The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-07-29

winked thereby. Nit.
P. S.-Give US less "guff" and lower
taxes.
AN INTERESTING CONFESSION.
One never knows just where the
Baltimore Sun is at, politically.
When a campaign is or it preserves
its Democratic regularity by shouting
for the Democratic ticket. When a
campaign Is not OIL, IL sometimes
lapses INTO sane and honest criticism.
Just now, Of course. it is preaching
support OF the Democratic ticket. But
only few months ago, under the
heading democratic Madness, it
printed the following editorial, which
We are pleased to reprint and endorse,
even If it does come from the Balti-
more Sun:
Is the Democratic party incurably in
sane? Few Of Us can help asking
ourselves this question when we
behold the mess it is making of
things in Washington just now.
General Grant uttered a trLth that
has been confirmed a dozen times
since his day when he said the De-
pended upon to blunder at the mo-
ment most advantageous to its 3D.
VersarieS. But it looks as Ii it were
suffering from something even
worse than bad judgment Since
1896 its mental trouble seems to
have assumed an acute and alarm
ing phase; its tendency to imbecillIy
has been succeeded by violent mania
and wild attacks of pure damn
foOlishness."
One or two lucid intervals have Great
ed hope in despairing friends. Four
years ago it appeared to be throw
ing off the disease to be recovering
its senses, to be once more clothed
in the habiliments of decency and
common sense. and to be almost re-
stored to its right mind. And for
two or three years it continued to
improve and showed so much intel
ligence and so much self-control
that We all began to think that the
restoration was permanent and that
We had again a Democratic party
which Jefferson and jackson would
not be ashamed to acknowledge.
But three years, it appears, is as long
as it can remain sane at one time.
In Cleveland's day the same hope nf
recovery was aroused and the sane
symptoms of returning reason were
manifested, but the crazy fits carle
back then as now, after a short per
iOd of lucidnesS. The mind of the
Democratic party cannot stand the
strain Of snaity for more than three
or four years. 1t breaks down I'M
der the rigor of normal conduct, 1t
grows excited and rebellioVs under
the restraints Of reason. it wearies
Of the laws of logic and tn, sover-
eighty of craftsmanship, and it
longs to return to the liberty of
nakednesS, to the crashing of teeth,
TO the shrieking and gibbering and
insane contortions characteristic of
the mad house
There is little eXaggeration in this
statement. 1t is a diagnosis found
ed on the facts of political history
for the last forty years. What else
can explain the position it finds it.
self in today but the essential lack
of the cohesive power of intelli-
gence? For note what has happen
ed. Only two months ago, after
nearly three years of craftsmanship
and fine performance, it stood mon
arch of all it surveyed in the poll
teal domain of these United States.
Its opponents, disheartened by its
wisdom and divided by the quarrel
OF 1912. were without a leader and
without an issue. They did not
know what to do or where to look
Gloom and defeat surrounded them
like funeral cloud. Never had
the Republican party faced cam
paign in which success seemed so
hopeless. disaster So cer,ain.
But Tow in a few weeks the whole
situation has been changed. and the
party which occupied an impreg-
nable position on high mountain
of calm and earnest patriotism and
wise craftsmanship has rent its
garments and thrown itself into the
pit of petty politics and fatal bick-
ering. 1t is not the Republicans
who fianked them or outmaneuvered
them. 1t is they themselves who
have thrown away all that they had
so laboriously obtained.
There is only one man that can pull
them back out Of the deep hole into
which they have leaped. But will
they let him? viii they not rather
prefer the JOYS of lunacy and the
DID, familiar freedom of madness?
And this is the Baltimore Suns de-
scription of the record and character
of the party which it is asking us to
continue in control of the government
in spite of the fact that the Sun says
three years is as long as il can re-
main sane at any one time"
According to the figures issued by
h. nn,n Il