The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-10-25
TO DIsAFFECrED DEMOCRATS.


Doubtless there never was a ticket
nominated for any election about
which there was not a number of
disappointments and more or less bit
ter feeling. Senator John Sherman's
book, which is just coming from the
press, is exciting considerable COM
ment because it shows his feeling with
regard to the nomination of Garfield
for President by the Republican Ma
tional Convention in 1880. Although
Garfield is dead, and these events oc
Cured fifteen years ago, yet the traces
of the feeling they excited still re-
main.
We cannot expect every one of our
party to be satisfied with our State
and county tickets in Maryland this
fall. Every man has, and has a right
to have, his individual choice and
preferences. We feel morally certain
that, no matter what persons had
been nominated for these different
offices on the Democratic ticket, there
would have been objection and oppo-
sition to the nominees.
Perhaps you would have been
pleased with the result, and your Dem
ocratic neighbor, who now wears a
Hurst button, would have been the
kicker. What would you be telling
him about this time? Would you be
saying to him, "Vote for Lloyd
Lowndes ~ Not at ALL You would
say to him, as we say to you now,
don't turn over the State to Republi-
can misrule for the sake of any per-
sonal dislike or disappointment. Put
party success and party principle
above personal motives.
Not one word of condemnation has
been spoken, even by our enemies,
that points to party mismanagement
of State affairs during the thirty
years that our party has held sway in
Maryland. Not one word has been
uttered against the personal character
or ability of any man on our State or
county ticket to perform faithfully
and efficiently the duties of the office
for which he is the nominee.
The county ticket was nominated
in the usual way, and no charge of
fraud at the primaries has been made.
The State ticket was nominated by
the State Convention, said convention
being composed of delegates regularly
elected at primaries held in every
county in the State and in Baltimore
city. These delegates were either in
structed by the people they repre-
sented to vote for particular men or
they were sent uninstructed. This
convention nominated John E. Hurst,
of Baltimore city, for Governor; Chas
Carroll Crothers, of Cecil county, for
Acknowledgement, and Marion De
Kalb Smith, of Kent county, for
Comptroller.
1t was charged by disappointed
candidates and their friends that it
was through the influence of Senator
German that the convention nomi-
John E. Hurst. Disappointed candi
dates, and especially their friends,
would naturally have some heart
burnings from defeat, and dissatisfac-
ton for the time being was only nat
ural and human.
The Baltimore San, however, from
personal antipathy to Senator Cor
man, and, it is charged, from pecun-
larry considerations still more censur-
able, has used it's wide circulation and
it's hold upon the Democrats of Mary
land by reason of its former pretended
Democratic utilization, to crystalline
and intensity this dissatisfaction
which the defeat of favorite candi-
dates impulsively engendered.
We respectfully submit for your ear
nest consideration between this time
and November 5th, whether you, as a
Democrat from principle and one who
has the good of the party at heart, can
afford to vote for man for Governor
who is radical Republican and who
advocates all Republican measures,
and who, if elected, will put in force
the same obnoxious measures that
are in force in other Republican
States.
That Lloyd Lowndes is a good Re
publican is not denied. This fact