The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-07-26
GIVE US GOOD NOMINEES.

Before this issue reaches many of
our readers the Democratic primary
campaign will be matter ofhistory.
Since its inception we know of but
few instances where each candidate
for political honors has not been per.
fectly just to his adversary. 1t has
been what might be called a clean
contest from start to finish. The
party can well congratulate itself
upon this pleasant state ofaffairs for
with no apologies to make, all ele-
ments can enter into the general cam
paign with united vigor which will
carry success before it.
Week after week, in an humble way,
we have advanced arguments tending
to bring to the front the strongest
weapon that can be used upon our adj
versaries-good nominations. What
the people want this time is ticket
that can be put to the front without
apology. Explanations are always
embarrassing and sometimes fail to
carry conviction with them. Out of
the forty names on the primary
ticket it ought to be a very easy
matter to pick men who will not only
carry the full party strength but also
draw from the opponents side. We
do not wish to be understood as say
ing aught against any particular in
dividual but there are many times,
surroundings which cast shadows,
hard to dissipate. This is no time to
nominate ticket, the personnel of
which can be attacked in any manner.
Democrats should bea, in mind that
principles not men is or should be the
issue and the only way to be right is
to start that way. If every Demo-
crat could only keep constantly in
mind the fact that the eyes of the
country are riveted upon the result
in Maryland. he would forget per-
sonalities and work only for the
principles of the party to which he
has taken the voluntary oath ofalle-
glance, because, it seems to him, that
the greatest good to the greatest
number is accomplished when that
party is in power. Asis well-known
there has been going in all the States
south of Mason's and Dixon's Line
what might be termed a bloodless
revolution against an amendment to
the Constitution ofthe United States,
which the best men of both parties
were openly opposd to, and was only
adopted during the dark days of the
Reconstruction period by carpetbag
methods. Abraham Lincoln, who
freed the negro, never Intended to
give him a vote until he had proven
after his freedom to be competent to
exercise it in an intelligent manner. 1t
was only the afterthought of
some of his associates who saw
another opportunity to deal a con-
temptable thrust to further wound
the pride of the well-nigh heart
broken South and at the same time
create an additional number of citi-
zens? whose vote could always be re-
lied upon whenever the Republicans
needed them. This the white man
has born in silence, until the race
began to multiply SO rapidly as to
become an exceedingly dangerous
element, threatening the sacred pre-
cincts of the private HOUSEHOLD.
Then began an uprising, which
had its start in Louisiana, where
the negro Aourishes like the green
bay tree of Biblical times, and
has gradually crept North until
Maryland too realized that some
thing must be done by restricting the
right of franchise, if we did not wish