The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-02

Since the nomination of our ticket
The AgiS has week after week to the
exclusion of almost every other sub
ject endeavored in it's humble way to
to do what 1t could for the election of
Bryan, Stevenson ard Talbot. 1t
has attempted to bring before it's
readers the different issues which
have been presented during the cam
paign. Far in advance of the Kansas
City Convention it published editorial
after editorial claiming that imperial
ism would be the principal issue.
Time has demonstrated the truth of
this assertion. While there are many
other important planks in the plat
form this has been the overshadow-
ing subject for discussion. At first the
Republicans by silly inuendo tried to
dodge this vital matter but finding
that they were simply making them
selves the laughing stock of the coun-
try, finally came out and attempted
to make some shadow of defense.
What we have done whether it be
much or little, we leave for an indul-
gent public to judge. If mistakes
have been made they came from the
head and not from the heart. We
have done all that we could to elect
the ticket and feel now willing to
leave its fate in the hands of the
voters.
Before our next publication the
election of 1900 will be a matter of
history. Whatever the outcome may
be the result will go down to posterity
as one of equal interest as that of
Abraham Lincoln's. Historians will
record the bitter struggles between
the masses and the classes, the rich
and the poor. 1t will also be the be-
ginning of the downfall of the Ameri-
can Republic, or the triumph of the
Democracy over plutocracy. Should
the dire misfortune of having McKin-
ley in the White House four years
more befall US, a thousand years from
now, the year of 1900 will be pointed
back to as the first misstep toward
the collapse of our Republican form
of government.
The voter has had the advantage of
a campaign of education. Since it's
inception, the history of our country
has been carefully gone into by the
ablest writers on both sides. Certain
ly from an enlightened standpoint no
one can regret having taken an active
part in the proceedings as they oc-
Cured from day to day. We have all
had the opportunity to become better
acq TAINTED with the heroic struggles
of our forefathers and have learned
more and more to admire their intelli-
gence, manhood and independence.
And now few words in conclusion.
We have supported the Democratic
ticket this fall, not as matter of duty,
but because we believe that the party
comes more nearly protecting the in
terests Of the poor man than do the Re-
publicans. fla man is poor and has the
honest desire to better his condition,
he can only look to the party of Jack
son, who made just. such a struggle
as Bryan is making today, to uplift
him to his true level. To the man
who is very rich and has no thought
of his poorer neighbor, gold being his
only object in life, we say to him, vote
for Mckinley and he is fool if he
does not.
This is the campaign of the com
mon people and Bryan is their chosen
leader. Should he be elected it will
be triumph of the poor over the rich,
the common people over aristocracy.
So we say to the blue-blooded purse
proud citizen that he is voting directly
against what he holds most dear when
he casts his ballot for Bryan.