Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-08
CAMPAIGN IS OPENED
Meeting Of Maryland Repub-
licans at Hagerstown.
SPEECH BY BONAPARTE
GREETED BY A LARGE AND EN-
THUsIASTIC GATHERING.
Eecretary of the Navy Went After the
Poe Amendment Without Gloves
Democracy Arraigned.

HAGERSTOWN Md, October with q
monster mass meeting the republican cam
paign in Maryland opened in Hagerstown
tonight. Chas. ]. Bonaparte, Secretary OF
the Navy, the star orator OF the occa-
sion. Addresses were also made by Mr.
Thomas Parran. clerk OF the Maryland
court of appeals, and Henry M. McCul-
Tough of Cecil county, the republican can
didate for controller of currency, the only
state office to be filled in Maryland TINS
fall.
Alexander r. Hagner presided at to-
nights meeting, which was held In Hose
Opera House. and was one OF the largest
and most enthusiastic political gatherings
ever held in this section of Maryland. Long
before the hour set for the meeting the
large hall was packed, and 1t was seAil that
provision would have to be made for an
overflow meeting.
Seated upon the stage. the front of which
was set with plants and blooms and deco
rated with flags, were the vice presidents,
about one hundred in number Throughout
the meeting enthusiasm was at high ebp.
Secretary Bonaparte came to HagerstoWn
this morning direct from Washington over
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad He was
met upon his arrival at the depot here by
a committee composed of Charles ID. Waga-
man. Joseph c, Roulette, Henry Ho!zapfei,
tr.. Henry A. McComas, George w. Earn
shaw. Jacob J. Funk, Mayor A. &. Strife,
Vernon NJ Simmons, Postmaster Harry X.
Startzman and others This same COM
nittep MeSSrS.
lough. who arrived in Hagerstown at Go
this evening the Blue Mountain express
over the Western Maryland railroad, from
Baltimore.
Many Came in Special Cars.
Several hundred enthusiastic republican
voters from points along the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad came to Hagerstown on
speciaI train run through from Brunswick
and attended tonights meeting. Special
cars were also run over the electric lines
from Willamsport Boonsboro, SmOketown
and other towns in the country. The Clti-
zens' Band OF Hagerstown: and the Cornet
Band of Rohrersville furnished the music.
Charles D Wagaman. chairman of the re-
publican county committee called tonight
meeting to order and introduced MI nag
ner the presiding officer.
In a brief speech Mr.. Hagner scored the
Poe amendment He said the present cam
naign was the most important in the his
tory of Maryland, because the right OF
eyerv citizen was being assailed, not by the
democratic party, but by the infamous
democratic ring in Maryland.
Mr. Mccullough in his address gave an
insight into some of the doings of the
democrats at Annapolis during the last
session of the legislature. The speaker was
the state senator from Cecil county. lie
concluded by predicting that the zoe
amendment would be showed under this
fall. 49, ,s
when introduced by Chairman Hagner
Secretary Bonaparte's Speech.
Secretary Bonaparte spoke in part as fol-
lows:
FeI1ow-cItizens Of Washington county;
t,our weeks from next Tuesday the people
oF MARYLAND will decide whether, for time
whereof no man can now see the end they
will belong to themselves or belong to the
democratic ring; whether the state shall De
governed in our days and the days OF our
children as II was governed In the days OF
our fathers or whether its government snail
be turned over. without prospect OF change
TO a group of selfish, grasping and unscru-
pulous men. among whom, 1t Is said, son is
to succeed father as our chief ruler IN
short whether we are tired of political lib
erty and in its full sense willing to give up
the name OF freemen. This is the issue and
the only issue of this campaign. Any men
tOn of other questions In connection win
the present campaign or the approaching
election Is mere darkening of counsel
speaking words without knowledge or with
guile.
If Won doubt that success for the amend
ment will mean for the entire state. look
at what has happened within the past few
days in the city of Baltimore. At the re-
cent democratic primaries, Notwithstanding
the severe and steady pressure applied by
the ring to secure for the amendment
party Endorsement the feeling against 1t.
even among the most regular the most
"rock-ribbed' democrats. strong
and general that several ward executives
and a number OF candidates for local Of
fees or the legislature Were chosen whose
opposition to it was known and avowed
and. in some instances, were chosen on the
very issue of It's approval or reputation.
Recently a committee has been appointed
not by any branch of the legitimate party
organization, but. without affectation or
disguise. by the ring. or its chief, whose
business II is to put through the amend
ment. This committee has no more right
or authority to represent the democrats of
Baltimore. of Maryland than you or |
have; Il represents the ring. the whole ring
perhaps. and nothing but the ring and as
the Iatters representative and agent, within
the past few days it summoned to its au-
gust presence the various ward executives
and ordered such of them obeyed the
summons to support the amendment with
out regard to their individual opinions or
the wishes OF the voters who elected them
Democratic Discipline.
II is announced that a similar discipline
will be applied TO candidates next week;
how sUbmissvely they will receive 1t only
time can show; three or four OF the execu-
tives are said to be recalcItrant. and two
actually talked out In meeting" The rest
dropped into the lock-step. as depicted In
the cartoon OF the Evening News and
marched meekly where the boss upper
servants pointed out the way
Now. this is what the ring does before II
is permanently in the saddle this Is its
course when II only hopes and wishes TO
get the power TO say who shall and who
shall not vote in Maryland; what will n
do, and do not merely TO few more or
less insHbordlnate politicians. but to the
whole community when 1t shall decide
through committee of three or rather OF
two out OF three. of its own choosing In
each voting precinct of the state what
citizens can construe to its satisfaction
some clause of the constitution which II
has chosen as the test, or prove to its sat
voters. and II one or the other proposition
be not established in the view of It's un-
prejudiced and wholly impartial mind then
20 shut them out from the ballot box?
Some Democratic Fibs.
Among the many fbs of the democratic
platform there one which merits spe-
ciai mention. at least for its size This