The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1911-10-20
POLITICAL NEWS FROM 1ALTI.
MORE.
IT is TIME FOR DEMOCRATS TO
PONDER.


PONDER.
Baltimore, Tuesday, Oct. 18th, 1911.
Irrespective Of local conditions. the
relative positions of the Republican
and Democratic Parties In the State
must be we'll considered.
The Republicans in National sense
are strongly protectionists, and they
are looking and working on all sides
to secure the Presidential Election
next year for Republican President,
be this President, Mr.. Taft or some
other one of this party, who will at all
times, work with and for the classes
instead of the masses, and this comes
home to Maryland in a very dist1nc-
tive way now Maryland Is needed
badly in the Republican column, and
the by-play that Mr.. Goldsborough
(selected by one man to be the party
standard-bearer, and that man the
direct representative of the National
Republican Administrator is making
is nothing but bait to the end of carry
ing the State for the Republican Party
next year.
No one for a moment thinks or can pos
State stand by their guns and go to the
polls and vote as they should on November
7th, that Mr. Goldsborough will be elected,
he does not think so himself. because If he
did, he would not make a temporary resig-
nation Of the lucrative office he holds to
assume the reins again when the election
is over, but his object and the sole object
of the Republican Party, as seen through
DC 10 nj o.
publican Vote up to q figure 80 close to
that Of the Democratic vote at this election.
that with very little additional Federal
patronage and Federal surveillance, that
the Democratic majority. If small, can be
overcome In the Presidential Election
Surely no good Democrat desires con-
tinuation Of the National Republican
regime in this country. Indeed we can
hardly conceive under any condition, even
the most adverse, that a Democrat In
Maryland, with the magnificent record OF
his party for 40 years In State Govern
ment to guide him, can hope to gain any
thing by going over to the Republican
ranks He will In no way help to clean
his party Of what might be termed corrup-
tion by so doing. If he is Democrat
now, he certainly will not change his in
the Republican Party, and that party has
gone on record in this State In the only
administration 1t has had in the last half
century, as being opposed to everything
progressive to the State. and its short
tenor in authority brought about the most
disastrous results in the history Of Legis-
lation, as the records Of the Legislature
will show during the Lowndes administra-
ho foP0nttan that
the Democratic Party is the party of the
poor man, always looking to and legislat-
ing for the interest Of the working man.
Just the opposite of what the Republican
Party has stood for in National Govern
ment and in actions throughout the National
Government protecting trusts from the time
of Hays Election as President to the pres
ent day.
The Baltimore Sun, which has not been
friendly to what is known as the organ
ization part of the Democratic Party,
recently said that it would have no con-
fidence whatever in any positive benefit
from a Republican State Rule,and that
what the State went through in its Re-
publican regime from 1895 to 1899, was not
a satisfactory experience and that the very
election law on which the reform campaign
of 1895 was fought was passed only on the
last night Of the session in 1896 after
heart breaking scrimmage against Republi-
can resistance, and would not then have
been passed without the help of the Dem
ocrats 1t should also be remembered that
Federal office holders are the dominant
power in the Republican Party in Mary
land, and that there is not an ounce of
reform in the whole outfit, and to put
those office holders in absolute control OF
our State affairs means by the turn Of
crank in the City of Washington every iota
of independence in Maryland can be squeez-
ed out Of the electorate and all the voters
of the State made subserviant to the wish
Of the general government, which Is prac-
tically doing away with all State Rights.
We do not know whether our friends In
the Country Districts have been following
the official counts Of the ballot boxes as
given out in Baltimore City. The diff
ferences between the Official count and the
Grand Jury count with the single excep-
tion Of the vote between Hughes and Nc
Nulty really amounts to nothing. they are
not more than the average clerical errors
found In the tally sheets Of election re-
turns in the Counties. There Is another fea-
ture should the State Of Maryland be
turned over to the Republicans at this
time which must not be overlooked, 1t
would mean the placing Of our schools. so
dear to the hearts Of our people and 80
necessary for the formation Of the charac
ter of our future citizens, under Republi-
can control.
All decent people, and those who believe
in the sanctity Of the law are simply
shocked at the action of the Baltimore
Grand Jury in its threats as expressed in
public through its foreman. Just think Of
a Grand Juror under the sanctity Of his
oath, coming out on the forum and saying
before his Jury had closed Its session 1t
would put the Democratic ring out Of busi-
ness. We consider this extreme partisan
criminality. A statement of this sort.
shows a foreman Of that jury 80 biased. 1t
would seem almost to make a deep think
ing citizen hesitate to accept the result Of
the jury count II 1t should be as he pre-
diets And then. think of the threat Of
Mr. John B. Hanna, the Chairman Of the
Republican State Central Committee, when
he says that II the ballot in the Wilson
Ballot Law Counties. is arranged in any
way that Is not satisfactory, that he will
have prosecutions instituted through the
United States Courts and bases his threats
on the decision Of what Is known as the
Annapolis case case which is in no
way like one that would occur from any
election violations under the Wilson Ballot
Law.
Mr.. Hanna evidently forgot that the
coming election Is q State Election and
the United States Courts have no jurisdic-
tion even If there were violations In the
Wilson Ballot Law Counties.
We think, with the Hon. Blair Lee. that
this is no time for a man to change his
party, and that II he is perfectly honest In
his desire to have changes for what he may
consider is for bettering his party, then he
should get down into the ranks Of the
party and work to the good end because
any one leaving the Democratic Party and
going into the Republican Party, does not
get into cleaner nest. and naturally the
deserter has to go to the bottom and work
his way up, and how much easier this Is
to do amongst ones friends. associates and
party workers than in the camp Of the