The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-09-13
The Ticket is a Democratic Ticket
In Spite of the Suns" Asser-
tions.

vention, would Judge Fisher have been
the Democratic candidate had he been
nominate by the same convention?
Why was Judge Fishers name pre-
sented to the convention if the conven-
ton was not Democratic Convention?
Were the thirty delegates who
voted for him Democrats? If so, what
were they doing in the convention, if
the convention itself was not a Demo-
cratic Convention? And why would
Judge Fisher have suffered his name
to 90 before a convention for IA Demo-
cratic gubernato rial nomination if
that convention was not Democratic
Convention? If the delegates To that
convention We're not Democrats-and
if, therefore, the convention was not
Democratic Convention-why We're
the friends of Judge Fisher, ihcUidjng
the Sun, urging that convention to
nominate Judge Fisher as the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor? If
these delegates Uere Democrats, how
does it happen that by naming a man
who is confessedly a thorough Demo-
crat, though not the choice of the Sun,
they ceased to be Democrats and be-
came something else? How does the
failure to nominate Judge Fisher make
the convention which selected Mr..
Hurst, not a Democratic Convention,
when, had it named Judge Fisher, it,
the same convention, composed of
WOuid have been a Democratic Con-
vention? Is it not apparent to the
most casual observer that the .SUl's
preteXt that the convention nominating
Mr.. Hurst was not n Democratic Con-
vention and therefore there is no Dem
ocratic ticket in the field, is Il trans
parent sham intended to mislead and
deceive voters and not even believed
by the very people who invented it?
No one pretends that the State Cen
trail Committee which fixed the date
for the assembling of the State Con-
vention was not the Democratic State
Central Committee. 1t was the very
same State Central Committeeman
none other-that had charge of the
Congressional campaign last fall,
when Mr.. Cowen, whom the SIM sup
ported rs Democratic candidate, ran
for Congress. 1t had the same chair
man, the same secretary and the same
members this spring when it fixed the
time for the State Convention to meet,
that it had last fall when it was rec
ognized 10y the Sun as thoroughly or
thodox. When the various local Cen.
trail Committees met and fixed the
time for the primaries and County
Conventions, they Were the same To-
cal committees which had done just
the same things last summer and fall.
And when in obedience these calls for
primaries, primaries We're held, they
were held by Democrats and not by
Republicans or Pr0hibitionists. When
the primaries so held selected delegates
to the County Conventions they Sc
lected Democrats, did they not? and
these Democrats met in County Con
ventions and there chose delegates to
the state Convention which nominated
Mr. Hurst. Who says that these dele
gates thus chosen by the County Con-
ventions, and then sent to the State
Convention then were not Democrats?
From beginning to end the usual and
accustomed modes of proceeding fol
lowed in such instances were strictly
pursued, and before the State Conven-
ton met not human being suggested
that the delegates selected to it were
not Democrats, and not a human be-
ing insinuated that the convention
then about to assemble would be any
other than a Democratic State Con-
vention. Where does the SIN get
its authority to decide that the repre-
sentative and reputable men who
made up that convention were not
Democrats? Its assertions are not ar
guments, and it has nothing better
than assertions to offer. When its
naked resolutions are contrasted with
its conduct in urging the selection of
Judge Fisher by that convention, the
utter insincerity of its statements are
made apparent. And if its statements
are insincere its motives must be SIMS
ter; if before the convention met the SIN
believed the members to it were not
Democrats, why did it not say so, and
why did 1t strive to get the delegates
to nominate Judge Fisher as the Demo-
cratic candidate? 1t did urge that
nomination By that convention, and if
1t was honest it could only have done
this upon the assumption that it knew
the members who would make up that
convention We're Democrats. If the
SIN believed these delegates were not
Democrats and yet acted as though it
believed they were, it was guilty of
double-dealing-it was simply dishon-
est. The very men it urged to vote for
Judge Fisher it nor says were not DEM
ocrats because they voted for Mr.. Hurst.
Surely it is trihe egotistical if not inn
pertinent in the editor of the San to as
sumo the prerogative of declaring a
a body of men not to he Democrats
upon no other ground and for no other