Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-10-26
sun POLITICS.
Boitimore SIM, Oct. II, 1887.

son that the Democratic party has
always numbered in lis ranks large
majority Of its hardy sons, and they
have always been its first care. Let
not the men who work for a living in
the various trades be led away from
the substantial merits of the political
contest now waging by the cry of
Fraud and Corruption, for they are
two war cries Of desperate and de-
signing men who have been weiged in
the balance and found wanting. What
ever is wrong in election laws or laws
for the protection Of labor the party
in power stands pledged to reform.
But the enemy of labor and of the
Democratic party stands begging to be
tried once more, while actually threat
ening every day TO return to its old
habits of DISTINGUISHING some of the
people and filling the jails with others.
In the face OF these things it pleads
superior virtues now as the result Of
abstinence and fasting, but they are
probably what Johnson called the
'rascally virtues At all events We
ought not to be beguiled into the be-
lief that Republican ascendency means
anything more than repetition of its
old spirit and its old tricks, which for
so many years sat up the golden calf
for men TO worship and run their
party machine on the Rob Roy rule
That they shall take who have the
power, and they shall keep who can
Baltimore Sun, Oct. 10, 1887.
Suppose the entire municipal adj
ministration is placed in Republican
hands and the control of the oyster
navy, the Chesapeake and Ohio canal,
the Legislature and all other sources
Of political power in the State, officer
ed and manned by this hungry politi-
cal organization, is there any sentient
being in the State who supposes they
would hesitate to employ the forces at
their command in the peculiar ways
thev so we'll understand and continue
their grasp upon political power, and
especially to carry the State for the
Republican Presidential candidate"
Baltimore SIN, Nor. ?, 1887.
I'VE long ago pointed out the in
consistency involved in supporting the
Republican party upon State issues
and The Democratic party upon ques
tions of federal politics. 1t is difficult
to serve two masters, we are told and
it is equally hard to render divided
allegiance to the two great political
organizations of the country. They
assume that they have the power to
destroy Democratic ascendency here
for the purpose they have in view, and
then, at their sweet will, wrest the
State from the hands Of the Republi-
can party after placing in their hands
all the State and municipal machinery,
which every man knows constitutes
the sources of political power.
There is strong reason to believe
that those who profess themselves
national Democrats and vet are lead
ing so-called independent movement
are, Republicans ut heart and no
Democrats Mt ALL 1t matters little
what, rs individuals, they intend to
do, but it matters very greatly that
they shall not delude our people with
such nonsense and hypocrisy until we
are handed over to the Republican
Delilah to be shOrn of our strength
and bound hand and foot. The re-
election of President Cleveland is
directly involved in the state election,
for no man fit to be at large can
honestly believe that the State can be
betrayed into Republican hands now
and reclaimed in 1888. Every con-
sideration of self-interest, every tie of
association with the South, every i'm
pulse of feeling kindled by the mem
DRY of Republican misgovernment in
the past, ought to move our people to
stand rs firm as adamant and to turn
a deaf ear to those who have forgotten
their own political integrity and now
seek to mislead Others to their ruin. "
baltimore Sun, Nor. ., 1887.
III the Democratic party has plant
ed its standard upon the fortress of
truth and honor and shall fail at last
in its long struggle for the advance
mcnt of every vital interest coincident
with human liberty and progress, it
will but point the moral of an unom-
ally and illustrate the vicissitudes of
cause which has deserved better
fate. But there is no fear Of defeat
under the auspices which now favor
the Democratic party in its contest for
continued lease of power. 1t has
the merit Of having done well for the
State during the whole period of its
career. Its public officials have proven