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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-09-14

reign OF righteousness will be inaugural
ed-"He must reign until He hath put
all enemies under His feet" In the
shakings of the great time of trouble,
many people will be in perpleXity, and
will crawl into the caves and dens of the
earth, and the clefts of the rocks. Pas
tor Russell quoted Revelation Vi, 1917.
He interpreted the dens and caves and
rocks to signify political and social fast
nesses-Insurance and Combines He
declared that many are already in fear
and are hiding themselves as described
in this Scripture, although the great
storm has not yet broken, and will not
break out in its severity for few years
yet probably not before 1915.
In the end it will be seen that the
Divine permission of the reign of sin
and death in the earth, instead of being
a blot upon Divine character and dem
onstration of Divine unwisdom and in
competency, will reveal the great Crea-
tor to His subjects, his children, as moth
ing else could have done.
The speaker closed with an eXhorta-
ton that his hearers remember the
words of Jesus, Watch we, that We
may be accounted worthy to escape all
these things coming upon the world, and
to stand before the Son of Man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-09-14
GOLDSD0RoyGH NOW RE-
PUBLICAN HEAD. GORMAN
NAMED BY DEMOCRATS
Republican Platform Ignores Liquor,
Scores Democrats, Pledges Party
in State to Many Reforms

With full delegations present from
every county and from the city districts,
the Republican state convention met at
Albaugh' Theatre last Thursday, adopt
ed party platform and nominated a
state ticket, as follows:
For Governor Philips Lee Colds
borough of Cambridge.
For Comptroller-John H. Cunning
ham of Westminster.
For Attorney General-Morris A.
Soper of Baltimore.
George r. Gather, who was the
party's candidate for governor four
years ago, sprang q surprise in the con-
vention by introducing Il resolution ask
ing the convention 10 indorse q general
state law under which any city or town
in the state might adopt by popular vote
the commission form of government.
The plan to be followed is that used IN
New Jersey.
This resolution was Immediately re-
ferred to the committee on resolutions
and the convention, after being in SEES
sion only a short time, took 9 recess to
permit the committee to meet. There
was much discussion over the platform,
while Mr. Gathers resolution caused a
long conference.
There was a decided sentiment in
favor of the Gather resolution, but the
''steam roller" got in its work and the
resolution was voted down. The eX-
PLANTATION was given that the resolution
was presented too late.
The platform adopted was absolutely
silent on the question of local option.
Taft's administration commended.
Democratic dealers in legislation and
protectors of vice denounced.
Wilson ballot law condemned; unfair
elections scored.
Law for recount after primary cleo
ton demanded.
Strictor corrupt practices act de-
manded.
Legislative economy pledged.
Delay on state roads and cost of same
condemned.
Strengthening of Public Utilities
Commission pledged.
Passage of new city charter for Balti-
more pledged.
Greater representation for city urged.
Divorcing of schools from politics de-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-09-14
A Surprise Wedding.

Cards were received yesterday by
many Oakland people announcing the
marriage of Miss Lorena Myrtle, eldest
daughter of Mr.. Ephraim j. Fringer, of
Oakland, to Mr.. John Rufus Chamblee,
of Anderson, South Carolina. The we'd
ding ceremony took place Tuesday even
ing at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
James A. Sincell, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. f. Manages, of the
Oakland Lutheran church, in the pres
ence of members of the immediate
family of the bride. Following the
ceremony the couple took their depar-
ture for points in the east and south.
They will be at home after November
10th at Anderson, where Mr.. Chamblee
is engaged in cotton planting and manu-
featuring.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-09-14
Roads Commission.

A party Of four, composed Of Mr.. John
Nj. Tucker, chairman of the Maryland
State Roads Commission, Chief Engi-
ueer W, W. Crosby, Mr.. UhIer, who
has charge of the maintenance of State
Roads, and Mr.. w. Z. G. Kitchens, Of
this city, left here early on Friday morn
ing in an automobile owned by the Frost
burg garage for an inspection of the Ma
tional pike west of this city as far as
Grantsvllle. The party was very much
gratifed to find that the work that is
now going on is proving very satisfac-
tory. All the bridges between this city
and Grantsville have been completed and
are in excellent condition except the
large bridge near Grantsville, which
will be finished sometime this fall. Work
on the new piece of State road that is
being built on the National pike west of
this city, will be continued with hard
stone which has recently been found to
take the place of the soft sandstone. -
Frostburg Cor. Cumb. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-09-14
To Sell Camp Equipment.

The Maryland-West Virginia Commits
sioners who have been engaged for the
past two summers running the boundary
line between MARYLAND and West Virgil
MIA, will offer at public auction near
GAINESVILLE, West Va, on Saturday, the
10th inst, the camp equipment consist
ing of two horses, a number of tents,
cooking utensils, stoves, etc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-09-14

clared essential. Women urged to take
greater interest in schools.
Creation of d peoples court IN city
recommended.
Appointment on liquor license and
police boards of highest type Of men
pledged.
The state convention of the Demo-
cratic party of Maryland also named its
state candidates Thursday in the Audi
forum Hotel and adopted platform on
which it would make its appeal to the
voters Of this state. The nominees are:
For Governor-Arthur P. German of
Howard county
For State Comptroller-Emerson C.
Harrington of Dorchester county.
For Attorney General Edgar Allan
Poe of Baltimore city.
The platform is based largely on the
ideas advanced by State Senator Blair
Lee in his fight for the nomination in
which he was defeated by one vote by
Arthur P. German
The convention was simply a neces-
sary formality to comply with the pri-
mary election law Each Of the twenty
four counties and Baltimore city were
represented by delegates apportioned
according to population. Consequently,
while German received a popular ma
iority Of l3, IA for the the entire state
ne only carried sufficient number of
counties to give him a majority of one
vote in convention.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-02-23
CANAL D[F[NSES DIVIDE AMERICA
Fertilization Advocates Argue
Lack Of Guns Might Cause
Building Nation Huge
Damage In Case
of War.
BY JAMES A. EDCERTON.

BY JAMES A. EDCERTON.
" HE completion Of the Panama
canal at our doors is brought
startlingly near by the designa-
ton Of San Francisco as the
city in which to hold the canal exposi-
ition and by the discussion as to forti-
flying the big ditch. Colonel Theodore
!Roosevelt says that fortif1cation is op-
posed by some worthy ladies of both
sexes"
Among these worthy ladies" are for
mer Secretary Of State Richard Olney,
William Dean Howells, President Jor-
dan Of Stanford university and Presi-
dent Faunce Of Brown, United States
district Judge Holt, Bishop Anderson
of the Episcopal church, Jane Adams
Of Hull House. Governor Baldwin Of
Connecticut. General J. Warren Keller,
General Sherwood. another representa-
tive, Methodist ministers in Cincinnati
and elsewhere, 100000 Quakers, more
or less; various peace societies, two or
three New York newspapers and q
number Of senators and representa-
ldves, but just how many nobody
seems to know.
On the side Of Notifications are ar
,,rayed President Taft, Colonel Roose-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-02-23
PANAMA FORTIFICATIONs.

ten miles distant and give the Ameri-
can ships an opportunity to go through
the canal unmOlested and form in bat
tie line under the protection of the
forts.
OF course everybody hopes that there
will be no more war. We have been
hoping the same thing for over 1000
years. Twenty-six hundred years ago
Isaiah wrote that they shall beat
their swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks We still
believe that they" will do this, but
the nations have not done it yet and
give no certain indication when they
will. The powers run race in build
ing Dreadnoughts and increasing ar
maments. Moreover, the advocates Of
fortifcation at Panama insist that this
would be a defensive rather than an
offensive measure. 1t would make for
peace rather than war. 1t would dis
courage and not invite attack. The
Notifications would be no menace to
commerce. They would never be used
except against an enemy of the canal
or an enemy Of the country owning
the canal
For Police Duty.
Another argument in favor of forti-
fications is that they are necessary in
the proper policing Of the great water
way. They are required to enforce
neutrality. The duty Of policing and
protecting the canal and of making it
neutral rests on the United States gov
eminent. Who then can object if we
take the necessary steps to perform
our duty?
The weakness Of an international
agreement for assuring the neutrality
Of the canal Is that an international
agreement would necessarily consist of
treaties between individual nations.
and in time of war such treaties are
hardly worth the paper on which they
are written. Besides, what is to pre-.
vent some irresponsible nation that is
not signatory to the agreement from
fnf1icting injury on the waterway;
Even if there were an understanding
somebody would still have to police
the canal, and for this purpose some
sort of forti6cation would be essential
From the American viewpoint there
would be another fatal defect in the
plan. In case Of war, say. between thu
United States and Japan there would
be nothing to prevent Japanese fee
from passing through the canal an(
attacking the Atlantic coast. Thus tn,
waterway we ourselves had bull
would be used for our own injury.
It was the military necessity tina
first crystallized American sentimen
for the enterprise. An isthmian cana
had been talked of for generations, bu
it was not till the spectacular trip O
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-02-23
DEFENSES AT COLON.

welt, W. r. Hearst and q vast army of
American newspapers, public officials,
members Of both houses of congress
and American citizens of the plain
voting variety. nobody knowing Just
how many there are Of these either
Both sides claim public sentiment,
after the manner Of factions in this
land of the free. The division is not a
partisan one. since the minority leader
OF the senate introduced the resolution
favoring Notifications Neither is It
sectar1an, as many ministers oppose
building forts and others just as stout
~ favor it. Nor is it a division be-
tween those who are for peace and
those against it, since President Taft
is something of a peace advocate, and
Andrew Carnegie, who is for peace
with his whole heart and 100000 900,
is believer in fortifying the canal.
/ Foreign Opinion Divided.
T. Foreigners are quite as much divided
~on the question as ourselves. Those in
responsible positions have, Of course,
'refrained from comment, but others
have not been under like restraint. OF
these a number hold that it is our
right and duty to protect our own
property: Others insist that our best
method of guarding the great water
way would be through international
agreement, leaving the canal itself
open to the whole world. Possibly they
think we should carry our magnanim-
ity a point further and not charge tolls.
On the same principle a farmer
should not put up fences, but should
depend on neighborhood agreement
to keep the cattle out of his corn and
If he had any crop left should give it
away. The great argument against
f0rtifying the Panama canal is that
England has not fortified the Suez
canal. Yet England has amply forti-
fed Gibraltar. which guards the en-
trance to the Mediterranean sea and
thus commands the approach to the
canal.
Another argument against fortifca-
lions is that it is physically impossible
to protect the Panama canal by such
means. Some guns now have a range
of nearly twenty miles and the canal
locks are in such an exposed position
that they can be shot at from far out
at sea and from several points along
the coast. Ships could thus keep out
OF sight Of the forts and still do execu
tion against the canal. Eyen If sight
ed they would be in motion, thus being
difficult to hit, while the canal locks
would offer stationary target. This
>aIne of reasoning would imply thai
where there cannot be complete pro
tection there should be none at all.
Advocates of Notifications insist thai
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-02-23

accorded an outsider In the history of
the country. He was not there to talk
for forts, yet everybody knew how he
felt on the subject.
1t is designed to use disappearing
guns for the forts. A disappearing
gun has the same advantage as a man
shooting from behind tree. 1t bobs
out suddenly, fires it's load and be-
fore the enemy can get back at it is
again in hiding.
Big Growth on Pacific.
The Panama canal will be the gate
way to the Pacific. Its Importance to
the world no one can yet measure: The
outlines Of the new civilization taking
form around the great ocean grow
more clearly defined with the passage.
Of the years. Here is the new theater
Of human activity, and what a vast
theater it is! Everywhere the Pacific
lands are becoming keenly alive. Our.
own coast states show the most mar
velous growth in the natien. North
western Canada is emerging: Eternal
frost cannet wholly stifle activity even
in Alaska and Siberia. Under Japanese
control Korea is awakening from the
sleep of thirty centuries. China is
establishing a parliament and shedding
its pigtafls.
Under free trade with America
Philippine commerce is on. the up
grade. Australasia, With her advanced
theories Of government, seems almost
Utopia With the opening Of the
great canal new life will flow out to
all these lands. Europe will have found
a pathway to the east. The dream Of
Columbus, which led to the discovery
of two continents. win have been real
lied and a new route to; India will lie
open to men.
Philanthropists believe that it would
be magnanimous and beautiful thing
for America to build this waterway
and say to the world, '"Take it: it. is
yours" More practical beings feel
that it is still important for the United
States to control the Pacific-importan
for herself and still more important
for civilization. By fertilization we
retain the key in our own hands. From
our island forts at the western gate
way America can proclaim:
II awakened the Pacific; furnished
the example for the republics Of the
western hemisphere; broke the sleep
of Japan and maintained the integrity
of China; I furnished type of free
dom for Australia and New Zealand;
1 am leading Hawaii and the Philip
pines into the paths Of self govern.
ment; breathed life into all this vast
new and old empire around the worlds
greatest ocean, and will guard its
destiny"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-02-23

the battleship Oregon around the Horn
that Uncle Sam definitely made up his
mind to get into the game. Thus the
new waterway is as much naval as
commercial venture. How silly it
would be, argue the advocates of forti-
f1cation. to allow all the military
benefits to slip out Of our hands now
that we are building the canal and
have them securely in our grasp! We
have constructed the waterway with
our own money on our own land. Who
has a better right to say how we shall
use it? ~. - @
.e Natural Sites For Forts. ).
The natural features of the canal
termini seem almost made for forts.
On the Atlantic side there are necks
Of land that would make an ideal site
for bunch Of fourteen inch and other
guns, while at the Pacific entrances
there are three or four cute little is-
lands that appear specially designed
for the purpose and, heaven knows,
will never serve any other. Failure to
take advantage of these sites placed
ready at our hand would be little less
than impious, say the fort supporters.
It is designed to build the forts while
Colonel Goethals is still on the job. In
this way much time and expense can
be saved. Besides, the work will be
sure to get finished. Goethals has a
habit of going through with anything
on which he starts, even an appro-
priat1on. Landslides have no terrors
to him. He simply continues shoveling
out the landscape and let's it slide any
blooming way it pleases. If he were
put on the Notifications he could utilize
his concrete gangs after they had fin
1shed with the locks.
Not long ago the colonel appeared in
Washington to testify before a COM
mittee and while there was invited to
deliver a stereopticon lecture in the
hall of the house Of representatives,
the second time such an honor has been
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-02-23
Opponents Figure Battleships
Could Destroy Locks With.
out Being Endangered
BY Defense Ar.
tillery.

guns on land can shoot quite as far as
those at sea, that they would be sew
eral miles nearer to any battleship
than the ship itself could get to the
locks and that while attacking vessels
might not furnish a stationary target
the fort guns themselves would be
stationary. which would be big point
In their favor. Moreover, the fortifi-
cations could be placed at both ends
Of the canal for $4,000. 600, or tride
more than the cost Of one battleship.
This is a point Of no small impor-
lance, since defending the canal by the
navy would be very much more expen-
s1ve than fortifying and would tie up
whole feet that in case of war
would be needed for other service.
Land Defenses Formidable.
Naval experts make a telling point
I'm favor of Notifications. In case of
war 1t would be practically impossible
without forts to take an American
fleet through the canal in face Of an
enemy. That would be like marching
an army through a narrow defile with
a foe at the other end to pick them
off as they emerged. With forts all
this would be changed. The fort guns
could keep the opposing feet at least
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-02-23
Twenty-Five Dollars Reward.

The above will be paid to any one
who furnishes such information as
will lead to the conviction of any per-
son or persons who shall give or in
any other way furnish Intoxicating
liquors to those whose names appear
on the black list posted in the saloons
of this village. Thomas Post,
7-4tc Village Marshal.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-01
DEAL CLOSED FOR
STORE ON BROAD
Four Story Brick Structure to Be
Erected on Old Monticello
Hall Site.

Negotiations have just been COM
rletcd for the erection of a fonr- story
brick store on Broad Street to replace
old Monticello Hail. recently con-
demned, by the Building Inspector. Tho
structure will be occupied by the
Globe Clothing Company as soon as
Completed.
The Monticello Hall. occupied at
present on the first floor by the Rich
mond News Company and confec-
t;onery, has frontage of forty feet
on Broad Street, and is the property
of Frank Ferrandini. IT was once ia
jas as HAL for political and lodge
assemblies -
The trilding will have four stories
and basement. II lis being designed
by Architect Albert Hunt ana work
viii begin this week In cieariax tia
site and making the necessary ok
ma tely $4,000 The site is rcga reed
rs one OK the most valuable on Broad
Street, Judging by recent sales In the
neiShborhood. IT Is, said to have bee:,
leased to the Globe Company for po-
Rod Of len years at $4,000 a year, the
building 10 be erected to suit the needs
Of the clothing firm.
The Globe now occupies store at
the southeast corner OF Seventh and
broad Streets, belonging to Colonel
John Murphy. 1t was recently Lon sed
to Meyer Greentree. who will take nos!
session September 1. Every effort will
he made to have the store ready for
occupancy by that date, ar al soon
thereafter as possible
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-01

The Metropolitan Opera Company
singers, accompanied by the big or
cheetra, arrived here from Atlanta on
special train last night, shortly nf-
ter 1890 o'clock. The songbirds and
instrumcntalists are at tho Jefferson
Hotel.
Most OF the famous singers arc
strangers in Richmond and few of the
members of the orchestra have ever
set foot before in Virginia.
Apartments had been reserved in
advance for the whole party and every
body retired almost Immediately upon
arrival at the hotel, having dined late
in the evening OH tho special train.
All of the principals who will sing
in tho May Music Festival arc occupy
ing suites. The instrumcntalists are
travelling less pretcntiously. with the
exception of Pastcrnack, the conductor
who insists upon an elaborate suite of
half n dozen rooms. Besides his per-
sonal wardrobe trunks. the famous
conductor carries three trunks filled
with batons and music sheets, prcsum-
ably the score books OF many operas.
The sale of seats for the concert is
the largest ever known In Richmond
for any musical or dramatic event. a
rush to the box office greater than tho
ticket sellers have yet hnd to con-
tend with Is expected to-day.
The first concert of the festival will
he given tonight. the second to-mor-
row afternoon. and the closing per-
formance. which embraces practically
the whole OF Faust" Will be given
to morrow night
Program for To-NiEht.
Following is the program for to-
night:
Soloists-Mme. Alma Gluck. soprano;
Signor Pasquale Amato. baritone. The
Wednesday, Club choir. tho Petersburg
| choir. the Metropolitan Opera House
Orchestra. Josef Pasternack. conduc-
| tor.
wagner-ovcrturc from "rann-
hauser."
| parker-seiection from "Hora No
| vissima," Signor Amato. chorus and
| Untermission.)
| Wagncr-"Ride of the Valkyries"
| from Die Walkure."
| Vcrdi-Aria. Caro- Nome ("Rigo-
lettos), Nine Alma Gluck.
! Elgar-"Spanish Screnade." chorus
and orchestra.
Verdi Aria. "Eri tn" C'Balo In
i Maschera"). Signor Amato.
| Mozart-Duo, LA CT darem Ia
! mano" C'Don Giovanni") Nine. Alma
Gluck and SiEnor Amato.
Johann Strauss-INaltz. "Geschichten
nus dem Wiencrwald.''