The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-10-04
There is no Good Reason for Dem
ocrats Leaving the Party

one in fact is contradictory Of the
other, and, of course, therefore, both
cannot be we'll founded. If one is
sound, the other, in the nature of
things, must be unsOund. Two contra
dictories cannot botn be right. In
truth, however, neither is sufficient to
induce any Democrat to desert his
party, and this is what we propose to
show.
The Republican candidates and ac.
credited organs insist that Mr. Hurst
should be defeated because, and solely
because, he is the nominee of the Dem
ocratic party. They clam that it will
be to the interest of the State that a
Democrat should not be elected, but
that a Republican should be. The
Baltimore SIN, a recent convert to Re-
publcanism, and few wealthy per-
sons, who are influenced by the same
| motives which control the Sun, assert
that Mr.. Hurst should be defeated
not because he is Democrat. but be-
cause there j. no Democratic ticket in
the field, and because, therefore, the
election of Mr. Hurst would not be the
triumph of the Democratic party.
| These are the reasons to which we
have alluded above 1t is obvious that
if the reasons assigned 10y the Republic
cans be well founded, viz: that Mr.
Hurst should be defeated because he is
a Democrat and leads the Democratic
party, the SIN is utterly wrong in say
ing there is no Democratic ticket in
the field. If the SHu be right in its
charges that there is no Democratic
ticket in the field, then the Republic
cans are hol elessly in error in asserting
that there is Il Democratic ticket before
the people. But whilst the Republ.-
cans fatty contradict the Sum- and
the So" fatty contradcts the Republic
cans, both are striving by different and
opposite methods to accomplish the
same end; for both are laboring to the
utmost of their powers to elect Mr..
Lowndes
Why is Mr.. Lowndes, who is con-
fessedly the head of the RepuJLcan
ticket, fighting Mr.. Hurst, if he is not
the representative of the Democratic
party? And if Mr. Hurst be not the
nominee Of that party, what has be-
come Of that great organization which
comprises the great majority Of the vo-
ters Of the State? Upon the assumption
that Republican leaders correctly de
scribe the situation, then the issue is
made up between the old contending
antasonists-the Democratic and Re
publican parties. In such n conflict
the Democrat who deserts Mr.. Hurst
and follows the flag of his opponent is
a traitor to his arty from the Republi-
can point of view. An honest Repub-
lican can only regard deserter from
the Democratic party as traitor. The
perfidity of such deserter cannot be
d'gulstd under the tlim-y pretext that
there is no longer any Democratic
party, for their leaders assure him
that there is. Its standard ~ flung to
the breeze, its leaders proclaim its
ldendity, its rank and file are in line
and Its governing body is the same as
formerly. No individual has claimed
that MIR. Hurst is a usurptr and no one
III his right mind pretends that there
exists anywhere an organization pur-
porting to represent or to speak for the
Democratic party except the State
Central Committee, whose credentials
no one has ever ventured to question.
Does any Democrat propose to vote for
Mr.. Lowndes because Mr.. Lowndes is
Republican? If he does, then he de.
liberately abandons his own principles
and deliberately adopts his adversary's.
lie at once ceases to be "a Democrat
and whatever he may think to the con-
trary, he becomes Republican. And
he becomes Republican because in
the very act of voting for Mr.. Lowndes
he repudiates the party which Mr..
Lowndes says is the Democratic party
and aililiates with, and approves the
policy of the party which by its lead
er's assertions and by universal consent
as the Republican party. He cannot
vote for the Republican candidate for
Governor-the head of the ticket
without endorsing the party for which
that candidate stands as a representa-
tive. And ifhe endorses that party he
endorses it fully, not partially, because
the election of Mr. Lowndes does not
mean partial, but complete Re
publican triumph-a triumph carrying
with it every Republican doctrine, poll
cy and pernicious practice. The
reason given by the Republicans
why Mr. Hurst should not be
elected is, therefore, the very reason
why Democrats ought to vote for him
and ought not to vote the Republican
ticket. If, as Republicans assert, Mr..
Hurst ought to be beaten because he is
a Democrat, is it not apparent that tor
the very reason that he is Il Democrat,
he ought TO receive the support of
every Democratic voter? His being
Democrat is the very reason, of all
others, why every Democrat should
vote for him; and is, in fact, the strong