Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-11-18
DEMOCRATS
BOLD FRONT
Old Timer Discusses The Recent Fiction
In This State And Says Republicans
Need Recognizing Process Worst.

To the Editor of The American: |
am a Democrat and am proud of il. |
have been closely allied with the So
called 'managers" for many years and
have had the pleasure of seeing Senator
German since the election. | found him
very comfortable over the result and
the rest of US are feeling the same way.
| II is true that the Poe Amendment
was defeated and we are sorry. but we
find in the very poor showing which the
Republican party made more than am
pie compensation for our defeat. The
amendment was defeated by majority
of over $1,000. BY every rule of poll
tics and of logic this enormous majority
against the amendment should have
carried the full Republican ticket with
it. The Republican comptroller ought
to have been elected, and the House of
Delegates ought to be Republican by
an overwhelming majority. Instead of
that, we have elected the Democratic
comptroller by quite handsome ma
jority of nearly 1000, and we have in
the House good working majority.
Our majority in the Senate is very
satisfactory, and, generally speaking,
the Democratic party can claim that.
though it was defeated on the amend
ment, it won splendid victory. Coun-
ty after county voted against the amend
ment and yet elected Democratic dele
gates to the House. In Baltimore the
vote for the amendment was 26. 800, and
the vote against the amendment was
46. .S45. majority of more than 10000
against the amendment, and yet the
head of the Democratic ticket carried
the city by over thousand majority.
With 10000 majority against the amend
ment, the city of Baltimore ought to
have elected full Legislative ticket. in
stead of which the Democrats won
nearly half 1t is evident, therefore,
that there was something wrong with
the Republican party, not only in Bal
timore, but all over the state. and it
seems to me that before the Republi-
cans tell us gloatingly that the "Dem-
ocratic party needs reorganization
they had better take stock of condi-
tions existing in their own ranks and
learn what is the trouble.
1t is not for me to prescribe for the
Republican party. But ] believe that
there is somewhere in the party some
mysterious element or some influence
which has chilled the enthusiasm among
the workers and which is responsible
for what call Republican defeat of
last Tuesday. Certainly the outlook
for us Democrats to carry the state on
the next election for the Legislature two
years hence has not been dimmed in the
least by Tuesdays election. We see
that we made blunder on the Poe
amendment, and that we alienated many
of our own people on that issue. But
we see also that on our party candidates
we held our people in line, whereas the
Republicans, for some mysterious rea-
son. as say. were either disorganized
or were lacking in party enthusiasm.
As started out, the 30, 900 majority
by which the Poe Amendment was de-
| feated ought to have carried through
Mr.. Mccullough for comptroller and
big majority Of the Republican dele
gates. Ii failed to do so pitifully. and
we carried our ticket in spite Of the
overwhelming majority against us on
the amendment. AS say. it proves to
us that the Republican party was badly
handicapped on election day by apathy
and by disaffections in its own ranks.
What the cause of that was DON pre-
tend to know. II appears to have been
recent evil. for don't believe that
such curious condition of affairs could
have existed before. have no doubt
that the Republican leaders have ana
lyzed the situation as carefully as |
have, and it is their business tn find out
the germ of discomfort or. might even
say, the fatal germ of defeat that has
recently infected their organization.
Meanwhile, no one need waste any
sympathy on the Democratic organiza-
ton. We are all right, and we will be
found at the old srand as usual. electing
our candidates.
OLD LINE DEMOCRAT.
Baltimore, November Is, 1905.