The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-10-04

policy, when every Democrat eau
with perfect consistency vote for Mr..
Hurst, who is conceded to be a Dem
ocrat, whether nominated by a Demo-
cratic convention or not?
If Mr.. Hurst is a Democrat and is
pure, upright, honest, capable and re-
liable man, whose word is his bond,
what possible difference can it make
whether the convention that nomina-
ted him was a Democratic convention
or not? If you admit that Mr.. Hurst
is Democrat and that he possesses all
these qualities and not even the SIM
disputes this, it is wholly immaterial
by what name you call the convention
which nominated him, so long, at
least, as there is no other candidate in
the field protesting to be Democratic
candidate. Not a word of fault IN be
found with the platform upon which
Mr.. Hurst stands; not line of his let
ter of acceptance is open to criticism,
or contains syllable that cannot be
fully endorsed by any Democrat; not
suggestion has been or can be made
that he is not a capable. heightened,
honorable man and no one has ques-
toned his thorough Democracy. On
this record he asks Democrats to sup
port him. In the face of all this, even
if the SUMS assertion that the conven-
ton which nominated him was not Il
Democratic convention Ge true, how is
Democrat justified in voting for Mr..
Lowndes, an out and out Republican?
If Mr.. Hurst j. not Democrat his
nomination by Democratic conven-
ton would not make him one, would
it? If he is a Democrat and has been
nominated by convention which
claimed to be Democratic convention,
though it had been one in fact he
would not cease to be Democrat him
self, would he? Conceding, then, for
the sake of argument, that the SIM is
clothed with power to pass upon the
credentials of the delegates to the State
convention and to decide finally and
infalibly for the people of the State
whether those delegates We're Demo
Gratis or not, and conceding in the
same way, that the SUMS decision is
right; yet if the platform adopted by
that convention is a sound Democratic
platform; if Mr.. Hurst is honest, ca
pable and trustworthy and can be de-
pended on to carry out what he says in
his letter of acceptance, how does the
accident that the convention which
nominated him was not, as the San
says, a Democratic convention Justify
any Democrat in voting for an out-and
-out Republican ticket headed by Mr..
Lowndes? If Mr.. Hurst is an honest
DemOcrat-and is he Motif the plat
form on which he stands is built of
sound Democratic timber-and is it
not? what difference does it make or
can it make to any Democratic voter
whether what the SIN says about the
convention which nominated Mr..
Hurst be true or not? 1t can make no
possible difference, because whatever
may have been the complexion of
that convention, Mr.. Hurst is an
honest Democrat, the platform on
which he stands is sound, and when
elected he can be trusted to do precisely
what he says he will do. His admins
tration will be a clean and thorough
Democratic and not Republican adj
ministration.
If Mr.. Hurst is a Democrat, as his
friends and his Republican antagonists
assert, that fact should certainly deter
no Democrat from voting for him. If
the convention which nominated him
was not Democratic convention, as
the San alleges it was not. that fact
should influence no Democrat to vote
for Mr.. Lowndes, an open enemy of
Democracy. Even if there were no
ticket in the field claiming to be Dem.
ocratic, that circumstance would not
justify a Democrat in voting the Re
publican ticket, would it? AS these
two contradictory reasons are INSULT
Gent to warrant defeat of the Demo-
cratic ticket, and as no other one has
been suggested or assigned, it follows
that every Democrat should Loyalty
and cordially support the whole ticket
from top to bottom. Logically there is
no escape from this conclusion.