The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-26
union proved a happy one. Gen
eral Crook died several years ago.
Reviving Dead Issues To "Save the
PartV."

involve the honest Democrats of
MARYLAND in a revival of old war
ssues, and especially to play upon
whatever fears may linger in their
minds as to the possible revival of
he question of race supremacy. 1t
S an appeal to latent apprehensions
md anxieties which had good, solid
ground in a period that has happily
passed and which, so far as Mary
land is concerned, has certainly
passed forever. There is TO posi-
bility of negro domination in this
State, nor that the negro voters,
who constitute only Is per cent. Of
our total voting population, can
ever become ruling factor either
IN our State or city government.
Whatever vitality may be left in the
race issue in States farther South,
where the relative strength of the
black vote to the white vote is much
greater, there Is none left IN it in
Maryland. No one knows this
better than German and RasIn, and
the only object they haye in view
in pretending to sound the alarm
against the possible ascendency of
the negro is to try and save them
selves by raising a false alarm
against a danger that in no way
threatens us.
We are satisfied that this dema'
gogic appeal to dead and buried
fears and prejudices will fail of it,
mark. 1t is aimed undoubtedly
more especially at the large humble
of Confederate veterans who live il
Maryland, and among whom on
INSCRIPTIONS bosses seek to rekin
del old antipathies and resentment
that grew out of the war and tn
era of reconstruction. The trlcl
is too transparent to succeed
Never having been soldier Of
either side, Boss German is tota
stranger to the spirit that animate
the veterans as a body, both blu
and gray. The old soldiers of til
lost cause are not likely to forsak
the farewell counsels of their grea
and chivalrous commander, Ger
Robert E. Lee. They will remen
Der that Genefai Lee advised thel
when he laid down his sword, nc
only to follow his example IN thf
regard, but to abandon all feeling
of bitterness, leave the past to tax
care of itself, and go forward to til
future with the single purpose {
working Loyalty for good govern
ment under the flag of the reunite
country. 1t is timely to recall tt
wise counsels of that noble maj
whose great character has been s
splendidly portrayed in the wore
of the late Senator Hill, of Georgit
Gle was a foe without hate, frien
without treachery, a soldier withor
cruelty and victim without mu
muring. He was a public Office
without vices, private citizen will
out wrong, a neighbor without r.
proach, a christian without hypo
| risy and man without guilt. Il
was Caesar without his ambition
t Frederick without his tyranny, N
polean without his selfshness an
, Washington without his rewar,
He was as obedient to authority as
: servant and royal in authority as
S king. He was as gentle as woma
in life, pure and modest as a virgi
7 in though, watchful as Roma
{ vesta!, submissive to law
l Socrates and grand in battle
Achilles.
S Those were the words of trl
patriot, who had finished his fgl
in the same cause, though in anoth
sphere, with the iIlustrous chiefta
and Loyalty accepted the verdict
the battlefield, and it is safe to S;
! that those among us who followt
the flag of Lee will not be mislt
backward into dead and gone issu
by the crafty suggestion of polit
4 cal Iago. The cause of good 90
: eminent in Maryland is at stake
this election and their true place
in the line of It's defenders. v
look to see them on election d;
n