The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-10-07
NEVER FALTER.

There seems to be considerable
apathy in regard to the election tins
fall. among both Democrats and Re
publicans. This probably arises from
the fact that in this State only Con
gressmen are to be chosen and thus
the campaign lacks that interest to
many which it possesses when a full
ticket of county officials are to be
voted for and there is more of the pro
longed excitement which attends tie
uuadrennial selection of a President.
But every Democrat who will devote
a moment to the consideration of the
subject will perceive abundant rca-
son why he should register and vote
the straight Democratic ticket this lall
as usual.
One of the important things to be
gained by Democratic victory is the
moral effect on the local elections of
next year, both in the State and coun
ty. A Democratic majority of five
hundred in Hartford county this fall
would presage an almost certain vic
tory for the local ticket next year, and
a reverse majority, while not indica-
ting certain defeat with good ticket,
would make the work of carrying the
next election much harder. The fight
for the control of the State next year
will be tremendous and happy will
be the Democracy of those counties
and wards whose work is more than
half done by giving a rousing Demo
cratic victory this fall.
But aside from the mere fact of par
t. supremacy the vital principles of
American institutions are at stake
this fail, as always. The Congress of
the United States is the body which
Immediately controls our destinies as
nation and either shapes our policies
or restraints the mistaken ambitions
of the administration. 1t is true that
the President and the Senate alone
can make treaties, but no scheme of
theirs can be effectual unless the pop
ular branch grants the money with
which to carry it into effect. A Dem.
cratic majority, or even a strong
minority, in the House of Representa-
tives can block inimical legislation or
else expose the plans and motives of
the dominant party to the people, who
are usually swift in their retribrtive
Judgment.
The next Congress will have mu ch to
do in investigating the acts of tie adj
ministration in the conduct OF the
war, its terrible mismanagement
through which, had the enemy been
aware of our condition, we would
have certainly suffered temporary but
humiliating defeat ana been even now
waiting for the end of the rainy season
in Cuba to retrieve the losses of a cam
paign so badly begun and so bungling-
ly conducted by those in power. Nay,
more; we might, and probably would,
be now confronted with the belliger-
ency of one or more European powers
besides Spain who would have been
emboldened to take sides against US
by the miserable mismanagelnen of
our War Department.
The question of territorial expansion,
which involves the highest rights of
American citizenship and the most i'm
portant departure from our system of
government will have to be disposed
of largely by the next Congress. The
overcoming problems of the tariff,
the currency and federal elections
should at all times, if it is not possible
to have them settled by Demo cratic
President and Congress, be jealousy
watched by powerful and alert
minority of both Houses, and f sub
ject to the veto of a Democratic ma
jority in the House of Representatives
SO much the better.
Register next Tuesday, if you are not
already on the list, and you will al
ways regret it if you fail to cast your
vote for r. b. Tippett, on the eighth
of November.