The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-08
THE States GOVERNOR
FORGETS TROUBLES
Talks Highly EntertainingIY for Hour
and Halt al the Park Jubilee.
BRILLIANT BURSTS OF HUMOR
The Governor Pointed Out that People
Today Have ERRONEOUS Ideas of
Slavery Told r1any Good Stories
OF the Old Southern Plantations.

Governors Day at the Mountain Lake
Park Silver Jubilee held Thursday, was
a grand success, and of the estimated
two thousand people present no one left
the auditorium without being highly
pleased with the addresses of Governor
Warfeld and without a higher opinion
of his oratorical ability. For an hour
and a half Thursday evening, he laid
aside all affairs of state and spoke in a
manner both serious and humorous.
Preceding the address of the governor,
County Superintendent of Schools, Mr..
E. A. Browning said few words in
which he showed very ably the relation
of the public schools of Garrett county
to the Mountain Chautauqua, which is
held annually at the Park In the few
minutes allotted to him, Mr. Browning
showed up plainly that the work of the
Chautauqua and of the schools of the
county are one in purpose and in attain
ments, in the upbuilding of the minds
and character of the young and old peo-
pie of this grand commonwealth of
Maryland Of ours.
After Superintendent Davis had in
troduced the governor, a large number
of children who were sitting upon the
stage, rushed towards the executive
and threw bouquets of flowers at him,
creating a veritable flower shower.
This rain of flowers" began the
governor, reminds me of the story of
the old Methodist minister. The good
pastor had been sent a large donation of
peaches floating in brandy The min
lister in his thanks, said, 4 didn't care
much for the peaches, my dear sister
but did enjoy and appreciate the
spirit in which they were sent So it
is tonight, | appreciate most heartily
the kindly regard shown me by these
young people IN showering me with
these flowers. Furthermore, I'm thank
full that they were flowers and not cab
bages
The idea Of throwing the flowers had
sprung from remark made during the
day by the governor that if any of his
friends had any flowers for him, he
wanted them to come while he was yet
alive, and not after he was dead when
they could not be enjoyed by him and
very little by anyone else.
"l'm glad I've been honored by the
term educational governor, continued
the governor in part. ut is true that
the record of my number of visits to
our schools exceeds that of any other
governor. Many of the helps to me in
my work in administering the affairs of
this State, | attribute to visits to the
schools. All Of the people are inter
ested in our schools. They are the most
expensive department of our state gov
eminent and accordingly should receive
a large amount of attention from the
States chief executive. And | claim
that by taking an active part in school
affairs, | thus get in touch with the peO-
pie, get near their hearts, and so one is
made better executive. | feel close
to the public schools of Maryland be-
cause it was in them that secured all
the education that have.
The governor had chosen as the sub
iect Of his address, Slavery AS Knew
It." He stated the young people of to-
day, through reading exaggerated ac-
counts like 'Unc!e Toms Cabin" his
tories written by Northerners, and other
prejudiced accounts, that the young of
America have come to have wholly dis
torted views of the slavery days. There
is humane side to that institution and
every negro slave was not treated as
cruelty as was the exceptional, fictitious
character, Uncle Tom" But it must
be added that the governor stated en-
phaticallv that he was bitterly opposed
to slavery, that he was glad the North
triumphed and he added that his ances-
tors while holding slaves, yet they were
against the institution. The argumen-
tative part the governors address had
brilliant flashes of humorous stories of
old plantation days both when slavery
was in full bloom and when it was in
it's decay, Some of the governor S
stories are here reproduced.
'Once there was an old ancestor of
mine who was noted in all the country
around the plantation as being the loud
est praying person in the world" con-
tinued the governor with his pictures of
the old slavery days. "He would pray
sometimes so loud that he could be heard
for miles. A Baptist minister-friend
came to him one day, and asked per-