ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1447

successful campaign. He was appointed by Mr. Mahool to
the office of City Collector. This was the last public office
he held.

In public and private life, Governor Brown must be charac-
terised as a progressive and broad-minded man. Under his
administration of the Postmastership there were created sub-
stations to the post office of Baltimore and mail collection
by carts was inaugurated. Several instances of an exciting
and spectacular nature during his administration as Governor
evidenced his executive ability. At eleven o'clock on the
morning of June 5th. during the labor trouble of 1894, Gov-
ernor Brown received a telegram that the sheriff of Allegany
County was unable to protect the property in the Frostburg
District. By four o'clock of the afternoon of the same day,
he had the Fourth and Fifth Maryland Regiment ready to
entrain on special cars and by daylight on June 6th, the
militia were on the scene of the disturbance, actually following
on the heels of the men who were posting the Governor's
proclamation to the strikers to disperse and refrain from
violence. He was personally on the scene and his activity
and his promptness in exercising the power in his hands as
the State's chief executive resulted in the settlement of the
disputes between labor and capital on this occasion without,
conflict between the strikers and the State troops and with-
out further loss of life and destruction of property. As
Governor, he had to deal with the once famous Coxey's Army.
He forced this now almost forgotten army of tramps to accept,
his invitation to leave the State by special train and thus com-
pletely rid the State of this dangerous and disturbing element.
His famous non-partisan "tax-convention" was the result oP
his successful opposition to certain laws which he came to
believe would result in an undue burden on the people.

Governor Brown was a man of pleasing personality, kind,
considerate, faithful to a marked degree to the host of friends
which he made through his long and active life. He was a
public spirited citizen. His memory is inseparately bound
with the progress of the State; and,

WHEREAS, to commemorate the memory of Frank Brown:
Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the death of Frank Brown has brought to a close a most ex-
traordinary useful and honorable career; and be it