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

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the rest of my life, and tries to damn
me socially and politically. When the
Bill came up for a final vote, amend
ments were offered eXempting large
part of the State of Maryland, but I'M
der the amendments of the House
would have been entitled to vote as
units. | would still have voted for his
bill and did vote for his bill, but was
was not willing then, nor am | willing
now, to concede that mutilated bill
was the bill 1 had agreed to support, or
that a community which had only asked
and only wanted to be allowed to vote
by districts and precincts should be
compelled to vote as whole whether it
wanted to or not, thus not only entail
ing terrific amount of expense but
keeping the whole community in state
of unrest and uncertainty. The plan
of the bill. as amended in the Senate
and passed by that body, was to give to
every community whose representatives
wanted it, the right to vote on the ques-
ton of wet and dry" and in good
conscience and in all fairness. no one
could ask more; it was more than Mr..
Anderson was willing to give under the
Lee COMPROMISES.
Now, Mr.. Chairman and citizens of
this county, and | may say State, when
the time comes that | am compelled to
be guided or controlled by this clap-trap
agitator to do a dishonorable act or re-
sort to unfair methods to secure unfair
legislation, then it will be that | will
cease to be your representative in the
Maryland Senate. | defy Mr.. Ander-
son or any one else to say when or
where | ever voted against any temper
ance bill of any nature. The records
will show that voted for every tenn
perance measure that ever came before
the Senate
The only difference between Mr.. An
derson and myself is that he agreed to
the first amendments, which was prac-
tically the death knell of the bill, and |
voted for more amendments and voted
for the bill, and it met its fate in the
House and not the Senate as he would
lead you to believe.
Now, my friends, a few words in re-
gard to the pledge to which reference
has been made by this paid representa-
tive with so much eclat and sarcasm,
as though this was piece of documen-
tary evidence of my treachery and mis-
conduct. | never signed a pledge to
support the proposed Anti-Saloon
League Bill. | wish to call your atten-
ton, however, to the fact that with the
exception of Oakland our county has
the right to vote upon the question of
whether or not there shall be license
1t is currently reported that when the
original local option bill for Garrett
county was passed, Oakland was eX-
empted with the approval of Mr. Ander-
son, the great agitator and representa-
tive imported into this State to create
strife, bitterness and antagonism be-
tween and among the citizens of this
county and State.
! had bill prepared and passed under
suspension of rules by which the people
of Oakland would be given the right to
say by their vote whether or not liquor
should be sold. This was opposed by
Mr.. Anderson and some Of his type of
temperance advocates and failed to pass
the House. This bill is practically the
same as Anderson agreed on for Ellicott
City, Havre de Grace, Annapolis and
Baltimore City. Yet he calls it bunch
of subterfuge to fool the people |
have copy of this bill which | will
read and am perfectly willing for the
people to judge whether it is bunch of
subterfuge or not. Does it not look as
if he is guilty Of having Oakland eX-
empted from the original bill?
Mr.. Anderson claims that he repre-
sents the best political sentiment of the
State. | deny this Mr. Anderson.
you are not fair; YOU are not straight;
YOU are not honest, and the people of
this State are awake to it. You repre-
sent worthy cause. This worthy
cause protects you and shields you, but
at heart you are as black as midnight.
and | am not afraid to tell you so to
your face. You are the biggest fakir
and fraud that has ever come to Mary
land. Your whole career here has been
marked with trickerv and unfairness on
one side and with loud mouthed and
braZen etfrontery on the other. In
this abuse you do not care for the
truth A lie that works serves your
purpose as well as the truth
There Is not a truthful thing you can
say about me that will hurt me, and
your lies can do me no harm.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF MR.. ANDERsoN's
REBUTTAL SPEECH.
The following are few Of the brief
points made by Mr. Anderson in his
closing speech:
| shall not take the trouble to answer
Senator Speicher $ personalities. If
you had heard Senator Price at Sails
bury use the identical phrases of abuse
employed by Senator Speicher, such as
"overgrown. over-fed and over-paid
agitator, you would have understood
that both speeches came from the same
factory.
Senator Speicher says that toll not,
neither do | spin. But as a matter Of
fact, while the liquor men have accused
me of most everything else, they have
not accused me of loafing on the lob or
complained that | was not active
enough
The Senator points to the fact that he
has lived among you and asks whether
| can give an account of myself. 1t
happens that | lived all my life in one
little county seat town until | entered
the anti-saloon league work. and as has
been found to the disappointment of the
Maryland liquor men who have tried, it
is no trouble to look me up and get my
record. He intimated that | was asked
by the anti-salOon league to leave Hi
nOis | challenge him to write to the
Illinois league whether that is so and
what they think of me out there and
publish their reply in the Garrett county
papers, and if he can't afford it | will
myself pay to have it run as an adver-