The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-03

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A REPLY TO FALSE REPORTS.
| Spicy Letter from Capt. John T. Harkins.

Il spicy Letter from S;tlit. d Ohh Il. harRlnS.
As some of the Mugwumps of the Republi-
cal party have circulated a report that was
going to vote the Democratic ticket, and the
same class of Democrats who intend to vote
for the Mugwump Commissioners have stated
that had said would not vote for any id
Democrat, | emphatically deny both asser-
tions.
/ have been Il Republican ever since the
party was first organized and am just as hon
est in politics as in business, and if | have
wronged any man out of cent would like
him to say so, and | will make it right. /
haven't all my debts paid but expect to pay
them. | have been in politics and ran for
Sheriff aginSt w. Oliver Hughes, who is one
of your best citizens, and made q good Sheriff.
He only beat ne 800 votes, which showed
that had a good many Democratic friends
rs well as Republican. whom respect and APP
preciate, and if l choose to vote for friend
who has been regularly nominated on a Dem
ocratic ticket, | have 4 perfect right to do so,
and don't consider it DISTINGUISHES me as
Republican.
We have placed on our ticket number of
times Democrats, and have voted for them
every time, and we have always gone back as
a party, instead of ahead. The last one we
had on our ticket was VIM. 5. Keech for
Judge | said then he was the last Democrat
| would ever vote for on Republican ticket,
and intend to stick to it, and | won't vote
for any Republican who will run around and
e,ectioneer for Democrats in Democratic
primaries | believe in every party making
its own nominations
Now, | don't want any office and am not
asking for any political favors, aud will not
vote that Mugwump ticket. My reasons are,
that the majority of the Republicans on that
ticket were delegates to the convention and
worked and voted for that fusion ticket,
knowing it was not the wishes of the majority
o. the Republican party.
This is one time since the organization of
the party III this county that we should have
had a straight Republican ticket, which
ould have had the respect of both parties.
Now who is this leader and chief pro-
moter of this fusion movement? Is he not
the same man who was run by the Republic
cans and elected to the State Senate and after
wards came out i'll car and said, Il here
after identity myself with the Democratic
party" which was an insult chucked in the
face of every Republican who voted for him
lie next turns his attention to Democratic
primaries and runs for an office, being defeat
ed. He next attempts to purify the Demo
cratic party. and has been at it for some time.
Now he looms up in front of the Republicans
and tells them what they must do to win, and
they have started in to do it, with all to lose
and nothing to gain. And | care not which
board of Commissioners is elected, | say the
Republican party has been robbed ofits rights,
straight Republican ticket Ash said, will
not vote that Mugwump ticket. won't vote
the Prohibition ticket. don't intend 10 vote
the Democratic ticket, and don't intend to try
to keep any OHe else from voting it, This is
free country and every man has a right to
vote ~ he plc#ses, and any man who would
| sail into port under false colors could not be
trusted after hc got there.
JOHN T. HARKINs,
Forest HILL Md