The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-10-28
Respect the Office.


ENMoETO&, October %.
Religion is religion. and business is bust
ness" was the answer of the convert
who reminded hy creditor that now
was Il good time to pay old debts. We laugh
at pity the seIf-dccciver. Yet how many
who think well of themselves are ready 10
obscure what * known to he evil by like dis
tinctious? Among Tree and independent
citizens OF this great and glorious Republic
example TO the world in all THAI is just
and Eoblc--among us our politicians in the
better Sen$c-arc ready on the plea OF the
necessities OF the country to set aside the rules
OF strict Justice and right. And the great
body of politician$-in a lower scn$c-ha1itu-
ally think that politics is politics" and jus
tifv any thing that may iniurc an opponent.
We are drawing the close o.! a quadren-
NAL contest. Besides smaller bodies there
are two great bodieS-the Republican party
and the Democratic. For the dnings or mis-
doiugs Of the forrlcr am nowayS rcSpou-
siblc. and with them am uoways here con
ccrneG. You know Mr. Editor that / think
that President Lincoln. who was always
asserting that he had sworn to support the
Constitution, had much Constitutional
right to declare that every free white man in
! the South was Il slave as to declare that
every black slave in the South was by the
stroke of his official pen made free. You
know That while glad that slavery has been
| abolished. although by force al armS-not
: lawfully yet can never forgive the part Y
| which for their immediate gain gave the fran.
chise to the countless slaves of the day he
! fore. You know that do not desire HE cleo
| tion of the caudidate-Or %: any candidate
representing the Republican party.
| Viii you not then allow me. ChriStia;
ritizcu-thc better citizen because feel the
! obligation" of II ChriStian---alinw me to PRO
/ test against--to express my disgust at tbs
manner in which ESPECIALLY iii excited p0liti
| cal meetings. men speak OF, rcvic, detamc
| rilify President Roosevelt?
| To show the errors of an Opponcnt-hiS po
| litical errors or personal Neutrality-suspicious.
| not demand that men should forfeit thtii
| right to he called gentlemen. No man car
| throw dust in the air without some of it fail
| iag on himself. No man can fling filth with
| our being detlcd Perhaps am selfish in my
| Indignation. ! declare that after reatiin" IN
account of some of our excited meetings, fee
| as if my coat needed brushing and my hand,
| washing. | have spoken of myself rs Il Chris
| tian citiZen-my duties n citizen i'm
| posed by my religion, and this cnli:ht ems NIX
ON = matter tn which too many are blind.
We boast that all authority is from thl
less, all power is OF God. As He rules il
| Heaven, equally docs He rule onearth, Tho
! powers that lie are ordained of Cod" :,
| ruler is His minister" Honor the King
| Anyone thc least familiar with Holy Scrip
| turc knows that this * Gods teaching. -
OF kings is a falsty only when 1t is claimed
for one who ISL power because OF his deSccu
| by both from Il line of kings, 1t is true OF on
| who is the minister nf God, however placed
| in power. We as voters Gods agent. il
| the raising OF ~ cHiZ to Il Presidential
chair. To the niljcc-hullcr honor is du> he
cuiac of what Is due to Him who is ruler ii
| things ON earth as i'll Heaven. Niliticatiuu u
| our chief officer If 4 rcproach against God
let the claims o! American sclt-SuifiCicncy b
what they may.
MOI desiring the election of Theodore Roose
guarding of the President of the Unite'
States. W. L. Is.