The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-29
A Last Appeal.
To the Editor of The Republican.

PUBLICAN you will be called upoA to
decide by your ballots question: of
momentous Importance to each IL d
vidual and the honor and integritl co
our common country. Not,.siaIes4,s..
dark days of 1861 have questions of
more Importance been before the
American people for their decision.
The Democratic party cutting loose
from the past have joined the Altgeld,
| Tillman, the Pennoyers, the anar-
chists, the enemies of law and order
and by delusive appeals are trying to
get into power, attempting to deceive
! the people by once more promising
bread when they will give us a stone
We cannot in this article discuss the
different issues and will only show a
few of their inconsistencies in the past.
1t has not been long since they were
before the people talking of economy,
crying of the Republican Congress,
Billion-dollar Congress. The peo-
pie were deceived. They gave them
a majority in Congress and the result
was appropriation at their first SEES
sion amounting to forty-four millions
of dollars more than the Republicans
had made
people crying and bowling about the
| the people We're deceived, gave them
control OF Congress and what a record
| they made, The fiftythird Congress
will go down into history as the most
incompetent, the most laundering
and contemplate that ever disgraced
any civilized country. The DemOcra-
tic tifty-secOnd and tifty-third Con
| crosses were the most extravaganza i'll
the nations history. Leading Demo
cratic papers said when the fifty-third
Congress adiOurned:-'"The people of
! the United States should unite in de-
vout thanksgiving to the God of the
nations when this scOurge is lifted at
noon to-day" characterized it as the
! Congress Of dishonOr, which has
adapted Populism and brought wide
! spread disaster upon the nation"
styled it as ''ignoble and impotent. -
The members of the press stood up in
! their gallery in the house of reprssfr 4,
tatiyes at its adjournment ana -Sq =
Praise God from whom all blessing
flow.
The people We're deluded by their
| deceptive appeals in 1892 and elected
! the Democrats to power, and as a
consequence our bonded debt has
been increased $273, 0S1 ,632 to run
| thirty years and viii have cost us at
! that time S607, 093, $50. This is the
| legacy of the Democratic administra-
! ton. How the Democratic orators of
| the past would almost weep as they
told us how the Mckinley bill was
robbing the lab0ring man, but Mr..
| Blair Lee, Democratic candidate for
! Congress, now tells US in his speech
| published in the Cumberland Times
of September 18th: The Wilson bill
was looked upon by the majority of
the conservative people as a fair set
Element OF the tariff question, as there
was but little difference in effect be
tween it and the Mckinley BILL How
about the misrepresentation and
downright lying of the speakers and
press on this question? Now, they
are working like beavers TO bring
about the free coinage of silver at Is
to /, ana yet for three years their
leaders who are now trying to get the
votes Of the people have been con
dcmning this very thing. Witness,
Democratic county platform of 1898,
adopted AT q convention held during
the extra session OF Congress called
by President Cleveland for the pur-
pose Of repeating the Sherman act,
resolved, that we endorse the cour-
age and fidelity Of President Cleve-
land in his efforts to restore this
country to sound financial basis and
for the immediate repeal of the Sher-
man silver bill by which so much
~ r. on 70
interests of our people, and we de-
plOre the efforts of certain Republican
senators from the silver mining states
in their efforts to block legislation
looking to this relief which is so mach.
needed that the wage Garner may be
paid an honest dollar and not in
deprecated money"
1t is said politics makes strange bed
fellows and we see in this campaign
the Democratic party controlled by
these same senators, and how these
people are working for that principle
which they condemned in the county
platform of 1898, while of President
Cleveland whom they lauded with
their hOsannas for his fidelity they
now cry, away with him, away with
him." although he stands for the
same principles for which he then
commended.
Again, look at the State Democratic
platform Of last year in which they
commend the administration of
President Cleveland, especially for
the courage, sagacity and ability
which it has displayed in it's deter
mined and resolute efforts to rescue
the country from the deplorable evils
of a tluctuating, unstable and debased
currency and to crush the pernicious
financial heresy of silver at the ratio
of 16 to H.
We point you again to the Demo
cratic State platform of last June
adopted by the convention over which
Senator German presided and which
strongly denounced the free coinage
of silver at 16 to /, which was voted
for by the delegates from this county
and was adopted by large majority
vote of the delegates.
The Democratic party was gobblef
at Chicago by the anarchists and
Populists and now we are told that
the principles for which these Demo
cratic leaders contended for in ne