The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-06-14
HOLLIS COURTNEY, JR,,
Secretary.
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES.

Secretary.
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES.
BY direction of the Democratic
State Central Committee, the men,
bers for Hartford county call upon the
Democratic voters of Hartford county
to hold primary meetings at the usual
place of voting in each district on
Saturday, June %, 1895, at O'Clock
P. NJ. to select for each district ten
delegates to convention to be held
in Bel Air. on Tuesday, June 25, 1895,
at 10 o'clock M. for the purpose of Sc
Letting five delegates to represent
Hartford county in the State Conven-
ton to be held in Baltimore ON We'd
nesday, July 81, 1895 to nominate
candidates for Governor, Attorney
General and Comptroller.
Places of meeting:
First District; Abingdon.
Second District;-Halps Cross Roads.
Third District;-Be Air;
Fourth District;-Jarrettsville.
Fifth District;-Dublin.
Sixth District;-Havre de Grace.
The members of the County Execu-
tive Committee will, if present, call
the meeting to order; if not present,
the meeting will organize itself
EDWARD H. HALL,
CHARLES H. STREET,
THOMAS H. ROBINSON.
Members of the State Central Com
mittee for Hartford county.
THE DEMOCRATIC RANKS CLOS
ING UP
The independent movement, which
has excited no little stir in political
circles in Hartford county for several
weeks past has apparently vanished
into thin air. There seemed to be
some uncertainty in the minds of the
public as to whether the leaders of
the movement nominated candidates
at their meeting in Bel Air, on June
LIST, or merely recommended those
whom they considered best qualified
to fill the offices for which they were
named. Some of the active partici-
pants in the movement insisted that
that their favorites were actually
nominated while others declared that
they only meant to endorse certain
candidates.
If the view had been adhered to
that ticket, in whole or in part, was
nominated, it would have meant that
the independent leaders had launched
a new party on the troubled waters of
thepolitical sea-a party separate and
distinct from any of the time-honor-
ed political organizations which have
for years been arrayed against each
other. The question, however, has
now been settled. The independent
managers, declare in a manifesto
published this week, that their can
didates must take their chances in
the Democratic primaries, subject, of
course, to the rules and regulations
prescribed by the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee for the conduct of
these elections
This is as it should be- There is no
room in Hartford for more than one
Democratic party and the contest
this fall will be, as it has been hereto
fore, the square issue between Demo
craey and Republicanism. Any at
tempt to inject uncalled- for issues in
to the campaign must meet with fail
ure. The principles, aims and tenden-
cies of the two great political parties
into which this country is divided are
too well understood to admit of
doubt. Democrats who are loyal to
their party will not be turned from it
to crafty the personal ambitions or
private resentments of individuals, no
matter how specious the pretext I'M
der which their selfish purposes may
be hidden.
Nearly all of the Democrats who
supported the Independent movement
two years ago, it is confidently assert
ed results the attempt this year to
carry them out of their party. They
declare emphatically that the indie
pendent movement was unnecessary
and uncalled for, and say that they
will take part with their brother Dem
ocrats in the primary elections on the
27th of next July, in nominating a
Democratic ticket and abide by the
result, whatever it may be. They re-
alize the fact that any other course
would be dishonorable and tend to the
overthrow of the Democratic party.
All they or any other honest Demo
Gratis ask is that the primary elections
shall be fairly conducted. Happily,
no charge can be truthfully made that
we have had unfair primary elections.
The Democratic Executive Committee
has always endeavored to select honest
men as judges of election and the vote
has been fairly cast and honestly de-
clared. With good judges and fair
election, under rules known before by
all the candidates and their friends,
no man who takes part in these pri-
maries, either as candidate or voter,
can afterwards with honor undertake
to secure the defeat of the Democratic
ticket because he may have failed to
secure his own nomination or that of
the candidates he preferred
President Cleveland has issued
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