The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-09-17
Regrets Opponent Used Personalities
In Speech.
SAYS He HAD AUDIENCE OF 20
Republican Candidate For Sixth
Term Defends His Long Tenure
In the House.

4HufSudy at the queen lily hotel,
Cumberland. Col. John r.
Rouzer, of Frederick county,
chairman of the committee, made
most complimentary speech, in
forming Colonel Pearre that a re.
nomination, coming to him as it
did by reclamation, was an honor
rarely conferred by a convention
in Maryland. State Senator w.
MCCullOh Brown, Of Garrett coun-
ty, and Mr.. Hartman Nolte, of
Cumberland, representing Allie
gany county, were the other men,
bers present. Others present were
Horace P. Whitworth, chairman
of the Republican County Com
mittee, and F. Brooke Whiting,
chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee for Alleganv
County.
Before the party adjourned
Colonel Pearre arranged with
Messrs. Whiting and Whitworth
for joint meeting of the commit
tees in Cumberland on Monday
evening, September Of, at which
time the candidate will be present
Colonel Pearre meets the Republi-
can committee of Washington
county at Hagerston on Saturday
afternoon and all this week will
be devoted to stumping in Garrett
county.
In his speech of acceptance
Colonel Pearre Endorsed the ma
tional platform of the Republican
party. He criticised the size and
personnel of the Democratic con-
vention at Oakland, saying the
speech of his Democratic opponent
was made before 20 people, 1.-THE
total attendance of the Oakland
convention. He regretted that
the Democratic candidate saw fit
in his speech accepting the nomi-
nation Ito inject personal feature
in this campaign" He makes
but one issue between the Repub-
liCans and Democrats of the Sixth
Congressional district in this cam
paign," continued Colonel Pearre.
and that is, first whether it is
legal, and second, whether being
legal is it wise for a Congressional
constituency to send a representa-
tive to the Congress of the United
States for longer period of time
than one term.
He intimates that it is in VIC
lation of the spirit of the Constitu
ton because, if its trainers had in
tended that representative in
Congress should be sent for more
than one term of two years, they
would have said so in that instru-
ment. This statement contained
in both the resolutions of the Oak
land convention and in the speech
OF acceptance of it nominee, both
doubtless penned by the same
hand and conceived by the same
mind, reflects little credit upon
tina legal discernment of the Dem
ocratic candidate and less upon his
sincerity.
If the trainers of the Constitu-
tion had intended or desired to
limit the number of terms a repre- :
sentative in Congress they could
easily and would undoubtedly
have done so.
1--WE are promised by the Dem
ocratic candidate in the closing re-
marks of his speech of acceptance
a further expression of his views
upon other matters of public inter-
est, and these views we will await
not only with curiosity, but with
the hope that he may be perfectly
frank with the people, and declare,
as does his great chief, the Hon,
William Jennings Bryan, that the
platform Of his party is binding
not only in what it states, but in
what it omits. We may then be
RECALLED by brilliant discussion of
his unequivocal belief in the advo-
cacv Of the Government ownership
of railroads and other political
vagaries which have consumed 50