finish, from
its beginning to the present hour.
Finally, let not the Sun think that its
deliverauce of Tuesday will have any effect
on the Democratic press. 1t will continue
to combat the heresies of the San, point out
its inconsistencies, expose its motives and
excoriate its impudent assumption and dis
pustinp self-conceit And let it not for
get. too, that the Democratic press of
MARYLAND reaches four times as many
Democrats in this state as the SIN, whose
circulation does not exceed 10000 in the
counties of Maryland, and one-third OF
these, at least, 90 to Republicans. And
again, let it not forget that the Democratic
majority in this state is always largest
when the San is against us,