The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-09-30
The Political Position in Maryland.


When Mr.. Nicholas w. Steele's NOM
ination was endorsed by the Baltimore
convention which declared unequivocally
allegiance to the Chicago platform, the
proprietors of the woollen mills that Mr..
Steele is manager of, suddenly discovered
that his candidacy would prove serious
interference with their business and CON-
PEELED him to either lose his situation or
decline the nomination, and as the alter
native he chose the latter. This action
made it necessary for the nominating
convention to be called together imme-
diately to select another candidate. The
convention met in Elkton yesterday,
which made the time between the adj
journment of that body and the hour of
going to press too short to publish the
proceedings of the meeting in this issue
of the JOURNAL. The party machine
in the State is leaving no effort untried to
commit the party to the gold standard by
placing it under the direction of the gold
Democrats, that side show of the Mark
Hanna Mckinley party i'll thinly dis
guised form. The plotters have succeeded
in most of the nominations and put up
goldbug candidates.
No political machine can exist without
being literally subsidized; hence they all
must gravitate to the money power for
support. And any party managed by a
political machine will be guided in the
interest of the money power, and become
an attachment of the Republican party
which is now openly and avowedly every
where the political engine of the banks
and controlling corporations of the
country. All DISCUSSES formerly worn
have been torn off by Secretary Gage and
Mark Hanna, who stand in similar COM
handing relation to the Republican party
that the Pope does to the Catholic church,
of which his Holiness" is the head.
Under such condition where is the
common sense or common honesty of the
Democratic party of Maryland claiming..to
be in national standing with the party that
is everywhere else, except in Maryland,
placing itself firmly OH the Chicago plat
form and nominating avowed free coin
age, silver candidates? In this State the
so-called Democratic party, which is only
disguise name for Gorman's machine,
has nominated national bankers and
avowed goldbugs aud placed them on
platforms that mean nothing.
The national question that is bound to
divide political parties and break them
into fragments in the next ten years is the
financial question, and no party can live
i'll the cyclone that is steadily increasing
i'll intensity and violence, that does not
take sides for or against class privilege,
or government by wealth creators, and
the right of the people to govern versus
the right of money. In short the para
mount question is, and is bound to be in
the decade before us, whether the dollar
or the man shall govern. One of them
must inevitably become the servant to the
other. The dollar is at present unmis-
| IdkaDly Ill the SduulS anu the man IS
grooming under the first discipline of his
servitude. To break him to submit and
work docilely in the harness that has been
fitted to him is the task the money oil
garchy is addressing itself to. The same
discipline that breaks the spirit of the
beast, scant fare and hunger, is being
gradually but steadily applied to the man
animal by falling prices and crushing
burdens Of debt that falling prices make
it impossible ever to pay any more than
the interest on.
The so-called Democratic party of
Maryland is catering to this noloch of
wealth. How long are the people of this
State to wait for leader to head a revolt
against the present state of political affairs
i'll Maryland Faint efforts are at inter-
walls made which thus far have been little
else than vigorous protests.