Montgomery County sentinel., 1891-10-09
The Campaign Opened.

In CONSCIENCE of the very short notice ant
the busy season Of the year, nearly ever.
farmer being engaged in seeding, the meet
ing was not large, but it was of substan
tial element OF the party, and the close at
tention and frequent applause gave evidence
of its qualification at the speeches.
The meeting was called to order by Hon
Philip d. Laird, who, at the request of the
Committee, presented list of permanent
officers, embracing Hon. Spencer G. Jone:
as president, with vice president from eac
of the election districts of the county, and
with Messrs. A. j. Almoney and II. Clay
Fields as secretaries.
Mr.. Spencer G. Jones, the chairman OF the
meeting, after a few well-timed and briei
remarks, introduced Farmer Brown, the
next Governor of Maryland.
Mr.. Brown said: "In appearing before
you as the Democratic nominee for the
highest office in the gilt of Maryland peo-
pie, it is with some embarrassment, know
Ing that it was. the expressed wish land
naturally SOY OF the Democrats Of this coun-
ty that the mantle should fall upon the
shoulders of one of Montgomery's honored
and gallant sons. TiaFIN
"We are here to-day to plead not simply
for the election of Governor, or q Comp
troller, but for the life of the Democratic
party. Show me one State within the bor-
ders of this great country, whose citizens
have better right to be proud of their citi-
zenship. With her happy people; her safe
and sound financial institutions; her many
large and important manufacturing estab-
lishments; her minerals and oyster beds,
and with her solid and honest yeomanry,
no State can better afford to boast of her
past and present history. And when we re-
member that all these have existed, and do
exist, under Democratic administration,
then, is 1t any wonder that you find so many
of her gallant sons pleading for the cause of
Democracy EfI
"If be elected your chief executive, the
humblest citizen of this State shall have as
easy access to, and be as cordially received
by your chief executive as the millionaire
or the railroad magnate, and all applications
shall receive at my hands the most careful
~
al will expect my appointees to render to
the State, faithfully and conscientiously,
such service as must meet the approval of
the most exacting. claim that every Off
cial, whether he be in office by election or
appointment, has selected his coat, and must
wear it. He is undoubtedly an employe of
the people at large, and expects to receive
his consideration for services rendered 1t
has been well said that "a public office is
public trust And, let me add, that he who
serves his country well, serves his party
best"
Mr.. Brown then went on to talk about
the force bill and the tax burdened farmer.
"To the farmers of Maryland say" con-
tinued Mr. Brown, "that if your selection
shall be ratified by the people of Mary
land in November next, and | be placed in
the executive chair, every effort of my ad-
ministration will be for all safe, sound and
judicious measures that can relieve the ag-
ricultural interests--of course, barring all
class legislation that would have a tendency
TO destroy all other interests"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Browns speech
Thomas f. McNulty sang the new campaign
song, composed by Edward O'Mahoney, of
Baltimore, "Farmer Brown"
Mayor Davidson, of Baltimore, the next
speaker, said he congratulated the Demo-
Gratis of Montgomery county on the admira-
BILE ticket presented for their suffrages. He
charged the Republican party with bad faith
towards the people in their efforts 10 secure
he passage OF the Federal elections bill and
or the Mckinley bill. The passage of the
'ormer, he said, would have been the death
1f all Maryland's greatest interests. The
Republican party, he said, had never done
lnything for the agricultural interests. 1t
lad put duty on the necessaries OF life, not
the outspoken opposition of
he people to high tariff legislation. He
Fran k Brown, who, he said, was
Ilready elected
Marion de Kalb Smith followed Mayor
Davidson. He called Montgomery county
he Gibraltar of Maryland Democracy. The
Republican party, he said, was the enemy of
he farmer. They bought up the elections,
he said, with money paid by the corpora
ions in the first Instance, but the farmers
md the poor people were the ones upon
whom the burden fell in the end. The
Democrats found a AZ per cent tariff suffi-
;ient to run the government, but that was
lot enough for the Republicans to pay the
corporations, so they run it up to 81 per
cent. He read extracts from the Mining
Journal, which showed that the farmers OF
he United States are compelled to pay
,wice as much for all farming implements as
buys American implements 10 do his work.
If elected, he declared that he would do all
in his power for the good Of the farmer.
j Frank Ford spoke next. He said the
Democrats had nominated a good ticket,
with man at its head beloved and re-
spected by the people, whose needs he knew
thoroughly and who had the capacity to
administer the affairs of the State in
thorough manner. Mr.. Ford commended
the entire ticket. The Democrats, he said,
would give the people of Maryland such
legislation as they need.
In the evening Hon. John p. Poe made
a brilliant, able and exhaustive address
covering all the issues and laying bare
the extortlons, crimes and misrule of the
party.