The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-03-23
ELKTON, Md, MARCH %, 1895.
PULSE FEELING.

Machine politics. directed and controlled
"bosses" for purely selfish ends. from the
big chiefs who revel in the atfluence of
their ill-gotten gains in the city of Balti-
more, down to the petty leaders of the out
lying "deestricks'' of the counties, have
wrought the ruin of the Democratic party
in Maryland as irretrievably as Tammany
and disaster i'll New York.
AS forcibly expressed by Democratic
contemporary, ''the people have lost con-
tidence in party management and the party
managers They feel that party manage
ment has been conducted on the plane of
eminent and successful selfshness. Neces-
sarily people tire of this thing and neces-
sarily they will refuse to continue in con-
troll the people who manage the party on
this plane 1t, therefore. behooves the
members of the party who are so from
principle and not for profit, to exert them
selves to turn the tide and snatch victory
out of the jaws of apparent ruin by taking
charge of the management themselves"
Now the 'bosses' being painfully aware
Of the existing condition of Democratic
sentiment in the State, have all along, with
the hope of allaying popular distrust, given
it out that they intended to keep their
hands off this year, and permit (?) the
people to make their own nominations.
They have talked very complacently and
sweetly about the necessity of nominating
good men, and that they cared little per-
sonally who the men are, so they were
Democrats who could command the full
party vote.
But the fact is, that this piofessed ndif-
ference of the local bosses to party nomi-
nations is deception and a cheat.
1t is pure buncombe and spread abroad
to mislead the people.
The same old crafty politicians are just
as busy now as in any former year in "feel-
ing the pulse of the party" by suggesting
the names of available" candidates, and
in reality controlling nominations and set
ting up cut-and-dried tickets by shaping
sentiment in favor of particular men, who
they believe will. if elected. prove subserv-
lent to their personal uses and individual
plans.
In some counties of the State, the fine
Italian hand of the old boss" is shown in
quiet little conclaves of party leaders and
Office holders, humming tremendously the
catching cry of Party Peace
We had one of these local performances
in Elkton lately, at which it was proposed
that the little lamb of honest party senti-
ment, and the proselyte from the doctrine
of Independent individual opinion, should
lie down inside the machine lion
All these movements are intended to
deceive honest Democrats, for the evidence
IL accumulative all over the State that the
bosses have as tight grip on the Demo
cratic party machinery as they ever had,
that they do not intend to keep their hands
off and "allow" the people to make their
own nominations without interference, but
intend to name the Democratic ticket in
every county in the State, where there is
not sufficient Independent sentiment in the
party to prevent it,
Cecil is no exception to the rule, as
recent political moves have already demon
strated.
The boss" is still at the front, and will
remain there, until the people again by
their ballots send him to the rear.