Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-12
SUSTAIN MR.. MORGAN
Residents OF Glen Burnie Back Him
Up In Action That Led To
Arrest On Tuesday.
STATEMENT BY COOK.
Democratic Register Makes Plain That
"Reformers" Were Interfering
With Registration Progress.

For the purpose of giving expression
to their approval of the course per-
| sued in the registration office at Cur
tbs Bay on Tuesday, which led to the
arrest of Holmes Johnson, of Balti-
more. and Philip Morgan of Glen
Burnie, residents of the latter place
last night held a mass-meeting and
determined to have distributed among
the voters of the county resolu-
tion expressing the feeling of those
present.
The hearing of Morgan and John
son will be held in the Circuit Court
here tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
and promises to be largely attended
by politicians and those interested
in the coming campaign.
Vowing that the Republican organ
zation of the. State is going to upset
things to a fearful extent in Anne
Arundel county. because the two reg
istration officials of the third precinct
of the Fifth district took full advant-
age of the election laws provisions
which give them authority and require
them to keep their places orderly
during the progress of registration,
Chairman Hanna, of Baltimore, an
nounced that the case has been placed
in the hands of Former Attorney Cen
eral Bonaparte and j. Kemp Bart
lett.
Morgan and Johnson have talked at
length of the fact that when arrested
they were treated as persons are
usually treated when under arrest and
en- route to jail-that they even had
to wear hand-cuffs through Baltimore
and on the cars of the Maryland Elec-
trio Railway coming to Annapolis to
be placed in Jail, and among their per-
sonal friends this has raised quite a
deal of talk.
Republican politicians who have
been unable to get along with Mr..
Charles H. Russell, of j., the Repub-
lican Supervisor of Elections, are
again trying to attack his record, and
talk Of asking his removal from office
at the hands of Governor Crothers.
That Governor Crothers will take any
such action against a man whose
standing is so well known and who
has so good a record as a public off,
| cial, seems unlikely. One of the
charges made by Republican politi-
clans against Mr.. Russell is that he
| forced the appointment of Herman F..
Rossman, the Republican registration
official, who sustained the action of
Robert r. Cook, the Democrat, in
sustaining order in the Curtis Bay
cases. This charge Mr.. Russell re-
flutes by showing a letter from men,
ber of the Republican County Central
Committee, urging the retention of
Rossman as a Republican official of
election and registration.
In speaking of the arrests of Messrs.
Morgan and johnson, Robert r. Cook,
one of the Democratic judges, said:
'Mr. Morgan and Mr.. Johnson
came into the office and were leaning
on the front of the small table on
which the voters were registering.
| Several men who wished to register
were forced to wait. | knew Mr..
Johnson was not a voter in the pre-
cinct. He said that he was attorney
for Mr.. Cecil. | demanded some
proof of this and when he could not
show any ordered him from the office.
He refused to go and l ordered his
| arrest.
"Mr Morgan said he was going to
purge the list. ordered him from
the office and then ordered Deputy
| Sheriff, Smith to arrest him when he
refused to GO"
Morgan and Holmes were present
in the interests of w. Edwin Cecil,
whom they said was candidate on
the ticket for the Office of Sheriff.
However, Mr.. Cecil had no standing
as candidate at the time the affair
occurred at Curtis Bay, but yesterday
afternoon he filed his petition of cam
didacy with the Supervisors of Elec.
tins and is now candidate. He is
running as an Independent, but is
backed by the Republican oreaniza.
ton for the place, against George
| Thomas BeaSley.