The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-10-29
HON. lSIDOIs RAINER
TO the Democratic Merchants
Committee of Baltimore.

extreme. | cannot turn down candidates
Williams and Mr.. Gortcr and Mr.. McNulty
and others, and hand over the whole adj
ministration of this city and state, with its
treasury department and its judicial and
clerical places, and its long line of local
offices, into the hands of those who have
proven themselves so utterly incompetent
to manage it. am afraid of the consc-
quences.
One thing l will say, that in this com
munication no Democrat has been advised
by me to vote for any candidate upon the
Democratic ticket who is not qualified in
point of character and intelligence to hold
the place that he Is aspiring for. Party
emblems amount to nothing unless the
names beneath them sustain the principles
that they represent and the traditions for
which they stand. l would cut the hick-
DRY tree to its roots if its branches were
loaded with deadly venom. Vote for per
sons and for principles, and not for signs
and symbols. If you believe that any can
didate upon the municipal ticket proposes
to hand his office over to the management
of a political boss, and not administer it
in the interest of the people, strike him
down, and if you believe that there is a
candidate for the legislature untitled in
point of personal character, or whom you
believe will betray the confidence of the
people and the principles they believe i'll,
refuse to give him your support. There
are great many things in the Democratic
party that | would like to change, but l
cannot become an apostate from the affairs
of my faith simply because others worship
at the same shrine with whom l do not
care to mingle in political communion.
The Democratic organization is one body;
the Democratic party of Maryland, COM
prising over hundred thousand voters,
is another and larger body. | belong
not to the Democratic organization, but to
the Democratic party.
THE DEMOCRACY OF TIE UNION.
The Democratic party of the nation is
we know this, unfortunately, to
be the fact, but, my friends, we have been
divided before, and we have come together
again. Upon other occasions i'll our his
tory conflicting convictions have torn us
asunder, but we have over and over again
buried the flags of the factions and raised
Ti,1
Democratic party-that is to say, the party
of Jefferson, of Jackson and of Madison
is not dead 1t cannot and it will not die.
1t was born long before the Chicago plat
form was framed, and it will survive it..
1t is simply asleep. It is true that it is a
restless slumber through which it is pass
ing, disturbed by ugly and delusive Wis
ions, but it has slept this way before. From
1860 to 1876 it vas wrapt in the shroud of
a starless night, until the buglc call of Til
den summoned it to arms. Then, again, in
darkness until the mighty name of Cleve-
land aroused us from our slumbers. What
has been done in the past will be repeated
in the future, and long before the next
;-itiunal convention meets look with fer
want hoIc and expectation to the comm :
of Il Kew liplirclcr of the same heroic
mould as those who have preceded him,
who will reunite our scattered hosts and
lead us from this night of bondage, not to
the worship of some grotesque IDOL, paint
ed with fantastic figures, but back again
into the land where our fathers dwelt. and
at the affairs where our fathers knelt to
the worship of the great of old, the dead
but sceptered sovereigns who rule our
spirits from their urns.