Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-18
GATHER CAMPAIGN PLANS
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES NOTI-
FICATIoN MONDAY.
All State Nominees on His Ticket
Bound for the East
ern Shore.

BALTIMORE, September 1S.-The repub-
lican candidates on the state ticket will to-
day visit the Talbot county fair at Easton
Mr.. George r. Gather, the candidate for
governor, will come from New York to
which he was suddenly called by business
Monday night; Mr. Thomas Parran and Mr..
Hammond Crner candidates, respectively
for clerk of the court of appeals and at
torney general, started from this city at
$50 O'Clock this morning, and Mr.. James
II. Baker, candidate for control.e err, will go
directly to Easton from his home. near
Chestertown. After spending the day in
meeting the people of Talbot county and
in viewing the exhibits at the fair the party
will leave Easton at 6 pm. arriving in
Baltimore at 10 o'c.OCk.
Mr.. Parran. who. in addition to being a
candidate, is also chairman of the republi-
can state central committee, has been hard
at work preparing a schedule OF meetings
Tor the campaign tour of the state candi-
dates. 1t is expected that he will shortly
be able to announce the complete itinerary.
Opening Of Campaign.
The campaign will be formally opened at
the Hotel Rennert next Monday night,
when Mr.. Gather wi be notified of his
nomination and will make his speech of ac-
ceptance. Immediately thereafter the swing
around the circuit will be begun with the
holding of mass meeting at BEAR the
evening of Wednesday, September 25 From
that time on the republican party VIII
wage one of the most aggressive fights
which has been witnessed in the political
arena of this state in many years.
The republican batteries will be first
turned upon the election law which now
disgracas our statute books, whose opera
tion as will be shown, Is unfair. unjust
and un-American. 1t will be pointed out
that the votes of thousands and thousands
of white American citizens are lost, the
result of which is to subvert one of the
fundamental principles of American gov
ernment-namely, the rule of the ma jority
because, in view of tie number of ballots
rejected 1t cannot be told whether the
vote as counted represents the popular will
not.
The fire of the republicans will be next
directed against the action of the demo-
cratic convention in nominating Judge
Crothers when the demand of the demo-
cratic masses was first. for the renomina-
ton of Gov. Warfleld. and, second for the
nomination of Mr.. Joseph d. Baker The
voters of the state will be asked whether
in view of the fac: that Mr.. Crothers had
not even been considered by the people,
and In all probability would not have been
wanted If he had been considered, 1t is fair
to presume that he named by the
democratic leaders for their own purposes
MAN of the Hour"
incidentally. the republicans will riddle
the charge that the influences behind Mr.
Gather are Representatives Mudd and
jackson. 1t will be shown that neither Mr.
Mudd nor Mr.. jackson really desired the
nomination of Mr. Gather, and that In
consenting to his being named thew Welded
TO the overwhelming sentiment among the
ltpuoilcan delegates and the promptings of
political sagacity. 1t will be demonstrated
beyond caVil that the only Influences be-
hind Mr.. Gather were the demand OF the
republican masses for his nomination and
the recognition of his ability to command
tn" predictions of the independent vote
Mr.. Mudd and Mr.. Jackson in common
with every other republican leader. clearly
saw That Mr. Gather was the man of the
hOur, and they knew that when the man
and the hour met the deathknelI of demo-
cratic prospects would be sounded