The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-03

The theatre was packed at the hour
of eight o'clock when Rev. DR.. w. D.
Reed, superintendent of the Oakland
! District, NJ. Z. church, arose from his
seat on the stage and requested that
Senator Speicher take a chair on the
/ platform if he was in the audience. AS
I the Senator made his way down the
center aisle of the theatre to the stage
he was very generously applaudcd and
cheered He shook hands very cordially
with Mr.. Anderson and exchanged
few words with his opponent. DR.. Reed
| opened the meeting with a short prayer
and then laid down the rules of the
! debate, after which Mr. Anderson was
/ introduced, and was greeted with much
/ applause.
At the conclusion Of the meeting both
/ speakers were congratulated by their
friends, Senator Speicher was the re-
/ cipient of handsome boquet of chrvs-
anthemums and later when he returned
to his hotel he was serenaded by the
Mountain CITY Band of Oakland
Mr.. Anderson in his opening remarks
said:
| have charged and will undertake to
establish to the satisfaction of unpreiu-
diced people concerning the record of
Senator Speicher upon the local option
question the following points:
O. That his constituents in Garrett
/ County had a right to expect him to
support a statewide local option bill.
% That he defeated the only state
wide local option bill before the Senate
! by voting for an amendment which de-
strOycd its statewide character.
80 That his attempt to escape the
responsibility on the ground that the
Antl-SalOOn League accepted certain
amendments Is a mere subterfuge.
- That the local option bill intro
duced by him late in the session was not
an honest bill designed to give complete
relief to Garrett county.
81 That he was confronted with the
fact in the later days of the session and
admitted that the liquor men had been
after him that dav and that after this,
in the face of the scandal in the House,
he lined up with the Baltimore City
liquor ring.
Mr.. Anderson read the resolutions of
the Oakland District Conference of the
West VIRGINIA Conference of the Meth
odist EDiscopal Church adouted at
Mountain Lake Park in .Julv. in which
the ministers eynressed their 'ahhOr-
renee of such conduct As oDposed to
common decencv and morality, as sub
yersive of nure legislation and the will
of the peonle and Justly omen to the con-
tempt Of an good citizens. "
MIR Anderson then pInped at once
into Senator Speicher's speech made
uuon the floor of the Senate in an effort
TO iustifv his action Takinr nm first the
/ statement made bv Senator Sneicher
that he Anderson, had consented TO the
ext mntion nj the town of Oakland from
the provisions of the present Garrett
county law. Mr. Anderson stated that
ne was never consulted about the intro
duction Of the Garrett county hin. but
that after If was under way the matter
was broupht Ia his attention with the
statement that if was the onlv THING
that If va. nossihIa Tn oct tbroIGh and
that under the circumstances he be-
Iiaved tbis was trua that if was sinoplv
a choice of letting if 90 through in that
form without the Ieague HAVING anv-
tbing +o do With il or MAKE a disturb
ancp and nrevart the county 0etfinp
.,,,y mo- ana as batween The coIn 't1
(raft;nr This hin and Getting nothing he
much hacanse il would he easier to cut
off an exemption than to pass whole
bill He said of. however. there is