The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-09-06
The Baltimore Suns" Insincerity.

The Inconsistency and insincerity Of
the Baltimore San in the present CAM
paign are glaring. 1t antagonists Mr..
Hurst, not because he is not Demo-
crat; not because he Is not a capable
and thoroughly honest and trustw or
thy man, and not because he will not,
after his election, stand squarely up
to the pledges he has given to the pub
lie in his letter of acceptance; but
solely and exclusively because he was
nominated by convention, which
the Sun charges was dominated and
controlled by Senator German and
Mr.. Rasin. That and nothing more.
And yet that same Baltimore Sun
strenuously urged that same Demo-
cratic Convention (which it nor says
was not Democratic Convention at
all, because it did not do what the Sun
wanted it to do to nominate Judge
Fisher for Governor. If the Sun be-
lleves its own statement, that Sena-
tor German ana Mr.. Rasin controlled
and dictated the action of the conven-
ton, then the .>ua knows perfectly
well, aud To be honest must admit,
that had that convention nominated
Judge Fisher instead of Mr.. Hurst,
the nomination of Judge Fisher would
have been made just as surely and GER
tainly by Senator German and Mr..
Rasin as the SUi alleges the nominal
ton of Mr.. Hurst was. If Senator
German and Mr. Rasin so effectually
controlled and owned the convention
that no one but person named by
them cOWd have been nominated,
then if Judge Fisher had been nomi.
mated, he would necessarily have been
nominated by Senator German and
Mr.. Rasin. The Sun would have SUP.
ported Judge Fisher had he been NOM
mated, and had he been nominated
he could only have been nominated, if
direction, or at least by the permission
of Senator German and Mr.. Rasin.
Had the San secured the nomination
of the candidate it favored it would
have supported him, though Senator
German and Mr.. Rasin actually made
the nomination. 1t cannot he true,
therefore, that the San opposes Mr..
Hurst because he was named by Sena-
tor German and Mr. Rasn (assuming
that he was so named by Them hut it
opposes him because Senator German
and Mr.. Rasin did not name. as the
Sun says they could have named,
Judge Fisher, who was the personal
preference of the editor OF the SIN.
So the Sun bolts and ceases to shine
for all-it sulks and gets angry like
spoiled and ill-tempered child-be-
cause it did not have its own way
And because it did not have its own
way it is striving to defeat the Demo-
cratic ticket and to turn the State over
to the Republican party. Is not this
apparent? Let us see. The Sun has
not, with all its reckless assertions. VEN
tured to assal the personal character
OF Mr.. Hurst. 1t has not questioned
his ability or doubted his integrity. 1t
has not impugned his veracity or intl-
tlmated that he cannot implicitly be
relied on to carry out scrupulously ev-
cry pledge he has made in his letter of
acceptance. 1t has not even insinuat-
ed that his unequivocal asseveration to
the effect that he has made noepromi-
ses or committals to any Sne, is
not literally true. What is the
trouble? Is Mr.. Hurst a Democrat?
The Sun must answer, yes. Is he
honest? Is he capable? Is he a fit
and a safe man to trust with the du-
ties of an executive? To each of these
questions the San must answer in the
affirmative. But he was nominated
by Senator German and Mr.. Rasin.
says the San, and therefore, the San
opposes him. No. If Judge Fisher
had been nominated in the same way
and by the same agencies the Sun
would have supported him. But he is
no better Democrat than Mr.. Hurst;
lie is no more honest or capable, nor is
he more fit or safer man to be Sc
lected than Mr.. Hurst. Judge Fisher
is an accomplished lawyer; Mr.. Hurst
is a successful merchant. 1t is not.
then, in consequence of the manner of
Mr.. Hurst's nomination; because the
same manner would have been salts.
factory to the Sun had Judge Fisher
been nominated; and it is not by reason
of any unfitness on the part of MIR,
Hurst, because he is as capable as
Judge Fisher, though he be not law
yer; but it is solely because the San did
not succeed in getting Senator Cor
man and Mr.. Rasin to agree with it as
to the selection of Judge Fisher that
its editor bolts. And who is the editor
of the San? Simply one man, himself
a lawyer. And because that one mans
wishes as to the gubernatorial candi-
IL. 4.