The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-12-31
The Status of the r1aryland Demo-
cratic Party.

Next wednesday tne MAI ylaHu Legs
ature assemblies at Annapolis. Beyond
giving away franchises to corporations,
that body of law makers will i'll all prob
ability do but little of Importance, except
to elect United States Senator who will
aid in the effort to fasten the British gold
standard and bank rule more firmly on
the people of this country.
This is the fruit of last falls Democratic
party of Maryland as run by the German
machine. What is the status of the party
in this State at present? Not a man of
the party will attempt to give the ques-
ton a rational answer. They say we re-
duced the Republican majority, but for
what does that count when it empha-
sized no principle for future effort to
rally round? In losing Senator which
should have been placed in the ranks of
those struggling against the encroach-
ments of the money oligarchy and sub
version of popular government, every
thing worth striving for was lost, and lost
without establishing the patty on the
lines of the new departure which the
party made at its new birth, when at
| Chicago it threw overheard its tory ele-
| ment which had been steadily leading the
party towards the British policy of gov
eminent, which the Republican party
now openly avows and risks its future on
establishing.
It is matter of personal pride and sat
| isfaction for a candidate to be chosen to
any Office. If nothing more it is a flat
tering compliment from his constituents,
and the Cecil members feel justly proud,
no doubt, of the fattering majority by
which they were elected, but that really
counts for nothing, because it indicated
nothing in the future.
1t was always our contention that the
State could and would have elected a
majority on joint ballot of the legislature,
had the campaign of last fall been based
on honestly and openly avowed principles,
as promulgated in the Chicago platform,
in place of on Germans dishonest meth
DDS, which took all the life out of the
patriotic portion of the party, leaving all
to the personal efforts of candidates whose
election was meaningless. To the many
nom political offices this was of no i'm
portance, but as regards the legislature it
was of the greatest importance to firmly
establish the party on the lines the
National organization had laid down.
And this became all the more important
from the fact that the party in the State
had never endorsed the principles enun-
ciated by the National body at Chicago
where the delegates from this State were
divided.
The present status of the party in the
State is adrift. No one knows what it
stands for. Some of the party are i'll favor
of the gold standard and others for the
free coinage of silver. The worst feature
about the whole business is that all is
chaos to go into the congressional cleo
ton next year when everything should
have been settled in view of and with ref
erence to that contest If the same Cor
man chicanery is attempted next year
that was this, not member will be elect
ed that is in favor of the reforms which
the National organization of the party,
the Bryan Democracy, is pledged for.
Germans machine is still intact i'll every
county and no doubt he hopes to use it
next year. Such attempt is sure to create
revolt and an organization i'll every part
of the State anti German and based on
the Chicago platform principle. In fact
the movement is already in active devel-
opulent with the determination not to be
caught mapping second time. The party
organization is still under German and
he is determined that if his corrupt polit-
ical life is ended that the party shall die
with him. Hence the movement now on
foot to establish an organization firmly in
the State independent of the German
machine. Those who cling to German
may expect to share the fate OF the par
| tlsans of Lucifer when cast over the battle
| ments of heaven. German is goldbug
corporationist and corruptonist of the
most dangerous type; a Jesuite in prin-
ciple, politically, as we'll as in facial
expression.