Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-02
Tells Prince Georges County
Voters Republicans Should
Win in Maryland.
PREDICTS AN INDUSTRIAL
SLUMP DUE TO TARIFF
Defends His Administration in
Capitol Heights Speech-Asks
Supporting Assembly.

Speaking to the voters Of Prince Georges
county at Capitol Heights. Md, last
night. Gov Phillips Lee Goldsborough Wig
orously defended his administra ion and
declared that a democratic assembly had
tied his hands and prevened MIN from
fully carrying out his pledges to the peo-
pie of Maryland.
The governor was welcomed by one of
the largest crowds ever assembled in the
county. He was placed last on the speak
ing list. but owing to the length of the
speeches of the local candidates who pre-
ceded him he was obliged to cut short his
remarks.
/ Gov. Goldsborough urged the voters of
the state to assist him in making Mary
land one Of the most progressive states
in the Union The best way to carry
such a plan out successfully was TO elect
republicans to the assembly who would
assist him.
Believes Prospects Bright.
Referring to the prospects at the COM
ing election, Gov. Goldsborough declared
that there never was time when VIC
tory for the republican party looked more
| favorable than at the present time. He
said that the two factions of the party;
| had amalgamated and that through this
union there was produced last August in
Baltimore one of the greatest platforms
ever written in Maryland He declared
that the lights on the citadel were
burning as a signal for every republican
in the state to join together In oppos. ng
the common enemy.
At the close of his address the governor
briefly touched upon the tariff. He pre-
dicted that industrial and commercial de-
pressions will follow in the wake of the
tariff law. He attributed the prosperity
OF the country in the past to the repub-
lican party and said that the people all
over the country would rise up and re-
store the government to the party that
had produced these conditions.
IF I can have a republican assembly,"
said the governor Il will place on the
statute books of Maryland a law prohibit
ing bookmaking in the state. Maryland
is one Of four states in the Union that
tolerates this evil, and / intend to do all
in my power to break it up
Has Big Plans for M. A. C.
The governor said that it was his am
bition to make the Maryland Agricultural
College one of the great institutions In
the state. He said that he had been
hampered in his plans for the college by
the directors of the college. He said
they had voted against a man for the
presidency of the college who had been
recommended by cabinet officers and
presidents of other colleges
Only once did the governor refer to
the senatorial fight. He declared that
Blair Lee had voted for bill that would
| make it an offense for a voter to inquire
| Of any man what his position was on
any question. He said that if this was
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peoples champion, then the people must
| be in bad circumstances. -
All Of the legislative candidates in
Prince Georges comfy were present, and
William Fisher. who opened the meeting,
said that already attempts had been
| made to buy votes for the democratic
candidate for state senator.