The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-07-24
Oakland Demoerat.

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can leaders and press of the State to evade
State issues and seek refuge from bad rec
ord behind the financial question, which has
no bearing whatever upon the contest to
be waged in this State at the coming cleo
ton, and which, to all intents and pur-
is concerned, as the question, if the Re
publicans intend to legislate thereon at all,
will have been settled before the term OF
the u. S. Senator to be elected by the
next general assembly begins. This be-
ing fact that cannot be successfully dis
puted, the craven purpose of our insincere
and lodging Republican brethren is at
once manifest and easy of comprehension.
They are afraid to go before the people on
their bad and venal record in State affairs,
thereby virtually acknowledging that there
is something ''rotten in Denmark and
that their unsavory record will not stand
an open and searching investigation.
Princess Anne True Marylander.
In 1896 the Republicans made the
financial issue the leading issue in that
campaign and, through it, they played so
effectually on the fears of the gold pluto
Gratis of the Democratic faith that they
abandoned their party and all its other
issues s-high tariff, for instance-and voted
for Mckinley, and the other Republicans
on the Republican State ticket in Mary
land, and elected them, too. Thus the
State of Maryland was handed over to the
Republicans. Every voter in Maryland
knows, or ought to know, the record which
that party has made in Maryland since it
had control in the State. As we said in
our editorial last week, that party breaks
every pledge it ever made the people.
For instance, in the campaign Of 1896, the
Republicans promised, if elected, to first
and at once pass laws establishing the
single gold standard Secondly, they
promised to hold change in the tariff in
abeyance When Congress met in De
cember, Senator Wolcott introduced an
International Monetary Conference bill
and the Republicans in Congress voted for
it solidly and passed it. This bill is in
tended to provide way for the adoption
of both gold and silver standard This
is an utter breakage of the pledge made by
that party to single gold standard Demo
Gratis and so secured the election of Nc
Kinley. In the second place, as soon as
Mckinley had called the extra session of
Congress, instead of holding the tariff
change in allegiance, as they pledged them
selves to do, they broke the pledge to low
secured on this pledge, and introduced the
Dingley tariff change, which is away above
the infamous Mckinley tariff and the Re
publicans in Congress have passed it.
The financial issue, they found, was a
winning card, and now that party proposes
to bring that issue forward as the leading
issue in the State campaign this fall, hop
ing to still delude the single gold standard
Democrats into voting the Republican
ticket again.
Cumberland Times.
After having destroyed the secrecy of
the ballot box in Maryland by emitting the
clerk oath the Republican party is now
making efforts to take refuge behind the
financial question. To expose this piece
of subterfuge the Maryland Democratic
Editor Association have issued an article,
to which we call the especial attention Of
our readers The object of the article, it
will be observed, is to show the bad faith
of the Maryland Republicans in their effort
to deceive the people by bringing the
financial question into the campaign.
Upper Marlboro Gazette.
The fimsy, financial subterfuge behind
which the Republican party in Maryland
has taken refuge is, from its very nature,
too transparent to hide their real motives
The Republican League of Business
Men in Baltimore recently put forth a
political declaration of principles in
which a most attractive lot of things which
were promised and never consumated, was
shown; the non fulfllment of which long
ago showed how thin their veneer of truth
was when made The same delusiye snare
is set with which thousands of Democrats
were allured from party allegiance in 1896,
and the financial cloud with which they
hope to obscure the brazen facts which sur
round their vulnerable record, both local
and State, is of thinness through which
none but the most skeptical will fail to see.
Hartford Democrat
The article is one of a series prepared
under the direction of the Democratic Edi
tors Association, and shows the shallow
ness of the Republican effort to divert
attention from their own misdeeds and
raise false issue, in the hope Of distract
ing Democratic voters and dividing party
counsels to prevent the rescue of the State
from Republican misrule. Their special
effort is to delude electors into the belief
that the money question is involved in the
election of a legislature this fall-when it
is patent to all but the wilfully blind that
the question of monetary standard is not
even remotely connected with the election
of Legislators or any officers they may ap
point The only possible connection would
be in the election of United States Sen
ator How closely connected that is will
be known as soon as it is stated that the
term of the present incumbent does not
expire for two years, and that any legis-
lation by the Republican Congress ON the
gold and silver question will be settled, if
settled at all, before new Senator from
this State would have vote in that body.
How futile, then, for the people of this
State to be wasting their energies in dis
cussing the opinions of man or body of
men who will not be called on to express
hat opinion during the incumbency of
their office
That the Republicans outside of Mary
land have acknowledged the deceit prac-
ticed on honest and credulous Democrats
last fall, is apparent from the action of
their leaders in Congress in passing the bill
for international bimetallism, thus aban
doning the gold standard.
Ellicott City Times.
Every unfair artifce known in politics
will be employed by the Republicans this
fall to direct the minds of voters from the
true issues affecting this State. Notwith
standing Republican Congress (the Re
publcans voting solidly on the question in
both branehes) sounded the keynote of the