Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30

customed standard this week and will
fall farther short next. owing to call
of the editor from home for longer
than usual period.
The issue of Nov. Is will resume the
campaign against bad literature and
other deplorable reminders of the fact
that the hosts of sin still beleaguer
Zion.
Final Stage ofthe Maryland Contest"
Under the above heading the Balti
more Sun of Monday, 25th inst, states
the case strongly, politely, truly, in
the article below.
1t is, moreover, q clarion call to the
true democracy to make virtue of
necessity-to become heroic, as Tilden
did, in overthrowing the monarchy of
misrule in their own party:
The campaign enters its final stage this
week, and both parties will put forth supreme
efforts to encourage their own followers and
to bring to their support voters who may
still be undecided. Owing to the conditions
of the compaign, the proportion of voters
who have not yet fully made up their minds
is probably larger than is generally the case
so late IN the canvass, and a good deal of
missionary work may still be done. Not the
sort of missionary work that is accomplished
by means of bribery and upon which the
machine is credited as relying greatly if not
mainly for success, but that which is directed
to the reason and conscience of reasonable
and conscientious citizens Voters of this
class who still hesitate drawn this way and
that by conflicting sentiments and consider
ations, are not likely to be influenced in
their final choice by partisan harangues or
violent defamation. There will be plenty of
this kind of thing this week, but such voters
will make up their verdict quietly for them
selves after a careful and conservative weigh
ing of the whole case on its merits, without
regard to party prejudices or narrow political
sympathies
This is a campaign in which the demands
of patriotic duty make peculiarly strong and
earnest claims upon every intelligent and
public spirited man. No man who loves his
State and city can afford to close his ears to
these demands or to surrender himself blind
ly to the leadership of prejudice or passion.
The evil results which will surely flow from
the triumph of Gormanism and Rasnism
will inevitably carry with them keen re-
proach and regret for all conscientious men
who may be misled into helping to reinstate
these dangerous and debasing influences.
In addition to the important point that the
election of democratic Legislature means
States Senate, and means, therefore, a direct
blow to the cause of stable and sound cur
rency, democrats should not forget what the
supremacy of German and Rasin means for
the democratic party itself in this State. 1t
means the indefinite continuation Of the
political abSOlutiSm and deSpotism which has
so long prevailed in Maryland, the crushing
out of all manhood and honorable independ-
ence inside the party, the re-establishment of
a cold yet corrupt tyranny under which no
man can hope for preterment or prominence
who is not willing to bend his knee and stife
his conscience. 1t means the revival in fresh
strength and vigor of the shameful era of
barter and sale, iobbery and corruption in
Legislatures and City Councils, the holding
up by political hlghwaymen of all public
measures from which it may be possible to
force heavy monetary tariff, the shameless
employment Of public places and power for
the enrichment Of the machine and those
closely connected with it. 1t means in time
the permanent alienation from the party of
its best intellectual and moral elements, who
will inevitably be driven from it by the dis
gust which these things will create. Can
true and thoughtful democrats lend them
selves to such a conSummation? Can they
permit themselves to be induced to aid in
handing over their party to those who have
in the past proved themselves so unworthy to
be its leaders, and who in the future will
more deeply sully its name and stain its
honor? If they can suffer themselves to do
this, they will have only themselves to thank
for the result, and they will have no right
hereafter to complain of what they may have
to bear. If they vote to renew the German
Rasin tyranny. they will be acting with their
eyes wide open, against reason and ex.
perience and they will deserve and will have
to bear the consequences.
If the German Rasin combination is over
thrown at this election, its fate will be sealed
forever. 1t will fall to pieces never to be re-
united, and the democratic party, purified of
this source of corruption and relieved of this
incubus, will have before it new hopes and
aspirations and the prospect ofhonorabe ser
vice and splendid public achievement. In
no other way can the democratic party be de-
livered from its present bondage and enabled
to stand erect once more as its own master,
free to do the will of the people and to do
honor to its great principles and traditions.
1t is the opportunity Off lifetime. Patriotic
democrats who love their party truly and de-
sire to see it great and useful in the future
will not throw this opportunity away.