The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-10-06
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
BLAKENEY IN CARROLL.
Col. McKellip Says Republicans are
Solid for Him-His Views on the
Real Issues Of the Campaign.
WrsTMINsTER. October /. 10

WESTMINSTER, October !, 1900.
Messrs. Editors II have heard 1t Is being said
amongst an RepubIicans here to Mr.. Biakeney. and
that he will be cut because this county did not
get the nomination for Congress The wish OF
our Democratic friends that this might be so Is
father to the thought for there Is no such dis
position existing here. nor will there be, as the
ballots on election day will show: 1t Is true
that many. very many, of our best Republicans
felt that the time had come when Carroll ought
to be recognized, seeing that in the sixty three
years of her existence she has been accorded
but one nominee for Congress and that when,
for decade, we were in the upper, or 9Th dis
trict.
But the assertion by anyone that Mr.. Blake
ney will lose Republican votes in this county, or
that an attempt will be made to cause him such
loss. has not an iota Of truth upon sChich to found
such an assertion. know the Republicans OF
Carroll county as well as any man living in it
and say that they are not built that way. They
not only willing but anxious to do all that is
and that of the Republican party. which stands
for honest money and insures by its success the
best and highest attainment in our American
life.
Republicans here are alive to the Importance
of the issues involved in the campaign, for dis
guise it as our Popullstic Democrats may !;
by an eruption OF words. hurled at imperial
ISM and ''militarism,'' the fact still remains
dictated by Bryan, and by the irony of fate,
vote of Prince David. of Hawaii.) that the real
and substantial issue TO be decided by the Ameri-
can people is. whether this nation snail De COM
mitted to "he Immediate restoration of the free
and unlimited coinage Of silUer and gold at the
present Legal ratio Of 10 to !. acith0ut a0diting for
The aid or consent of any other nation" This is
the real policy which, stripped of shams and
false pretences, which the American people are
asked to uphold and endorse by their ballots at
the coming election. Republicans here take
him at his word when. on the 4th of SebtemDer
last, at GAINESVILLE. Ohio. he declared This party
stands where it did in 1896 on the money Ques-
tion," and they doubt not but that he will make
good his other declaration when he said at
Knoxville in 1896: eff there is anyone who be-
heves the gold standard is good thing. or that
1t must be maintained, warn him not to cast
his vote for me, because promise him it will
not be maintained in this country longer than
am able to get rid of it,
The Republicans of Carroll to man will not
stand on the order of doing so, but will act on
Bryan's advice by voting solidy against him and
for Mckinley, Roosevelt and Blakeney. and
this patriotic course of theirs will be united in
by many old-time Democrats who have not be-
come inoculated with the views of Popuism
and who look with disfayor upon this new brand
of Democracy, born of Organism and tinctured
with other issues which he represents.
If every other portion of the district will do
its part as Withstand by Blakeney and support
the party as loyalty and unsefshly as Republi-
cans here have always done in the past, and will
do again at the coming election, assertions to
the contrary Notwithstanding his election is
assured beyond the question of a doubt and no
one will do more to bring about that result
than respectfully yours, &c.
VIM. A. MCKELLIP