The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-24
WHICH WILL YOU cHoosE2

under it as ''disgracefuP' and fraud and
desires it changed, and even Mr.. Warfeld de-
clares in favor of its amendment so as to per-
NIT the registering of the intent of the voter.
Governor John Walter Smith has not been
heard from, but with his views no one seems
to be particularly concerned just now.
The pivotal issue of the campaign is fair
elections for our people, and the practical
question, To whom shall legislation be entrus-
ted to secure them?
The Republican platform is clear and ex-
plicit on this topic. That of their opponents
is not But the Democratic managers have
not always squared their performances when
successful by their promises when elections
were pending 1t is known of all men how,
for instance, they pledged their party again
and again to new assessment law, and the
devices by which, session after session, they
evaded it,
The Republican party, on the other hand,
during its possession of power, kept every
pledge it had made-fulflled every obligation.
1t had the courage to reform abuses originated
and nurtured under ring rule; it put on the
statute books laws long demanded by the peo-
pie and refused by the oligarchy in control;
it showed its capacity and good faith in pre-
pairing, enacting and executing law which
secured fair and square elections, under whose
! operation no contests were raised, and which
made the voters ballot count as he desired
when he cast it.
Who shall frame and enact the new law?
That s-esar;ratios. vvlfe1. day declares 1t
will protect the negro in his right, and the
next hales him 10 prison for the most innocent
assertion of them? That party which mutt
lated and destroyed an election law, which, if
not perfect, was by all odds, the fairest ever in
force in our State, that it might make Sena-
tor of the United States of the man long ago
branded by the first citizen of Maryland as
'the generalssmo of the lobby" Hessian as
to principles, political tactition who fattened
on legislation sold in open market, and Heaven
save the mark now offering as candidate
! for the place filled by Lincoln and Cleveland
and Mckinley? Shall the old Ring-Gorman
and Rasin, with the lesser lights, Smith and
| Vandiver and Talbot and Rusk and Fielder
man and others of that ilk-again be put in
full control, its chief and his satellites again
directing men and measures alike to their own
| profit and to the discredit of the State and her
people?
Orshall this duty be confded again to the Re-
publican party of Maryland which has proved
its devotion to progress its correspondence to
high ideals, its earnestness and honesty on
behalf of fair and untrammeled elections, and
which has at its head today that chevalier
without fear and without reproach, whose
word is his bond, and whose bond is his pure
character and life without stain, who calls
no man master, whose only ambition is the
good of his State-Stevenson A. Williams?
COMMENTING EDIToRIALLY on the importance
of the coming election to the people of this
State the Baltimore american says: Every Sec
ton of Maryland, every county in Maryland,
every property holder in Maryland has d.
rect interest in the result. This State cannot
progress as it should progress, cannot develop
as it should develop cannot be made what it
should be made unless its affairs be well man.
aged, unless the Governor and other officers
do their full duty and see that good use is
made of every opportunity to keep the State
in the foreground Neglect of these opportu-
mites has been characteristic of one Demo
cratic administration after another. Plans
that would have contributed largely to the
States prosperity have failed time and again
simply for lack of interest on the part of State
officials, of men who should not only indorse
all such plans, but should make themselves
leaders in every movement for the advance.
ment of Maryland. Some of the State officials
seem to hold that their sole duty consists in
drawing their salaries and working for higher
positions. To them the State Capitol, where
they are supposed to do their work, is almost
an unknown place, and they would be apt to
get lost were they to attempt to find their way
about the streets of Annapolis This condi.
ton of affairs can be changed in one way only
vote for Hon. s. A. Williams for Governor
and every Republican on the legislative ticket.
DURING THE five years the election law of
1896 "a Republican measure) was in operation
no case was before the Court of Appeals
turning upon the marking of the ballots.
Under the present law many such cases have
reached it. Attorney General Rayner wants
it distinctly understood that he is in favor of
amending the existing law so that sit will
effectuate and not Illustrate the intention of the
voter" This is a complete recognition of the
business of the Republican contention, and
the right hands to change or amend the statute
are not those who havejuggled with the subject
in the past and have deprived thousands of
voters of their ballots and their due influence
in elections. The part of wisdom is to Judge
the future by the past, and the Republican
| party has proved its sincerity and its ability to
| give our people free and acceptable election
law against which no complaints were made.
Voters, keep this always in mind.
THE BALTIMORE Sun has given Congressman
Talbot many a lick with the rough side of its
| tongue, but now it favors him with dose of
| ridicule-esteemed the worst possible treat
ment of statesman. Dealing with the
| Senatorial dilemma of the Democrats the
SIM reviews a number of public men who
might be elected. 1t suggests that Justice
"Bill" Garland enter the lists, since the toga
of Calhoun or Clay might fit him snugly or
| that Judge DAN Loden might accept if an
| admiring public urged it. And then: "There
| is the Hon. Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbot,
of Baltimore county. Why should there be
| any discrimination against him. even if he has
announced, with astonishing self-denial, that
he would not run for office again? II the
Senatorial office were to pursue him and force
itself upon him, would he not make great
sacrifice and accept it?'
A YOUNG man who has come to the front
rapidly in Maryland politics and who seems
destined to make his ozark, is Mr.. James E.
Ingram, Jr., Republican candidate for the State
Senate in Baltimore county, says the Balti-
more american. Mr.. Ingram is youthful in
appearance, but not SO his judgment. He has
good ideas and knows how to express them
forcibly. He is one of coterie of young men
of Baltimore county who have taken the con-
troll of the Republican party in the county into
their own hands and who are working with a
vim to win victory.
SOME ONE in Baltimore started the silly
rumor that Mr.. Charles J. Bonaparte would be
a candidate for the United States Senate if the
Republicans carry Maryland this year. In an
interview upon this subject few days ago
fhaflcanflan1an said ST wish my fallow citi-