Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-09-06
AND MARYLAND GAZETTE
Speech Of DR.. Wells Deliver.
ed at Brooklyn, Fifth
District, Anne Arundel
County.
Mr.. President, Ladies and Fellow
Democrats


be present at this gathering OF the
true and tried Democracy of the
Fifth district, which has never falter-
ed in its duty to the party of Jefrer-
son and jackson, TO which you and |
have the honor to belong, and also 10
show my appreciation of your exceed
ing great Kindness to me in the past.
II has been quite a number Of years
since spoke to you of the import
ance Of standing firmly by the organ
ization and of not being drawn away
by the false cry of few men who
styled themselves reformers and I
am here again to raise my voice in
the same mission, to warn you against
the insdious attempts of the enemy
to break dc wn and to destroy the
party.
The present primary contest be-
tween the true Democracy, otherwise
known as the organization, and the
so-called progressive party, which
originated with and was so named
by ex-President Roosevelt, the Re
publican progressive candidate for
the presidency in the last presidential
election, composed in the main, in
tbs county, of all the discordant
elements in the Democratic party,
which, if not successful in the
pending primary contest, intend to
form a combination with the ReIub-
lican party to try to defeat the DEM
ocratic party at the general cleo
tion, as is evidenced by the fact
that net one prominently engaged IN
the so-called progressive move ment
will say that if they are defeated
In the primary they will support
the Democratic ticket at the ell sotion
in November. In fact, one or two
have, already said in my presence they
will not. Therefore, ii ] am COR
rect in my premises, the election
of the Democratic ticket will be
greatly endangered at the general
election, as in my humble judgment
we will carry nearly every district
in the county in the primary.
And, as further evidence that they
will not support the ticket didn't
sufficient number of them vote
against our city ticket in July, and
defeated one of the Democratic can
didates, simply because they failed to
carry the primary and did they not
gloat over it and boast that they, the
so-called Progressives, had defeated
him by voting for his Republican
opponent? Why, my fellow Demo-
Gratis, such conduct would have put
Judas Iscariot TO the blush whom,
after he had betrayed Christ, had tn
decency to hang himself7
But these men are still alive and
carry their heads as high as ever,not-
withstanding they are now plotting
the de feat of the Democratic ticket
at the general election. Great God,
Mr.. President, would rather be
physical as well as a political corpse
than be guilty of such treachery
And still, as additional evidence that
they do not intend to vote the Demo
cratic ticket. did not these same men,
or greater number of the m, headed
by Mr.. Robert Moss and James T.
Bannon, the leaders of the so-called
progressives in this campaign, one
political crook, the other man who
lives by his wits, combine with the
Re epublicans in 1896 and place an in
dependent ticket in the field in their
effort TO defeat the regularly, fairly
and legally nominated Democratic
ticket? Notwithstanding their treach-
cry, the Democratic ticket was elect
ed with the exception of two mem
bers of the House of Delegates.
Now who are these gentlemen
engaged in the present so-called pro-
gressive movement, and who have
unblushingly arrogated to themsel Ives
the title of original progressives in
Anne Arundel county, after attempt
ing to defeat Woodrow Wilson for
the nomination for president of the
United States, when we, the true
Democrats. tool our coats off to work
for Mr.. Wilson and carried the coun-
ty for him in the primary by the un-
prece dented majority of over eight
hundred, and Anne Arundel county
was the only county in the State that
sent a solid delegation to the State
Convention for Mr.. Wilson. Mr.. Blair
Lee, now the great exponent of the
progre ssives, made no effort whatever,
to carry his county for Mr.. Wilson,
in the primaries, but permitted il
to go by default.
Why. to thipk of the audacity of
these men asserting that they are
the original progressives. Was such
assurance ever heard Of before? We
intend to vote the whole ticket at the
general election, no matter which
side carries the primary. Will the
so-called progressives do the same7
No one appears TO answer, although
see several so-called progressives in
the audience. In my joint debate with
Mr.. Moss, in Annapolis, ! made the
same statement and asked the same
question, but Mr.. Moss refused to
answer. No, my fellow Democrats,
they do not intend to support il. If
Mr.. Moss is so welded to the cause of
the so-called progressives, why did
he send his former political associ-
ates, Mr.. Alton Arnold, Mr.. Isaac
Nutwell, Mr.. Frank Revell and my
friend, Mr.. John Potee, to me, as
chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee for Anne Arundel
County with the proposition that If
we would place him, Mr.. Moss, on
the ticket for the House If Dele
gates, he would guarantee that all
lContinned on Fourth Psge.)