The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-16
The Sun and Its Satellites.

The Sun and It's Satellites.
The nonsense and guess-work in regard
to the tariff bill is still being kept up by
that part of the press in this state that Is
bent upon discrediting the Democratic
party. The Baltimore Sun is leading and
all the off-color, patent-outside and plate
matter faction organs in the state are fol-
lowing behind, repeating its utterances,
which are born of malice, and adding
their own fippant paragraphs, that are IN
tended to cause discomfort and to build up
the faction with which they train.
The Sun is not Democratic paper. 1t
does not profess to be. 1t does not speak
for the Democratic party. nor does it claim
to uphold Democratic principles, except
when it has specific purposes of malice
against some or all of the recognized lead
ers, when it then pretends to support Dem
ocratic doctrines in order to be in better
position to carry out its purposes.
All readers of the San will remember
how, few years ago, it berated the party
press and called it slavish and sycoPhantish,
and at the same time denying its adherence
to any party or principles. 1t was indie
pendent, battling for the right, regardless
of all parties and all principles, so it said,
but everybody knew then, and knows now,
that the Sans idea of right is putting
money in its pocket and venting its malice
toward all who do not submit to its AFRO
gance and overbearing disposition. Purse
proud itself, it is for monopoly and capital
all the time against the people, but to blind
the people it is continually talking of the
public good. 1t is the organ of the tax
dodgers in this state, aud on three success
sive occasions has aided largely in defeat
ing a fair and Just assessment bill When
ever the Sun opposes a monopoly, 1t is
solely because it is not in it. And 1t
never loses an opportunity to sanction the
calling out of troops to suppress labor In
its demand for fair wages. The Sun OF
today is not the Sun under the direction OF
its founder. Then it was newspaper.
Now it is the personal organ of those who
control it, and even the news matter Is
colored to add strength to its editorial ut
terances.
And the faction journals that follow in
its wake, what are they? They have been
established to fight against what is, and
have rallied to their support every disap-
pointed office-seeker whose idea of party is
that it is means to self-ddvancement.
They exist in number of counties, but for
their existence no Just reason can be as
signed They serve only to breed discord
and discomfort. DISCRIMINATION follows
wherever they exist, and sometimes Demo
cratic defeat occurs. Still, defeat is well
come to them, unless their faction is upper
most in party control. In no less than
five counties today warning papers are dis
tracing the Democratic party, much to the
satisfaction and encouragement Of the Re
publican party, the bulk of whose voters in
these counties consist of colored men. The
divisions cannot but result in reduced
Democratic majorities.
The Sun and its patent-outside and
plate matter satellites, as remarked above,
are still discussing the tariff bill, and are still
palming off on their readers their own guess
work and nonsense in regard to the pend
ING bill in the Senate The editors know
that they don't know much about the bill,
but they conceive it to be wrong because
of their hostility to some six or seven Sen
ators who have formulated a number OF
amendments. We do not think we hazard
much in declaring that the SIN has little
or no knowledge of the effect OF those
amendments. And it knows, too, that some
of the amendments have been withdrawn,
and that some of the others merely restored
the rates of the Wilson bill, that all the
independent" went so wild over.
The Senate has not completed the tarlff
bill yet, and every criticism of it is mere
guess work. And when it is finished 1t
will 90 to a conference committee of the
two houses. Just what it will provide for
when completed, no one knows or can know,
and all the tariff discussion at present is
mere shooting in the air. 1t is discredlt-
able to respectable journalism, however,
for the press to be discussing matters OF
which they know nothing and can as yet
know anything. But these Journals are
not caring for that. The San is interested
now in discrediting certain Democratic
Senators, and its patent-outside and plate
matter satellites in building up the factions
of which they are the organs. 1t is mis-
homer to call faction organ Democratic
paper. A Democratic paper should deal
with principles rather than individuals, and
when journal runs into personallsm Its
value as party paper ceases.
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