Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1910-11-02

administration. so should it now be
held responsible for all the hard times
and the fearfully high cost of liv-
ing" he said.
Mr.. Ray then cited figures show
ing how, under the present conditions
of a protective tariff, favored lin
terests" are allowed to thrive at the
expense of the poor people and SELL
ing their goods at a higher price in
this country than they get for the
same article in foreign lands. He
declared against eXpending the peo-
pies money any less carefully than
it would be expended if spent by the
Individual and denounced the present
wasteful policy of the Republican
national government
Mr.. RAY expresses confidence in
the election of a Democrat to rep
resent the Fifth district in the COM
ing Congress saying that he based
this not on mere hopes, because he
happened to he the party candi-
date, but was based on the know-
edge of not only a united democ
racy, but the undoubted fact that
many Republicans would vote against
their own party candidate.
Mr.. Ray explained that his vote
in the Maryland Legislature on
the oyster question was solely due
to the fact that he had been pledged
to the voters of his county-which
is not a tidewater one-to vote for
oyster cultivation, and was ap-
plauded when he said not to have
done so would have been derelict
to his constituents, and the men who
elected him. This was in 1906, he
said, and then he called attention to
the fact that he had, when made
4. Speaker of the House in 1906 appoint
ed the best friend of the oystermen in
| the whole House, as chairman of the
Committee of Chesapeake Bay and
Tibutaries-Dr. Hayden, of St.
Mary's county.
Mr.. Ray then referred to the activ-
lty of his opponent, Mr.. Parran, in
favor of the old Calvert county oyster
law designed to give over to corpo-
rate control the entire oyster bot
toms of his home county, and charged
Mr.. Parran was one of the most in
terested parties in one of those oys-
ter corporations.
Continuing, Mr.. Ray pledged him
self squarely and firmly to work for
an increase in the wages of every
workman employed at the Naval
Academy. He reiterated several
times his confidence in the loyalty of
the democracy of Anne Arundel coun-
ty and its willingness to work for
him and his election.
: Philip d. Laird, of Montgomery
county followed Mr.. Ray, and dealt
generally and specifically with the
mismanagement of every branch of
the federal government by the Re-
publican party. He urged the voters
to turn out and vote, not to stay at
home and growl about conditions that,
through their ballot they can readily
rectify.
Governor Crothers, when intro
duced, expressed the opinion that the
people of the country are already well
educated in the Importance of voting
this time to relieve themselves of the
yoke of Republican mis-rule. He
charged the party with the grossest
violation of pledge ever known in
the history of the country.
However, he continued, cit is
gratifying to see the almost univer-
sal demand from every section of the
country for the retirement to private
life of the men who have occupied
positions of trust given them by the
vote of the people only to use these
positions to represent and to advance
the interests of large corportions "
He decried as treachery the side
stepping of "Canonism" by Republi-
cans who are now seeking reelection
saying Whatever Joe Cannon is or
has been, he represented the Repub-
lican party and that party's policies. -
The Governor then pointed out as q
| beacon of Democratic encourage.
ment the conditions in Maine, New
Jersey and other supposedly Repub
lican states, which had thrown of
the yoke of that party's oppression
and predicted that Mr.. Ray woulC
not only go to Congress from thi.
| district, but that when sworn II
there he would be a member of tn,
majority.