The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-02
Election Day.


Next Tuesday is election day. Mr..
Republican, who are you going to vote
for? Mr.. Baker.
Mr.. Democrat, who are you going to
vote for? MIR. Talbot.
Mr. Prohibitionist, who are you going
to vote for? Mr.. Parker.
Very we'll. You have selected the call
didstes you intend to cast your votes for.
And one and all, aohat are you going to
vote for? Does any ofyou exactly know
Are you satisfied with times and condi-
tons as they are at present? AS they
have been for a number of years Not
one of you. Do you expect TO better them
by voting for any one of these candidates?
Hardly. The party which Mr.. Baker
stands for and which his election will
strengthen if he should be chosen, has
been in control for the better part of thirty
years since the close of the war. The
conditions which prevail are all of their
choosing. The democrats grumblingly
concurred assisted to pass most of the
acts without opposition, and only made
much ado over the tariff, but have agreed
to the principles that insignificant meas
ure involves, and mainly concurred in the
details. Both these predominating parties
have concurred in demonetizing silver, i'll
making money scarce and dear, in i'll
creasing the burthen of the public debt,
and the onorous infection of all private
debts. Under the policy which has pre-
vailed for thirty years, the farmers land
has shrunken i'll value fifty per cent and
more. The price of all his crops has fallen
fifty per cent and more and his debts
interest and taxes have correspondingly
increased. Neither of these parties offers
to change any of the condition or repeal
the laws which produced these results,
You groan under and condemn these con-
ditions, and your hard lot and that of all
your neighbors. What is the bane of one
is the injury of all. All are in the same
boat and your interests are inseparable,
and you all complain of the pinch of
poverty and general hard times. You
also all know, and acknowledge that class
laws, and bad government, caused the
undesirable state all complain Of and
that the two old parties we are arraigning
have been the architects of these laws
and have given no hint of any intention
to change or repeal them and enact others
All these things you admit and know if
continued there will be no let up in the
tight times, and that more and more of
you each succeeding year will lose what
little you still hold OH to. Then why are
you going to vote for certain continuance
of what you all so loudly and justly COM
plain? Can you answer yourselves that
question satisfactorily Not single man
of you can give yourselves a satisfactory
answer. Then why encourage this state
of affairs by voting for either Baker or
Talbot? Would not silent protest by
not voting for either be far more effective
in promoting change than by your vote
encouraging a continuance of this state
of affairs you so deprecate?
And now Mr.. Prohibition party man
what do you expect to gain by voting for
Mr.. Parker2 You know he will not be
elected, that the vote for that party has
even ceased to amount to a protest, that
it is in fact without influence, or political
power. You feel sure the party will never
achieve anything on its present line of
action, and that you are running hope
less race.
There is one measure you can cast your
votes against that will have immediate
result, and to the happiness and welfare
of the human race, and that is against
license 1t is in your power to Danish
the saloon from your own door and that
of your neighbor Vote anti-license and
let your silent refusal to vote for old party
candidates be protest against these cor
rupt and poverty breeding, millionaire
creating old parties, and that vote will be
an encouragement for the coming i'll of
purer and better party.