The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-03
CENSORSHIP DENOUNCED
OPPOSITION TO A LARGE STAND
ING ARMY.
A BLOW AIMED AT COVBINES AND TRUSTS
State Ticket Nominated by AccIamation. John
Walter Smith for Governor. A Har-
monouS Convention. Sketches
Of the Nominees.

Baltimore, Md, August 2.-The DEM
ocratic State Convention was held Al
Ford's Opera House in this city today
and nominated the following ticket:
For Governor, John Walter Smith, d
Worcester county.
For Attorney General, Isidore Ruyn.r.
of Baltimore.
For Comptroller, Joshua w Hetrings
Of Carroll county.
The convention was unusually harmo-
mons and all the nominations were made
by reclamation, Edwin Wagfield, Mr..
Smiths principal opponent, withdrawing
at the last moment and Placing fire
successful candidate in nomination.
That poltion of the platforms which
refers 10 National Issues is us follow II
I'VE insist thut IN time Of war jas
well as Of peace the freedom of the
press shall be preserved, and that tho
right OF The people to critiise freely
the policy and conduct Of the Adminis-
tration shall be defended at ali hazards.
NO deadlier blow cam he dealt To
American liberty than the suppression,
by an abuse of executive power, of the
free utteianccs by American freemeu ~
their semtimends upon matters OF public
concern, affecting the welfare of the
people, and we denounce rs dangerous
ard iade.ftqaeifle a.l cffu4s 4c interiors
with and Hribe tllIs sacred right.
we declare our unalterabIe opposI-
tion TO the creation and maintenance Of
a large standing army in time OF peace.
and we insist upon the supremacy of the
civil over the MILITARY authority, and
we demand tire stricte>t economy in the
collection and disbursements of the pub.
lie revenues
We believe in the time-honored 9oc
trine, 50 earnestly impressed upon the
FNatllelB Of the Republic Of Peace, com
merce and honest friendship with al3
nations, enaangling alliances with none
we view with alarm the multiplied
tion over the land Of such gigantic m
dlEstrial and commercial trusts. the or
growth Of Republican legislation, as
Stitie competition, threaten government,
increase The cost Of living AMI curiail
tine individual rights OF the people. ana
we favor vigorous measures by the
States and by Congress to reprcss tE:s
great and growing evil"
John Walter Smith, the nominee for
Governor is Il banker and resldes in
Snow Iiil. Worcester county. He has
served in the State Senate fer tilree
consecutive terms and was elcefnd 70
Congress last November In the Fist
Congressional district, defeating W. +.
Jackson by 1,200 votes. He is person
ally very popular, and the nomination is
regarded as strong cne.
lSidore Rayner, the nominee rcr Attor-
ney General, is a lawyer and has j,ng
been prominent in poiticai anl social
circles of the State He served ~ Tie
Fiftieth, FiftySecond and Fifty Third
Congresses and is regarded az one of he
beet political orators in Maryland.
Doctor Joshua W. Herring. wh9 Was
nominated for Comptroller, is ca>iiic. Of
bank in Westminster. He is a mem
Der Of the Static Senate. Is ora ,l,tenr ~
the Methodist Episcopal Conference IN
Maryland and of several secular bodies.
All are favorable to a gold sc.inda,d Of
currency.
The date for holding the l:nuul.i"an
State Convention has not yet hccn an
nounced., Governor Lowndes has practi-
Cally no opposition for denomination.