Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-10-25

large majority OF lbs haruy sons,
and they have always been its first
care. Let not the men who work
for living in the various trades be
led away from the Substantial mer-
its of the political contest now wag.
ing by the cry of Fraud and 'Cor-
ruption,' for they are two swar cries
of desperate and designing men
who have been weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting. What
ever is wrong in election laws OF
laws for the protection Of labor, the
party in power stands pledged to
reform. .RRt. thes.esz@s..s Of labor
and of the democratic party stands
begging to be tried once more,
while actually threatening every
day to return to its old habits OF
disfranchising some of the people
and filing the jails with others.
In the face of these things it pleads
superior virtues now as the result
of abstinence and fasting, but they
are probably what johnson called
the 'rascally virtues At all events
we ought not to be beguiled into
the belief that Republican ascend
ency means anything more than a
repetition of its old spirit and its
old tricks, which for SO many years
sat up the "golden calf" for men
to worship and run their party ma
chine on the Rob Roy rule-'That
they shall take who have the pow
er, and they shall keep who can
Our next questions embodied the
proposition whether or not there
was reason to believe that the State
and city government would be bet
ter administered by Republicans
than by Democrats, and whether
or not the Republican politicians
who managed the late conventions
of their party and particularly the
mayoralty convention and who
would be the power behind the
throne are proper men to control
the affairs of our city. As res
ponse thereto we give az a fitting
answer an extract from your edito-
rial of October 10, 1887:
Suppose the entire municipal
administration is placed in Repub-
lican hands and the control of the
oyster navy, the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal, the Legislature and all
other sources of political power in
the State, officered and manned by
this hungry political organization,
is there any sentient being in the
State who supposes they would hes
itate to employ the forces at their
command in the peculiar ways they
so well understand and continue
their grasp upon political power,
and especially to carry the State for
the Republican Presidential candi-
date"
Our following questions inquired
whether or not The Sun asserted
that the present State campaign
had no bearing on the national con-
test next year, and whether or not
it asserted that the election of
Republican Legislature and Re-
publican Senator was advisable, and
further, if it asserted that if the
Republican party was victorious
this year in the city and State it
would be easy to dislodge it and Sc
cure democratic victory next year
at the presidential election.
For a full answer thereto and as
unanswerableargumentagainstyo your
present course, we quote from your
editorial of November 2, 1887, as
follows
eve long ago pointed ont the in
consistency involved in supporting
the Republican party upon State
issues and the Democratic party
upon questions Of federal politics.
1t is difficult to serve two masters,
we are told, and it is equally hard
to render a divided allegiance to the
two great political organizations of
the country. They assume that
they have the power to destroy
Democratic ascendency here for the
purposes they have in view, and
then, at their sweet win, wrest the
State from the hands of the Repub-
lican party after placing in their
hands all the State and municipal
machinery, which every man knows
constitutes the sources Of political
power.
There is a strong reason to be-
lieve that those who profess them
selves national Democrats aud yet