The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-09-23
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Congress, Second Congressional
District,
NICHOLAS w. STEELE,
of Carroll county.
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

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dates having been nominated and
their respective platforms promulga-
ted. 1t now lays with the people to
say who shall represent them in the
next national Legislature.
As we have said before, it will be the
policy of The -Egis to conduct this
campaign on entirely clean Democrat
ic lines, and it is to be hoped that
neither party or it's friends will de
scend into the filth and mire of mud
singing. AS far as we know both Mr.
Steele and Mr.. Baker are clean hon
est business men, respected in private
life bv their feliowmen and we hope
they will finish this canvass as they
commenced it.
The real issue is whether the pres
ent state of affairs as it exists in Wash
ington is best for the interests OF the
country. There are several matters
about which much can be written and
they will be treated more at length.
The one which strikes US most point
eddy at the present, is the one nearest
to the heart-treatment of our brave
soldiers by those in authority who
were put there by Republican votes.
Tongue can never tell or pen de-
pict the fearful suffering which has
been brought upon those poor unfort-
unates, who volunteered their lives
for what President Mckinley declared
in his message was, Il war for the sake
of humanity. Humanity indeed-to
drag from their comfortable homes,
two hundred thousand of the flower
and pick of our manhood, not to die
the death of soldiers on battle fields
in defense of principle, but like dogs
in a pound, suffer and starve in this
land of plenty.
1t seems almost beyond the pale of
wisdom or the bounds of common
sense to ever dream that in civilized
country like this, we would actually
see our kinsmen and friends suffering
for the necessities OF life and proper
medical attention. Yet who can deny
it? Has not the daily press been
filed, week after week, with heart
rending letters written to friends,
from the boys themselves, depicting
their true condition. If any further
evidence were necessary all any one
has to do is to see the men who have
been mustered out of service, and
these physical wrecks will show in
stronger terms than language can eX-
press, how they were treated.
After all this complaint which has
been made, what has been done to
remedy the evil? Only the appoint
ment of a commission by the Presi-
dent, which is powerless to ascertain
the facts, powerless to suggest, let
alone apply any remedy. While there
has been a suspension of hostillties
yet abuses are still going on and we
hear of them every day. There is
something radically wrong, all will
admit, but who will stop it. 1t may
be that by the time this 'investigat-
ing'' gets through, all the soldiers will
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to complain.
Now who is to blame for all this!
No one but the authorities in Wash
ington. Each one points his finger at
the other eagerly trying to shield him
self. But there will be one committee
of investigation who will investigate
and that will be the American voters.
They will do it on the eighth day OF
next November and will hold to strict
responsibility the party under whom
these outrages were permitted. There
will be no use of trying to put the
odium on individuals. The party
must bear it. Remember a vote for
Steele for Congress means a forcible
and telling condemnation of the dis,
graces attending this war for human,
ity's sake"