The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-20
SOME NEwspApER COMMENTS.

The Baltimore Herald says: y I'm the
minds of many Republicans the nomination OF
Mr.. Williams will be made. But whatever the
convention may do, it is pleasure to recognize
at this time the sterling qualities of Mr.. VIII
S lie gtsts WAT We fe s ABOUT him most is his
absolute soundness on those ethical questions of
politics which seem to be little regarded by
many much-respected men in this age of money
spending and vote buying. Mr.. Williams by
word, by example and by positive effort stands
against the inordnate use of money in elections.
He did his best to get The corrupt practices act
through the Legislature. There is not to his
discredit the expenditure of a single penny for
the influencing of vote or for purchasing the
favor of a delegate or delegate 1t is to
such men in both parties that the people of
Maryland must look for their redemption from
the saturnalia of corruption which has disgraced
certain sections of this State in recent years.
The time has come when the parties must nomi-
nate as their leaders men and not pocketbooks."
After speaking of its qualification at the deter
mination of Mr.. Williams to be a candidate the
Baltimore american says: This means that the
party has candidate who can command the con-
fdence of the public as few men in Maryland
are able to command it, and upon whom every
element of the party should unite without the
slightest difficulty. That candidate is not self
seeker, neither has he been put into the race by
machine politicians. That he is a candidate is
due, first, to the fact that the Republicans of
his own county have solicited him to permit the
use of his name and, second, because Repub-
licans in every section of the State approaching
his sterling qualities and the strength his candi-
dacy would give to the ticket, have demanded
that he consent to accept the honor the party is
ready to bestow upon him. Mr.. Williams will
appear before the people, in view of these facts,
in a different light from that which usually
shines upon candidates for public office. His
| case is one.in which the Office has sought the
man with great persistency, and he is a general
favorite because he is known to be thoroughly
upright and honest, beyond the control of any
man or clique of men, able. intelligent, consci-
entious and devoted to the highest sense of pub
lie duty. Maryland Republicans are fortunate
| in being able to command the services of can
didate of such exceptional worth, and, now that
Mr. Williams has declared himself willing to
accept nomination, it should be accorded him
by concession. Throughout the counties his
candidacy will mean that fractional fights will be
put down, the party workers and aspirants being
willing to meet upon common plane of devo-
| ton to party welfare while Mr.. Williams is the
leader
The Baltimore NeaOS says: 1.-THE people of the
| State of Maryland, and not the Republican
| party alone, are to be congratulated upon the
| decision arrived at by Hon. Stevenson A. Will
| liams in reference to the Republican nomina-
| ton for the Governorship. Mr.. a.ieh
zss.zsz AZ is easy &c
understand that-as he states in his letter to
| Mr. Hanna, the spokesman of the Hartford
| county Republicans-the cordial way in which
| the proposition of his candidacy has been well
coined has been largely instrumental in deter
mining Mr.. Williams decision to stand for the
nomination. In doing so, he is placing himself
under no sort of obligation to any boss, clique,
or faction, but on the contrary any section of
| the Republican party which may put itself be-
hind him will be under obligation to him for the
added strength it may thus acquire. If there is
to be serious contest for the nomination, the
opponent of Mr.. Williams will be Ex-Governor
Lowndes, the excellent record of whose admins
tration is sufficient to make good citizens feel
comfortable as to the result whichever of these
two prominent Republicans should be the choice
of the Republican convention. But it seems
clear that the chance of success in the general
election will be greatest with Mr.. Williams as
the candidate. There is man in the Republi-
can party who poss esses more completely the
confidence and respect of the people, and he is
not loaded down with any of the animosities
and heart-burnings which, in the case of Mr..
Lowndes, are connected with his former incum-
bency of the Governorship"
WHILE IN Washington few days ago Gen.