The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-10-13
The Elkton Mass rleeting.

Democratic rally OF last week was free
excursion ala Hanna OIL a small scale. 1t
was the first of the kind we believe that
ever occurred in this county or vicinity of
the county, aud it is to be hoped it will
be the last. The free train started from
Rising Sun, where I25 boarded the cars,
that stopped and took on passengers at
every station till Elkton was reached,
when the number amounted to between
eight and nine hundred. Going to the
meeting the merry mood period of wills
key in the brain was conspicuous, and
idle laughter, and witless wit held sway.
On the return trip whiskey in the brain
had reached the devil mood and battles
all the way from Elktont o Perryville were
the order of the night. At the latter
station several cars were cut off the train
causing considerable delay and unloading
OH the platform, and here the battle royal
ragged i'll the dark for the rloonless night
was pitch dark. The fighting brigade
threw stones and slashed with knives or
razors One man had his head laid open
till the blood spouted from a severed
artery Another victim was carved up
with knife or razor. Both victims were
Port Deposit men. One Of them was SO
badly wounded that he had to be left at
Perryville and doctor called. The other
was taken to Port and the services of an
ambulance required. Report was current
that one of the victims had died from his
wounds, but proved incorrect. This much
70. the free train episode.
A single line in one of Kiplings poems
describing Egypt is claimed by the lit
erary critics as sublime in its description
of forty centuries of the great Nile country.
The line is
The Pharaoh's, the sands, the sergeant"
These three words embrace Egypts
glory, desolation and British absorption
Three other words though lacking sub
Unity to entitle them 10 a niche in the
temple of the MUSES., are as descriptive of
present conditions in our midst The
boss, whiskey, politics. And over all is
stretched the suzerain,y Of the money
power.
The mass meeting was doubtless in
tended as harmonizer, not vote maker.
The three State candidates were on hand,
John Walter Smith, Joshua w. Herring
and Isadore Rayner; for Governor, Comp
troller and Attorney General respectively.
There was large meeting assembled,
composed Of all parties, intent on learning
where the Democratic party of Maryland
stood and what it stood for We grieve
to write that the expectaut crowd did not
learn anything about the Maryland Dem
ocratic position, politically, or what it
represented The candidates criticised
the Republican administration of the
State, Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Herring making
exceedingly dry speeches on the misinan
agement of the Republican party in the
State, a good deal of which is probably
true, and about the same things the Re-
publicans arraigned and charged the
Democratic party with when in power.
The occasion presented a grand oppor-
tunity for setting forth the great and
momentous questions which are agitating
the country from center to circumference,
and something the people were all anxious
to hear, but alas not word escaped the
three distinguished speakers which indi-
Gated there was anything more stirring
than chronic scramble among opposing
rings 10 get the ins out and the outs in
Albert Constable, Jr, who made the
initial address after the chairman's intro
ductory opening, mentioned the Chicago
platform, and simultaneously, like a
spark to powder, the crowd responded
with ringing outburst ofapplause, show
ing where the hearts of the people are.
The dry, chaffy speeches of Smith and
Herring received no hearty response from
the audience, save drunken yell occa-
sionally from a befuddled man in the
audience.
The occasion was an opportunity for
winning votes had the tongues of the
principal speakers not been chained by
the gold oligarchy. whose tyrant heel is
on MY Maryland ;"
Mr.. Rayner has the reputation Of being
the finest orator in the State, and he is a
fine speaker, all fire and energy. His
arms and hands never cease but beat the
air as though impeled by an electric
battery. But he is an orator, full of wit,
sarcasm and eloquent flights, but what he
stood for or the Democratic party of
Maryland stands for he never once men,
toned, This supreme effort should have
rallied hundreds of luke warm and sick
at heart Republicans and Independents to
fall in and help place the State under the
banner OF the national organization and
prepare it for victory in 1900, but the
meeting. we venture to say made not one
vote for the emasculated Democratic party
of the State. Did it unite the disgruntled
for or against the boss regime2
The administration record in Cuba
Porto Rico and LuZon, is one of incom-