The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-24

ready to work merited and just ret
ribution next November on the Cor
man ring.
At the mass meeting at Belair. where
such broadsides were Numbered
against political corruption and ring
rule, that the reverberations are ech-
DING and re-echoing from center to
circumference of the state, Senator
Williams made among others, the
following telling remarks exposing
the Ubiquitous methods of the Cor
man wing of the legislature
THE hollow pretense,n said Mr..
Williams, "that the purpose of the
bill was to prevent bribery and cor
ruption at elections was clearly shown
by the voting down by the Demo
cratic Senators of amendments offer
ed by Republicans to the bill which
would have tempered and lessened
its iniquitous nature and given some
foundation to the claim that it would
tend to check bribery.
"Fair-minded, unbiased men, who
will look for the motives that prompt
ed the call for the extra session and
search for the real purpose of this
election law and the recent state cen
sus, cannot fail to see that it is the
development of well.laid plan de-
signed not to benefit the people of
Maryland, but to satisfy the ambi-
tions of few political leaders. l do
not believe that the Independent,
free-thinking, thoughtful voters of
this state are going to sanction such
a plan or permit the party that con-
ceived it to remain in power when its
plain purpose is to still further abuse
the confidence of the people"
Mr.. Williams spoke of the waste
of $40, 900 by the Democrats in taking
a census, when the errors in the fed
eral census would have been correct
ed by the federal officials themselves
without cost to the state
The following vigorous arraignment
of the enemies of the free ballot oc-
ours near the conclusion of the late
speech of Senator McComas. 1t is a
startling finish as sharp as the deto-
nation of the torpedo that blows the
ship to -. $50 ask the winds that
roam around where fragments strew
the sea! y
Said Senator McComas: 1.-The whole
system is contrived to disfranchise.
Every section of the Reformed Elec-
tion law is amended to hinder the
voter. Every amendment added
words to defeat the intent OF the hon
est voter. Vote as you will, thou
sand of voters will be robbed of their
suffrage in the counting of the ballots
under the DISTINGUISHING rules of these
conspirators against true Democracy
They will filter away your rights by
the caprice of typesetting. They will
rob you of your manhood suffrage by
a pretense of spot upon the ballot.
If you be old and infirm your trem-
bling hand will cheat you at the bal
lot box by the law of these conspira-
tors. If your sight, after well spent
life, is dim it will not save you from
the theft of your vote in the count of
the ballots. When later, if they win,
they wipe out the bipartisan two
Judge system, they will give you two
judges of the majority and weak
judge of the minority, whom they
will choose, and election judges will
be unanimous to count all doubtful
voters to win an election to perpetu-
ate the ring. If they win the old in
famies of unfair election practices will
be enacted into law to overcome the
wrath of a slowly awakened and much
outraged people. The bosses and the
ma chine dare not trust the people"
No party ever entered upon a cam
paign struggling under greater odds
than did the supporters of honest
government in the State of Maryland
when they began the work prepar-
tory to the November election. They
found the German cohorts in control
of the registration machinery. They
found them strongly entrenched in
the city and State administrations.
They found the German ring in ex-
elusive possession of the State census
lists, with all the valuable political
information contained in these lists
at their disposal. They found the
German machinery in the possession
of the shrewdest and most tireless set
of political workers ever gathered to-
gether in this State. They found the
German wing of Democracy deter
mined upon the election to the Senate
of former Senator German.
At the very threshold of the cam
paign came the most disheartening
blow of all, the death of President