The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-08-26

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the friend Of the oppressed and I'M
fortunate and the ally of every beneti-
cent cause. 1t is the embodiment of
the spirit that rules the age and the
gauge Of the intellectual and moral
altitude Of society.
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Answer to the Democratic Editors Asso-
citation, Paper No. 4.
This article is headed Seeking a
| Subterfuge." It's text reads MARY
land Republicans, anxious to get
away from their record inState affairs,
are seeking to take refuge behind the
! financial question" The argument
of this paper is entirely based upon
the views of some leading Senators in
their discussion of the bill before
Congress to secure, as was pledged,
international bimetallism.
| Before noticing the influences de-
duced by the Associations paper, let
! it be here recorded, that so far from
trying to evade its record in State
affairs, careful reviews will be issued
during the campaign emphasizing
noted improvements in every depart
ment of the State, and the "Associa-
ton OF Democratic Editors" will learn
that the Republican party is not
seeking to escape the consequences of
its fulfilled pledges, but, proudly
pointing to them, claims that every
pledge given has been redeemed so
thoroughly as to bring pride rather
than shame. Once more, then, the
chief premise of our Democratic
Associations argument is imaginary,
and hence it's arguments, so founded
upon unstable groundwork, must fall
and be riddled into shreds by think
ing minds.
Now let us look to the charge of
taking refuge behind the financial
question-and consider the following
compromise issued by the association:
THE silver question, having been
put in obeyance by the joint action
of all political parties, cannot in good
faith be injected into the State cam
paign.n Since this paper was issued
the Democratic State Convention has
met and made q platform which
practically indorses our associations
compromise, for it has supposedly
eliminated Mr.. Bryan and the Chi
cagO platform, but all along the line
of states has been issued a call for
free-silver advocates to be in the sad
die. Mr.. Bryan has announced that
nothing must be expected from the
administrations efforts to settle this
question through the joint action of
interested powers That our govern
ment can, and must, coin silver alone.
Notwithstanding Henry Watterson's
famous declaration, Free coinage of
silver is as dead as African slavery"
Mr.. Bryan means to force this issue
into this and all succeeding cam
paigns until he shall sink or swim.
Why, then, should the party that
is really trying to carry out the pied
ges that gave it power stack its guns
and stand idly awaiting the coming
conflict, especially since a Legislature
is to be elected empowered to elect
United States Senator, into whose
keeping will be placed this final
adjustment? The late Democratic
conventions magnificent straddle of
this issue was conceived in the very
room where several years ago was
made the startling announcement
that an electoral commission, created
to look into the issues of contested
presidential election, had no power
to go behind the returns of State"
thus converting that commission
into nonentity. Out of that room
now issues the edict, 1--WE must not
go behind the returns" The returns
from our State were: Free coinage
of silver at double its market value is
He who bore the bur
den of that campaign and felt its
weight has no desire for it's resurrec-
ton.
The platform then for our Demo
Gratis to stand upon is the gold stand
ard endorsement previous to the
Chicago convention; the silver coin
age endorsement subsequent to that
and gold or silver, now
just as it suits voters.
Military history teaches that STRAIT
agem has been resorted to by oppos-
ng armies, even to the calling for a