The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-11-21

In HIS proclamation designating Thursday,
November Goth, as. Thanksgiving day Gov
ernor Hughes, of New York, said: with
grateful recognition of our unity as people,
of our enjoyment of peace and tranquility, of
the wealth of our material and moral resources
of increasing opportunities for industry, Of
educational advantages and social improve
ment and of our peaceful progress toward the
realization of the ideals of free society: And
with profound appreciation of the obligations
of liberty and of our dependence for the main
tenace of our institutions upon proper sense
of the responsibilities of citizenship and upon
the cultivation of those qualities of character
which will enable US to discharge them: And
with common desire to uplift our hearts in
praise for the blessings we enjoy"
In AN interview in Baltimore a few days
after the late election Hon. ]. Fred. G. Talbot,
of Baltimore county, was asked how the Cor
rupt Practices act worked in his district, when
he replied: "All right The Corrupt Prac-
tees act is as good law as we have. 1t pre-
vents the rich candidate from having any ad-
vantage over the poor candidate. 1t makes
both stand on their merits, and it gives to
every man his chance. 1t is just law and
good one and am in favor of it. This time
our people were unfamiliar with the provisions
of the law, and in one or two cases there may
have been innocent violations of it, due to
lack of knowledge of what could and what
could not be done under it. Next time it will
be more generally understood and will operate
even better than it did this time"
Mr.. S. S. FIELD, of Baltimore. who was one
of Mr.. Bryan's most ardent supporters in
Maryland, does not believe that the defeat of
his favorite will make him any less factor
in the politics of the country. He said: LAS
President he would have welded power and
an influence which would have enabled him
to make his policies effective. This, of course,
he cannot do as a private citizen. At the same
time continued advocacy of the reforms must
command attention and will compel the DOM
inant party to give them attention. have no
idea what Mr.. Bryan's course will be. do
not believe he will again be candidate for
President, but his interest in his party will be
none the less active. 1t is singular fact that
more people vote for the ticket when Mr.. Bryan
is candidate for President than at any other
time, yet there are more people to vote against
him than when any other candidate is nom-
mated. People who rarely take any part in
an election come out on such an occasion.
Mr.. Bryan received 1000 more votes than did
Governor Crothers, yet did not receive popu
lar majority, whereas Crothers won out with a
plurality of 5000"
Hmm re a rooont decision hot nav ;ntarosk
both insurance agents and those who hold pol
icies: In New York fire occurred in a room
occupied by Mrs. Manning. She was burned
severely and she died two days afterward.
Her brother undertook to collect an insurance
policy on her life and the company fought the
case. Its ground was that the contract in the
policy spoke of injuries received in burning
building, and not in a burning room. Now
the fire that cost Mrs. Manning her life did
not burn the building. A New York judge
thought this good defense, but the appellate
division of the New York Supreme Court
thought otherwise. at cannot be-" said the
reviewing Judges, that a building must be
entirely burned down in order to enable an
insured to recover. 1t must be that what was
attempted to be guarded against was injury to
the insured resulting from fire while in build
ing. Death by accidental fire in building
was the crucial test of the defendants liability,
not whether more or less of the building itself
was actually consumed" And the reviewing
judges remarked that any ambiguous language
in an insurance policy must be construed in
favor of the insured. The last line contains
the sting