The Democratic advocate., 1909-09-03


ber of representative Democrats Of
the state, together with the State
Central Committee met at Democratic
headquarters at the Eutaw House,
Baltimore, TO be present at the formal
notification of DR.. Joshua w. Herring,
candidate for Comptroller of the State
Treasury, and also to counsel togeth-
er in regard to matters affecting the
present camapign. After the notin-
cation exercises we're concluded and
the State Central Committee adjourn
ed, Mr.. Vandiver, State Chairman,
gave a fine luncheon.
We give below the speeches of Mr..
Poe and DR.. Herring in full.
DR.. Herring :, Your diligent, faithful
and effective work in the Senate, to
which after memorable contest In
Carroll county, you were sent by your
home friends, who. from close and
intimate association best knew your
high character and accomplishments,
naturally attracted the appreciatiye
attention OF the people of the whole
state
Your well-proved knowledge OF our
financial resources and conditions,
your large experience as q banker
your unsullied personal, professional
and political record plainly pointed
you out as a man most admirably and
thoroughly equipped for the RESPONSE
BILE office Of Comptroller of the Treas
ury, and In our momentous struggle
of 1899, as a candidate on our state
ticket, you we're called on to take an
active and prominent part In the re-
coyery OF our temporarily lost poliu-
cal supremacy.
Victorious In that contest, to which
your efforts on the stump and your
established reputation as one OF the
best and worthiest of our public-splr-
tied citizens largely contributed. you
took charge OF the office TO which you
were elected, and by distinguished
proofs of the wisdom OF the selection
you worthily won and received two
years later renewed expression OF
popular confidence and esteem.
After an interval OF four years OF
retirement from official duties and re-
sponsibillties fresh demand was
made on you by your party friends
all over the state for further pub
lie service In the Office for which you
had proved yourself so pre-eminently
qualified.
Again you responded 20 their spon-
taneous and unsolicited call. Again
you were triumphantly elected.
Two years more OF exacting official
labor, efficiently and honorably per-
formed, has made the people OF all
sections of the State earnestly eager
to retain you in your high place. and
at our recent Democratic State Con
vention you were nominated without
opposition and by enthusiastic accla-
nation as our candidate for Comp
troller.
As the spokesman Of the special
committee appointed by order OF the
convention for the purpose, II Is with
peculiar pleasure that ! now notify
you Of your unanimous nomination.
In selecting you for the fourth time
as our candidate for Comptroller the
convention truly voiced the sentiment
of the Maryland Democracy and the
people at the polls will ratify It's act
ion.
Chosen under such gratifying cir
cumstances, you have right to ex-
pect and you will unquestionably re-
ceive the vote OF every Democrat IN
the state and you will also be sup
ported by the great mass, II not by all
OF those occasional" Democrats who
so strangely insist upon wearing our
colors even while marching In the
ranks of the enemy.
In formally communicating to you
your nomination and in request
ing that you will again accept
the post of honor and RESPONSE
bility to which you have been
so heartily called. we hand you
copy of the Platform upon which
the campaign Is to be conducted.
You will observe that the conven-
ton, being OF opinion that the CON
test this year brings TO the front
questions of state policy and govern
ment only, purposely refrained from
blending with these discussion of
national issues.
Speaking for myself alone / should
have been better satisfied IL the at
titude of the party upon the two
prominent questions of tariff revision
and the income tax had been distinct
ly declared.
1t seemed to me that the opportun-
ity was favorable and might well have
been availed of to make known In no
uncertain terms our deep disappoInt-
ment that the recent tariff act so
grievously fails to come up to the
measure of the hopes and expecta-
tions of the people and our resolute
purpose to persevere In our struggle
for tariff revision downward until
full relief shall be obtained for the
great masses of the people from the
burden of oppressive customs duties
levied for the undue enrichment of the
favored few.
1t woDld have been well, too, in my
humble Judgment, to have announced
our qualification that Republican
Congress, under the lead of a Repub-
lican president, has adopted our Dem
ocratic views in favor of fair and
just income tax, and thus in the vain
effort to strengthen the position OF
their party has appropriated another
OF the principles for which the ma
tional Democracy has SO strenuously
contended.
With a view, however, to narrow
the issues of this campaign, the con-
vention decided that those and all
other national questions should for
the present be laid aside and that our
appeal this year to our people should
be made upon what we all know is
the paramount question now upper
most in their hearts and minds.
Declining to accept the vote OF 1906
as final settlement of the whole sub
ject of illiterate negro suffrage, we
have now before US proposed