Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-10-18
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| ter does 70. possess any very remarkable
power Of argument and does rot wish 10
enter into any controversy. Jet this seems
a time wnen il is hard 70 be silent
As l understand the situation in this
Stat, the fight is between the Republicans
and the Democrats. organized in two res.
peciive parties. 1t matters not who took
the most prominent part in the nomination
Of either Mr.. Lowndes or Mr. Hurst:
as they stand today il Is simply this, the
man who votes for Lowndes Is Republi.
can, ard the man who votes for Hurst is a
Democrat, and it is all folly 10 talk OF
Democrats voting for Lowndes You NAV
as well suppose heather conforming 70
all TIE rites of the Christian religion and
still calling himself q heather, or csce uersa
One Of the arguments used BY the boilers
is that Mr.. Hurst is the candidate of Sena.
tor German, ard that the Democratic par.
| ty has made no nomination for Governor
view that 81 one time seemed plausible
even To the writer. But did not the Dem.
ocraiir party hold primaries, and did not
the so called anti German IS well as the
so called German Democrats I'D and
take part In the same1 80
some evidence TIL
And did not the delegates elected At the
said primaries attend the county conven-
tons in the respective counties s--and did
not these delegates with those from the
city OF Baltimore attend convention in
Baltimore called by the State Central Com
mittee and there balloted for Messrs. Hurst,
Fisher and Hayes az the candidats for
Governor OF the Democratic party, of which
votes Mr.. Hurst received majority! And
vet the Baltimore Sun and other enemies
OF Mr.. German say he favored Mr. Hurst,
aid because Mr. Gormsn favored Mr.. Hurst,
therefore it is not Democratic nomina
non, but German nomination. Now,
| ask, is this justice TO the Democratic party?
Is it justice to Mr.. Hurst, to say nothing
about Mr.. German? While / with many
others Of the anti German Democrats in
Maryland contend that Senator German is
not an issue in this fight, for the sake of
argument let us agree with "a Democrat"
from Baltimore city, whose letter appeared
in the BEACON, which was thought so
much of by our Republican friends oil the
Enterprise" that they COPIED ait for the
benefit Of their "many Democratic read
ers and for the information or their "Re-
publican patrons" If you defeat Mr..
Hurst, what effect will il have TO down Mr.
German THE Sun" refers us to the con-
test in Pennsylvania in 1890, when Gov
PattisOn defeated Mr.. Delamater, who was
Boss Quay's candidate. While we all
know that Quay's candidate was beaten by
over 10000 majority in the State, yet we
do know that Hastings was elected last
year Governor by 100000 majority, and
that while Quay's candidate was beaten
five years ago, and Notwithstanding the
recent fight that was made against him in
the primaries by the big Four Combine"
that Quay is still Boss with big b; and
what did the disgruntled in Pennsylvania
accomplish for his downfall by defeating
Delamater? Absolutely nothing, and Just
about as much as these same kind Of NAL.
contents would toward Mr.. Germans
downfall by defeating Mr. HURT
There is another "precedenf' that the
San does not refer to so much of late, and
that is what New York in 1894 did. Now,
then, did not the Independent Democrats of
New York when they, in order To defeat
Hill and Tammany, turn the State and
city government over to the Republicans,
think that they were turning out one set of
Bosses and putting in power that most as.
tute politician and tyrannical Boss Tom
Plat? And are they not grooming under
his sway more bitterly than even under
Hill and Tammany? And is il not in
Maryland today about the same? Are
they not trying to down a German ring to
install Gary ring? Now, the question
is, can We afford it? We know what the
German ring is and we are not well pleased,
but what the Gary ring will be when in
power we are almost afraid to conjecture,
certainly afraid to try. We are afraid
history might repeat itself. We know
what they did when they were in power
last in this State, even If was 30 years
ago. What evidence have we that they
are any bette: now than they were then
Between Democracy, even tainted with
Gormanism as we know il, and Repu5Ii-
canism as we knew it last we cannot hesi-
tate in making our choice
Another consideration, should Maryland
eject Lowndes this year, how about next
year? Mr.. Lowndes says, "carry Mary
land this year and We will keep her 10 line
for 90" Can we. who call ourselves Dem
ocrats, afford to place the State IN such
position a. viii enable the Republicans,
with Mr.. Lowndes as Governor, 10 keep In
line in 90? Stop and consider this well
before you vote. Don't let II be said we
who call ourselves Democrats, and say we
are better. Democrats than the German
men, have defeated the party in Maryland,
Ny Maryland. Let me say for you all we
will not, and speak as
Oct Z, 1895. ONE OF THEN.