Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-19

! good ticket, and a good platform.
were certain to come from the Demo
cratic State convention. The nomi-
nees have been known for some time
because the four candidates had been
agreed upon by the party before the
primary.
The delegates to the convention
were chosen by popular vote, except
in those instances where they had been
openly and unanimously chosen by the
tody of the party without division.
They were regulars" and progress
sives," in party parlance, adherents
in political family matters to one or
the other side into which. for matters
lof party government. Democrats have
divided. But, over and above all else,
they were men os loyalty and honor,
who in the face of the common en-
envy, are members of one household.
1'h&re was no mistaking the spirit
that animated yesterdays convention.
The floor held no warning factions.
All the things that may have divided
the party had teen put to the test of
the direct primary. and every delegate
had the mandate of the majority of his
party in his home community.
Chairman McMullen declared that in
this crisis of the States affairs all
factional leaders must come to the
bar and stand by the ticket; that the
party strife in Baltimore city must
stop and both Mahon and Kelly drop
their personal quarrel. He said that
four years ago he had been nominated
in the Academy OF Music, with Har-
rington and Richie, 1.-The next COVER
nor of Maryland" and every pledge
then made by the party had been car
ried out Praise from Sir Hubert is
praise indeed" and the personal trib-
utes Mr.. McMullen paid the Attorney
General and Mr.. Heating, his warm
eulogium OF Brooke Lee and of that
good old reliable" Mr.. Mhgruder.
were warm and genuine.
Lee Gets Ovation
Former Senator Lee was given an
ovation. Through his stirring speech |
rang a trumpet call to Democratic |
duty. For the first time in many years, |
Ia convention had come together TO |
name ticket that had not been made |
in n direct primary, he asserted, but |
which yet was the highest product of
the primary system-and the Demo- |
cratic party set apart in Maryland as
the only one the voters OF which are
capable of using the primary system. |
Judge Covington again demonstrated |
his peculiar power as an orator. and |
ia forensic analyst, and as a spokes- |
man for American democracy. Mr.. |
Cummings speech in placing Brooke |
Lee in nomination for Comptroller. |
was an effective one from a personal |
standpoint, and Colonel Tydings de- |
clared that Major Lee, his army asso- |
ciate was the first man to cross "No |
Mans Land" and the last to leave the |
enemy's trenches. Harper and Mar
bury and Vickers and Mitchell main |
tanned the high standard of the nomi- !
mating speeches.
Acceptance Speeches Earnest
Before the convention adjourned. a |
committee on notification, appointed |
by Chairman McMullen. brought the
candidates on the plat-stage, and each |
of them made formal acceptance.
These speeches we're brief and earnest. |
All four of the candidates showed that
they were worthy and capable leaders
for the campaign. Mr.. Ritchie struck
/ a keynote when he said that all the
candidates, State and local, would
stand or fall together, and each OF
his colleagues declared that il any
man on the State ticket had TO be knif
ed, they wanted all the cuts TO fall
ON them, personally "Cut me. If you
want to cut anybody" said Mr.. Ma
gruder, but the veteran went on to
predict the election of the whole ticket.
Ritchie's Able, Address
A model of breyity. simplicity and
wholeheartedness was Mr.. Ritchie's |
acceptance. None but a master of
thought and phraseology. digniied and
sincere, could have made it. So fully |
and so ably does 1t express the char
acter and worth of the man who is
the candidate for Governor. and reveal
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