The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-29
RaYner's Speech.

The candidates and speakers
were pleased and the managers
were pleased. 1t would be diff.
cult to produce a better result
than that.
Everybody was delighted with
candidate Smith and his honest
and manly demeanor. Herring
also made a good impression.
But Rayner caught the masses by
his superb and mighty eloquence.
He was the first speaker at the
nall meeting at night, and the
audience, Democrats and Repub.
llcans alike, were held spell.
bound. He went right at his
subject and kept the Republican
party in hot water for nearly two
hours, whilst he reviewed its rec.
ord and the record ofits candidates
and public officials. He made
things plain and showed up many
fallacies and shortcomings in the
Republican platform.
His speech in part is as follows,
but one has to hear him deliver
1t to appreciate its true worth:
81 hope personal abuse will not
be INDUCED in, either npon the
hustingS, or through anonymous
communications through the
press" said Mr.. Raynor. The
latter method is a poisoned weap-
on in the hands of a coward, who
is lying in ambush afraid to face
his foe i'll the open field. But Won
must not confound personal
abuse with the exposure of cor.
ruption wherever it exists among
individuals in the ranks OF either
party. The people expect us to
expose corruption and hold it up
10 the lnfamy 1t deserves.
1--WE shall avoid another man.
ner of campaign initiated by the
Republican platform, and that is,
we shall consume no time in the
discussion of Irrelevant matter
and teigned issues that have no
possible bearing upon the serious
problem that cOnfronts us. We
have no interest at present in the
Philippine 'inSurrectiOn,' as Sen.
ator McComas is pleased to call
1t, and while We endorse to its
fullest extent the war admins
tration of Admiral Dewey and
Admiral Schley, We condemn in
unmeasured terms the imperial
policy of President Mckinley as
subverSive of the Constitution
and in violation of the historic
policy of our government. We
shall meet these issues gladly
when the time arrives for their
presentation.
"We are now engaged in a 10.
cal controversy, whose salient
point is the future welfare of tue
State of Maryland. | assert,
without hesitation. that our State
is not safe, but is in peril in the
hands OF the Republican party
(cheers; that every county that
it dominates is retarded and suf.
fering under its environment:
that the overw helming majority
of its voters manifested no inter
est of concern i'll any question
whatever that appertains to good
government, and that four years
more OF Republican rule means
an era of crime and lawlessness
that will become a blot and a
stain upon the progress and ad-
vancement of the State. Tue
condition OF the counties is utter
ly deplorable. The supremacy
of the Republican party has
lowered over them like polar
night, chilling the rising aspira-
tons of their people.
81 have not a word to utter
against the integrity or charac-
ter of Governor L0wndes. We
realize the fact that he is a gen
tleman of refinement and culture,
but my friends, with all of that
he is as shrewd and as scheming
a politician as was ever gradual
ed from the political seminaries
of Allegany County. | give him
willing credit for all the good
that he has accomplished, but l
say tonight that he has never
performed a political act that
know Of that has not been inhu
enced by a political motive for
his own advancement. What
has he done in any better degree
than any of our Governors who
preceded him have ever done?
Please tell me, because [ would
like to know"
After touching up the Hon.
Sydney f. Mudd with some of his
keenest satire, Mr.. Rayner pro-
ceeded to declare that the claims
of reform in the Republican plat
form are false and he charged
the party with wholesale corrup.
ton in the Legislature.
Mr.. Rayner spoke for nearly