The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-10-27
TIE FARMERS OPPORTUNITY
10 DEFEAT A TRUST CAN
DIDATE FOR CONGRESS.
From Ile T.wson pemocra.

The iarmersof the Second Congressional
district will have M opportunity GU No
vembcr 9TH to vote against the direct rep
reseaislive, the paid general manager Of a
grasping. ayaricipus and tsrannical trust.
In this respect the farmers Of this district
may well be enyied by every farmer in the
United States, who has grmned under
Trust oppression, and who is anxious for
the high privilege of smiling directly with
his own ballot full fedged and indelibly
branded Trast representative.
Mr.. Blakeney the nominee of the Re-
publican party, Cor of the Trusts-which
means the same thing) is the General
Manager of the Cotton Duck Trust. lie
makes no apology forit, and appears before
the voters Of this district in this enlightened
age, when the country is ringing with de-
nn'seiation Of monopoly, as candidate for
tEcnsress
Men are sent to Congress, or ought to
be sent to Congress, on the understanding
that they faithfully represent the people
who elect them
Does anyone suppose that General Man
ager Blakeney, Of the Cotton Duck com
bine, will forget the interest of that great
Trust, and remember the interests of the
people of the Second District, if he gets to
Congress?
The paid agent and general manager of
this great monopoly can only have one OBJ
ject to fulfil if he ever enters under the
roof of the Capitol as law maker. That
object will be to work for the ends Of the
particular Trust which employs him, and
for the general interest of all the Trusts
that employ the arch Trust lobbyist, Mark
Hanna.
Farmer of the Second Congressional Dis
trict, we do not care now whether you are
Republican, Prohibitionist, Populist or
Democrat, can you SO forget the dictates of
common sense and the doctrine of self-pres-
ervation, as to cast your vote for Biakeney,
ioho is the General Manager Of Trust,
and of one of the most dangerous Trusts in
the country at that? Why is it danger
Gus Trust Let us see Blakeney's
bosses, who run that Trust, want to sell all
the cotton duck they can dispose of, at the
highest price they can wiring from the con-
sumner One of the greatest consumers of
cotton duck is Uncle Sam, who uses it in
large quantities, for army tents and for
other military purposes. The more war,
the merrier for the Cotton Duck Trust.
The greater the number of troops in ser
vice, the greater the number of army tents
needed.
Does any one suppose In face of all this,
that if a motion were made in Congress to
increase the standing army to 200, 900 or
500, 900 men, that General Manager
Blakeney could vote against such meas
ure. If he should, and we doubt if he
would, one thing is sure, the soulless Trust,
of which he is general manager, would
dismiss him forthwith, for he would have
voted against the Trust interest
The employee and agent of the Cotton
Duck Trust would not alone have to serve
that particular combine, but he wonld be
compelled to be at the check and CALI of
every Trust in the country. The Trusts
work together in Congress, iii the Senate
and everywhere else, where they purchase
legislation. They have to hang together
at all hazards, or they will chang singly."
The Trusts will hang singly and hang
finally, if Mckinley, Hanna and Blakeney
are defeated, and if Bryan, Stevenson and
Talbot are elected.
We hope the farmers of this district will
exercise the high privilege of ''swatting'
General Trust Manager Blakeney at the
polls Remember he is the paid general
manager of dangerous Trust.