The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-06-08
MR.. MASTERS SPEECH.

The friends of Hon. William T. Master
rendered him a rousing reception at Music
Hall in Baltimore on Friday evening, the
3lst inst. In spite of the heat the audience
was a large one. and as enthusiastic for
Mr.. Masters nomination for Governor as
his most sanguine admirer could desire
Charles l.. Wilson, Esq, called the meet
ing to order, and introduced the Rev. Dr.
Royal II. Pullman as presiding officer.
After an opening address by Charles
Iierzog, ESQ, of Baltimore, Mr.. MalsteT
was introduced and made a most excellent
speech, which has since been commented
OIL most favoably. III. Malster said in
part:
M. lhdiimon oud Fcjlor citizens Of Baltimore:
/ should indeed be- lacking in manly sonSi-
bility did not appreciate in its fullest mean
ing the honor you confer on me 10y this cnthu-
siastic demonstration of your kindness and
Partially.
esteem it no ordinary compliment to be
deemed worthy by 50 large II number of my
fellow citizens of the nomination for the
highest executive office in the gift of the
people of our grand old State of Maryland.
With pride / confess myself 10y birth, 10y
education, and 10y association, Marylandcr.
love her people. revere her history and
traditions | honor her institutions. | am
attached to hen soil. In devotion to her i'll
tcrcsts-in the desire to promote her pros
perity, in the dcfcns" of her fair name and
famc-I yield prc-cmincncc to no man. The
shadow of no prejudice of partsanship, of
creed or of race. falls across the path that
leads to the goal of any personal ambition
of my own. In political opinion cherish and
respect the hroudcSt lihcrality. Had not
learned this lesson Of federation of the widest
liberty of individual opinion, then had | not
read Alright the history and traditions of my
native state.
The love bear Maryland cherish is sub
ordinate only to my love for the Union, the
great arch that binds together this grand
republic of states, tn" honor Of citizenship
under which wcull So highly cherish and SO
icalously guard.
We cannot, in my opinion, too frequently
rc-ailirm our allegiance 10 the great National
Republican party, or too often renew our zeal
in behalf of the cardinal doctrines of that
grand organization, which, upheld 10y the
American prUpic-wlth an empty National
trcasury-with rare zeal, ability and patriot
ism, maintained the national credit at home
and abroad, waged To Il successful termination
the greatest war of modern times, saved the
nations life, wiped the curse of human slav
cry from American soil, adopted Il fiscal and
economic policy of protection for American
industries that for 30 years conferred upon
6O,0OO,OOJ of people unparalleled national pros
pcrity. created stable national currency,
through a national banking system al once II
bcnchcCncc and II blessing to our whole people
in Il word, made record rcplctc with inn
pcrishahlc glory and lasting honor to the
spirit and genius of American liberty.
The opponents of the republican party
wish to limit the discussions of this campaign
to State issues for the purpos" of eliminating
Il discussion of the miserable failure of the
tu'n reform policy of the present admins
trltiou, which was rcpudiatcd in 1894 10y the
American people.
THE important economic question of Il pro-
tcctivc tariff will never hc left by the Ameri-
Gun people where the unworthy dickering and
s-uItlfyng compromises of the cotcric of
United State Senators has left 1t.
1--WE may admire the ability and enthusiasts
tic zeal of State Senator Hayes, who poses as
~ tSDtflu tuunlllDIl VI IthsstsSllltHl, anu
20 is SO industriously raising the ghost of
ID nOcratic promises ON that question, but
willie we may admire the man, we no less
d, trust the reason and the ground on which
h builds his faith. senator Hayes story Of
the repeated failures of Srcassessment at An
napolis is enough to raise doubt rs to the
possibility of ever securing an honest and
equitable assessment law at the hands of the
D lnocratic party MS at present organized in
NJ ryland.
Il frankly arow myself in favor of thor
on n, honest and equitable reassessmcnt of
ev'ry species of property in the Statc-rcal,
personal and mixed, visible and invisible,
tangible and intangible, individual and cor
poratc, as the basis of Il just and fair system
of State taxation, but am not prepared to in
dDrsc any measure radical in character as
t. defeat by its drastic provisions the de-
srable end 1t proposes to accomplish, namely,
an equalization Of the burdens of local taxa
ton, where on class would he burdened at
the expense of another.
THE retention OF the reciprocity features
of the Mckinley tariff bill is of equal i'm