Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-23
FOR FAIR ELECTIONS
Gathers Stand in Speech of
Acceptance.
HIS NOTIFICATION TONIGHT
Forecast of Opinions of Candidate for
Maryland Governorship.
STAND UPON PUBLIC UTILITIES
Neither Too Conservative Nor An
archistic-Race Question Not an
Issue Will Be Declared.
STAND UPON PUBLIC UTILITIES
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, September %
George r. Gather will be formally notified
of his nomination the republican can1i-
date for governor of Maryland at the Hot ell
Rennert tonight.
The event will be shorn of. the Clap-tra,
and bombastic features which character
lied the democratic notification meeting at
the Lyric last week. Instead of red fire
and music the features of the gathering
will be the speech of acceptance by the
candidate. Mr.. Gather has put consider
able time and thought on the preparation
OF the paper and those who have been
permitted to read 1t declare the speech TO
be a mastery presentation of the real
issues in the campaign.
f The general interest in the forthcoming
address centers in the stand which Mr.
Gather will take regarding control of
public utilities. While those who have
been permitted to read the speech decline
10 discuss its features in advance, it is
known that Mr.. Gather will not dodge the
public utilities question: but will make
his position clear, and il is asserted that
his utterances on this subject Will prove
salts isfactory both TO the corporate interests
and 10 the private citizen. He will not
set up propaganda savoring of Hearstism
as has been charged by the democrats, but
will clearly and fearessly declare his views
which Will at once stamp him as a man
safe for both corporations and the people
TO support each being assured by pledge
of a square deal.
For Fair Election Law.
The speech to be delivered by Mr. Gather
will make fair elections the paramount is
sue in the campaign. 1t will set forth in
concise and lucid language the iniquities of
the present law, under which tens of thou
sands of Marylanders are deprived of the
will of the peop.e is thrott,ed by cor
rupt machine ethods in the counting of the
ballots
Attention will be called to the fact that
at the state election in 1903, there were
registered 2G5 23i voters, and the returns
showed that 2os6S6 votes We're counted for
the four gubernatoriai candidates
According to reports received from lead
ers throughout the state at that time not
less than 10000 went to the polls 1t Is
apparent, therefore, that fully ~ OUO legal
voters in Maryland We're disfranchised. AS
there were only o2.0O colorei persons regis
tered fully 10000 of whom did not go to the
polls. it is easy to figure out that for every
colored man disfranchised five white men
lost their votes. Mr. Gather will also
show that, under the operas on of the W.
son law, elections in certain counties be-
come travesties upon popular government
and do not reflect the honest VIII OF the
voters.
Race Question No Issue.
The cry of negro domination, which was
raised by Senator Rayner at the demo
cratic meeting last week will also come in
for share of attention from MIR. Gather.
The republican candidate will clearly show
in his speech that the negro question In
Maryland is really no issue at all He will
demonstrate that the cry of negro DOM
inauon' is merely the trick of political
demagogues, appeal to race prejudice
and race passion-a stuffed figure set up by
the democratic rlngsters and pointed to
with horror by party spellbinders to divert