The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-10-13
FAIR PLAY-JEALOUSY.

Inc very narQeSt tnlng 10 lnJect
into a Political Campaign il Fair
Play, and the very hardest thing to
get out OF political party is Jealousy.
The first, while not fatal, when not
used, is productive of causing often
the hardest feelings between men,
voters, who while Of different political
views under ordinary circumstances
would be friends and co-workers for
the good of the body polite. The Balti
more papers at this time are playing
the no fair play plan to the limit. In
heprimary election recently held there
in the mix-up of the count of votes
Time of present writing some seventy.
two election officials have been present.
ed by the Grand Jury for irregularities
in counting ballots and of these more
than half are Republicans. Yet be-
cause it il the Democratic side of the
primary fight which is being investi-
gated all the sins of commission
and omission have been charged to the
Democratic party, and this has CON
tinued increasingly until the Sun OF
Sunday was forced to be fair enough
to say I'm it's investigations by the
Jury SO far but one Republican ballot
box has been counted, that Of the
Eighth precinct of the Twenty-third
ward. No other Republican box is to
be counted until the Democratic count
IL complete, but there il reason to BE-
lieve that in those wards where the
Republicans had contests an equal
amount of fraud will be discovered.
1t is believed that both parties arc
tarred with the same stick"
There did not seem to be any sys.
tenn in the cheating. The judges ap-
parently gave each candidate what
they thought he ought to have with
out any reference to the actual vote
cast fer him. If they thought he was
good fellow they seemed to have
'sweetenedr his vote for him; IL they
didn't, they took down a few OF his
votes"
The last sentence carries out the
Democrats persistent contention that
there was no organized conspiracy to
defraud. The differences being large.
ly charged to ignorance or incompe.
tency. We might add, ooh what diff.
ference there will be when the day
light comes" to the contents OF the
Republican Primary Ballot Boxes. 1t
is generally supposed that the repre-.
sentatives of G.. 0. p. will be in a
position after they are examined to
show the Democrats that they are but
sucking babes in election fine art. A
very strong point Of intended honesty
by the Democrats is that to a man
they have decided that if there is the
slightest faint of fraud connected
with their candidates that they will
throw UP their nominations. at q
meeting Of these candidates a reso1u.
ton was unanimously passed about as
follows:
"Our Republican opponents, who
are far more interested in securing
Republican success at the polls than
they are in Furnishing those accused
one-half Of whom belong to their own
political party, are charging that the
primary election was fraudulent to
such an extent that many of those re-
turned as nominated did not receive
a majority of the legal votes at said
primary and are not entitled to places
on the Democratic ticket. While we
feel that such a claim at this time is
made for political purposes, with a
view to prejudicing the voters against
the Democratic nominees, we desire
to state in the most emphatic way that
we will not ticket the names of those
who did receive nominations secured
through fraud, and We each and AL
pledge ourselves that III recount ot
the ballots demonstrates that anyone
of us did not receive a majority Of
the legal votes cast in the Democratic
primaries for the positions for which
We were candidates respectively, W.
will tender our designations to the
State Central Committee and ask then
to place upon the ticket the names o
those who did receive majority o
said legal votes. a our only hope
Of securing this information seems Il
be through the count of the Crane
Jury, we now join in a request to tina
body to act q speedily a. possible
giving to the people OF the state sucl
facts as would tend to show them th,
true conditions of the vote at tina
election. We are deeply interested il
the speedy settlement or this question
Tin view or Iii the conditions, w,
have a right to ask that the voting
public shall suspend their decisions
until all the facts can be laid before
them"
II seems 10 uB this Is Fair Pla!
personified not only to the voters, bu
to the candidates own manhood
Jealousy in ones own party il th,