The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-08-18
Mr.. GARRETT THE MAN.
The Second Congressional District Con-
vention at Belair dominates Him
by Acclamation-The Party's
Platform.

The Republicans of the Second Congressional
Tuesday and unanimously nominated Mr..
Robert Garrett, of Baltimore county, for the
House OF Representatives. The nominating
speech was made by Mr.. James +. Ingram, Jr.,
of Baltimore county, who paid high tribute
to Mr.. Garrett. The nomination was second
ed by Mr.. ]. A. Robinson of Hartford county /;
Mr.. John Hensel, of Baltimore city, and Mr..
c. Ross Mace, of Baltimore county. Thecom
mittee on resolutions of which Mr. Mace was
chairman, submitted the following platform,
which was unanimously adopted:
/. we the Republicans of the Second Congress
sional district, in convention assembled. con-
graduate our fellow cOuntrymen on the fruits
Of ten years supremacy of the Republican party
in national affairs. Among these fruits we point
more especially to the vast increase of our for
eign trade, particularly at Southern ports; the
satisfactory condition of our national finances,
the unprecedented commerce within our own
borders and the general diffusion of prosperity.
Men able to work and willing to work are en-
plOyed at remunerative wages the farmers of
the country have found an active market at
home for their products at profitable prices.
and have sold in foreign lands hundreds of
millions of dollars worth from their abundant
surplus. The sale of our government per
cent. bonds at handsome premium and the
restoration of peace among neighboring repub-
lies through our Presidents efforts, and the
splendid service done the nation by the recent
friendly visit of our honored Secretary of State
to nearly all OF our sister nations of the New
World are among the recent notable fruits of
decade of its history has our beloved country
been more prosperous at home or more respected
abroad than since it chose William Mckinley to
succeed Grover Cleveland in 1895.
2. To match this great record of achievement
the Democratic party can show for these years
but record OF dangerous advocacy OF unsound
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the Republican party, under the leadership of
Theodore Roosevelt, has sought honestly, and
IN great measure successfully, safe ana ratlonal
remedies for the evils necessarily incident to
the nations prodigiously rapid growth in
wealth and material comfort its rival has
not ceased to champion wild and mischievous
doctrines, to inflame baieful passions and pre-
JUDGES of class and race, to predict national
disasters, which, to its great disappointment,
never came.
g. We firmly believe in the protective tariff
system. Changes in individual schedules should
be made as changing commercial and industrial
conditions may warrant, but they should only
be made by the friends of the protective tariff
system, under which our nation has outStripped
the world in the volume of its commerce.
A. Between these two parties and these two
records the American people must decide. We
trust with confidence its good sense and love of
two years of his term of office, as it did during
the first two, Congress of bis own party, to aid
and encourage, not thwart, him in his patriotic
work.
s. We congratulate our fellow Marylanders on
the ignominious defeat of that wicked con-
spiracy to destroy self-government in Maryland
which took shape in the SO-called Poe amend
ment. We declare unworthy of high office,
whether state or federal, any public man who
aided to devise or sought to promote that in
iquitOus measure; and, cheerfully recognizing
that its defeat was secured in large part through
the patriotic assistance of conscientious Demo-
Gratis, we call upon them to aid us now in ex-
sentative of this district any candidate identified
with the corrupt ring which framed the Poe
amendment, or with the shameless frauds on
the suffrage which maintained that ring in
power.