Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-11-04

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element of our colored population, wise
ly forbore to raise these issues in this
State contest.
We could not understand how the
election of our ticket on a platform
which deliberately ignored the money
question as irrelevant in this struggle
for home rule and good local self govern
ment, could fairly be claimed as in any
way fixing the political status of Mary
land upon that question.
1t is true that the thirteen Senators
who are to be chosen at the coming
election will vote for q United States
Senator in 1902 who will take his seat
in the Senate in December, 1908, b. t
that single circumstance, so very far e.
in its practical bearing did not seem to
our Convention to be a sufficiently
strsng reason for introd ucing into the
Campaign a subject upon which
honest differences of opinion exist in
our ranks and whose Introduction could
only be the occasion of discord and
| weakness.
We appeal to you. therefore, fellow
| citizens, to stand fast to your party al
legiaace and to your convictions of your
duty to your State in this time of her
need.
Do not allow yourselves to be led as
tray by false issues. You will have
ample opportunity one year now to
pass upon questions of notional concern,
and can do so intelligently and wisely
in the light of the facts as they shall
| then exist.
In your apprehension of possible future
contingencies and evils, affecting the
whole Union, do not shut your eyes to
present actual evils affecting most in
| juriously our own State alone.
Listen to the despairing cry for relief
that comes to you from Southern Mary
land, once the seat of culture, refinement
and prosperity, but now whitening under
the deadly blight of Republican con-
| troll.
Heed the appeals for encouragement
and pI election that our suffering counties
upon the Eastern Shore send up to you.
Help them to honest and intelligent
local government. Relieve them in
your generous strength and sympathy
from the destructive rule of ignorance
and corruption.
Rescue them from the domination of
those why levy and expend the taxes
which they do not not help to pay.
Give them security in their homes and
firesides against the most appalling
form of crime.
Put in power State government in
sympathetic touch with the best ele-
ments Of society and not dependent for
existence upon the support of the very
worst
Elect as your Governor q man who, in
his ten years of service in the State
Senate, voted for every just and conser-
vative measure of progress and reform
that came before that body. Who will,
indeed, give you non bipartisan judiciary
in the persons of honest; intelligent and
upright justices of the peace, every
where-who will, indeed, keep politics
out of our public schools and not direct
ly appeal to the teachers for their votes
by offering them an increase in their
salaries-and who will never permit the
patronage of his office to he disposed of
and bartered, or dispose of or batter il
himself to elect United States Senator
as reward for personal political sup
port.
Fellow citizens, the claims upon
which the Republicans now rest their
appeal for your votes are the same as
those which were considered and passed
upon and repuniated by the people in
the municipal campaign in Baltimore
last May.
There is nothing new in this State
campaign. The Republican orators
are for the most part the same and the
arguments are the same now as then.
We hear the same arrogant professions
of superior virtue. The same boastful
assertions of pledges redeemed, economy
practiced, good government given. We
have now the same sort of denunciation
of Democratic measures, Democratic
leaders, and Democratic masses, which
was poured upon us then. The same
warnings against the evils which Demo
cratic success would bring upon the
City are repeated now as arguments for
the reelection Of Governor Lowndes:
There is no good reason, however, why
the verdict that was then rendered against
a continuance of Republican admins
tration of the affairs of the City, shall
not be rendered now against a renewal
of Republican management of the affairs
of the State. Nor can any independent
Democrat who voted for Thomas g.
Hayes give valid reason for now
voting against John Walter Smith. If
it was right to repudiate Mayor Master,
why is it not equally right now to repudi-
ate Governor Lowndes.
The Democrats who Joined the Re-
publicans in 1895 and defeated us in the
memorable contest of that year, de-
clared that their purpose was to cleanse
and purify, not to overthrow and des-
troy the party.
The smaller number of them who in
1897 still considered that the work of
punishment was not complete and still
kept up their association with the Re-
pnblicans in the contest of that year, in
sisted that nothing was further from
their purpose than to send the Democracy
into permanent Punishment.
They proved by their votes last May
that they still loved their party and
desired its success. They came back to
their allegiance.
They took part IN its councils--helped
to shape its management and policy
contributed vitality to its victory and
Joined in the exultation of its triumph.
We appeal to them to finish now the
good work of political regeneration
which was then so gloriously begun aud
to join with us in restoring to the hands
of the reunited Democracy the CONTROL
of the State as they SO effectively and
enthusiastically joined with us in re-
covering control of the City.
Our adversaries last May stimulated
their ranks by the cry that If they were
beaten then they would assuredly be
be beaten again in November.
Fellow citizens, we appeal to you to
make good their dismal foreboding.
Our party and our candidates are