The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-30
The "Sun" Again Wants Repub'
lican Success.

serves, than 10 persist in it, mad lie
sire to have the Democrats map out a
course in the coming State and county
campaigns that would be the very
height of folly. For two years past the
San has delighted in the fact that dis
cord prevailed in the ranks of the party,
and did all in its power TO widen the
breach and make success at the polls
an impossibility. The results Of the
elections of 1856 are only too well
known, and now upon the face Of all
this the Sun auditsdisgruntled coterie Of
followers desired the Democratic State
/ Convention 10 declare in it, resolutions
decidedly for silver and the Chicago
platform. If the Sun was an honest
straightforward Democratic paper and
the sincerity of its pretentions we're not
susceptible of the most elastic conior-
ton and manipulation; if it, course in
the past had been in line with the old
time policy of the paper, and above all,
if the ISSUES they seek to make were
paramount 10 those the party has en-
bodied in the various subsidiary resolu-
tons at county conventions, then we
say that in like spirit the advice of the
San could be seriously considered.
But-and the word stands like bar
rier at the gate of the Democratic
s+r,nrboIJ tho S,,s hos Lost 81 nor
suasiveness with the great mass of the
freemen of Maryland. In 1896 that
paper advocated the election of Re
publican Governor and Legislature,
and materially aided in the defeat of
the entire Democratic State and local
tickets. 1t made a personal issue of
Senator German and trod under foot
the many sacred principles of
the party. In 1896 it was vigorous
gold organ, and with many other pa
pers in the country, made possible the
election of a Republican President and
the enactment of the Dingley Protec-
ton measure which has recently be-
come law, although they would have
"locked the stable after the horse was
stolen Now they would have the
Democrats of Maryland pass resolutions
bringing into prominence the silver
and gold ISSUES which were settled at
the last election with no prospects of
Congressional action until after the
national campaign Of 1900. The fight
this fall is not upon the gold and silver
basis, a the San and other malcontentS
would like, but strictly upon the rec
ord Of the two parties i ;heir manage
ment Of State affairs. Instead of trying
TO bring about harmonious feeling be-
+ tween the factions in the party for the
/ good Of the common people of the
State, the Sun would keep alive the
animosity that existed last year and
make il an impossibility for Demo-
4 cratic success in the future. As the Sun
has itself said time and again, "sil,er is
a deaf issue" why then does it want
10 revive the same The san knows that
nothing can be done with silver now
and only uses the slogan of the late
campaign 10 put an obstacle in the
path of those who wish TO come back
into the fold and help win back the
State from Republican hands. If the
Sun arraigned the party for supporting
the Chicago platform in 1896, why does
it wish it to declare for the same one
year after, when the contest between
the allied forces had been fought and
won for gold? The answer is easy and
plausible. The San cannot remove the
shackles that bind it to the Republican
party; it still clings to the cry, ''down
with the bosses" although it helped to
put into power one more arrogant than
any ever charged to the Democratic
party; it likes to see the way in which
the Republicans manage State affairs;
how they subserved the interests of the
corporations and especially Cowen and
the b. 4 o. r. r., in the last Legisla-
ture; it likes the prostitution of the:po-
lice and fire departments of the City
of Baltimore, and above all, the effects
of the new assessment law, which has
/ raised our taxes and made the burden
heavier upon the common people. This
is how the Sun stands in the coming
fight and who can blame them for
wanting the State kept under Repub-
can control? The Sun asks why.the
tariff, civil service, and other national
issues were touched upon in the resolu-
tons recently passed at the Frederick
| County Convention and not the Chi
cago platform in as plain language!
We will say that the latter issue at
/ present is subservient to the Others
The loyal Democrats of this county can
always be depended upon to support
the principles of their party, and the
grand old organization is fully capable
Of meeting and declaring itself on any
question that may arise in the future.
silver msy o. may not De an issue
again. i i dos. the six million voters
who supported il can be looked for al
iasr posts q duty, Notwithstanding
TIE protests q god papers ike the Sun.
B1t he tariff snd civil service ques-
-ial. are q vital personal and timely
Interest % al The people. The tariff Is
q se--lei institution in this country,