The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-01-18
ear of the nuhlic. will, if they are sue

ear of the public, will, if they are sue
cesful, bury the Party deeper than
even Horace Greeley aver did. 1t says:
Notwithstanding the overwhelming
defeat the Democrats suffered in the
late national contest, the present
political and business conditions of the
country give every promise of early
restoration of Democrats to authority
in both State and nation, if Democ-
racy shall be faithful to itself. The
most disastrous defeat the Democrats
ever suffered was in the Greeley cam
paign of 1872; but two years there
after the majority of nearly 100000
against Greeley in Pennsylvania WAS
reversed by the election of the entire
Democratic State ticket, and a large
majority in the popular branch of
Congress. This triumph was but the
forerunner of the election OF Tilden to
the Presidency in 1876 by a popular
majority of $4,000.
There are evident signs of Republi-
can disintegra;ion. 1t is not the con-
fiict of spoilsmen that divides the Re-
publican party. Questions OF gravest
moment appeal to Republican convic-
ton, and with such men as Ex-Presi-
dent Harrison, E1-Speaker Reed,
Senators Hoar, Hale, Mason and
others publicly prociaming their dis
sent from the policy of the admins
tration on the gravest issues which
have ever been presented to the coun-
try since the civil war, there can be no
doubt about the overthrow OF Repub-
licanism at au early date, if Democ-
racy shall prove itself to be worthy OF
the confidence of the American peo-
pie.
With Imperialism, Mili;arism, Mono
poly and Profiigacy provoking to open
resistance very large proportion OF
the best elements of the Republicans
party, the Democrats have an open
field for achieving triumphs which
should equal if not surpass the grand
achievements of sixty years OF Demo
cratic rule, beginning with Jefferson
in 1900; but it must be not only fully
prepared but fully equal to the duty
and opportunity which are offered.
Democratic lea ership in State and
nation must rise above the conflicts OF
faction and the cupidity of spoiI-men.
1t must be clean in organization,
resolute in purpose and earnest in
effort. 1t must not be the plaything
of Quay in the Legislature when
Senatorial auctions are on hand, and il
must meet the @reat issues which are
now so seriously dividing the Amer,
can people, with absolute devotion t.
patriotic duty. If there are men with.
in its lines who are ready to barter il,
the political market place, let them be
hurled over the Democratic battle,
ments, and thus teach to the world
that Democracy means individual in
tegrity and answering fidelity in OF,
posing the fearful evils which now
threaten TO subvert the fundamentaI
theory of popular government.
Those who bable about Democratic
reorganization by conference or com.
promise know little of the duty and
the opportunity which are now offered
to the Democracy. Democratic re-
organization will come of necessity,
and it will not come in the interest Of
any faction or leaders. Every honest
Democrat of the nation is in perfect
accord with the able and fearless Re.
publicans who have declared agains,
the Imperial and Monopoly policy OF
Republican administration; and
Democratic leadership has only to
prove Democratic fitness for power
and fitness for trust, to assure early
Democratic Victories alike in State
and nation. Let Democracy only be
faithful to Democracy, and its early
restoration to State and national
authority will be assured.
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GRIP.
Reports from all over the county in.
dictate that grip is prevailing to al
alarming extent. This Is doubtless
due to the recent mild damp weather
of last week. Since the bracipg air.
of the last two or three days we have
heard of less new cases. Hartford
county is not alone in wrestling with
this malady. From all this portion Of
the country the mortuary reports have
run up to an alarming extent. 1t il
said that there is not a single vacant
bed in any of the hospitals of New
York and all the physicians report
themselves busy with grip patients.
Nor are our legislators at Washing
ton free from the malady; both the
Senate and the House show many
vacant seats because of illness of the
members.
1t seems to be a particularly dan
gerous disease for old and enfeebled
persons to contract. 1t is far less
fatal among children than adults. Ii
always seeks out the weakest portion
Of the afflicted PERSONS anatomy and
fatal results are likely to follow unless
the disease is taken in time. When .
person feels like an attack of grip is
coming on-and their is no mistaking
its symptoms, it is always better to
remain indoors and immediately send
for the family physician. There is no
set remedy or cure for this dread all
ment as different constitutions re-
quire individual treatment. There is
no disease liable to take wider
variety of complications.
DIR. Sheffield in an article the New
York Medical Journal thus describes
grip in its earliest stages:
Influenza, it appears, is caused by a
little thin bacillus with rounded-ofF
and thickened ends twice as long rs
broad, first discovered by Dr. Pieffer
in 1892, and henced called "Pfeiffer's
bacillus" 1t is carried in the expect