Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-10-27
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The Lyric overlooked with men, women,
music, transparencies and hurrahs Thurs
day night of last week, when the Democrats
held the first great rally in Baltimore city
which has marked their State campaign.
Not only was the hall densely thronged,
but, notwithstanding the drizzling rain, an
overflow meeting. attended by fully 1000
men. was held on Mount Royal Plaza.
The building was almost full at $40
O'Clock, when, with tremendous crash
from several bands, the Hendricks Demo-
cratic Club of the Tenth Ward, headed by
John j. Mahon and several local leaders.
marched in, followed shortly after by the
First Ward Democratic Club.
These marching bodies of several thous-
and men paTaded up and down the aisles
amid the shouts and cheers of the multi
the galleries.
State Chairman Murray Vandiver called
the meeting to order and introduced Mr..
Eugene 0'Dunne as the presiding officer.
The speakers were Governor Crothers,
State Senator A. P. German, candidate for
Governor United States Senator lsidor
Rayner, State Senator Blair Lee. Mr. Edgar
Allan Poe, candidate for Attorney General.
and Mr.. Emerson C. Harrington, candidate
for State Comptroller,
Senator Germans speech was considered
to be in many respects the strongest he
has made during the campaign. He de-
clared that the man who corrupted the
ballot public enemy and expressed the
belief that the frauds exposed in Baltimore
were unknown to the real leaders" of the
party. Under the present laws. he said,
the party should have a representative
leadership. which should prove its fitness
and efficiency by deeds, and if it did not
have such leadership il would be the fault
of the voters themselves.
SENATOR RAYNER's SPEECH.
This great outpouring here tonight is
not only an exhibit Of the intelligence of
the Democratic party of Maryland, but
furnishes strong evidence that we have
now our armor on; that we have made up
our minds to maintain our supremacy and
have determined that notwithstanding the
difficulties that surround us. never to sur
render the State of Maryland into the
hands Of the Republican party. There is
no reason why this should be done, and
the opponents of Republican principles in
all their addresses In this campaign have,
to my mind, furnished no reason for a step
so detrimental to the best interests of our
State.
1T is said by unthinking persons that
we can hand this State over to the Repub-
lican party this year and then redeem her
next year. say here tonight that II you
once hand her over il will be an indefinite
time before you will get her back. The
proper plan to pursue is never to admit for
a moment that the Democracy of Mary
land has not the intelligence and the in
tegrity and the political honor to govern this
State and then to unbend every effort to
elevate and to purify her. and then to pre-
sent an unbrOken front against our united
foe
What is the duty of the Democratic
partyY What is our duty. those of us who
have been honored by our party and what
do the 100000 Democrats of Maryland
expect of usH They expect us to rectify
with heroic steps the abuses that have
crept in our midst and adopt the proper
standards of party management, but they
do not expect us to abandon our party and
fOrsake its principles and forget its tradi-
tons. and repudiate its aims and purposes,
and enter the ranks of the Republican party.
We would BIZ arrant towards il we adopted
such a course
Il have not one word to say against the
leaders of the Republican party but they
are not band of angels. notwithstanding
their declarations to the contrary. They
have not just EMERGED from the Garden of
Eden and the fragrant foliage of Paradise
know they are soaring very high away
above the mountain tops in sublimated
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