Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-10-11

SSat uuC w eetectlOn OF sucn
an unexceptionable candidate for
Mayor as the president of the
Weems Steamboat Line. The Re-
pubiicans and anti German Demo-
Gratis have been looking high and
low to "get something on" Mr.
Williams, but thus far their search
es have been Improbable, except in
so far as it revealed the fact that
Mr.. Williams is not without Repub-
lican friends, who have promised
him their support.
While Mr.. Williams personality
has made its influence felt in
strengthening the Democratic cause
very appreciably, it must not be
overlooked that the proceedings of
the Republican City Convention,
which selected Alcaeus Hooper as
its candidate for Mayor, also brought
a good many lukewarrn Democrats
to a realizing sense" that after all
a municipal government run by the
politicians, who manipulated Mr..
Hooper's case, might not be any
more ideal than the present state OF
affairs in the City Hall.
Whatever may be said of the
Democratic "machine," as it is APP
piled, in effecting nominations in
its party, may with equal force be
said Of the Republican "machine,
as its workings were exemplified at
Dushane Post Hall. If any un-
sophisticated citizens had supposed
that Republican politicians are am
ateurs and incapable of coping with
the Democrats "in ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain," he
only needed to have been present
when the Hooper nomination was
made and the Malsterites s'knocked
out"
or course, it is hardly possible
that Mr.. Hooper himself would be
directly party to the shady meth
DDS by which Mr.. Master was
shelved, but he is not a novice in
politics by any means, and no doubt
a very little investigation on his
part-he has record as an inyesti-
gator-would soon discover that
possibly there is a cloud of greater
or less proportion to his title to the
Msyorality nomination, just as there
unquestionably is to "Bob" Ogle's
nomination for Clerk of the Super
ior Court.
A curious fact about the contest
within the Republican party over
the Mayoralty nomination is that
the practical politicians" almost
to man, were opposed to Mr.. NAL
ster. His campaign was one of
purely popular sentiment, and he
had twice as much backing in his
party for the Mayoralty nomination
as we had for the Governorship.
Men who thought Mr.. Lowndes the
more available man for the latter
nomination, because he was coun-
ty man, gave their earnest support
to Mr.. Master for the Mayoralty.
1t is no wonder, therefore, that
Mr.. Masters friends are "sore,"
and very "sore," although, when
talking for publication" they are
apt to tell you that Everything is
all right" and the party has a win
ner as its standard bearer.
What they say in public and what
they say in private differ radically,
and, while they may tender their
congratulations to Mr.. Hooper, pro
forma, half of them have we'll
sharpened knives up their sleeves
which they may be tempted to use
on election day.
''lt would have been all right"
said close friend of Mr.. Malster,
chad we been beaten fairly, but as
it was, Mr.. Hooper was nominated
by treachery and bulldozing, and
the men who control the City Exc
cutive Committee are responsible
for it. They think that they will
control Mr.. Lowndes' patronage if
he is elected, and they want to run
the City Hall as well, so that they
may also boss the State conven-
ton next spring, and name the del
egates to the National Convention.
Then, if we get a Republican Pres
ident, they will have the Federal
offices, too, to use to build up their
power. Just give them a chance,
and they will show that German
and Rasin are babies. The Master
fight was fight against the Repub-
lican machine. which is getting