The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-09-13

thize with them in their troubles, and re
gard it as my highest duty as citizen to
see to it as far as can that they are not
imposed upon. And yet am dead against
giving them political or social equality. In
generations to come they may rise to that
right, but not in this day and generation.
And yet in every Southern State the Re
publican party in common decency must
stand, if not in open advocacy of such a
state of affairs, at least in liberation of it.
And this is the party we propose to sur
render to.
What has become of the tyrannical and
oppressive Force bill which President Har-
rison, a bitter, relentless, partisan Repub-
lican, urged his Congress to fasten upon
us a few years ago-the second attempt of
the kind the Republicans made9
What has become of the Mckinley tariff
bill, which outraged Maryland and the
whole country in 1890?
How did Lowndes stand on these two
measures? 1t is given out that he opposed
the Force bill, because he thought it was
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it wrong to give over the South to the con-
troll of the negroes and carpet bag Repub-
licans, squatters and adventures. He was,
as was every supporter of that measure,
ready to do this, but for his constitutional
objections. do not think a gentleman
thus inclined is congenial to our Maryland
people.
But it is said we will let the Republicans
into power for while, at least. If they
prove faithless we will turn them out SO
Troy fell, Credulity, blind ndincautiousness,
has proved the ruin of strongholds, armies,
political parties.
l grant that sometimes we had better fly
to ills that we know not of than endure
the ills we have. But is this the time? An
excellent man is nominated. If German
and Raisin had been dead on the 31st July,
1895, when the State Convention named
Mr.. Hurst as its candidate, he would have
been hailed with enthusiasm. But because
under the force of the situation they were
driven from the support of their first choice
and were compelled to give in their adhe-
sion to Mr.. Hurst, he is regarded as ''tain-
ted" and we we are asked to leap the preci-
pice and jump into the unfathomable abyss
of Republican rule. Personally, | would
have preferred Judge Fisher, and my pref
erence was intensified by the boldness with
which he flung the gauntlet at Mr. Cor
mans feet, and must add that if Mr.. Cor
man had not resisted the nomination of
Judge Fisher after the defiance of the lat
ter, he would have added to the obloquy
which is now being heaped upon him by
his enemies the disgusting vice of coward
ice He woud indeed, have been a pitt
able calf.
Life is too short to sum up the abuses
of the Republican party. Look wherever
you may and it marks its power by eX
cesses of rascalty Remember New York
with its Platt and Republican Legislature,
Pennsylvania with its Quay, Massachu-
setts with it's relentless sectiOnalists Hoar
and Lodge, Ohio with its Foraker, and
consider whittier we are drifting when we
submit ourselves to the embraces of Re
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Mr. Lowndes if elected will play the part
of a sentimentalist? What respect will he
have for the principles of the civil service
law? Reflect upon the political biogra-
ply of his prominent supporters in this
city AS you walk the streets, as you
travel on the trains do you not see Re-
publican bosses in embryo at every turn
No, Messrs. Editors, it is maudlin liberali
ty to forget the revengeful spirit which
met our Southern men, Confederate sol
diers and others, as stript of everything
they sought Baltimore at the close of the
war to make living. 1t is criminal for
getfulness to pass into oblivion the cor
corpondence which the leading Republi-
can paper of the city stimulated and es
tablished in the South when the death
struggle of the Force bill was upon u.s. 1t
is childish inconsistency to help into pow
er party which has done all it could to
battle and thwart the greatest patriot and
bravest President we have had. If Mr..
German did this, how heartily he was ap-
plauded by the very men we wish to hon
or All of us have our friends among the
Republicans. Many of them are my very
best friends and for many as individuals
have the highest esteem and respect. am
speaking of the Republicans as a party.
As individuals it numbers in its ranks some
of the best, bravest and most honorable
men in the land but as party what has
it done, and especially what has it done in
MARYLAND to commend itself to us?
Truly men when they think of the stu
alton may feel that they are between the
devil and the deep sea, but the devil, bad
leaders in your own party, can be reduced
to the the ranks. The deep sea, your Re
publican foes, when you are once in its
overwhelming embrace, never surrenders
until the waters give up their dead. | pre-
fer to meet the devil on the dry land
Upon another subject let me have mo-
ment ofyour time. Men should remember
that the Baltimore Sun is after all simply
the emanaton of great printing press,
which gets its supply of food from men
who are mortal, exceedingly mortal The
manag gng editor of the paper its Wash
gton correspondent and the writers of
its editorials are after all simply men, each
with one head, two arms, two legs, and a
torso" The animus of one man at the
} head of the paper directs and controls its
| policy Its employees (writers of editorials
and correspondents) must write as he di-
rects, or leave the paper. All of them are
honorable men, but they are simply men
with like passions as other men. Our
} natural sun is held to be great gaseous
body, ever burning, every dispensing ge-
nial warmth and light Our artificial Sun
is also sometimes gaseous, and does often
r dispense grateful light. But it is an arti-
fetal Sun. 1t is liable to spots. 1t is liza
BILE to revolutionary changes. Am | not