Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-10-29
ENTHUSIASTIC DEMOCRATS
Hon. Thomas A. Smith. Dr..
}. w. Herring and Hon. A.
S. GoIdsborough Address
Democrats of Worcester.

Democrats of Worcester.
Our candidate for Congress. Hon.
Thomas Alexander Smith. DIR. Herring
and Mr.. Goldsborough were listened tc
by an attentive and appreciative audi.
ence in the Court House Tuesday after.
noon. There were several hundred
substantial citizens and goodly mum.
Der of ladies present. The Georgetown
band furnished music for the occasion
Immediately after the meeting the dis.
tinguished speakers left OH the steamer
Highland for Pocomoke CITY, where
they addressed an immense audience OF
unterified Democrats IF old Costen's
District.
Hon. Thomas A Smith said that he
had earned his bread by the sweat of
his brow. that he was opposed to the
people being unjustly taxed as the Re.
publican party was expressing them for
the benefit of Trusts and Corporations,
and that if elected to Congress be
would do all in his power to protect
their interests He said he was farmer.
grew up Oh a farm, owned one aud con
Quoted it himself, hence he knew and
experienced the needs of the farmer
He pointed to the blank rec I'd of his
opponent, Hon. William H. jackson, as
your representative for this District.
and his failure to attend to the duties of
the Office to which the people elected
him. He asked for the votes of all
liberty loving citizens of Worcester
County, and was heartily applauded at
the conclusion of his speech.
DIR. Herring, as he always does, made
an excellent speech. The people know
him to be an honest, earnest. courteous
gentleman. and they drank in with a
keen relish every word that fell from
his lips. DIR. Herring referred to the big
majority Worcester gave him in the
election three years ago and hoped the
grand old county would do as we'll this
year. He said the liberties of the people
of the South and Maryland would be en-
dangered by the success of the Republi-
can party this Fall and urged his
hearers not to allow the enemy to re-
tain the Congressman in the First
Congressional District. He pointed to
the honorable record of our candidate
for Congress and expressed the hope
that he would carry Worcester by an
old fashioned majority.
The chairman of the meeting, r ID.
Jones, Esq. then introduced TO the
audience. Hon. A. s. Goldsborough of
the Baltimore bar. Mr.. Goldsborough
Is one of the best orators in the state
and he was repeatedly cheered as he
drew faithful pictures of the evils that
have followed in the wake of the Re-
publican party. Mr.. Goldsborough
dwtlt upon the evils of manifest
destiny" of the Republican party to
make this country world power. walk
ing among the nations of the earth
with chip on its shoulder. He depicted
the evils of the military spirit of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and dwelt ut length up
on MIR. Roosevelt's "social equality
ideas. He said every white man felt
he was the superior of the negro-it was
no use to apologize for the fact or to
attempt to explain 1t, and it was the
Republican party now putting ideas i'll
to the heads of the negro that made hiN
"a much worse man than he would be, Y
he were taught his proper place. He
quoted MIR. Lincoln's opinion against
negro suffrage and negro equality. and
declared that the people of Maryland
and the South would not tolerate the
program mapped out by President
Roosevelt. Mr. Goldsborough's perora-
ton brought forth vigorous applause
and he was voted by all who had the
orator.