The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-10-20
Mr.. Holton and the workingmen.
From the Baltimore Dan.

From the baltimore Day.
Like the drowning man who catches at
straws, Mr.. Holton iswildly grasping at every
thing around, in the delirious hope that he may
secure a seat in the gubernatorial chair of
Maryland. His helpless contortions as he
founders clear out of his depth in the politi-
cal sea are ludicrous to witness. Every plank
he has laid hold of has slipped from him, and
he now calls upon the workingmen for help,
but without avail. This great reformer, in
speech made on Wednesday night last at Hol-
Inns Hall, in this city, said: ''The time |
might have spent in learning to become
statesman was spent in a workshop. My OPP
ponent, as you know, has learned to be
statesman while | was at work in the cotton
factory" This quotation from Mr.. Hol-
tons speech contains as many false
hoods as the shallow-b Drained demagogue
candidate could put in the same number of
words. The facts about Mr.. Holton's career
in the workshop and cotton factory are to be
found in the History of Baltimore City and
County" Mr.. Holton paid S525 to have in
serted in this work view of his residence and
portrait of himself, accompanied by his au-
photography. In the latter we are told that
Mr.. Holton FINISHED his education at Hope
well Academy, Chester Pa" and after
teaching school flour years. came Ito Bal
timore in 1857 and entered into the employ of
James S. Gary, leading manufacturer in
Maryland" He was given employment in
the counting-room of Mr.. Gary as salesman,
&C., and on August 81; 1861, when ''his char
acter was strengthened and solidified and his
habits of thought and action systematized,"
the married Pamela A. Gary. the daughter
of James S. Gary SIN 1862 he was
''tran$feTTed from Baltimore to Howard coun-
ty, where he became superintendent of the
Gary Manufacturing Company, in which he
was large stakeholder. He resided in a
handsome residence near the mills at Elys-
vile until the death of Mr.. James S. Gary,
on March Z, 1870, when he became 'possess-
ed of handsome estate in Baltimore county. !"
Mrs. Holton having inherited about $500, 900
from her father, she and her husband, sin
1877, removed to The Meadows, and the
poor cotton-f factory workingman "has since
then devoted himself exclusively to its i'm
provement' and to raising .'blooded" "trot-
ting horses" which he has found very profit
able
This is in brief Mr. Holton's '.oficial his
tory" as sketched by himself and paid for by
| him to be inserted in the work above referred
Ito. Nowhere in this official autobiography of
/ l 200 words of Mr. Holton does it appear, nor
| is it the fact, that while his opponent, the
/ Hon. Robert NJ. McLane, was learning ito
be statesman" he twas at work in cotton
factory" Indeed, he was not transferred
from Baltimore to Howard county," where
the factory is situated, until 1862, and two
| years afterward, in 1864, he "was chosen by
the Unconditional Union party to represent
! Howard county in the Senate of Maryland. y
/ His senatorial record is blank so far as pub
lie bene fits are concerned, while the manner
and means of his attaining seat in that body
is a disgrace to the political history OF our
State. The very worst that has ever been
charged against the Democratic party is child S
play to the stupendous outrage that was per-
petrated by the Republican party in 1865 to
secure a seat for Hart B. Holton inthe Senate
of Maryland. Since that eventful time we
| have yet to learn of. any great public service
/ he has performed, of any great public
measure he has originated, which should en-
4 title him to the gratitude and support of the
/ people.
/ Mr.. McLane, on the other hand, has, even
according to Mr.. Holtons own confession,
''learned to be statesman" has rendered
public services that entitle him to the respect
of all his fellow countrymen as well as of
Marylanders, and has certainly done far more
| of actual work with his brains to earn mod
est competency than Mr.. Holton ever did
with either brains or hands toward actually
earning the handsome fortune he possesses.
| For the latter, then, to pose as poor work
man in a cotton factory, who had no chance
| to learn to be statesman, is not merely a
preposterous piece of demagoguery, but false
pretense which shows him to lack the moral
qualities essential to public respect as utterly
as he confesses he lacks the knowledge and
experience which give Mr.. McLane excep-
tional fitness for performing the duties of the
office to which both aspire.