The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-09-20
Republican Professions Compared
with Republican Performances

ocratic ticket this fall you rebuke SEN
ator German and you down what the
Sun calls Gormanism, what have you
gained? You cannot depend on the
Republican party to reform any abuses
of which you complain, even if such
abuses in fact exist This is perfectly
self-evident if you compare the conduct
of that party when it did have control
of the State with its professions now.
Its professions cannot be depended
on; by its conduct it must be judged.
fla Democrat deserts his party this
fall, where will he go? Into what conf
pany will he get? With whom will he
affiliate? If he votes the Prohibition
ticket he not only throws away his
vote, but he indirectly aids the Re-
publican candidates. If he votes the
Republican ticket he arrays himself
against his own convictions, and en-
dorses. if he does not join, the most
proscriptive political party that ever
existed. He affiliates with a party
whose outrages on the ballot box he
has openly denounced and whose stu
pendous frauds are matters of written
history.
The Baltimore Sun and other Repub-
lican organs are not content with as
sailing the Democratic State ticket,
but they are especially anxious to elect
Republican legislature. They want
the whole State made Republican.
The Sun urges the y0ung men to turn
Republicans lest they be fenced out"
Of political preferment. Is it so blind
as to believe that any young Democrat
would ever have the faintest chance
for political preferment under Repub-
lican supremacy? 1t knOws better.
Let us look at the situation for mo-
ment. The Republican candidate for
Governor said in a speech in Washing
ton week or two ago, that if he car
ried the State this fall his party would
hold it in the Republican column for
President hext year That is one of
the things his party is after. Surely he
knows better than the Sun does what
hisparty's designsare. A Democrat who
votes the Republican ticket this fall
helps, according to Mr.. Lowndes-and
he certainly knows-to make Mary
land Republican State in the Presl-
dental election 1896 For nearly
thirty years that party has been des-
perately striving to accomplish this re-
suit and you may depend on it that if
it succeeds in carrying the State in No
vember it can only succeed by the aid
of Democrats, and that it will hold the
State by force or fraud-whiclieEe
may be necessary-as it once did gen.
Grafton ago. During the progress of
the canvass we shall have occasion to
call attention to some of the fragrant
acts of this same Republican party in
the past; we confine ourselves just now
to hurried contrast between the pro-
LESSONS and practices of its leaders.
The Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, in his public utterances, declares
that he and his party are anxious to
have fair elections. To accom- plish
this they want new registration laws
ana they want control of the State so
as to insure such elections and so as to
enact such registration laws them
selves. These are some of their pro-
fessions; how do their practices con
form thereto? In the election of 1892
when Mr.. Wellington, who is now the
chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee, was a candidate
for Congress, United States deputy
marshals were, at his instance, station
ed at the polls in this city to intimi-
date Democratic voters and to overawe
election officers. This proceeding was
wholly unlawful, and though backed
up by United States Commissioner E.
Y. Goldsborough and by leading Re-
publican politicians, who actually sign
ed request for the appointment of
those deputies, Judge Morris, a Fed
eral Judge, declared it to be without
authority. This unlawful attempt to
intimidate voters was not in the inter-
est of fair elections, but was deliberate
~ designed to prevent free and I'M
trammelled expression of the popular
Will. And if we 60 back a few years
and recall the fact that no one was al
lowed to vote if he was Democrat.
the mockery of Republican professions
respecting fair elections is demonstrated.
Democrats were driven from the polls
on the pretext that they were disloyal.
and armed soldiers were sent from Bal
timore to many Of the counties to keep
Democrats from voting. And this was
done so openly and shameIessly that
but small minority of the lawful yo
ters OF the State were permitted to
vote; and thus this small Republican
minority, by the aid of Federal troops
and by means of fraudulent and I'M
fair elections, controlled the State from
1861 till 1867. The most glaring frauds
were perpetrated by the Republican
party and in the face of these facts il
is the baldest impotence for the lead
ers and candidates of the party to pro-
TESS that they favor fair elections.
Their zeal for a new registration law
sas devoid of sincerity as are their