Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1883-10-25

attended--0vcr 300 persons being present
The meeting was called 10 order BY Dr.
Thomas A. Lynch. Of the Central Commit
tee, and organized By electing, On motion az
DR.. BrOnae, Hon. b. g. Harris. President.
On motion Of Col. JET. d. LoEcr, Mr.. Geo
CJmbs and Col. John II. Sothoror were elect
cd Viae-Presidcnts. T. v. King was chosen
Secretary. On taking The Chair Mr. Harris
thanked the assemblage for the honor done
him, made few general remarks and intro
duced Gen. Bradley L. johnson, as the irst
speaker.
After paying high compliment 10 Mr..
Harris for his personal worth and diStin-
guished services in the Legislature and IN
Congress, and stating that be considered him.
self under particularly fortunate circumstan-
ces in being introduced BY him, Gen. John
son spoke substantially as follows:
"What Idesire % impress upon you is the
necessity Of keeping the State Of MARYLAND
in the hands Of the Democratic party aud
propose to demonstrate that il Is the duty Of
every man D. help 10 keep the State IN dem
ocratic hands. The democratic party Is n
party Of popular right, il has adopted Coz
its principles the principle Of Jefferson that
government was made for the people and
that men have right to govern themselves.
OppoGed 10 this democratic doctrine Is a mar
~ that believes that the people must begov-
erned by q paternal government. These are
two forms Of polity---one q government Of
the people, the other q government of cen
tTalization. Therefore, when the demOcrak-
ic party controlled you. yOn had a plain
government. The enormous power that
grew up in the rebellion, a protecfiva tariff.
steamboat subsidies. railroad m0nOp0lies.
giving away Of public lands, separated prop
erty from the hands q the many and put il
in the hands Of the few---twenty million
voters. two millions owniag the proper
81. The republican party by tariff rlo-
nOpoly broke up the small traders, tOok
the power out Of their hands aud put il IN
the hands Of the few large manufacturers. -
Gen. johnson adduced as an illustration the
Tobacco Monopoly Of the Lorrillards. point
cd out how il bad broken up the hundreds
uf small manufacturers in Maryland and
Virginia and showed this 10 be natural
consequence Of the republican theory Of
government. '.Continne.'i he said, TO ap-
ply the same doctrine and twenty years
hence. YOU Young men will have questions
% settle, rs in my day and in my way, I at
tempted 10 settle questions that then arose
The Republican principle proposes Tor the
government 10 take control Of the telegraph,
10 take control Of the FailrOads-but 70 con-
troll them they must own them With its
hand on the indus'rs 81 che country you vi l
lac governed by government not by The peo-
= h. ~.
miIlionaires. the corporation, the railroad
control the governmesltl win the people pay
the taxes or win the corporations pay the
taxes 2 | wiii.show You that unless this il
countsracied bY the Democratic doctrine, the
Government that Is strong enough 20 reach
its hand 10 Alaska will he too strong for pub
lie liberty and too strong for control. Re-
pubIicans say that this tendency viii be over
come by universal suffrage. Has not univer-
sal suffrage been overturned by foree ?" 4 he
speaker pointed 10 France Rs an example OF
the failure Of universal Suffrage, told how
Louis Napoleon having control Of the de-
partments of industry and the election machi-
nery ordered vote. how the vote was taken
by his officers and counted By his officers and
how the Republic was overthr0wn and the
Empire proclaimed Continuing, Gen. john
son saiG, he proposed 10 discuss the princi-
pies of the democratic party. For too long a
time, there has been sentimenialism Is politics
and questions Oftemper rather than principles,
and young men are growing up In ignorance
OF the principles Of the democratic party. The
same reasons that urge the young men to bolt
the republican organization in New York aud
Ohio, are operating in Maryland to for.a. them
from the Democratic party. That Is why,
youag z, nilemen, am making this argument
The Democratic party is the party OF equal
rights TO nil. The principles I lay DOVE are
the principles OF tie democratic party and my
principles. Some friends are dissatisfied with
the ticket. IL they don't want the ticket, do
they want IIOlton No man can make fair ar
gument and show why Holton should be elected
Governor. Whenever the Republican party
has obtained power the first thing IL did was to
overthrow the fundamental principles of this
commonwealth. In 1889 when they went 10
the people and the short time they were in
power they attempted to engraft upon your
government religious intolerance. You know
how they drove in and penned with butts OF
muskeis religious prescription and then joined
in n petition to the General Government that
Maryland should be placed under martial law,
In the year OF grace, 1867. this man--H. h.
HollCn asked 20 have Maryland PLACED un-
der military government and formed into Mil
iiary District No. 8" Gen. johnson told how
le, living then in Military District No. l, had
become acquainted with some Of the beauiirs
OF this system Of goyernment-told how the
Southern sympathizers got in Jail, N prniten-
tiary, &c and after stating that 'sall this was
fair in 'G5, for Il was during war tiEles, and
may have been excused, !" concluded ms follows:
''But in '6T-two years after the war was over
this republican candidate for Governor put
his hand 10 document 20 abolish Habeas
Corpus and 10 take away the right Of private
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all the power over our votes. The Governor
cfthe State, by virtue Of powers conferred by
a republican legislature, was invested with
the appointment Of all the segistratiou officers
in the State and with the supervisors Of cleo
tions in Baltimore city, which practically gives
him complete control Of the election machine
~ Of the State. This Is too much power TO
lie IN any one mans hands will guarantee
that the Hon. Robt II. MeLane will not abuse
these large powers, but can any one say the
same OF Mr.. holton Elect Ilolton Governor
and the youngest boy will be middle aged
men before the democrats have any meze votes
in Maryland. make my proposition and say
that the republican party should not be placed
in power in this Stale. Ny friends have been
lNying from 70 20 l0i cents taxes on the 81 90.
under republican County, Commissioners.
Give them power and they win abuse il,
whether in South Carolina, ia Washington or
in the Commissioners Court Of st. Mary's
county. | have been a democrat from mr.
first vote. When / found people acting in
way could not approve, did not Join In any
fusion with the republican party. lfanything
Is TO be done for the preservation Of the liber-
ties Of this people, 10 my opinion, Il Is to be
done solely by the democratic party Of this
country"
Gen. johnson was followed By the Hon.
Barnes Compton, who was introduced by Mr..
Harris as ssthe man who had ofleniimes been
elected by democratic legislature treasurer
Of the Stale and through whose hands millions