Show DEMOCRATS I MARYLAND Nominate State Officers at a Quiet Little Convention Baltimore ld Aug 2The Democratic Demo-cratic state convention which was held at Fords Opera House In this city today to-day resulted In the nomination of the following tcket For GovernorJohn Walter Smith of Worcester coUnty For Attorney GeneralIidor Rainer at Baltimore For ComptrolerJohn W Herring ot Carroll county The convention was unusually harmonious har-monious and all the nominations were made by acclamation EdwIn Warfeld Mr Smiths principal opponent withdrawing with-drawing at the last moment and placing plac-Ing the successful candidate In nomInation nomIna-tion That portIon of the platform which tefer to national Issues is as follows We insist that In time ot war as w ell as of peace the freedom of the press shall be preserved and that the right of the people to criticize freely the policy and conduct ot the admin Istratioa shal be demanded at all hazards ads adsNo deadlier blow can be deal to American liberty than the suppression sion by an abuse of the execute pow erof the free utterance by AmerIcan freemen of theIr sentiments upon matter mat-ter of public concern affecting the and denounce I welfare of the people we a6 dangerous and indefensible all efforts ef-forts to Interfere with or abridge this sacred right We declare ur unalterable opposi ton to the creation and maintenance of a large standing army In time of peace w Insist upon the supremacy of the civi over the military author Ity and we demand the strIctest economy econ-omy lathe collectIon and disbursement Of the imbUe revenues Wcelevc in the time honored due trine earnestly Impressed upon us by the fathers of the republic of peace commerce tied honest friendship friend-ship with alt nat ns entangling alliances al-liances with none We YiE with alarm the mulUpU catldn ovthe land of such gigantic industrial Ind commercial trusts the outgrowth of epublcan l glslaUon as stifling compJdUon thretitening popular r popu-lar Government increasing the cot of I living and curtailing the Individual rights of the people and ve favor Igor I Ig-or sm 1i ly the states and by congress to repress this get and growing evil The platform declares that the Re publcan part Is respQnslble for the numerous violatIons of the law on the part of the negroes because the latter believe they will be afforded protection ant immunity from punishment by reason of their votes which the platform plat-form asserts are almost solidly for the Republican ticket John Walter Smith the nominee for governor is a banker and resides In Snow Hm Worcester count He has served In the state senate for three consecutive terms and was cleoted to congress last November from the First district Isador Rayner the nominee for attorney at-torney general is a lawyer and has long been prominent In the politicaL and social circles of he state He served in the Fiftieth Fifyseond and Fifty third congresses and is regarded as One of the pest political orator of Mar land All the candidates are favorable to a gold standard The date for holding the Republican state convention has not yet been announced an-nounced Governor Lloyd Lowndes nomination has practically nQ opposition for re |