The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-07-19
THE COSNI NC PRIMARIES.

HE COSNI No fRINAkLES.
Scarcely more than a week now re-
mains before the Democratic pri-
nlaries, and in that time each candl-
date will bend all his energy to reach
the coveted goal. Contrary to all
expectations, all those who started in
the fight have ordered their names
placed upon the ticket, and thereby
indicate their intention to remain in
the contest until the end. With ten
places to be filled and forty men as
pirants, of course there will be three
men disappointed to each one pleased,
not to mention the friends and sup
porters that each man possesses.
Herein lies the danger of the Craw-
ford County System. Under the con-
vention way of nominating the fights
did not become so personal as under
the present way, and therefore there
was less liability for disappointment.
What we have counselled ever since
the commencement of the campaign
was for the candidates to remember
that nomination was not equivalent
to election, and that they should con-
duct the primary in such manner so
as to cause no i'll feeling, for on cleo
ton day the party will need united
action to insure success.
So far as we can learn, all the par
ties interested, with rare exception,
have shown good feeling toward
their fellow competitors. While the
work has gone on in spirited man.
ner, yet there has been very little mud
singing, consequently it will be an
easy matter for all Democrats to get
together when the final contest
comes.
This should not be looked upon as
a political fight but rather a friendly
contention among one big family as
it were, to determine which was the
most suitable to carry the colors on
the day when we will meet the real
enemy-the Republican party. 1t is
not the part of Democratic news
papers to take sides in such matters.
They, however, have the right to
urge that the party make strong
nominations, for it is upon their
shoulders that the brunt of battle
falls. Democrats, with us, are al
ways preferable to Republicans, but
there is choice even among our own
people, when it comes to the question
of fitness. Out of the large list of
names presented for the voters con-
sideration, there should be no trouble
in securing a ticket that would be
invincible and this is or should be the
aim of every good Democrat.
We wish to again reiterate, that
this is no time for personalities. The
campaign of 1901 will be the most
bitterly conducted, not only in Har-
ford county, but the whole State of
Maryland, since the first time the
negro was allowed the right of
suffrage 1t is freely asserted that
more money will be poured into the
this fall than has
ever been spent in any election. of
course the reason for this is very APP
parent. Maryland, in a constitution
al manner, proposes by an intelligent |
ballot law to dispose or rather limit
negro suffI age. Shorn ofthis mighty
weapon, the Republican party would
possess but little more strength in
the Southern States than the Prohi-
1t is fight for their very
blood. If they could get control
of this State long enough to repeal
the present election law, or ifthis was
improbable, owing to a Democratic
the moral effect of a vic
tory would be a death blow to SINH