The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-07-09
Friday, July 8, 1897.
Regarded With Suspicion.

Every succeeding week makes it more
and more manifest that the Democrat
leaders-the old timers-are shaping their
course to get back onto the old Cleveland,
goldbug, corporation monopoly lines,
with the Palmer and Buckner old folks in
control, who left the regular organization
last fall The Baltimore SIN is bending
every effort and straining every nerve to
compass this end. The press association
or bureau appointed by the Democratic
editors of the State, to furnish political
literature for the weak brethren who are
not competent to write such matter for
their own papers, ale shaping their efforts
to this end. Every movement by the
party managers i'll the State is steadily
towards the accomplishment of that pur-
pose. The professional politicians believe
they can fight the Republican party on
the old plan they are best familiar with,
which is to cavil and criticise minor acts
of the Republicans in the State To this
end the Democratic convention of this
county was shaped, and neither the ticket
or milk-and-water policy of the conven-
ton is capable of defense by their papers.
Their race-track platform is being picked
to pieces by the Republicans, and having,
by their grave-like silence on their posi-
ton with the national platform of the
party taken under the Bryan lead last
fall, inferentially affiliated with the old
gold Democrats, led by the Baltimore
Sun and encouraged by the Mckinley
administration, all sympathy with silver
men has been forfeited, since their object
is clearly one Of deception all round.
The Elkton convention abandoned
every coigne of vantage which it should
have seized and has left no point of de-
tense which the friends of the national
party can occupy. In short they are on
the march bag and baggage to the camp
of the National or goldite Cleveland
Democrat organization, championed and
directed in Maryland by the Balti-
more SIN.
AS matters at present stand the party
is utterly defenseless in this county with
every indication of overwhelming defeat.
The public interpret the silence of the
county convention as utilization with the
old goldite leaders and abandonment of
the Chicago platform. The anti-race-track
element which has its strongest following
in the churches, looks with increasing
suspicion ON the curious winding and
resolutions as an attempt to conceal by
ambiguity of language hidden purpose,
so often practiced in national party plat
forms. Whether there is or not anything
in this lonely plank which the party is
committed to stand on, with only space
beyond, above and beneath, is of little
consequence, the Republicans are assail-
ing its frail framework with destructive
fire that threatens its utter humiliation.
In short the Elkton convention placed the
party between the devil and the deep sea,
with the pleasant choice of drowning or
cremation before it, with the avenging
Nemesis behind it. There is not a peg
for the silver men to hang hat on. AS
far as the party in Cecil is concerned its
silent action is step in the direction of
furnishing another goldite, Wall street
United States Senator and the contribu-
ton to the obstacles in the path of all
reform. Alas reformers can never trust
this Cecil county Democracy. Like the
dog to his vomit and the washed SOW to
wallowing in the mire, the party in
Maryland is giving every indication of
returning to its Cleveland denominations
of 1895. Everywhere else over the coun-
try the party is lining up on the Chicago
platform. In Ohio, the great opening
battle ground for the congressional CAM
paign of next year, nothing was even
touched but free silver men for candidates,
and the convention reaffirmed the
Chicago platform with ringing cheers.