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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-05-06
4. RAMSAY MAY Be CANDI-
DATE FOR C0MPT ROLLER
AIIeganY County May Put Forth Two
Candidates For Office.

The Baltimore Star IN its issue of
yesterday evening publishes the follow
ing political prophecy:
Allegany county may have two candi-
dates for state comptroller. The friends
of Andrew Ramsay, of Mt Savage, are
grooming him for the Republican nomi-
nation for the office, while Hugh Nc
Mullen, of Cumberland, close person
al and political friend of Congressman
David J. Lewis, has announced his
candidacy for the Democratic comp
trollership nomination. He is expect
ed, with Comptroller Harrington, to
have the support of Senator John Wal
ter Smith and the old line Democratic
organization in the primaries.
Andrew Ramsay is well known
throughout the Sixth District, and he
has also come before the people of
other parts of the ate both as a sue
cessful business man and as a member
of the State Roads Commission. He
was appointed to the commission by
Governor Goldsborough, and has par
ticipated actively in the work of build
ing Maryland's magnificent system of
highways. Mr.. Ramsay is engaged in
the tile and fancy brick manufacturing
business, and has an enormous factory
at Mount Savage, short distance from
Cumberland.
Through an appointee of Governor
Goldsborough, Mr.. Ramsay is reported
to be strong for the nomination of o.
E. Weller as the Republican guber-
material candidate. The Allegany
countian is understood to have can
vassed public sentiment throughout the
Sixth district and to have found
strong demand in that section for the
nomination of Mr. Weller. During the
latter's administration roads through
Western Maryland have been develop
ed with the result that travel has been
developed with the result that travel
has been made easy in all parts of the
dioIllSL, GNCu Ill Lie IIlOuHidluUuS Sec
lions.
Though he has not participated to
any great extent in politics, Mr.. Ram
say became known to many Republ-
cans in 1918 when he gave a monster
harmony dinner at the Queen City
Hotel, IN Cumberland. Many promi-
nent party people from all parts of the
state attended the affair, which Mr..
Ramsay explained, was for the sole
purpose of bringing together the two
wings of the party who divided in 1912
in the Roosevelt Taft fight. Other
harmony dinners followed the Ramsay
entertainment.
Western Maryland will probably lay
winning claim to the Reput ican comp
trollership nomination regardless of
whether the gubernatored candidate
is picked from the First, Second, Third
or Fourth congressional districts.
Southern Maryland is eliminated from
consideration in connection with the
gubernatoriaI nomination, as no can
didate is in sight from that section.
With Western Maryland given the
comptrollership nomination and the CUB
ernatorial candidate named from the
Western Shore the Eastern Shore in
turn could well lay claim to the attorney
generalship nomination.
While Mr.. Ramsay's name has not
been placed before the party leaders
for consideration, his friends believe
that when he is brought out he will
stand good chance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-05-06
The Letter "E,"

Some one has advanced the opinion
that the letter ''e'' is the most rnfor-
tunate character in the English alpha.
bet, because it is always out of cash,
forever IN debt, never out of danger,
and in hell all of the time.
But we call his attention to the fact
that ''e" is never in war and always in
peace. 1t is the beginning of existence,
the commencement of ease and the end
of trouble. Without it there would be
no meat, no life, no Heaven. 1t is the
centre of honesty, makes love perfect
and without it there would be no editors,
devils or news.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-05-06

Thursday afternoon last there met in
Oakland four old veterans of the Civil
war, Isaac Cassidy, of near Kingwood,
John w. Titznell, of Albright. w.
Va. and George W. Legge, Sr., of
Oakland, members of Company H, Sd
Maryland volunteers, and H. C. Fowler,
of Red House, of the 18th Pennsylvania
Cavalry. They enjoyed delightful
time talking about the days when they
fought and marched under the old flag
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-05-06
HIGHLAND PARK PROPERTY.
Will BE Placed on the Market at
Public Auction on Saturday Next.

Highland Park, a tract containing
fifty acres, lying adjacent to Oakland
on the east, which has been plated and
laid off into lots. and which was purchas-
ed last fall by DR.. Webster Ravenscroft
and associates, will be placed on the
market and sold at public auction on
Saturday of next week.
The property is most delightfully."- To-
Gated in section that is free from dust
and smoke of trains and contains many
desirable lots that will make ideal sites
for dwellings, be they large or small.
Mahlon Railey, of McHenrY, was in
town Saturday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-05-06
A Card of Thanks

We desire to extend our thanks to
the many good people of Deer Park and
vicinity for their kindness shown dur
ing the recent illness and after the
death of our husband and father, Will
lam Nine.
MRS. WILLIAM NINE AND FAMILY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-05-06
A Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank our kind friends
and neighbors during our recent be-
reavement.
MRS. ELIZABETH JAMESON AND FAMILY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-05-06

To Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Shartzer, on
Friday last. son.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Frantz, on
Monday, son.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-05-06

Ben Frazee of Selbysport, spent sew
eral DAYS at Addison with friends.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04

would be engaged in freeing their
country from the evils that are worse
than any war can avert.
Josiah Wedgwood was for years
engaged in the fight to free England
from its worst enemy, Land Monop-
oily, and not even the stress and
strain of physical warfare has blind
ed him to the real danger against
which his cOuntrymen should be
fighting. He makes this clear in an
interview reported by II. p. Boynton,
the Cleveland newspaper man as fol-
lows:
"England's greatest menace is not
Germany" says Wedgwood, but the
fact that we have been starving a
large part of our population in or
der that the other may live in lux
ury. We have been breeding two
races of human animals. One race
averages five feet two inches in
height, and works in factories. The
other averages six feet in height and
plays cricket. 1t is on the first class
that the chef burden of the war falls
and the second class gets all the ben
eft.
"A country is not free unless it's
men can work for themselves and
get the product of their labor. So
long as the land is all in the hands
of a few, this will not be possible.
Why do l think the land is impor-
tant? l will tell you.
"After the Boer War, l was mill
tary governor of the city of Ermelo,
South Africa. 1t was thronged with
destitute men, yet there were thous-
ands of acres of unused land around
it and an abandoned coal mine.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04

81 decreed that all men might
work this land and mine the coal
without interference. From that
time on, men were free in Ermelo,
because they could work for them
selves and get the product of their
labor. The employed workers were
free too, for they had the option of
quitting and working for themselves
if they saw fit. Wages rose to IS a
day, and employers complained of a
scarcity of help.
81 did this as a matter of military
necessity. What necessities the
present war may lead to. / do not
know, but l have hopes. Certainly
men will never have full strength
nor heart to fight for a country un-
less that country is theirs in fact as
well as name.
1t is not only in England that the
war is causing loss of men whom HUI
manity cannot well spare. Every
recent number of Bodenreform, the
magazine of the German land reform
movement, has turned rules for one
or more co-workers who have fallen
in battle. 1t is sad to think that
Englishmen like Wedgwoodand Ger
mans like Schrameier, instead of
standing shoulder to shoulder in war
fare against the common enemy of
both English and German people,
should be engaged in trying to mur-
der each other in a quarrel that is
not of their making. How much
better it would have been had they
insisted that all the fighting be done
by the men who made the war, or
by those who hold the legal titles to
the land of the countries concerned
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04
LOOK WHO'S HERE

[Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 2
Secretary of State Bryan's recent
proposal In the course of the Pan
American conference that the United
States and South American govern
ments cooperate In financing re-
oeived almost no notice in the official
record of the conference. The pro-
posal was made incidentally In a
speech at a dinner given by Gen. E.
c, O'Brien, former United States
minister TO Uruguay The National
City Bank of New York says;
The secretary of state was careful
to say that he threw out the sugges-
tion quite In personal and unofii-
cial way, obviously guarding against
its being regarded at the time as an
administration measure or as repre-
senting the views of any OF his col
leagues
His premise that was the develop
ment OF several of the South Amer
lean republics was greatly hindered
by the lack of credit which would en-
able those countries to borrow on
any reasonable basis. He cited in
stances of governments paying per
cent, and he could, of course, have
cited many such instances, and some
where the rate would have been
higher He properly regarded this
lack of credit and consequent lack
of national initiative as a great loss,
not alone to the countries and the
people of the nations considered,
but quite as well to the people Of the
United States.
This interchange of credit was to
be accomplished by taking from a
South American nation its obliga-
cation bearing per cent interest
and giving such a country like
of United States bonds bear
ing per cent interest Our govern
ment however, instead of making the
per cent difference in the interest
rates would devote this to the amor
of the South American bonds
which by investing the sinking fund
at per cent would be accomplished
in forty seven years.
Making allowance for all the diff
fculties that will be Immediately
thought of in the consumation of
such a scheme, it deserves to be pro-
nounced not only a dring but bril-
liant conception.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04
Two MISTAKEN EMPIRES


The neutrality of the United States
finds little respect in Great Britain
and Germany because both of these
empires have been disappointed in IL,
Both presumed on our friendship and
each expected to profit by 1t at the
expense of the other Both wanted
champion,
If we had met the wishes Of Ger
many in all respects, our ships, car
goes and citizens would not have
been exposed to the murderous per-
lis of submarine and aerial attack.
If we had taken orders from London
our property at sea would not have
been seized and tied up in British
prize courts,
We are under coercion from both
sides-not to continue or strengthen
our neutrality, but to break II down.
Germany promises to cease submar-
marine assassination of merchantmen
If we will COMPEL Great Britain to
abandon Il $50 called blockade of
foodstuffs. In other words we are
asked to become an ally of Germany,
Great Britain will not interfere
lawlessly with our shipping If we
will forego, as war measure against
Germany, our undoubted right to
trade with other neutral nations To
accept British terms would be to act
practically as an ally of Great Brit
ain.
The same pressure was put upon
the United States early in the nine
teenth century by Great Britain and
France, the latter then dominated by
Napoleon Bonaparte. Both scourg-
ed our commerce and each had the
impudence to say to us that If we
compelled the other to change its war
policies it would no longer deny us
our rights at sea. Such conditions
became intolerable then. They can
not be accepted now.
President Wilson's note to Ger
many covers very thoroughly an inn
portant phase of this painful contro-
versy. Secretary Bryan's action in
stopping the trade conferences be-
tween Representatives of this country
and Great Britain meets the situa-
tion in another respect. We can
confer with nobody except on equal
terms.
In one case a great neutral nation
says that it will omit no word or act
necessary to the preservation of its
rights. In the other there is due
notice by that neutral nation that
the calculated delays and the sub
terfuges of prize courts are not to be
tolerated.
The governments of London and
Berlin are presuming upon Ameri
can sympathy They are not at
tempting to do justice They are
looking for assistance. Both are
mistaken. There will be neither
sympathy nor assistance here for any
belligrent that trespasses on the right
of the United States.-Columbus
Times.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04
THE DECKS NOW CLEARED

Now that the Ohio Legislature has
adjourned after having worked out
its ripper program, opportunity is
afforded the public men of Ohio to
pay more attention to the conduct of
the national government. By all it
is recognized that the United States
faces a critical situation, but conf
dence is everywhere expressed in the
President and his aides. In Ohio
it brings to attention the fact that at
no time has the President had any
more staunch support than that of
Ohio's senior senator, who in recent
addresses has been explaining the
work of the administration. The
busines interests of the country have
come to realize that they have moth
ing to fear in the honest conduct of
their affairs and that there is an end
to the persecution started by fire
brand executive some years ago.
Business interests are emphatic in
their assertions that they want no
further tinkeTing with tariff or other
laws which tend to make business
working conditions unsettled and un-
certain; having adjusted themselves
to the present system they find it all
that was promised and more; nor do
they want an upheaval even for what
might be a promised advantage. The
federal reserve banking system,
which is the great contribution of
William Jennings Bryan to the ad-
ministration is now demonstrating
its great strength in sustaining the
business of the country at the most
distressing time in the worlds his
tory, and as an outgrowth from that
establishment is the creation here
of a world financial center for the
Americas.
The meeting of the Pan American
Financial Congress, suggested by the
secretary of the treasury, approved
by the president and endorsed by
forecasts the creation of
closer business relations in all the
American republics which shall later
benefit all the countries of the world.
The people of the United States
like to think they can rely on Presi
dent Wilson when trouble threatens.
They pray that his guidance may still
keep the country from conflict with
other peoples. But they are all
ready to support him in all eventu
alities.
Those who came to criticize now
remain to praise. In praise they
who selhshly would benefit are stingy
and grudging but they are forced to
the wonderful leader
ship of President Woodrow Wilson. !
Try as they may, they cannot hide
the constructive work of the nation
al administration
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04
OUR GREATEST EXHoRTER

Probably the Wesleys, Whitfield,
Ashbury, Cough and Moody, to say
nothing of Sam Jones and Billy Sun
day, never moved so many Americans
on a religious or moral issue at one
time as responded to the temperance
appeal of William J. Bryan in Phila-
delphia on the night of March Is,
When he had finished nfs address,
$4,000 men signifed their purpose
to refrain from the use of intoXi-
cants. The sincerity of the orator
was shown by the fact that he re-
manned for hours after the meeting,
afiiXing his signature as a witness to
personal pledges of abstinence.
This is prOhibitio nthat will pro
hibit, if anything can. 1t is address
sed to the individual. 1t Obligates
the individual. 1t has behind it the
moral force, whatever that may be,
of the individual. 1t gains support,
no doubt, from the fervOr exhibited
in the same direction by so many peo-
pie of like minds, but it depends not
at all upon law or coercion or cir
cumstanCe.
Millions of Mr.. Bryan's fellow
countrymen who doubt his ability as
a legislator, financier, diplomat, or
statesman will readily acclaim him
as the greatest of eXhOrters Few
men in his position with the world
at war and questions of the utmost
gravity arising almost daily in his
department, could be persuaded to
devote a day and a night to temper
ance. 1t will be said that he was
neglecting his duty. Yet the lesson
of sobriety may be one that civiliza-
tion needs today as much as any
other.
A remarkable character is this
secretary of state who breaches
peace to nations inclined to war, who
bids empires and Kingdoms to think
twice before drawing the sword,
and who finds time in the midst of
many distractions to urge, and by
personal influence to help thousands
to higher standards of life How
much does he owe the president and
the president to him?-New York
World
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04
WILL FIND THINGS DIFFERENT

One OF the interesting things in
the political aspect of the closing
days of the legislature was the es-
tablishment of a headquarters IN Col
umbus by one Major General Charles
Dick, who will be remembered as
the one time junior senator from
Ohio. Mr.. Dick has fond hopes of
again making the race on the Repub-
lican ticket. and is hereby serving
notice on Governor Willis and the
Honorable Ralph Cole that their
frame-up does not go. and that there
are other Republicans in the State
who have a lurking desire for some
of the offices and the appurtenances.
Furthermore IL Is official notice of
the fact that the present machinery
in Republican state politics is i'm
need of an overhauling. 1t Is nota-
BILE that Major Dick did not descend
on the legislature until the admins
tration had tloundered around and
got itself into serious trouble, and
that he then came to take a hand in
the political game of draw connected
with the proposed gerrymandering
of the state
the game with the majority members
Of the legislature, apparently forget
ting that the people themselves will
make the next senatorial selection,
and that in the face of the record
made at Washington by the present
Democratic senior senator from Ohio
there is not the remotest possibility
of a change.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04
license bin, the Cincinnati enquirer

license bill, the Cincinnati Enquire
had the following to say;
Dry democrats sarcastioally
referred to the fact that the Me-
Dermott bill was passed by the
votes of two "souses," One of
these was so far under the intlu-
ence of liquor that he remained
in the smoking room until his
vote was needed. He was then
brought out by guard, duly
voted and then returned to his
couch in the anteroom. Scouts
also went with him and the 9th
er inebriated members every
time they went out to get addi-
tlonal drinks. Cat calls follow
ed the votes of this member,
who was hailed as "the hero of
hundred bottles" On the
other hand the Governors
forces cheered the "souse" as he
cast his final vote and helped to
pass the bill"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04
DRUMS CAsTING VOTES
Intoxicated Legislators Making Laws
for Five Million People Disgrace
to Ohio
[Ottawa Sentinel. j

[Ottawa Sentinel
The liquor license ripper bill was
passed by just enough votes None
to spare. Governor Willis had to
crack the party whip and give orders
and be a boss The Governor had to
come to it, Before election he de-
nounced bosses. But he had to
choose between being a boss and not
carrying out his election promises.
Neither vets nor drys wanted any
change in the present liquor license
laws. The legislature did not want
to make any changes, but the Cover
nor used the party whip and laid the
lash of partisanship on the backs of
unwilling republicans.
Not in years has there been such
disgraceful scenes enacted in the
great capitol building as reports in
dicate were pulled off last week.
Ohio has five million people Ohio
is one of the great states of a great
republic To have the deciding votes
cast by drunken "souses" is a tray
esty on decency and law making.
If Democrats had been guilty of
such indecent things under the Cox
every preacher in
Ohio would have given birth to tons
of damnation and hell-fre.
Carrying drunk men into the halls
of the House of Representatives to
cast deciding votes, is no credit to
the Willis administration or to Ohio
Republicans applauded this disgrace
full proceeding, while Democrats
hooted the performance.
In passing the McDermott liquor
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-04
woRKINGMEN AND BOOZE

At a conference of workingmen
held at Columbus, o., May 28, Chas
Stelzle, a member of the Machinists
Union of New York City, said con-
cerning the workingman and liquor:
"The argument that the working
man will lose his job if the liquor
traffic is abolished is based upon the
absurd proposition that if the liquor
dealer fails to get the money now
spent for beer and whiskey nobody
else will get it.
"If the 1,800,000,000 now spent
for liquor were to be spent for bread
and clothing, it would give employ
ment to nearly eight times as many
workers who could collectively re-
ceive five and half times as much
wages. 1t would require over $780,
100000 worth of additional raw ma
terial than the liquor industry now
uses, that is, more that five times as
much raw material, the production
of which would add greatly to the
number OF additional workers who
would be thus employed.
"The Statistical Abstract of the
United States for 1913 indicates that
for every one million dollars invest
ed in six principal industries the fol-
lowing number of wage earners are
liquor, II; iron 284; pa
per and printing, 369; leather, 469;
textiles, STA and lumber 579.
"The ratio of wages paid to capi-
tai invested in this group of indus
tries is as follows: liquor, Sc per
cent; iron 1915 per cent; paper and
printing, 21.3per cent; leather 23.5
per cent; textiles 23.5 per cent and
lumber 27.1 per cent.
1--WE may put it down as a funda-
mental proposition that the interests
of the saloon are always opposed to
the interests of the workingman.