The aegis & intelligencer., 1895-09-27
NO MEDIUM GROUND.


If the Democrats who believe it
necessary to defeat Mr. Hurst in order
to show their antipathy to Mr..
German, had put an Independent
ticket in the field, their position would
be more tenable than the one they
now occupy-that OF supporting the
Republican candidates. The position
of these Democrats, who claim their
intention of supporting Lowndes, is
similar to that of Benedict Arnold
while holding West Point and nego-
tiating with the British for its be-
travail, and their position after the
election will be similar to Arnold $
alike despised by all.
The Republicans are giving these
Democrats alluring smiles and tempt
ing tales, while the spots of Republi-
canism on The sun are growing larger
and blacker every day, until even
now the light of Democratic truth has
dwindled into mere parhelion.
Democrats, can we, as believers in
the principles of Jefferson and Jack
son, afford to listen to these siren songs
which will lead our party on the rocks
of disaster and defeat?
What can we expect ut the hands of
Republican rule? We can only judge
the future by the past. New York
State was turned over to the Republi-
cans. Obnoxious race laws were en-
forced from which even our Republi
can friends in this State would shrink.
McKinleyism and the Force Bill with
the side attractions of mixed schools
will become realities. The i'll disguis-
ed truth that the result of the various
State elections this fall will do much
to influence the result of the national
election next year must be evident to
all who do not deliberately and will
fully blind themselves to the fact.
The issue in this campaign is Demo
cracy or Republicanism. There is no
medium ground. There is no Inde-
pendent ticket. Personally, no fault
can be found with either Mr.. Lowndes
or Mr. Hurst, but in the words of ex-
Governor Carroll, Mr.. Lowndes re-
presents the Republican party, with
all its sectionalism, enmity and tyran-
ny against Southern Democrats, while
Mr.. Hurst represents the broad, non
sectional Democratic party"
THE COUNTY ELECTION.
Democrats need have little fear for
the result of the election in Hartford
county this fall. The candidates for
the Senate and the House of Dele
gates are run ON national issues.
Even the most radical Republicans
and the most virulent mud d-sIinging
sheets have not attempted to place
the county election on any other is
sue. The process of injection and rejec-
tion that is being resorted to with re-
ference to the State ticket is entirely
eliminated.
No fault whatever can be found
against any of the candidates, person
ally or politically; they have clean
records. Those who have held office
before have proven themselves able,
trustworthy and painstaking officials,
worthy of reelection as a reward of
merit. Those who appear as candi-
dates for the first time have proven by
their useful lives, and by their ener-
getic and successful business and pre-
fessional careers that the people will
make no mistake in entrusting the af-
fairs of our county to their hands.
There is no reason why Hartford
should not give an old time majority
for both the county and State ticket,
and we believe when the vote is count
ed it will show that the Democrats of
Hartford are clear-headed and not to
be side tracked from the principles of
Democracy by the Pickering light of a
mock-sun, or led into the quicksands
of RepubIicanism by the ignis fatuus
of an issueless campaign.