Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-09-24

Now FOR ACTION.

Last week. the final so to speak
before the nomination conventions
and the first line up for the fall cam.
paign, with democrats against re.
publicans, and to a large extent,
whites against blacks, was the most
eventful one, and politics was play
ed from the shoulder. Trump cards
came ont too in many instances, and
factional discomfort, If any remained
up until this last week, vanished
like snow under a warm sun; just
as the republican situation, seems
to have frozen,-prominently apart,
split hopelessly.
The democrats have nominated a
strong ticket and beyond the shadow
of doubt, a ticket hard to beat.
From the principal nomination, that
OF governor, for which the party
could have selected no more digni-
fed, courteous, and handsome gentle
men, down to the humblest Office the
choice has been made with one eye
to the greatest strength and the
other of fitness for the leaders bank
not too heavily upon republican
weakness for democratic success in
the campaign this tall.
Bur REPUBLICANS GET TOGETHER.
The Republicans have a disagree
able faculty of getting together at
the last moment after Safeguarding
each other at white heat for the
months preceding the election, and
this in the years gone by has taught
the Democrats two things: First,
that they are not like the republi-
cans in any way at all; certainly not
in the way of forgiving insults both
personal and political and secondly,
TO rely on their own strength and
not on opposing weakness.
GOVERNOR SMITHS ADMINISTRATION
Has BEEN STRONG ONE.
The party's chief Endorsement
in the eyes of the independ-
ents of this State, and the
launching of the Maryland with it's
attendant speeches and ceremony,
but adds one more touch TO the grace
OF Governor John Walter Smith s
administration from start to finish,
and but one more testimonial to his
character as charming, courteous
gentleman.
A CREDIT To THE STATE.
Governor Smith was a credit to the
State OF Maryland at Newport News
on Saturday, September 5, as he has
been in the governors Office since
he entered 1t, and not one present
there from Maryland could but feel
proud of his representation as the
old commonwealth s chief executive,
where his grace of manner, and his
ease of address won for him the in
slant sympathy of very large and
to great degree strange audience,
and turned that strangeness into in
slant friendship and respect.
While Governor was entertaining
his guests and the guests of the
Cruisers builder, Mr.. Edwin War
field was busy in far distant point
with the democratic press of the
state, a factor which helped SO large
ly to seat governor Smith and which
will play exactly as strong, if not a
stronger part in the choosing of his
successor.
Mr.. |. FREEMAN RAsIN.
The city more than almost any
other section of this state this fall
now promises to go solidly demo.
cratic, and in speaking of the City,
mention should be made of the most
abused, at the same time most power
full. and likewise one of the greatest
men in Maryland-Mr. I. Freeman
Rasin, hated by many, feared by
others, but kno'on to few.
To men who have learned but one
side, he is the incarnation of all that
is wicked and bad; but to others
IChO kRO,o him he is gruff sincerity,
and in a way, honor itself. No man
can say truthfully that Mr.. Rasin
promised him anything that he did
not give, and no man in the State
can point to an evidence of broken
faith. Mr.. Rasin lives in Baltimore
amid the sharpest kind OF sharp
tools, most of which will be turned
on him did he not use one as sharp
himself and with more skill.
A GREAT MAN.
Baltimoreans hardly realize, and
Marylanders out of Baltimore do not
realize at all, that Mr.. Rasin is a
great man. They know that he is a
great leader but they do not know,
perhaps, that he is without a paral-
lei in the history of this country.
No where has a leader stood at the
head for as long as Mr.. Rasin,