The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-09-13
FACTS FOR DEMOCRATS TO con-
SIDER.

The Kent NelCS publishes tue follow
ing excellent letter on the political
situation from DIR. Il. &. Mackall, of
Cecil county. DIR. Mackalrs earnest,
unseliish devotion TO Democratic pr IL
cipies and his high personal character
and ability add force TO the views he
expresses. We hope every Democrat
will consider carefully what he SAYS
NeS&rS Editors Now that the issue j. fairly
made up and admirably presented to the peo-
pie OF Maryland by the letter of Mr.. Hurst. nc
cepting the nomination rendered him by the
recent Democratic Convention, permit me as
an old Democrat and rs II Cleveland Democrat
who has never for an instant wavered Ill MS
support and admiration OF this great American
statesman, TO give my reasons for supporting
the recent Bal timore nominations for state OIL
ficers and our own county tic>et. 1t might be
sufficient ordinarily to say | support these
nominations because | am Il Democrat and the
nominees are Democrats, but i'll the present
state of affairs this will not suffice, Tor an issue
has been projected into this campaign oi such
all extraordinary character that many OLD line
Democrats appear TO have lost their heads and
may possibly forget principles i'll their frigh' at
the red flag of Gorulanism us it has been held
up before their eyes by the Sun for months.
Now if there is one fact patent to men OF Or
binary intelligence, 1t is the fact that II Mr..
German is ii factor in this campaign at all, it is
because it has been forced the re by the pre-
sistent efforts of the Sun by its bitter, and L
may almost say, malignant attacks upon him.
As. man, Mr.. German quietly submitted 10
the vituperation heaped upon him day after
d.; : and month after month, but political
leader he was compelled to meet them and am
swer them at the proper time and place. This he
did and SO effectively that his enemies now pro-
pose as Il last resort to defeat the Democratic
party of Maryland and turn this stern old De-
mocratic and Southern State over to the Re-
publicans, rather than see Mr.. German posi-
| BILE future success in his native State.
This then is the issue that Is made by Mf.
Germans enemies. How shall the Democratic
voters of Maryland meet it? for one have
no hesitation i'll declaring my earnest convlc-
| ton that the best interests of our PEOPLE are
bound up with the principles of the great Ma
| tional Democracy, and we cannot separate our
selves from this Democracy without sacrificing
| the principles for which we have battled from
the first day of this century to the present date
| 1t alarms me when | hear Intelligent Demo
Gratis quoted as saying Il have not heard one
| say it,: "Oh! you can't scare me with the old
| cry of the danger of Republican rule in Mary
| land" l remember only too well what that
changed his spots or the colored brother ms
pigment, and / do not fear the return of this
IHrTy 10
dtions to be willing to see her proud emblems
traied in the dust. The Republicans of Mary
land have not changed and cannot change
| They are bound hand and foot in the shackless
of their colored allies, ignorant as these are OF
the first principles of freedom, tor they are to-
day the slaves Of their party leader ragv and will
| ing, in order to down German, to place the
public schools of Maryland in the hands of the
Republican party2 Republican Ohio has sub,
mitted to the demand of the colored voter, and
given the people mixed schools Is Maryland
prepared for like concession to the ambition
of the colored brother and Republican voter ?
Without the colored voter there is practically
no Republican party in this State, and by ne
cessity their demands must be considered
But be this as it may the Democrats oil Mary
land owe an allegiance to the Democracy OF
| every other State in the union and no personal
grievances should for moment interfere with
| their duty to the great national party, soon to
measure its strength with its great enemy of
| free institutions. Are there indeed any con-
| siderable number of Democrats in Maryland,
/ SO afraid of one man that they are ready to
| trust hundred thousand avowed enemies?
| hope not. Put the Republican party i'm power
| in Maryland this year and when will the year
| of rescue come? Not next year certainly,
| when the great National battle is to be fought
| for you will have yielded your forts and your
l arsenals to the enemy, and only by years of
| siege can you hope to recover them.
Read Mr.. Hurst's letter and if you cannot
trust him because he does not denOunce Sena.
| skinned for the hour of trial. When Mr.. Cor
| man is a candidate vote against him if you
please, but don't vote against the caricature OF
\ a man thrown upon the political canvas by tht
actinic Tor satanic) rays of the Baltimore Sun
| X. Z. MACKALL.
| Mr.. Mackall is a Cleveland Demo.
crat of the clearest kind, and a gentle,
man of broad views and high intelli
gence. He is we'll known in Kent
The views expressed above are unan,
swerable. They must surely he Ell,
dorsed by every true Democrat in the
State.-EdS. Ne1DS.