The aegis & intelligencer., 1895-07-26
THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES.

THE DEMOCRAIICF CFtIMAhIES.
The Democratic Primary Election
takes place tomorrow. There are
thirty one candidates for the thirteen
nominations to be made. 1t requires
no extended calculation to see that
more than half are doomed to certain
disappointment and defeat. Every
man who has placed his name on the
Democratic Primary Election ticket,
or has allowed his friends to place it
there for him, has entered the contest
fully aware of the fact that when the
vote is counted he may be one of the
disappointed eighteen.
No man is allowed to vote in the
primaries who is not Il Democrat, and
much less can anyone except Demo
crat have his name on the ticket. No
true Democrat will, because of disap-
pointment at the nominations to-mor-
row, use his vote or his influence in
November to defeat any candidate
who is regularly nominated.
If any of the candidates on to-mor-
rows ticket do not believe that the
principles of Democracy are the best
for governing the American people,
then their action is false in allowing
their names to appear under the guise
of Democrats. If they do believe that
the principles of Democracy are right
then, without regard for prejudices,
they should feel the responsibility of
doing all in their power toward bring
ing Hartford back into the ranks of
the safely Democratic countries, where
she had been ever since the date of
negro suffrage.
If number of contestants enter
race for prize, it would be consider
ed highly dishonorable for the losers
to rob the winner of his prize, and it
is none the less dishonorable for de-
feated candidate to stab the success
full nominee in the back unless the
nomination be obtained by fraud
when of course the nominee would be
rejected by an indignant public.
A glance at the ticket shows that in
a number Of the offices to be filled the
contest is triangular one. All the
men on the the ticket are capable of
filling creditably the various offices to
which they aspire, and each will have
IA large following throughout the coun-
ty. 1t is doubtful whether the sue
cessful candidates can be elected with
out the support OF those who are re-
jected at the primaries to morrow.
The influence of Hartford county is
seconl to none in the state, and the
results of the election this fall in Iar-
ford will do much toward establishing
or lessening the chances of Maryland
being again placed in the ranks of the
solid Democratic states.
Every voter, in making his ticket
to- morrow should endeavor to vote
for men, not on the ground of iDdivi
dual feelings or personal choice, but
he should endeavor to nominate a
ticket which will receive the united
support OF the Democratic voters on
the fifth day of November.
OUAYVS. GOTERNOR HASTINGS.
The contest for the craftsmanship
of the Republican State Committee
of Pennsylvania is exciting and inter
esting.
Senator Quay has issued circular
letter to the chairman of each County
Committee, asking that they support
him for the chairnaIship of the State
Committee.
His opponent is Governor Hastings,
who is opposed to Quay and Cameron
as the leaders of the Republican party
in Pennsylvania. Although the posi-
tion is one of comparatively minor
Importance, the issues that have been
hinged on it to make it an interesting
fight.