The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-06-30
MR.. c. c. FULTON AND THE STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

A most remarkable editorial appeared in the
Baltimore american of 25th inst. Its object is to
show that Mr.. C. C. Fulton is the leader of all the
Republicans in the State, except the Office holders
and their immediate friends. Several statements
concerning the Republican party Of the State are
made to prove this. There is much in the editorial
thatneeds no answer, and this statement not made
for the purpose of recrimination. 1t may well be
allowed to pass in silence, that Mr.. Fulton says all
the Offices in the State are to be empted and filled
not with reference to the public service-but
solely to the fact that retention or appointment is
to be victory to some one and dictated by some
one-and that in apparent Inconsistencies of the
American former course in 'CvI Service Reform
and the Presidential policy.
This editorial speaks of the State Central Com
mittee and the Federal offices parts of one pOlt
ical machine and openly contends that those who
rule the committee should have their friends and
"subservient tools in office. Mr.. Fulton and
friends control the committee therefore they ought
to name the ofice-holders. This refreshing can
dor needs no comment. But he refers to past
events and has made gross misstatements concern
ing them. 1t is our purpose to review these state
ments and gire the facts.
The first statement of fact in the editorial is that
''four years ago" Mr.. Fulton resigned the chair
manship of the State Central Committee. The
fact is he never resigned at ALL In the fall of
1869 new State Central Committee elected S. NJ.
Evans chairman-there was no resignation-and
this was eight years ago.
He says again that when he did leave it "four
years ago" he left two members of Congress, TWEEN
ty-six members of the Legislature and several
City COuncilmen as evidences of his capacity
The truth is that when he left eight years ago there
was not single Republican in the Legislature in
Congress or in the City Council.
The Baltimore american of Nov. Sd, 1869, saws:
"In announcing the result of the November cleo
lions we have been disappointed; not one Repub-
ican has been chosen and the members of the Leg
isature oflS7O were those of 1885, are thorough
ly Democratic
In the fall of 1871 Gen. A. W. Denison was elect
ed chairman of the State Central Committee and
the Republicans elected one Senator and nine Del
gates. At the State election in 1873 Mr.. Joseph
b. Pugh was elected chairman of the State Central
Committee, and, notwithstanding frauds in two
counties, we elected nineteen Delegates, two Sen
ators and county officers in several counties At
the Presidential election in 1872, Gen. Denison
still chairman, we elected two members of Con-
gress and would have elected three but for the fact
that the american failed to advocate Mr. Hancock
while Mr.. FultOn's special friends in the Custom
House, residing in the district, "cut' him enough
at the polls to defeat him. In 1875 Mr. A. Stir
ling, Jr., was chairman of the State Central Com
mittee. With Hon. J. Morrison Harris for Gov
ernOr, and Col. Wilkins for Comptroller, the Re-
publieans and Reformers elected twenty six Dele
gates, seven SenatOrs-and really elected the Gov
ernOr, the Comptroller and the Attorney General.
In 1876 Mr.. Fulton and his friends got possession
of the Committee with his special friend and pres
ent nominee for Collector, Mr.. John L. Thomas
Jr. as chairman. At that election Tilden carried
the State by a largely increased majority-and not
a single Congressman elected.
The Baltimore American gave the Presidential
contest up in an editorial of Nov. Sth, 1876, and
boldly asserted that the American had always
known that the chances were for Tilden, and the
tone of the paper had been commented upon be-
fore to the same effect
Now the aforesaid facts prove that after the year
1865 we never had two members of Congress until |
1872, and then Mr.. Fulton was not chairman, and |
we never had since 1865 twenty-six members of |
the Legislature until 1875. The party thus stead
lily increased from the time Mr. Fulton ceased to |
be chairman and reached its maximum in 1875.
These facts can be proved by reference to the
public records and the Baltimore American itself,
and yet Mr.. Fulton writes gross misstatements of
facts with his files at his side. We invite dis
passionate reading public to draw its own infer
enee.