The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-10-25

makes him all the more undesirable
for Governor. If Lowndes were a man
nominated by disaffected Democrats
and by Republicans who oppose
mixed schools, negro policemen, &c,
then Democrat might, with some
appearance of consistency, vote for
the Independent candidate for Gov
ernor. But Lowndes is not an indie
pendent candidate. He is Il second
Bonaparte, with some of the obnoX-
ious egotism eradicated. He is a Re-
publican, and he stands at the head of
the ticket as the exponent of Repub-
licanism in its most aggressive form.
John Z. Hurst is an earnest and
honest Democrat. The son of Meth
odist minister, he was early compelled
to make his own living. His business
ability and integrity have made him
eminently successful. As Governor he
will bring to bear upon the duties of
his office the same honest and con-
scientious discharge of duty that has
characterized his private life.
If you are not satisfied with the
course of Senator German in the
United States Senate, why should you
make Mr.. Hurst answer for Germans
deeds? Why should you compel the
Democratic party of Maryland to suf-
fer defeat? Democrats, do your own
thinking. Do not let the Sun do it
for you, and do not take its erratic
statements, the product of heated
and excited imagination, for facts.
Don't allow corporation, even though
it be newspaper corporation, which
has no personal honor to maintain
and no fixed principles, to mislead
you into casting your vote in favor of
a Republican Governor and the giving
over of the State to Republican mis-
rule.
We know that the number of Dem
ocrats who will not support the Dem
ocratic ticket this fall has been
greatly exaggerated by those to whom
the wish is father to the thought. y
We recognize the fact, however, that
the Republicans are making the hard
est fight this year that thay have
made for more than a quarter Of i
century in Maryland, and it behooves
every Democrat to do his duty at the
polls and to work for the success of
the ticket during the remaining ten
days preceding election day.
If by any chance you are one of
those who are undecided and are ION
the fence" will it not be safer and
more rational for you to drop on the
side you have been on all your lives
than to drop on the side to which you
are a total stranger and where you
will be an innovation? You will have
the satisfaction (D of having 46, 900 ne
groes with you, and may have $4,000
more with your children in school in
the near future should you conclude
to drop on the other side.
Don't fiatter yourselves that if you
help to put the Republicans ntopower
this year it will be an easy matter to
dislodge them in the future. They
are making a desperate effort to get
in, and if they do get in they will
make just as desperate an effort to
stay in.
Let no Democrat be misled into
halpino TO mt the ReDublican DartY
into power in Maryland, in a futile
attempt to chastise Senator German
by defeating the regularly nominated
candidate for Governor. If Germans
policy in the United States Senate
does not accord with your ideas of
Democracy, settle with German in
1897, when he is the issue; but do not
condemn and politically execute John
e. Hurst on November the 9TH for
the misdeeds of another man.