The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-30
Republican Meeting.

trict held their first public meeting
of the campaign on Friday night OF
last week, and to say that it did
not come up to the expectation OF
most of them is putting it mildly.
To begin with the parade feature
was a perfect farce. The best the
Sixth district republican club
could do in the way of a marching
club was probably two dozen boys
with torches,-it is said there was
actually one voter among the torch
bearing marchers of the Sixth Dis
trict. This representative dele
cation met the s0uthbound evening
train, which brought the republi-
can club of Oxford, to the number
of perhaps forty. Headed by
Rising Sun Cornet Band the line
formed at the station and proceeded
through the center of town to the
accompaniment Of music, colored
fire and Roman candles set Off by
the Oxford boys. After a short
parade the crowd assembled in the
public hall to listen to the issues OF
the campaign as expounded by Geo.
w. Cameron, Esq, of Baltimore
Bar. and VIM. 7. Warburton, Esq,
of Elkton Bar.
The meeting was called to order
by President B. 2. Nichols who
read a long list of vice presidents
and then proceeded to launch out
in a rambling and disconnected in
trod1ctory address, intended no
doubt to set forth his views, but
just what they were he did not
seem to know exactly, nor did his
audience, and after consuming
about fifteen minutes time he
finally sat down,-this latter being
the only really lucid feature of the
chairman's remarks.
Mr.. Cameron spoke for about
forty-five minutes, dwelling at
length upon the Roosevelt admin
istration, claiming great credit for
the passage of the railroad rate
bill and the pure food law, but
failing to mention the fact that the
President was compelled to call to
his assistance such a prominent
democrat as Tillman, of South Car
DINA, to direct the fight for the rate
bill in the Senate, as his own party
leaders in that body for the most
part represented the railroad in.
terests and were arrayed against
him, and that in the matter of the
Pure Food law it was due to the
revelations made by Upton Sin.
clare, a socialist, in his novel 'sThe
JUNGLE that inspectors were sent
to Chicago to investigate the pack.
ing houses and ascertain if the
charges of filth, etc., made were
true, as they were,-that led
finally to the passage Of, this
measure. Mr.. Cameron also as
sured the voters that Mr.. jackson
was the proper person to represent
them in Congress, but did not dwell
upon the record of that gentleman
in the legislative body, as it is a
we'll known fact it is notable only
for his absences during its sessions.
Mr.. Warburton in his speech OF
an hour or more, gave history OF
the republican and democratic
\ parties from their inception until
the present time, tabooed trusts
entirely, ridicnling the very idea OF
their existence or that a protective
tariff as f0stered by the republican
party could be in any way respon-
sible for them, and while declaring
political speakers too often attempt.
ed to take advantage of the pre-
sumed ignorance of their hearers,
did not deem it necessary to attempt
any explanation of the existence of
such gigantic corporate interests as
the Standard Oil and kindred con-
Germs, the extortion practiced by
them and their violations of the
law against. restraint of trade. The
country's unbounded prosperity for
the past thirty years was due
directly to the wise legislation OF
the G. o. P. leaders according to
the speaker, who while he casually
reminded his audience OF the
financial panic which befell the
country during the Cleveland ad-
ministration, neglected entirely to
refer to the financial distress of
1907, when there resulted three
times more bank failures than ever
before occurred in the history of
our country, the worlds greatest
panic, in fact, nor did he mention
the fact that an army of five mil
lion unemployed are tramping the
streets of the cities of the United