Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1894-10-05
'OR CONG RESS
THE MEN AND THE MEASURES


If the Democracy OF the Sixth Maryland
Congressional District shared the solictude
Of the Cynic Philosopher in his search for 6
man for the times, they did not share hi
need Of lantern. The sunlight of intelli
gent circumspection ilumined their vision
and their success had the happiness of In
SEPARATION. The man for the times was the
event of the hour at Hagerstown. The Wis.
ion and the horoscope were unfaltering.-
Looking backward bitter experience marked
with blazed timbers the riot of repeated
laundering. Looking around, the POSSIBLE
tiles of the half accomplished, electrified a
purpose To do nothing by fractions. Look.
ing ahead, the way and the means clearly
doomed up. Measures without men revealed
the 6Tutem fulnlea Men without measures
were but a snare unmasked, and delusion
dshonored. Men and measures, measures
rooted in principle, men vivified with CON
viction, embodied the want everybody felt
The time was ripe. The people were reso-
lutte. The duty was plain. And the man
appeared. Not plotting politician, em
FILTERED by disappointed till peril had be.
come grateful. Not chronic office seeker,
intiamed by fumes of the temptation that
had lured him TO ruin. Not political roue,
pricking the ears of intent at promise of
pleasure that died with his early hopes
Not periwig, TO be fitted to any pate that
circumstance might shape the situation TO-
Not trimmer; not palterer; but man.
Modest in the force of courage. Earnest in
the spirit Of unselfshness. Resolute in the
growth OF logical conviction. Bold in the
path where duty pointed.
The Democracy oil the mountains had
wearied of the gnis fatuu and yearned for
the principle. They had tired of toying
with the plausible and were hungering for
the real. Dalliance had lost its glitter. Tenn
porizing was but compromise with wrong.
Once they had doubted-now they knew.
Once they had pondered now they felt. The
hour had come. The measure was defined
The man was at hand. The summons was
sent and he came. AS Cincinnatus left the
pillow, 80 Williams forsook his privacy =
With none OF the cOyness OF the maiden,
none OF the bushes Of the prude, none Of
the protests OF the Cyprian, but with much
of the modesty Ofthe citizen aud all the cour.
age oi the man, he needed the call " u trust
he had not sought, and accepted ii with the
ardor Of knight.
Men Of Montgomery, men of Western Ma
ryland, you know the times, only too we'll.
Mark the man who will do all that man may
do To change them. He stands for all that
is clear in conviction and earnest in purpose.
He will struggle for the right as God has
given him To see 1t, and patient culture has
taught him to foreiend il. His convictions
have u" divergent trend. His voice has no
uncertain sound. You have heard him speak
and you feel that he means what he says
You have known of his life and you never
knew him TO act untrue. With you he has
measured the situation and he feels as you
feel about it. He has Joined in your hopes
and shared your disappointments. When
you have agonzed, he has wept. When you
have seemed to prosper, he has partaken Of
your joy. He has been one of you, is one
of you, and that he is called TO lead you, is
not Of his seeking. He was always willing
To follow trusted leadership. Only because
summoned TO lead, does he ask you TO trust
him. The vice of seli-seeking is aloof from
his doors. Place hunting is not his voca
ton. II he win, yours will be the gain If
you allow him to fail, his modest virtues
will "plead like angels, trumpet-,ongued
against the deep damnaton of his taking
off,"
Will you allow him To fail? What is the
alternative? Place hunting endorsed. Pot.
house politics rejuvenated. McKinleyism
called back to Maryland. The dial of pro
gress turned back decade, perhaps gen
Grafton All the plaques engendered by
war times, and now half extirpated, return
ing In their riot. Bayonets at the polls
monstrous force bills-denial OF citizenship
robber tariffs-absentee landlords and rule
of Scottish barons-monopolies of wealth
and monopolies OF opportunity-cormor-
ancy OF corruption-"communis of pelf u
All that Mr., Williams stands for, Mr. Well.
ington antagonizes. One is modest cit
zen, taken nolens UOlens from private duty to
battle Tor q cause. The other place-hun-
ter, grasping for another Office. One &C
cepting place for the duty there is in it
Theother striving for an Office for the money
there is in it. To the one the place Is trust.
To the other, 1t is only another perquisite
One makes sacrifice to accept IT, The
other would -not have il but for its emolu
ments. In the eyes OF one, seat In Con
gress is an onerous struggle to achieve thu
right and avert the wrong To the other i
is an opportunity to play the game of poll
tics and rake in the "chips" One approaches
measure with the query-is 1t right? Th'
other will all too likely ask-"whst doe
Reed wishP"
Marylanders, free men OF the mountains
strong men OF the mines, ye who struggl
and ye who pant in wonder at the hardness
of your lot and its fruitlessness, il there wer
no difference 10 the principles involved
could you hesitate between the men How
much less can you hesitate, when you con
slider what difference there isl One hold
that opportunity is the birthright of all an
that Law is intended TO secure it. The othe
holds that opportunity is the privilege Z
the monopOlist, and that law should b
formulated to promote it. One advocate
the greatest good to the greatest number
The other would have the good made grea
est by concentration in the hands Of chose
few. All the legislation that one woul
favor points unerringly one way, while q
thai would commend itself TO the othe
points inevitably the other way. One hea
the groans of a crushed people and wnul
life the load that he has seen growing mo-
and more burdensome. The other has b