The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-02-12
The News Untenable Position.

The Baltimore Evening Newsn has
had high times with some of the edi-
tors of the rural press" on matter
involving a question of political prin-
ciple and what is best to do for party
success this coming autumn. In this
it manifests unmistakable traces of die
tatorship. 1t will be necessary to tell
our readers that the "News" claims to
be Democratic, but radically indepen-
dent; that it has for the past few years
done everything in its power to de-
stroy the organization of the party for
petty spite work and that it
Smiles and murders while II smiles,
And vets it's cheeks with artificial tears
to keep up its hypothetical career.
Now the News" insists that neither
Mr.. German nor any silver man can
be elected to the United States Senate.
If people did as the News" would
have them and as it advised them to
do last fall and the yearprevious, why,
who could he elected? There are many
thousand voters in the State of Mary
land yet who are silver men, AMI 9TH
ers who are great friends of Mr.. Cor
man. This gentleman has not an
nounced his candidacy, so the News"
is, Us we have said, Hypothetical.
If a silver man is announced for this
high office, the "News' counsels the
opposing element of gold advocates
to Support-but whom can they sup
port? Surely not a silver man-that is,
if the News" would have them adj
here to their convictions rs expressed
at the ltte election. They could not
vote for German, for the News says
he cannot be elected. This resolves the
question to its elements The "News,"
would have factional fight; it would
array the silver men against their yell
low metal brethren, for the "News."
be ii understood, does not believe in
party regularity nor abiding by the de-
cision of any convention. 1t plainly
wants to see Republican control of
Maryland extended TO its EXTREMIST
limits; it wants to see another Repub-
lican Senator and is planting the seed
of disSention abroad with will.
Last year the News with other Bal
timore daily papers, were on the side
of gold and advised the voters of Mary
land to elect the Republican candidate.
This, they said, was matter Of prin-
ciple. Some persons followed their adj
vice and others remained true to their
party, also from a matter of principle.
Does the "News impugn the sincerity
of the honest voters of this State, who
supported Mr. Bryan for the high Office
of President? If it does, its own mo-
tives are likewise assailable and subject
to ridicule. Acting on(Slis hypothesis,
does the "News" for Il moment sup
pose that the thousands of Democrats,
vino stood bravely in the ranks in the
last campaign, will lay down their
arms and come into the fold of the
minority? This is not Democratic doc
trine, nor yet Democratic policy, and it
also serves to illustrate the point we
make as to the untenable position of the
News 1t has taken Il certain line
of action and now seeks to impress the
people with its advantages. If they
cannot look at it in the same light as
the News it is because principle
cannot be readily sacrificed to suit ca
PRECIOUS whims and ,fancies. The
"News" is at its old tricks again, but
happily the "rural press is not easily
turned from the right by the persua-
sions of an editorial paragraphist. They
are firm and steadfast to Democracy
and allow no disgruntled newspaper
to dictate to them. The very bulwarB
of Democracy's defence rests in the
"rural press For years the Baltimore
papers have been against the party and
pS"ih tilNl SUN W tllSCllNlcI lllolc us
satisfaction. If the Democratic party
has made mistakes, the party now in
power has an unbroken record in the
same chapter of incidents; the lion of
Democracy has given place to snarl-
ing hyeDa and all over the country the
people are regretting the transition.
Now is the time to think about organ
ization, and not further disruption and
entanglements. There is only one way
to bring success back again at the next
election and that is by harmony and
unity in the ranks of the party. If the
Democratic purists and reformers desire
to keep the State in the hands of those
who have it now, they can do so, but
like Sampson of old and his destruc-
ton ofthe temple, they will bend the
pillars of Democracy until the struc-
ture eventually falls and carries them
with it down to endless obscurity.
THE junior Senator-elect for Mary