The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-05-25
This Falls Campaign.

No premature note of warning is
sounded when we say it is high time
that measures should be discussed
looking to the issues that will con-
front our party in the election to take
place for county officers in November.
Let us take heed, lest in the magnifi-
cent majority our party holds in the
county, we be lulled into Indifference
and indulge the dangerous idea
that all who succeed in obtaining the
nomination before the county con-
vention will surely be elected. A
party worthy to hold the reins of gov
eminent must so direct the peoples
affairs as to have their entire conf
dence. A political party is not
stronger than the will of the members
of the party and they will demand
that good men, and competent men,
filled. The spirit of independence is
broad in our land and voters are loud
in their demands that the public well
fare shall be paramount to individual
preferment; that persons filling public
offices shall be competent, honest and
faithful in the discharge Of their
duties. The oftener an individual is
honOred by public trust the stronger
grows the conviction of his usefulness
and he is spoken of as faithful serv-
ant, so let everyone elevated to Office
regard himself as a servant of the
people. When puffed up by success,
surrounded by sycophants, and
assumes the role OF master and die
tates to those he should obey, his use
fulness has gone and wisdom should
induce his party to lay him aside.
Any other course fOrfeits the peoples
confidence and invites defeat.
Our majority in the county, the
conviction that a nomination is tan
tamount to an election induces many
to aspire to positions they are in no
sense competent to fill.
Whispered names of would be can
didates are floating on every breeze
and by the time our convention as
sembles there surely will be material
sufficient before it from which to select
a ticket that will command the sup
port of the entire party.
Trouble often arises from injudici-
ciOus selection at the primary cleo
tions of delegates to the county CON
vention-delegates sent to a conven-
ton pledged in advance to the sup
port of ticket that perhaps will be
opposed by the convention. Let your
delegates come to the convention
looking to the best interests of the
party and determined to nominate
such q ticket as will receive the united
support of the entire party. Follow
ing this course we will retain the con-
fidence of the people and hold in the
future the handsome majorities we
have held in the past.
These are words of warning voiced
and words of advice spoken in what
we consider an honest discharge of
duty. Aparty organ should have the
courage of its convictions. 1t is the
servant of the people to whom it looks
for patronage and whose encouraging
support will ever be it's stimulus of
action. Our work is for the county
at large, our best interests are for the
Republican party. We belong to no
faction and are controlled by no CLIQUE
of would be leaders. With no per-
sonal aspirations to Office, with no
motives actuating us save the success
of the party we represent and the
principles it advocates, we shall labor
faithfully to secure the former and
maintain the latter. Located at the
county seat, the proper place for a
county paper, we belong as much to