Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1895-05-10
LET 1T BE AN EDUCA TIONAL
CAMPAIGN


more Sun should be read by all Democrats
who have the best interests Of the party at
heart:
at is every day becoming more self.evi-
tain it's position as the dominant party in
this State, and the State itselfits position in
the column of Democratic States, the com.
ing State campaign must be largely an
educational campaign. By the conduct, or
misconduct rather, Of some of its self con
stituted leaders, the party has been put up
on the defensive. Instead OF being able to
point with PRIDE in the language of the
platform maker and the stump speaker, to
a record of achievements and performances
in the peoples behalf, it is placed in the
ignominious position Of being compelled TO
apologize for series of failures and of
pledges unfulfilled. 1t may say that the
peoples President and the peoples House
were 'all right and strove to do their duty
and to keep faith with the party and the
people, but the supposed Democratic Senate
was all wrong. and that alleged Democratic
Senators from New York, New Jersey, Ohio
and Maryland contributed conspicuously to
bring about the defeat of Democratic prom
ises and the peoples hopes.
"All this but serves to give additional
point and emphasis to the campaign in this
State, where one of the accused Senators is
a candidate Tor reelection by the next Leg.
islature, and the other is fighting the battle
of his life, not only for his own reelection
Two years hence, but for the continuance Of
his personal control of all the offices and
patronage in the State of Maryland, which
he has enjoyed for so many years past.
Thousands, tens of thousands, probably,
OF Maryland Democrats, share the opinion
so widely spread and so vigorously express
ed throughout all the States of the Union,
that both Of these Senators have forfeited
every claim 10 u seat or a voice in the coun
ellis Of the Democratic party or in the coun
ellis of the nation as representatives or ex.
ponents Of Democratic principles. This is
an issue inevitably and necessarily involved
in the present State campaign, and upon
which the Democratic voters of the State |
must render their verdict. 1t is an issue
which cannot, by any possibility, under any
plea of harmony or expectancy, be elimi
mated, side tracked or suppressed. Let us
have that issue fairly met and discussed.
"The people, who are the judges, are emit. /
tied to know the truth. II injustice has
been done the Senators in question, let that
be shown. IL they are the traitors and
renegades, and have been guilty Of that be
trayal of Democratic principles and pledges
that has been charged, let that be made
clearly to appear. Did the demand of the
Democratic party for the speedy repeal Of
that 'cowardly makeshift,' the Sherman sill.
yer purchase act, mean its speedy repeal or
not, or only its repeal after a term of years,
aud upon conditions satisfactory to the sill.
yer mine owners? Did the Democratic de (
maHd Tor free raw materials only mean
free wool, but not tree coal or free iron ore /
Did the fierce denuncation of trusts in the
party platform only mean some trusts, but |
not that benevolent and philanthropic in |
tue Sugar Trust? The course OF |
Of the Maryland Senators upon these ques
lions has been severely criticised by Demo
Gratis in this State and throughout the Union /
In the present canvass our Senators have |
their opportunity to defend their course and |
show that the Chicago convention and the |
Democratic House of Representatives and |
President Cleveland were wrong upon all
these points, and they and Senators Murphy |
and Smith and Brice and Mr.. Havemyer, of /
New York, were right. II is an educa.
lional, and not hip hooray campaign.
And TO come to State issues strictly, is
he government of Maryland Democratic
government in fact as well as names Is il
a government of the people, by the people,
and for the people, or only government of
he bosses, by the bosses and for the bosses
This issue has been plainly raised and has
got TO be settled. AT the Music Hall meet.
ing in this city, the other night, the gauntlet
was thrown down in the face and teeth of
he bosses by such Democrats as ex Con.
yressman Rayner, Ex-Governor and ex Sen.
ator Whyte, and ex Deputy States Attorney
ians These men are not mugwumps, in.
dependents or kickers They are Demo.
srats whom the party and the people have
1een accustomed to honor Mr. Rayner |
went so far as 10 say: We are Democrats |
who have never scratched ticket, regulars
who, upon many hard-fought field, have
borne the brunt of battle" There can be |
no doubt, therefore, of his title as strict |
party man. But we can't help recalling the |
story which recently went the rounds of the
press OF some old and experienced Demo
rat who replied to a similar confession OF |
aith. We'll friend, am sorry for you.
You must have voted for some pretty bad |
men in your time /
THAT is one of the troubles in the Demo.
ratio party in this State just now which |
he present campaign must either mend. or
he party, most likely, will have to go un-
Ter. Thousands upon thousands Of Demo. |
rats whose devotion to Democratic princi
lies is beyond all question have made up
heir minds to scratch their tickets rather
han vote for men, or the tools and puppets
i men. whom they do not believe to be
rue to Democratic principles or entitled to
all themselves Democrats. The ball set roll
ng al the Music Hall meeting last Tuesday
light is destined To roll throughout the State,
The issues that were raised, the questions
hal were asked at that meeting have got to
,e answered.
"Mr Rayner himself had the manliness
o say that the qualification Of his personal
SEPARATIONS was minor matter compared |
With success in the task he had set himself |
+ rousing the people of Maryland to the
necessity of taking the management of their |
,olitical affairs out of the hands of the man
gers, and into their own hands. l. is up.
N this point that the people need to be
thoroughly instructed and aroused. As to |
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