The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-24

iHCtlliS.
DIR. ATKINSON.
DIR. Gordon T. Atkinson, the next Comp
troler. spoke of the excellent management OF
financial affairs of the State, and hoped to
continue that management and to see the State
debt soon completely extinguished.
HON. EDWIN WAKEFIELD.
Hon. Edwin Warfield said he felt at home
in Carroll; that he lived close to the Carroll
line and daily met many citizens OF the coun-
tv. 81 believe | ain the choice of the De
mocracy of Carroll for Governor said Mr..
Warfeld, "and believe am the choice Of
the majority of the Democracy of the State.
Ii did not believe so | would not have ac-
copied the nomination for Governor"
lie challenged Mr.. Williams charge that
he had been the beneficiary of any special
laws and asked him to cite the volume and
chapter where any could be found.
Mr.. Wartield also challenged the statement
published in the Republican organ of Carroll,
the American Sentinel, by Rob. +. Barnes, that
he had some years ago spoken OF the Sons OF
Veterans as the Sons of Bounty Jumpers at
Woodbne. He said he had no recollection
of the occasion whatever, no recollection OF
making any such remark and was surprised
that any journal would publish such statement;
He said he was man of truth, and denied
praise the valor of those who wore the blue
and the gray, and quoted from his remarks on
last Decoration Day at Winfield to show his
admiration of the courage and patriotism OF
Marylanders who fought to maintain their
respective sides in the great four years strug-
gle.
ATTORNEY GENERAL RAYNER.
Attorney General Rayner followed Mr..
| Warfield and created much enthusiasm. He
was not at his best, but vigorous. straghttor.
ward and at times eloquent, humorous and
| sarcastic.
| He spoke of the election law. and said that
it needed amendment, but not in the manner
that Stevenson A. Williams would have it
! done. The change he would make would be
to let the intention of the voter prevail, and
not throw out ballots because the cross marks
extended slightly beyond the squares. For
this condition, he said, the Democratic party
is not responsible. The law says the voter
must make his cross mark in the square, and
| the Court of Appeals has construed that pro-
vision 10 mean that the cross mark must be
wholly within the square.
| Mr. Rayner took up the charge of the lob
! by at Annapolis made by Mr.. Williams, the
| Republican nominee for Governor. He said
the Democratic Legislatures were saints. com
pared with the Republican Legislatures of
| 1896 and 1898. The Republican members
did not wait to be called upon to have their
| votes solicited (?) but went out and sought
those who had measures TO be acted upon.
He said that the good measures passed by the
| Renublicans was done under the heavy pres
sure of public sentiment. He said
admitting all that is claimed for the Leg
| slatures of 1896 and 1898, unhesitatingly
saw that so far as public and private honor
! were concerned they presented CHASTITY scene
of riot ard corruption.
Mr.. Rayner then held up the performances
of those sessions and carried his audience
with him from scene to scene until he said the
curtain fell and under the blessing OF Divine
Providence the people escaped from the tor
meut and the tolls and the iniquity and the
affection of Republican Legislature that,
outside of the few reform measures that 1t had
passed. was disgrace and a reproach to the
fair fame of the State.
"Republican speakers have said,'' he con-
timed. 1--WE cannot impeach the moral char
acter of this Legislature. This reminds me
of the Kentucky colonel who, when he wanted
The position of revenue collector under Secre-
tarv Carlisle and was objected to upon the
Ground that he had committed arson, embez
Element and murder, told the Secretary that
he admitted these charges, but that he wanted
the Secretary TO observe that not one word
had been said to impeach his moral charac-
ter"
Then Mr. Rayner took hold of President
Roosevelt He took up the interviews OF
Messrs. McComas, Mudd and Wachter with
the President and assaulted what he regarded
as the insncerity of the whole performance.
He said, among other things.
''Why, the President simply bought Mudd
with an Office; that is all there is about it.
Mr.. Aloysius E. Bowling was the considera..
ton of the contract. Aloysius Bowling and
sydney Mudd-what names to echo through
the ages of undying fame Frank Wachter
had a bundle of papers in his arms to show
the President that Senator McComas was
writing anonymous articles against him in the
paper when he was running for Mayor. The