Evening star., 1897-07-28
Germans Future the Real Issue in
Maryland State Convention.
THE SENATOR is A DELEGATE
Deakyne for Collector WIthdraws
in Favor of Thomas A. Smith.
COM MITTEES APPOINTED

BALTIMORE. Md, July 2S.-There were
s, nothing more than .OO delegates present
when the democratic state convention was
caiei % order by Chairman Hattersly W.
Talbot OF the state central committee in
this city this morning. The total vote.
however. is but III. This is because many
COUNTIES sent double delegations. so great
was the interest taken and the desire TO
participate in to-day's proceedings.
\ surprise was sprung upon the dele
gates lust prior to the assembling of the
convention. by the withdrawal of George
\. DeakyEe of Caroline county. and the
substitution of State Senator Thomas A
Saith as the German candidate for con-
trollcr. The friends of Mr. Deakyne gave
as a reason for his withdrawal his strong
desire to promote harmony in the party.
An earnest effort was then made TO induce
John r. Pattison of Dorchester county the
candidate of the silver element in the con-
yention to withdraw also, but he emphati-
cally declined to do so.
German the Real Issue.
The purpose for which the convention
Was called together nominally to Sc
Icct candidates for controller and clerk of
the court of appeals. but these We're really
of minor moment in view of the fact that
IL actually meant the opening of cam
paisn which will in all proba ability decide
whether or not Arthur Pue German will
lose his seat in the Senate of the United
States and his plac" at the head of the
democrats party of Maryland
As a delegate from his own county of
Howard Mr.. German again took part in
t6 lays convention. but it was in the scenes
which We're enacted at the Carrollton Hotel
last night and this morning that his in
fusnCe was most potent and the national
planks in the platform were shaped by him
80 h1r h9 iyh n he st he raSt rod n
the wlrring ranks of Maryland's democrats.
Tribute to the Senator.
There was salvo of handclapping and
some cheering when Mr.. German entered
the auditorium and took his seat among
the Howard county delegation which the
senior serator smilngly acknowledg, I'd.
Col. Buchanan Schley of Washington coun-
ty. former surveyor of the port of Balti-
more, was appointed temporary chairman
which he accepted in a brief address, in
which ne discussed the currency question.
asserting that the republican party haV-
ing enacted all the currency laws row
upon tie statute books. are alone respon-
sible for the present condition of affairs
committee on resolutions. consisting OF
q member from each county. was then Sc
l-ct"t, and il was unanimously decided 70
refer 10 this committee without debate all
resolutions presented from the floor. When
Howard county presented Mr.. Gorman's
name for this committee there was more
cheering.
The convention then took a recess while
The committee deifberdted.
The committee took d long time to DELHI
crate. and at the end of two hours return
81 and presented a platform largely de-
Nottf 10 state questions. which was read
by Senator German, chairman.
The Financial Plank
The resolutions declare that the funda-
mental principles of democracy remain un-
changed; that the democracy of Maryland
believe now, and always have believed, in
honest money. the gold and silver money
o. the Constitution, and the coinage of
both metals. without discrimination against
either. into standard dollars of final nav
lnent and redemption. and asserts that the
recent action of President Mckinley in
asklnS Tor currency commission is the
result OF the demand of more than six and
oIe-hdli millions of democratic voters ex-
pressed at the polls in the last nationa |
election
me Dingley tariff law is termed a NOR.
otous measure than the Mckinley act OF
IH'' ana 1t is asserted that it will be more
Sisnally condemned in 1898 than was the
Mckinley act in 1Sr2. demand is made
lhdt the L nfted States government take
such action as will ameliorate the atrocities,
row being committed in Cuba and to fully
protect every American citizen there in
the enjoyment of his life and property