Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-11-02

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only means of furthering the present
prosperity of the country. "A great
! crisis now eonfronts the American
people" he said, THAT means the
future of the party as we'll as the fu-
ture of the l4boridg man and the
| great masses of the people of the ma
tion. He declared that the Demo-
cratic platform and its advocacy of a
tariff for revenue only, would place a
damper on the industrial interests of
the country. and consequent great
reduction of the wage of the laborine
man. The Republican party. he
said, has always stood by the labor
| ing man, and vote for Governor Will
son means vote against labor and it's
interests. He Denounced Roosevelt,
the Progressive candidate, aud his
| government ownership and other pol
icies, saying that his candidacy is act
uated by malice and prejudice.
The introduction of Congressman
Parran was greeted with loud ap-
plause. The Congressman cracked
couple of jokes at the start, but soon
wadeu into his argument, and the
weight of his early remarks de-
scended upon the tariff issue. Ridi-
culing the assertions that the Repub-
lican party is non-progressive, Mr..
Parran recited a number of census
figures compiled by Government sta
tisticians and, among other things,
said: In 1900 the wealth of the coun-
try was $SS, 900, 600, 600; today it is
1887, 100000 900. Ten years ago the
Government was spending 5000, OOO,-
600 for educational purposes, and to-
day it is spending $400, 900, coo; ten
years ago the farm values of the coun-
try were $1,000, 000, 600, and now
they re ach s28, 600, ,0t0, 600; ten years
ago SO. 600, 10000 was invested in
manufacturing plants thu oughout the
country, whereas today, twice that
amount is invested. And" he said,
mo party can accomplish in twelve
years what the Republican party has
accomplished in that period of time,
and can frankly say that when the
Republican party don't stand for pro-
gressiveness, and | believe am cap
bic of judging of that, then | can
easily walk out OF it, just as / left
the Democratic party thirty years
ago."
Mr.. Parran declared that the Re-
publican support of the protective
tariff is responsible for the unprece-
dented demand for labor, which he
said, is greater than at any time in
the history OF the world that labor
commands more wages, and that the
farmer is getting more for his pro-
ducts than ever before. He spoke of
the stagnation of business interests
back in the .1ineties, charging that
the Democratic administration and
the new tariff brought destruction.
Mr.. Parran referred to his hearty in
terest in behalf of the laboring man,
saying that he grew up from a poor
boy in family of eleven children.
born and reared on farm in Calvert
county where he worked hard, but i'm
mediately following he recounted the
number of political offices that he
held. These included repr 4sentation
in the Maryland Senate and House
of Delegates, six years as index
clerk in the House of Representatives
and the same length of time as Clerk
of the Maryland Court of Appeals.
The speaker then switched his re-
marks to lengthy argument bearing
upon his achit vements in Congress,
and as above related he rjdiculed the
charges made by Mr.. Smith when the
Democratic candidate spoke in this
city Tuesday night. AS to some of
the bills passed by Congress in the
interest of the district, he spoke of
his efforts in securing appropriation
for dredging the waters of Tracey's
and Rockhold creeFs, in this county,
ss we'll as Breton's Bay in his home
county; provision for placing a num-
Der of beacon lights in the Potomac
river and the passage of seven PEN
sion bills besides numerous .Fother
measures introduced and favors done
for Democrats as well as Republicans.