Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-11-02
FAiR.
The Elementary Principles
of the Local Campaign.

AAAHeA plSc
of the Local Campaign.
The elementary principles in the
local campaign in Anne Arundel
county are sharply defined. They
naturally divide themselves under
three distinct heads
REGULARITY,
MORALITY, and
MANHOOD.
The sole question that arises upon
the Issue, whether or not, those who
affirm themselves to be the regular
Democratic nominees, arc what they
claim. This issue was again narrowed
to one point: Had the Democratic
State Central Committee Of this
county the right to postpone. for
cause, the day of the primaries y
Four bodies passed upon this question
the Democratic State Convention,
the Board of Supervisors, the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel county and
the Court of Appeals of Maryland.
Every schoolboy knows that political
conventions are not famed, as a rule,
for their legal talent, answering
equity, and brilliant discernment, hut
that their guiding star is policy as
dictated by the wishes of the major
ity of the party leaders. The late
Democratic State Convention was no
exception to this almost universal
rule relating to political asseInblages.
Indeed, it is a well aces edited feet
that the convention settled the ques-
ton of the admiss sion of the Anne
Arundel delegates to it, before it had
considered the merits of the case, aud
had its type written report already
in hand before the committee, to
which it had committed the question,
acted That it was animosity to this
regular Democrats of Anne Arundel,
that determined the judgment of the
convention. and nothing else, no sane,
honest man can or will deny.
Three tribunals beside this con
vention, under the solemn oaths Of
their Offices, have passed upon the
regularity of the Democratic nomina-
tions in this county-the county
Board Of Supervisors, the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel county and
the Court of Appeals of Maryland.
There was not, in either tribunal. a
dissenting voice as to the regularityjof
the Democratic ticket. The seeding
democrats who have officially desig-
mated themselves as 6 Amendment
Democrats had, in turn, sought the
judgment of these judicial bodies,
and the judgment of them all was
against the contention of the Amend
ment Democrats. There was the
deliberate hearing in each case, and
especially in the Courts. was argu
ment exhaustive and the Judgment
measured. The democrat, hating as
to which is the regular democracy,
should, in reaching aconclusion, hest
tate no longer Nothing was wanting
in the opinion of the Court of APP
peals to bind the reason of the
democrat who seeks light. The Court,
brushing aside all minor issues, de-
termined the case upon the sole
question inyolved:-"Had the State
Central Committee of the county the
right to change the date of the prim
aries?" The Court of Appeals clearly
and distinctly declared that the State
Central Committee had this power.
The morality of the county is in-
volved in this election. There is a
vicious element in this county, located
in the summer resorts along the south
bank of the Patapsco in the Fifth
district, that not only violates the
law openly and defiantly, but of
which the grand jury of this county
gave it as their judgment, and in
which opinion, at the present Term of
/ Court, his Honor, Judge Revell, says
/ he shares, that these violators of the
law have "strong police protection"
/ 1t is an alarming situation that
| known violators of the law are pro
| tected by the officers whom the people
have appointed and pay to ferret out
and arrest these self same criminals.
Such a state of affairs, if not RENE
died, is n canker that will go on cor
rupting until all classes of criminals
| will find it simple matter to avoid
| punishment by bribing the officers
who ought to bring them TO judg-
nent. This class of breakers of the
law are supporters of the amendment
ticket; they, apparently know their
friends, aud public judgment has a
| firm conviction that, If the Amepd-
ment ticket is elected those high IN
authority who now secure these Grim
nails police protection from pecuniary
| interests, will assume the same posi-
ton hereafter with still greater
! powers of protection, as advocates
and defenders of those dives, gaming
houses and saloons at Curtis Bay,
| whose owners make it a part of their