Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-03
THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE.
SOME INTERESTING HINTS
TO THE VOTERS
Of The Fifth Congressional Dis
trict of The State OF
MARYLAND.


The Prohibitionist of this district
have seen fit TO place me IN nomlna-
ton for Congress. This nomination,
wholly unsought, is receiving the en-
dorsemeut of a considerable number OF
independent Republicans and Demo-
Gratis who are weary of the eternal
chicanery of old party politics. 1t is
therefore eminently proper that
make TO the voters plain, frank state
ment of what stand for, what my
purposes are and why l am candi-
date.
| stand for the rule of the people
as against the bosses of both the old
political parties. That means that
demand for the people the right to
initiate and veto any law whatsoever.
Legislatures and Congress should be
the instruments of the people to carry
out their wishes and not the intsru-
ments of trusts, corporations and cor
ruptionists for plundering the public.
The old parties deny the people this
right. / stand for it and will work
for it. | stand for the election of
United States senators by direct
vote of the people, thing for which
the people have clamored for forty
years and which the old parties refuse
to give.
| stand for the total abolition of
tariff duties on all trust-made goods,
so that combinations of millionaire
manufacturers will be compelled TO
sell goods at home as cheaply as they
sell them in foreign counties. The
Republicans refuse this. The Demo
Gratis declare themselves in favor OF
it, but have refused to grant it every
time they had the power TO do so. 1
am against government by injunction,
whereby corrupt judges exercise the
power at the behest of corporations to
send working men to Jail for attempt
ing to secure the right to live like
men. This famous outrage is perpe-
trated by Republican and Democratic
judges alike all over the land. l am
absolutely against the policy OF hold
ing in subjugation the people OF any
foreign land, taxing them and ruling
them without their consent. Ii the doc
trne of "no taxation without represen-
tation' was sound in 1916, it ought to
be sound today. Right never changes.
believe the government should own
and operate the railway, the telegraph
and all natrual monopolies just as il
does the postoffice. These are all nat
ural governmental functions and fune-
tions of government should not be
turned over to corporate greed and
graft for exploitation. Profits on pub
lie functions and franchises should go
to the people and to improved service
rather than to paying dividends on
watered stock. Above all, | am in
favor of the utter suppression OF the
traffic in alcoholic liquors for improper
purposes. Alcohol is useful for hun
dreds of legitimate purposes, but taken
into the stomach, it rots the body,
befuddles the brain and damns the
soul. We forbid decayed meat for i'm
proper objects. Why should we license
the sale of alcohol for such destruc-
tive purposes? We forbid the sale of
explosives and poisonous drugs for i'm
proper purposes. Why should we H.
cense the indiscriminate sale of alcohol
that few may get fat and rich off
the misery and suffering of others?
Why should we sell anyone the right
to mar the image of God in his broth
er man?
ask the father of boy or girl:
Why will you vote for the establish
ment of a trap to catch and damn your
offspring if it can. No South Sea can
ibal will eat its own child. The only
living creature that will DESTROY its
own offspring is a sow. For Gods
sake don't let us, as people, longer
degrade ourselves to the level of the
hog. / stand for the absolute divorce
of the government from the beverage
liquor traffic. For forty years. the
expenses of the government have been
largely paid from the profits of de-
bauching its own citizens. A nation
- - Inw-e
and gold and silver, but of people.
That which degrades the people, de-
grades the nation. For forty years,
the Democratic and Republican parties
have compelled the government TO
play the pimp for the liquor traffic
for share of the profits. If 1 am
elected, for the first time in history
the voice and vote of the Fifth Con-
gressional District of Maryland will
be heard against continuing this mon
strous crime. You may say that it
will be throwing your vote away"
and that it will be ''voting in the air. "
say unto you, it is better TO vote in
the air than in the Mudd. Would you
vote for the itch just because you were
sure to get it? You are certain
ly sure to have the dirty saloon bust
ness on your hands as long as you
vote into power the gangs that give it
life. No man ever threw his vote
away who voted for what he wanted.
No prayer that ever went up TO God
for better things was thrown away"
In dozens of villages in this district
our wives and daughters dare not be
alone on the streets after dark for fear
of drunken negroes. Our Internal Ii
censed saloons have transformed an
innocent, harmless race into a horde
of wild beasts, so that we are now
compelled to deprive them of the bal
lot and barricade our women in our
homes on Saturday nights. Voters,
how do you like it? Have you got
enough? If not, vote for either of
my opponents who favor the continu-
ance of the system, and you will get
more. Do you expect to get rid of
the saloon by prayer while you are
voting for its continuance or for the
men pledged to the policy? God has
message for such as you. Turn to
YOUR Bible and read HE that is
filthy, let him be filthy still. l ask
no man for his vote. If / stand for
what You want, vote for me. Have
as much sense as a horse who never
whinnies for briars when he wants
hay. If you want the saloon, vote for
either of the other fellows and get it.
But will the saloon which your vote
helped establish gets your boy, don't