The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-09-19

cratic total was Is, 1886, loss of over 81 per
cent. Where are the Democratic gains the
Bryan managers have been claiming?
THE REPUBLICAN Congressional ticket in
Maryland has been completed by the nomina-
ton of Messrs Kronmiller and Hill in Balti-
more city. 1t is as follows: First district
William 81. Jackson; Second district-Robert
Garrett; Third district-John Kronmiller;
Fourth district-John Philip Hill; Fifth dis
trict-Sydney E. Mudd; Sixth district
George A. Pearre.
Mr.. JOHN W. KERN, the Democratic nomi-
nee for Vice-P President will arrive in Baltimore
today and remain there until Tuesday next.
He will likely speak at two meetings in the
city and he may also speak on the Eastern
Shore and in the Second Congressional dis
trict before he leaves the State. Mr.. Kern,
who is an eminent lawyer. is a personal friend
Of Vice-P President Fairbanks.
JUDGE TAFT. the Republican nominee for
President, passed his 51st birthday last Tues
day and received many congratulations by
telegraph and letter. Heisfn the enjoyment of
excellent health and wants to get actively into
the campaign. The Judge is good talker and
can stand any amount of work. The people of
the Middle West are clamoring for him and he
will do some active campaigning there in the
next few weeks.
WHILE IN New York few days ago Chair
man Parran, of the Republican State Central
Committee of Maryland, had lengthy inter-
view with Chairman Hitchcock, of the Repub-
lican National Committee. Mr.. Parran said
that this State would go for Taft by 10000
than satisfied with the present outlook here.
Mr.. Parran said: MANY men in Maryland
will vote for Bryan and pray to God that he
will not be elected
THE HEIRS of the late Thomas NJ. Lanahan,
the wealthy Baltimore lawyer, who were not
mentioned in his will. and who filed caveat
to that document, will come in for a small
slice of the estate. The suit instituted by them
has been compromised and they will be paid
$4,000. These heirs are three nephews and
a nice, children of Rev. John Lanahan, a well
known Methodist minister and brother of
Thomas M. The estate is said to be worth
100000, the bulk of which was left to sis.
ter, who is 90 years of age, and an adopted
daughter, who lives abroad. Mr.. William
Cotton was counsel for the contestants of the
will.
The REPUBLICAN party promises revision
of the tariff; revision upward as well as re-
vision downward. That is a constructive
policy. The Democratic party promises re-
duction of the tariff toward revenue basis"
That 10 0po
holds protection as indispensable to the main
tenance of high wages and high standard of
living and as insuring reasonable profit
alike to wage payers and wage earners. The
other party disregards the interests of wage
payers and wage earners and, by promising
immediate free trade in all imports competing
with trust-made articles, bringing immediate
free trade in practically all competing articles.
Never was the issue more sharply defined than
now: Protection versus Free Trade.
Mr.. BRYAN spoke in Annapolis on Monday
afternoon last, an open air meeting having
been arranged for him there. At night he
spoke in the Fifth Regiment Armory in Balt-
more, but it is said the meeting was rather
Disappointing to his managers, as the crowd
was not nearly so large as was expected. The
heat was intense in the great armory and no
doubt this fact kept many away. Governor
Crothers introduced Mr.. Bryan and he was
the only other speaker. While in Baltimore
the candidate was a guest at the Belvedere,
where be met many of the party leaders and
other admirers. Chairman Vandiver of the
State Central Committee, accompanied Mr..
Bryan to Annapolis. He was assured that he
had good chance to carry Maryland this year.
In ITS report of the Bryan meeting.at the
Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore on Mon
day night, the Sun of Tuesday said His re-
ception last night does not begin to compare
with those given on his former visits in Presi-
Dental years. The meeting in 1900 was the
banner political gathering in this State, for it
was conservatively estimated that $4,000 per-
sons went to hear Mr.. Bryan that night at the
Lyric He has become more conservative and
in adopting this attitude he has apparently
lost some of his former vigor and pointedness
of argument. His attacks upon the Republic
can party are not as caustic as they were in
former years and he is not as witty. IN other
days he carried his Baltimore audiences from
strenuous cheering tofits of laughter, but such
was not the case this time"
WILLIAM r. HEARST, who is the scknowl-
edged head of the Independence party-and
also the tail of it-has been doing some cam
paigning in the South with Hisgen and Graves,
his party's candidates for the Presidency and
Viee-Presi6ency. Mr.. Hearst spoke at a big
meeting in Birmingham, Ala, on Monday
night and among other things said: "Mr
Bryan is the prestidigitator of modern politics.
He can manipulate the shell game so that the
free-silver ball and the Government owner
ship ball are not under the shell the voter
thinks. He is the man who can perform all
kinds of juggling feats, balancing August Bel
mont, the union labor breaker, on one hand,
and Samuel Gompers. the labor union leader,
on the other. What can the laboring man ex-
pect from Taft or Bryan? Bryan charges that
the Republican platform is silent on the in
junction matter and Taft says the courts will
not sustain legislation enacted under the DEM
ocFatic plank. believe Mr.. Taft speaks with
ar1th0rifv because that Is the wav he ruled