Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-09-08

The convention was replete with
harmony and spirit of cooperation.
The Democrats met at the Auditor
ium, and the Republicans met at AL
baughs, and nominated Hon. Phillips
Lee Goldsborough, of Cambridge, as
Governor, John c. Cunningham for
Comptroller, and Morris A. Soper for
Attorney General.
The feature of the Democratic con-
vention was the ringing and earnest
speech made by Senator Blair Lee.
Mr.. Germans opponent in the recent
Democratic primaries. With an ear
nestness that carried conviction and
aroused unbounded enthusiasm, Mr..
Lee gave his strongest and heartiest
Endorsement to the platform and to
the candidates, appealing to every
friend he has in the State to vote and
work for Mr.. German.
The convention paid Mr.. Lee
glowing tribute and also cheered to
the echo Governor Crothers, who fol-
lowed him with a speech equally un-
equivocal in its insistence upon a uni
ted and harmonious party behind the
nominee. The harmony of the whole
convention, the straightforward and
earnest speeches of Lee and Crothers
and the character of the platform COM
bined to inject into Democrats gen.
orally a confidence and hope they have
been far from feeling since the prim-
aries.
The speech of Mr.. Lee swept the
convention like storm. His denun-
citation of the Republican party as in
capable of holding a genuine primary
election and of its candidate for fail
ing to consult the people caused tre-
mendous cheering, which was repeated
with equal force when the Governor
indorsed every word Lee had said and
declared that as the Democratic party
had fulfilled every pledge made by it
in the last two State conventions, it
was now in position to go squarely
before the people secure in the convic-
tion that its pledges in the present
platform will be accepted as sincere.
So far as the platform is concerned,
the claim is made that it contains
practically every plank that would
have been put there had Senator Lee
instead of Senator German been the
nominee of the party and his friends
instead of Senator Gorman's been in
control of the convention. In the
conferences preceding the convention
every suggestion as to the platform
made by the Lee element, as repre-
sented by Senator Lee, himself, Mr..
William L. Marbury and Governor
Crothers, was promptly accepted by
the German side and incorporated in
the document.
General Murray Vandiver was un-
| animously reelected chairman of the
State Central Committee. This COM
mittee, as elected in the primaries,
was made the governing body of the
party.
The Republican convention, which
was called to order half an hour after
noon, had the appearance of a cut
and-dried affair. This was due, of
course, to the fact that, there being
no opposition to the candidates, their
nomination had been certified to by
the various boards Of election super
visors and the delegates to the con-
vention could not have nominated any
others, even had they so desired.
Chairman Hanna was again named
the official head of the organization by
resolution offered by the committee
on resolutions, which at the same time
directed that the local members of the
committee in the respective counties
shall be combined into a governing
body for the State.