The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-02-22
Then and Now-The Suns Hypoc-
risy.

That distinguished luminary, the Baltimore
San, that has suppressed as much of the Re-
publican wrangling, chickering's and shortcom-
inps at Annapolis as it could, seriously objects
to the county papers giving to the people the
true facts, and showing them the results of
the revolt at alleged bossism which the Sun
and other papers stirred up last fall. In pre-
senting these facts the deception practiced by
the Sun necessarily is exposed, and this IS
why that luminary is squirming. 1t does not
relish the exposure, for it weakens it with the
people. And when the record is fully made
up, and the people compare what they had
with what they have now, it will be long
time before the San can deceive any consid-
cradle number of Democrats into leaving their
party nominees.
The Sun cannot suppress the county papers,
however much it may suppress facts, and ii
NAV feel assured that the people will be given
full information as to the acts of the Republic
can state administration, of the "Allegany
Ring and of the failure to live up TO the key
note of the campaign, even if Mr.. Lowndes
does say it was too high And the Sun will
come in for what ever criticism that is proper.
The Sun was moved in the last campaign
by malice alone, and it cannot longer disguise
the fact. 1t advised the Democrats last fall
to ignore majority rule and to vote against
the nominees of their convention. On Mon
day, in speaking of Tillman's assertion that
South Cardinals delegates to the national
convention would Withdraw if the convention
should refuse concessions to silver, it re-
marks
Delegates to national convention are IL
honor bound to accept the action OF the con
vention as final and to support its nominees
The majority rules, and II this ,cere not the
case, IL 'couId be absurd to hotdd conreht'o"
That was just the position The great bulk of
the Democrats of Maryland took last fall.
They believed in majority rule, aud that dele
gates were in honor bound to support the
ticket. And they believed that those who
took part in primaries and local conventions
were also in honor bound to stand by the
Judgment Of the state convention. The Sun
assumed to think differently then; it was de
liberately attempting to mislead and deceive
the people. and it, with other journals, was
successful enough to draw away a sufficient
number of Democrats to place in power the
..Allegany Ring
In another article, ON Monday, it calls upon
Wellington and Lowndes to use their influence
and power to induce the Legislature to do
certain things. 1t intimates that the Repub-
liean Legislators are too ignorant to know what
to do. Here is what it said
Frankly, we believe that the trouble is that
those leaders who should personally feel most
deeply interested in the honest and loyal full
filment of every pledge upon the faith OF
which the Republican party was admitted to
power, have failed to impress the House Of
Delegates with sense of the necessity of
keeping every pledge that can be kept, or with
n belief in their own sincerity and earnestness.
The people did not rely simply upon the rae,
inexperienced and comparatively obscure men
who find themselves unexpectedly and for the
first time clothed with the power and respon
sibility of legislators. Those men did not
make or shape the policy of the campaign or
sound its keynote. They are simply the in
Sii7fments selected to carry out the purposes
and the policy of which the party leaders an
nounced that they would be governed in the
event of success and upon which the people
by electing them set the seal of their approval.
This is Just what the Sun complained Of
under Democratic rule guidance in matters
oflegislation. II called it dictation, and wanted
people sent to the Legislature who would rep
resent the people and be free from outside
influences. Now that, under its advice, the
people have sent ''ruW, inexperienced and
obscure mem to the Legislature it calls for a
little of the management that it used to con
denim.
Further on the SuR says
at was Governor Lowndes aud his friends
who controlled the action of the Cambridge
convention
This is substantially what the Democrats
said during the campaign, that Lowndes and
his friends, Wellington and Sloan, dominated
the party, controlled the convention and die
tatcd the nominations The Sun then said
the convention was free and untrameled; that
there was no dictation, no bossism. and that
the convention was in marked contrast to the
Democratic convention.
The Sun is daily giving evidence of the
hollowness of its pretenses during the last
campaign, of its deception and hypocrisy, and
it may expect the Democratic press to repro
duce its present utteranees and contrast them
with its campaign talk, in order to show its
utter unreliability aud stability. And in the
end it will be shown, and proven, that the Suni
is always governed by malice or self-interest
in everything. The history of the Suns
silence during the session of the Legislature
of 1888 may be told some day.
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