The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-10-31

not voting for individuals, but for principles,
and you should all be out on the Sd of No
/ vember.
sKIrwITH winners SPEECH.
Skipwith Wilmer, Esq, of Baltimore, afiel
another song by McNulty, followed. He
| spoke of the aggregate wheat crop, of the
amount consumed at home and the surplus
for export, and said that the price at home
and abroad was fixed in Liverpool, showing
that the price of wheat the American farmer
had to sell was fixed abroad, in competi
ton with the world, and by reason of our tax
laws the price of all he had to buy was fixed
at home by the manufacturers here, who
taxed out all competition and smoked the life
blood Of the farmers and other consumers.
This taxing out of competition-and the tax
has recently been raised by the Mckinley
bill-was declared to be for the benefit of the
laboring man, he said, but there was not a
man within the sound of his voice whose
wages had been raised thereby. Mr.. Wilmer
gave numerous illustrations of how tariff
was tax, and was given very close attention,
showing the interest Of the people in this
question of Federal taxation.
Another song by McNulty followed, and the
more he sang the greater his popularity grew.
NJ. n. PAcKARD's SPEECH.
NJ. n. Packard, ESQ.,, of Baltimore, was
the fourth speaker. He said-"Last evening
was invited TO go to Manchester to speak.
asked where is Manchester, and are there
many Democrats there. My friend said yes,
there are plenty Of them there, and you are
to take the 8 o clock train in the morning.
expected to find some Democrats here, but
not 10 acre lot full. Fellow citizens the
campaign you are now engaged in is one of
vast Importance, important in a local sense
but vastly more important in a national one,
as preliminary to the contest Of 1892, with the
Force Bill still threatening us and the Nc
Kinley tax heavily grinding the farmer and
other consumers, notwithstanding the effort OF
some to make it appear these issues are
thread bare " Mr.. Packard then went on
to speak of the local candidates and Of the
Republicans DISTINGUISHING their party by
denying them candidates for Senator, Judge
and Surveyor. and entered into an elucda-
ton of general political questions.
HON. FRANK 7. sHAw's SPEECH.
McNulty again, and then Hon. Frank T.
Shaw closed the meeting in a half-hour' S
speech, speaking mostly to local questions.
He said there were no issues dividing the
parties in Carroll The Republican leaders
had virtually absolved the Republican voters
from party fealty by failure to nominate can.
didates for the most important political posi-
sitions. They had charged no mismanage-
ment of affairs, and no extravaganza, and
gave no reason at all why anyone should
vote for change from the excellent Demo
cratic administration, except that there was
boss rule. He said he was not aware of any
boss-ship, yet he was named as one of the
bosses. He had some ambition in that line
about the year 1871, he admitted, but his
disclosures in regard to it he told his hearers
to keep a secret, which created much laughter
and the ADVOCATE scribe will not divulge it
through these columns. Whatever boss ship
there was in the Democratic party, if there
was any at all, he said, had been beneficial to
the whole people. Efficient service had been
rendered by all officials and the tax rate was
the lowest in the state. If, he continued, l
were Republican, | should kick vigorously
against the boss rule of that party. With
only a small majority to overcome, yet they
had been beaten continuously since 1867.
They had been knocked down so often they
were incapable of framing single issue, and
now they have given the Republican voters
only a partial ticket, the most important
places being left vacant. | should kick
vigorously, indeed, against such incompetent
management, and endeavor to replace the
present bosses with leaders of ability, dash
anu energy.
The meeting closed about o'clock, and by
most of the people had left for their homes.
1t aroused much enthusiasm and old Man
chester will answer at the polls on November
Sd with majority that will balance the ma
iorities of all the Republican districts of the
upper and western part of Carroll. Senator
German was expected to be present but he
was called elsewhere by telegram. All the
local candidates attended, except two, and
persons were present from every district in
the county, some driving more than twenty
miles,