The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-11-14


to be for the purpose of wiping out
color line in Southern Republican
politics and that it has been we'll
thought out, is evidenced by the de-
alterations of his proceeding in cases
in that section. recently appoint
ed William D. Crum, a well-known
colored physician, as Collector ofthe
Port at Charleston, South Carolina,
ignoring protests filed by white resi-
dents of that State. This appoint
ment was made regardless of the fact
that the white applicant for theposi-
ton was backed by the National
Committeeman of the State.
GORMAN FOR PRESIDENT.
Henry Watterson, in an editorial
in the Louisville Courier Journal,
says:
1.-THE vote of last Tuesday, as
finally recorded and summarized, and
considered as whole, shows upon
its face that the Republican party is
yet essentially intact, thoroughly
organized and equipped as militant
force; that the Democratic party
united only in the Southern belt of
States, exists elsewhere largely
through the force ofcircumstance and
association and numbers, but in num-
bers insufficient to effect results.
Several individual possibilities on
the Democratic side are eliminated.
Pattison goes down in Pennsylvania,
Johnson in Ohio, and, measurably,
Hill in New York. The one Democrat
of national dimensions left standing
upon the scene is German.
"What may be the meaning ofthese
things and what do they portend?
"The personalities we leave out of
account. At their best, they are
illusory, evanescent, here today,
and gone tomorrow. AS to Ohio, it
seems reasonably proven that it
takes more than swallow to make
summer. The failure ofTom John
son to unite the opposition may be
ascribed to the detection of the Nc
Lean influence, or to the pursuance
of the Hanna machine; but for what
ever cause, it is enough. AS to In
diana, it is to be observed that in the
Hoosier State the longest pole always
gets the persimmon, and that in the
late election Senator Fairbanks took
no chances. In New York Mr.. Hills
Ownership plank must have cost
Coler a good round vote up the
State, perhaps defeating him; while
in Pennsylvania the Dutch merely
maintain themselves and their own
in Holland, leaving outstanding a
suspicion that there was a large
sized, fat and JUICY deal at the bottom
of the Presidents Arbitration Scuttle
of Coal.
eve had as we'll set down the
claims of fraud to the account of
profit and loss. The 'ins' have ever
much the advantage for sharp prac-
tice. If Cleveland had not been
Governor of New York in 1884 Blaine
would have been President.
"The long and the short of it is
that Democrats must not expect to
prize the Republicans out of their in
trenched positions except by the
organization of both a public opinion
and plan ofcampaign meeting force
with force; because let no Democrat
forget that for many years we have
been employing bows and arrows
against Krag. Jorgensen rifles.
History so often repeats itself be-
cause human nature is ever the same.
The old Wing party went to pieces in
spite of such leaders as Clay and
Webster, for the reason that it got
out of line with the advancing trend
of the nations thought and move.
ment. It grew too conservative. If
not radical, the times were at least
progressive; and the slavery agita-
ton coming upon the stage ofaction,
as vital force, middle men were at
a discount. it forced the Southern
Wings into the Democratic party
Even the Northern Wings had to
pass through a season of political
regeneration before they developed
into Republicans; the period lying be-
tween 1852 and 1860, being given
over to all sorts of factionism as
to all sorts of fads and fooleries.
There were 'hards' and 'softs' among
the anti-slavery men, as we'll as
among the Democrats. There was
acknowledgement with its secrecy,
at once venomous and intolerant.
Politics, with the opposition, during
that decade, as during the present
decade, was hodge podge.
"The Democratic party, which
swept the country in 1852, and, in
spite of the mistakes ofthe Pierce Adj
ministration, carried it for Buchanan
in 1856, seemed to have the world in a
sling. AS long as the opposition
separated into factions and wasted
its energies upon such issues as native
Americanism and anti-Catholicism,
| the anti-slavery elements agreeing