The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-11-01
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER /, 1907
THE COMING ELECTION.
Voting Booths, Gather vs.. Crofhers,
the Negro, the Prohibitionists,
the Socialists.

EDITOR ADVOCATE The coming cleo
ton is very important one to every Demo
crafts machinery should be well oiled
for the occasion. Every polling place
should have at least one voting booth lit
by window. 1t could be duly secured
and guarded from outsiders. Men with
failing sight have frequently had great
difficulty in voting.
There are many reasons why no farmer
of any political faith should vote for Mr.
Gather. He is particularly a city man
and he has given every assurance that
every appropriation called for by the city,
no matter how grotesque, will receive his
sanction. Fabulous sums spent on the
city mean disregard of the counties and
drains on the pockets Of the taxpayers.
At the last session of the Legislature there
was considerable contention between the city
and counties and the every indication points
that if Mr.. Gather is elected there will be
incessant and uncalled for war between the
two. We want Governor of the whole
State-a man who will do justice to both
the city and the counties Judge Cloth
ers is that man.
Another thing Mr. Gather will spend
large sums on is negro education. lie says
the negro must be still further educated up
to an ability to vote, and, true to the de
mands of the most ultra northern negro
lovers, Mr. Gather will respond to any Of
them. The farmers see what education
has already done for the negroes of Mary
land and to add to them child labor and
compulsory education laws and elementary,
grammar and high schools galore would be
but to further increase their worthessnesS
and take them still further from the indus
tries which nature has fitted them to com
petently grasp.
Mr.. Gather is bright, particular star
among the band of people called ''Sociolo
gists" They are, in reality, haf-baked
Socialists. They want every possible thing
they can get from the State. just lately
they have been talking about supplying
public school children with nurses and
medical attendance and with food, clothing
and housing complete for all who need it.
At the same time they are proposing, IN
some quarters, that parents who, from
either desire or poverty, want to turn Their
children completely over to the State can
do so, and the State can also provide all
comforts, nurses and doctors to all women
about to become mothers.
This ushers in State Socialism direct
The farmer can see at a glance how his
taxes will pay the bill No man IN this
State is nearer to these ideas then Mr..
Gather and if elected to Office we can rest
assured that the psychologists and real
Socialists themselves will hail him as the
man to put their vagaries into practical
operation. Republicans themselves are
here and there standing aShast at the So
cialistic tendencies of office seekers in their
ranks and many will refuse to succor the
men really dangerous to the State and
nation.
The Prohibitionists are making things
lively this campaign. The most Of them
are Republicans and if they want to show
their consistency, they will at once drop
the g. O. p and vote the cold water way
without hesitation. No Democrat can
object to seeing them thus consistent.
Consistency, thou art a jewel.
The Socialists have their men in line
also and expect to make some showing
whether they elect anybody or not. In
England, France and Germany they are
holding high carnival at elections The
London Standard, scared at their vote,
just says that they will have to fight, even
after they win at the ballot As things
are going in this country they are becom-
ing an element to be reekoned with.
The Republicans, from President Roose
welt down, are stealing much of their
thunder, and as | have said on several
occasions, Mr. Gather is one of these en-
gagged in this stealing If we are to have
Socialism let's vote for the poor fellows
who have SO long been jailed and hung to
bring it about, and not for those who would
give US their vinegar under the Republi
can name. FRANCIS b. LIYESEY,
Oct %, 1907. Sykesville, Md.