Saint Mary's beacon., 1896-01-16

while distress deepened, factories
closed and thousands upon thous.
ands of our laboring men and wo-
men throughout our broad land
begged for work, while their child
rem cried for bread. This 10 no
overdrawn picture. Starvation OF
business enterprises, more or less
general, always attend tariff legis.
lation. This is to be expected.
But the times we're thea peculiarly
propitious for the suspension o! fac
tory labor. Under the Undue, ab-
lnormsl and anheaithy stimulous Of
the Mckinley bill. manufactured
products accumulated farrn advance
of the needs of the people. and the
factories had either to close or sell
in foreign market in com petition
with foreign prices. They preferred
the former, and as q good object
lesson to their deluded laborers.
they said now see the result of vot-
ing the democrats into power. Had
you voted the republican ticket and
kept us in power. we would not
now be compelled to shut down our
factories, our mills, and you would
not now be thrown out of work
See the result of your folly! The
untutored factory hand. not know
ing or understanding that bis fac
tory would have been closed i'm any
event, forthwith blamed the demo-
cratic party with his condition and
at the first opportunity emphasized
his displeasure by voting to again
reinstate that party in power which
was directly responsible for his woes.
This shutting down at the time
served a double purpose. I. en-
abled the manufacturers to work
off their surplus stock, and by
throwing their hands out of work,
cause them to blame the democratic
party, and purpose them to again
return the republican party into
power at the first opportunity.
This was sharp work upon the part
of the re eon bliran IA.da-n ."a .L::-
factory lords and they worked the
racket for all it was worth.
Another issue and vital one that
t"ld against our party in the late
conflict, was that of re assessment.
Three times had the pledge been
made to the people of our State and
three times it was broken. A great
many honest democrats began to
believe the democratic party or it's
leaders would not allow pro r
measure of re-assessment to pas,
The wealth of the State, irrespec-
tive of party. led by the Baltimore
.Sun was, and is opposed to it.
This coupled with the fact that our
candidate was not only selected by
German, or his influence. but with
in himself represented a platform
hostile to assessment. 1t was
not worth while for John 4 Hurst
onorable and worthy man as he 10
to try to make the people believe
that he was 10 favor OF the measure
when il was known that he no
only opposed the Hayes bill, bu
actually headed delegation to An
napolis for the purpose Of killing
, and did kill the bill. 1t was un
/ fortunate for the democratic part
+ that in selecting re-assessmen
Z candidate for governor, they shoul
a stumble against one whose recor
;. was against it. While the persop'
rhxrur... of our cauuIuate VT
!. above reproach, and he was recol
4 nized everywhere as an able, uprigf
man with the courage OF his col
70 yictions, still the two oblectlonao
, facts that have mentioned TO
~ against him at the polls.
ID | have given you Messrs' Ed'to
a some of the salient objections.
30 thew have occurred to me, tn
40 initiated against our party in I
=. late contest. OF course there g
=. other weighty objections, but
he they are not confined strictly
:, county or State issues, but are
- tional in character, will not
%, some of them, il at all, later
y. Suffice it to know that while
Ia. republican party in our county =
tho State was a unit, ours was dIvid
ike Owing to the long and unin'
rupted lease Of power-over q q'
i. ter Of a century-that our p'
mid enjoyed corruption, more or
-. real and defiant, had crept into