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

writes for in Cumberland are not tenn
| perance papers, and Mr. Robinson by
his statement that the statewide bill
prevented dry territory from voting
and restricted the vote to wet terri
tory showed his complete ignorance of
the whole situation.
The statewide local option bill was
not designed to force anything on Balti-
| more City except to force the Demo
cratic city liquor ring to let the people
vote. This ring does not represent the
people. 1t forced the nomination of
Mr.. German and the people repudlated
! him. 1t attempted to elect a man with
a bad local option record as states at
torneY last fall. He was the only city
candidate fought by the League and was
! defeated by several thousand.
The question that | want to ask is why
! in the name of common sense Senator
Spelcher, Republican Senator from
! Republican county, should line up to
! protect this Democratic city liquor ring
from the people of Baltimore If you
want Garrett County to become a
country annex of this Mahon-Demo-
cratic ring of Baltimore City the best
way to accomplish it is to indorse Sena-
] tor Speicher's action.
| wish to serve notice politically that
while the Anti-Saloon League is not
| trying to overthrow the Republican
party in Garrett county any more than
| it is trying to over throw the Demo-
cratic party in some Democratic coun-
| ties, yet if you re-nominate Senator
Speicher, unless he makes pledges so
| explicit that there cannot be any pos
sibllity of his wiggling out, or nominate
: ~ ,IA I'll h. l.
/ frankly what he will do, the League will
oppose such man and support opposing
candidates if thew are right on the
question. If the Republican managers
/ want to jeopardize the election of
United States Senator by this sort of
thing, well and good, but don t let them
blame us.
Mr.. Speicher was then introduced
and said:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN:
( do not profess to think that can
carry on joint debate with Mr.. Ander-
/ son. His whole life is devoted to speech
making; ne makes his living that way,
and he makes very good living at it,
! too. He tolls not, neither does he
/ spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never
made as big a noise in the world as does
Mr.. Anderson. But if | am no orator,
| am at least man enough to tell Mr.
Anderson to his face that he is here
/ only to advertise himself and is not here
/ in the interests of truth. He does not
care for the truth. | do not believe
that his lies or his abuse will hurt me
with the people who know me and have
I known ne since | was boy. was
born and raised in Garrett county. |
have lived among you people all nv life.
| not only can account Tor practically
every day and hour Of my existence but
YOU people yourselves can account, many
of you, for practically every hour and
day of my existence among you. You
know whether | am an honorable man.
/ 1t Is, therefore, unnecessary for me to
give any account of nv life because it
/ is known by all of you, and | am not
ashamed OF any period of 1t.
| would like to ask Mr.. Anderson if
/ he can give such an account Where he
came from. How he is making his nv
ing. What state he came from. What
states he has lived in. What his occu-
patton was in each state where he has
lived. Has he ever been elected to any
position of honor or responsibility by
any people? Could he now be elected
on any ticket to any position in the
county where he now claims his legal
residence?
But am not here to attack Mr.. An
derson. He is welcome to his oratory
and to his brilliant gift Of speech, but I
am here to state few facts. | resent
his unwarranted attacks upon me and
propose 10 ram few plain facts down
his long throat.
First. Let me say that in public life
every man S conscience must be his own
Judge. Mr.. Anderson, like any one Of
you, has a perfect right to judge M
acts, but he has no right to Judge my
conscience or Impugn my motives, or
attack my personal integrity, and he
must not misrepresenJ or distort the
facts. That IS what he tries to do here
tonight and all | wish to say to him on
thai point is chat | stand by my acts;
I that my cOnsci ICE Is clear and he will
discover that the public likes fair play
and that public sentiment among my
home people demands fair play. Any
way it has not vet driven me from my
native state into a strange land to make
a livelihood as an agItatOr or an assas-
sin of character.
Mr. Anderson S whole attack on me is
( based on the assumption that his views
on the liquor question are the only
/ sound and honest views. do not for
one moment concede this. We are all
agreed on the evils Of intemperance.
but the great question is how to com
/ bat it.
( Mr.. Anderson doesn't want to argue
any public question. He isn't in this
/ state to argue. He is here to boss. He
wants you to take orders-his or
! ders. You must either recognize him
! as boss or get off the earth. This is
not with him a question of temperance
reform or right or wrong, it is purely
a game of politics and | challenge him
| to deny it. He is playing politics in
every county in the state and PLAYING it
| to serve his own personal ends and am
! bition
| Mr.. Anderson attacks me. | deny his
right to put any question to me. He is
not one of my constituents. AS a SEN
ator of Maryland | represent Garrett
county and not Mr.. Anderson. He is
neither a keeper of my conscience nor
/ of my political future.
! will not attack Mr.. Anderson per-
/ sonallv. | do not know enough about
| him to read his title clear to mansions
| in the skies. No one does.
| What right has Mr.. Anderson to come
! ,,E 10 fv4D he