Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1899-11-03
For Sheriff,
ARTHUR WILLIAMS
For County Surveyor.
CHARLES j. MADDOX.
Address Of the Democratic State Cen
trail Committee to the People of
Maryland.

"Os. ousPiciously, ana the gratifying prom
Use OF success which met US at the beginning
has deepened into well assured confidence
Of triumph as the contest draws TO a close.
The popular manifestations of approval
of the work of our Convention in all sections
OF the State have left nothing to be desired
Our candidates have been received every.
where with an enthusiasm never surpassed
Their acknowledged high character and
thoroughly established qualifications-their
experience In public affairs-their familiar
ity with the needs and resources of the State
and their recognized intellectual vgor, SUP
plemented by the inspiring circumstances
under which they were nominated have
given to the campaign a spirit and force
seldom witnessed.
Our organization both in the City of Bal
umore and in the counties is complete
The work of registration has been conducted
with thoroughness and care. Fractional diff
ferences in our ranks have disappeared.
Our local tickets are made up every where
OF men OF character and intelligence, and
one OF the most gratifying features OF the
campaign is the heartiness and good feeling
with which the friends OF the defeated can
didates for nomination are supporting the
ticket. Indeed, greater harmony and earn
estness has never been seen, and we feel
that from the reports that come to us, from
one END of the State TO the other, of the spirit
and enthusiasm of the Democracy and the
cordial union of all elements of the party.
We can say to you with emphasis that the
lay of our political deliverance is near at
had.
Results have abundantly proved the wis
dom, sagacity and patriotism of our conyen.
ton in deciding to conduct this campaign
upon State issues alone.
The introduction into our platform as
tests of party allegiance of questions of ma
tional administration and policy was be.
lieVed by the convention TO be as unneces-
sary as it was unwse. 1t was felt that in
this momentous struggle for State govern
ment In Democratic hands upon correct and
sound business principles, we were entitled
TO have and assuredly would receive the sup
port OF the great majority of the intelligent
white men of the State and that no obstacles
should be put in the way of those who from
interest, inclination, former associations,
State pride or any other reason, might be
disposed to help US in re-acQuiring our lost
political supremacy in Maryland. II was
known that our people are divided at this
time on the question OF Imperialism and the
policy OF foreign conquest and "forcible an
nexation," once so vigorously deprecated
and denounced by President Mckinley as a
policy too shocking to be Thought of" and
which in his special message TO Congress OF
April II, 1898, he solemnly declared would
"by our Code of Morality be criminal az
erosion"
Il was not easy TO perceive what influence
could be exerted by the State government
of Maryland or the local government of her
counties upon the question of the war now
being waged by President Mckinley against
the Philippines, and accordingly it was by
all Of us thought most impolitic and by
some of US even unpatriotic to attempt TO
array the Democratic party OF the State
against his administration upon a subject
whose decision could not be affected in any
degree by the result of our contest.
1t was apparent too that by such decla
ration we might lay ourselves and our party
open to the charge, (which would assuredly
have been vehemently made) that in oppos-
ing the prosecution of the war whilst II was
actually going on, we would be virtually
and substantially giving aid and comfort to
the enemy and that thus we might dTiUe to
the side OF the Republicans many voters who
otherwise would be glad TO side with u.s.
1t did not occur to our convention that
the Republicans would be smitten with a
faulty so extraordinary as 10 lead them to
complain of US and attack us because with pa
trotlc iorbearaDce we did not denounce the
president and his policy and thus seek TO EN-
barrass and weaken his administration.
Nor did we imagine that our adversaries
in their desperation and alarm over the
APATHY" of their party Ia this State would
seek TO avert their impending disaster by
importing into sur midst impassioned spell.
binders from other States TO tell us OF our
political depravity; TO pirate of their mo-
nopoly oil "civic honesty" virtue and mo-
rality, and TO urge our people to desert us
because, while we did not commend the
presidents constantly changing policy, we
had carefully RETAINED from assailing IT,
Indeed, nothing that has occurred during
the campaign has helped our cause so much |
as these gratuitous insults heaped by i'm
ported strangers upon our honor, integrity |
and patriotism. II we do not resent them |
with the warmth which they naturally |
arouse, 1t is because we feel that they have
had no effect but TO consolidate our own
ranks more compactly and TO bring TO our
support multitudes who might otherwise
have been Indifferent or even hostile TO us
Marylanders are proverbially hospitabe.
We receive and entertain strangers gladly
and give them Of our best, but il is a sore
trial TO our patience and forbearance to keep
silent when gentlemen from abroad who do
net know our situation come here and as
sumo, in the loftness OF their superior viz
tue, to instruct US as TO our duty, lecture US
upon our "immoralities" and "indecency"
md rebuke us for our lack of patriotism and
,ublic spirit.
II we had denounced President McKin-
ey's war and called on our people to mark
heir emphatic disapproval of 1t, we could
Understand the propriety Of repeling our
tack, and OF depicting the beauties OF the !
assimilation" of the Philippines a
| all the glowing rhetoric OF Secretary !,
avis, Senator Thurston, and Gov. Roos :
but as we had purposely abstained from a
ag such an issue we can only treat the S
.of II by the enemy as an effort 10 nj
tion kom the real issues In order 7,
1roolang spirits of their ranL n