Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-10-04
CONTRAST THE TWO.
Eow xr. Lowndss Obtained the Repub-
ican Nomination.

0Cau 0om1uaLlon.
TO the Editor Morning Herald
The denunciation by certain
Democrats and mugwump newspa-
pers of the manner in which John
4. Hurst was nominated for Coy
ernor naturally leads to the inquiry,
GLOW was Lowndes nominated,
and what had the people to with
it 20 A comparison of the meth
DDS used in the two nominations
will be interesting and, to the un-
initiated, startling. 1t is claimed
that Hurst was nominated By Cor
man. II this be true, the facts in
the case will show that it was done
openly and without fraud. Mr..
German made no secret OF his pref.
erence. He considered Mr.. Hurst
the most available candidate, and
he asked the delegates to the State
convention to vote for him, and
they did so. These delegates were
the accredited representatives of the
people of the Democratic party,
and so far none of them have been
censured by the people for their ac-
ton in the convention. Now, what
did the people of the Republican
party have to do with the nomina-
tion Of Mr.. Lowndes !? Not a whit
more than did the inhabitants of
Kamskatka. As soon as the State
Central Committee opened its head
quarters, that body supposed to be
a party organization to work for its
party's good, became a partisan
body from beginning to end, and
worked necessarily for the nomina-
ton of Lowndes, to the exclusion
of advice or protests from citizens
of prominence who knew and still
know, that Mr.. Lowndes was not
the choice of the people. This was
new feature in politics, and the
first time that State Central Com
mittee Of any party, anywhere, used
its influence for any one man be-
fore nominations were made. The
State Central Committee was prac-
tically Lowndes' headquarters, al
though Mr.. Lowndes made a pre-
tense of opening headquarters few
days before the nominating conven.
ton met. In state headquarters
Malster men or Baker men were
frowned upon and made to feel that
they had no business there. Then
it can be charged and proven that
Mr.. Lowndes was nominated against
the will of the people, and that his
nomination was the result of such
daring fraud as Democrats would
not resort to at any time. Take
some of the counties first as exam
Piles. In Howard county the con-
vention was roughed by Lowndes
men. Delegates were brutally as
saulted and driven from the con-
vention hall. Having a majority
of the delegates, Malster men held
a convention and elected delegates
to the state convention. Yet the
roughs, now under indictment,
were seated in the state convention
by Mr.. Harry NJ. Clabaugh, then
chairman of the State Central Com
mittee, and now candidate for At
orney-General, by the votes he il
legally seated in the convention.
In st. Mary's county, where there
was an almost unanimous sentl-
ment favoring Malster, the conven-
ton was carried by fraud for
Lowndes. In the Ninth district
there was no election held, yet q
ticket of 10 delegates was fixed up
on the Monday following the day
of the primaries. Only two of
these so-called delegates showed up
at the county convention, and the
complement was made up by ap-
pointing men from other districts.
Several other delegations were
short, it is charged by the use of
money, and they were filled mp in