The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-08-20
Mckinley MEDITATING A BACKWARD
STEP.

published 10y authority of the Maryland
democratic Editors Association.)
The Republican party won the battle
OF 1895 in Maryland upon its promises
Il must fight the battle OF 1897 upon
its performances. Nov it has record
If TINS State; then { had none.
Two years have wrought a vast
change in the situation. When their
personally respectable candidate for
governor went through the State pro
claiming the gospel OF reform, many
voters believed him and voted for him,
bul the sequel has taught the people at
large what the experienced already
knew, that the cry OF reform" is al
ways to be taken with suspicion, for be-
hind it usually Turk selfish ambitions
and sinister purposes. 1t ! an easy
matter to preach reform, when a party
has no recent record to be analyzed.
but il is not so easy to carry out what is
promised. The performances of the Re
+ publican party during its brief lease OF
power have not merely been disappoint-
lng-they have been characterized by
deception, inconsistent hypocrisy and
false pretense.
In no particular does this criticism
more Justly apply than in reference to
n the attitude OF the party on the subject
Y LOT civil service reform il the voters OF
Maryland will recall the campaign OF
r 1906 they will remember how Lowndes.
in his schoolboy speeches, prated inces-
sanity OF applying the merit system to
State, cCurty and municip ! offices, and
with what Indignation he scorned the
idea tina public patronage should be
FUSED for any but public purposes. This
idea, with stale anC meaningless plat
tudes on the subj ect of good govern
#ment, without once pausins to show
specifically wherein the State OF Mary
land, under Democratic rule, had been
The victim OF bad government, consttut-
I'D the burden of the arguments upon
(which he sought the suffrages OF his fel-
low citizens. While the rejecting vot-
trs. free from bias and prejudice, were
bot caught by the deceptive words, yet
! sufficient number OF mistaken, but
bow repentant, Democrats left their
karty to give the great reformer OF Ale
khany county the opportunity to fulfG
b his administrative what he had Sc
klibly proiessed with his lips. The rec
krd is before us, and it can be briefly
nayzed from evidence furnished by
Oth Executive and legislative acts.
The sixth plank of the Cambridge
attorm declares: "All public offices
fNlst Tor the good of the )eopl only"
nd yet Gov Lowndes had barely been
faugurated into his high office before
Sontradlcted this platform principle
" using the public patronage to pro-
fote the ambitions OF his political part
aer George L. Wellington. This pros
fiuuon oil the honors and emoluments
Arder ms control, combined with what
pc i. II. Warner, OF Washington, sug-
eSiS as a corrupt bargain with Sydney
Mudd, then speaker of the house Of
elegales, was successful in accomplish
the Senatorial ambitions OF Mr.
ellington, who, in his shor. service,
IS more than once caused the people
Maryland to blush for shame that
icy should be represented in the high
legislative body OF the land by such
PaHenu and egotist.
Nor IS this the Only evidence of Gov
oWndes. hypocrisy in exemplihcation
ms Unprecedented theory that all
DIG Offices exist for the good of the
ople only. Another and a more re-
NJ Illustration has been given in his
Anpnlaton OF the patronage attached
one OF the State tobacco warehouses
uisplacing Inspector James |. Nav
d lTlend OF Congressman Mudd, and
DSttuting one OF his own minions in
person of --- Gather. While
IL.
W. OF the warehouse and a desire to
the State better service were the
uses assigned for the sudden change,
penetrating public readily perceived
ledl cause IN the clashing ambitions
congressman Mudd and His Excel
oy ior seat iii the United States
ld'e When it is remembered that
lew months before the governor,
4 'iHSt me protest OF the Leaf Tobacco
VOCATION OF Baltimore, knowing that
'elurements OF the tobacco trade
IuIly met by the three inspectors
W. once, created a sinecure in the
y VI a fourth Inspector This lately
3 leSsed desire for retrenchmcnt and
IoHly will deceive nobody, and the
I ny generally will regard the disms-
Mr. Naylor as plan to manipu-
4 inc State patronage to further his
senatorial aspirations.
y lug eclipslng these evidences of hy-
j iSy' IN which the obligations of per
lTendship and the impulses of
sondl ambition may be pleaded in
. auon, was the passage through
p lGsi.slature Of 90 OF a farcical bill,
'i'nhg the question OF civil service
\o'e OF the people at the election
November.
0t IN many weeks ago at a meeting OF
4 ,Nepublican League of Business
d ~ Baltimore, it was declared in
eliiesto to the people that the Re-
iOaA party had fulfilled all the
u sgs made in their platform OF 1906,
Il Jie OF these promises was that it
~ submit civil service act to the
X S az ne polls" 1t is true that the
q .oncan party has submitted civil
y 80, cc act to the vote OF the people, in
" ,a'uIe OF a proposed amendment to
n =. IIusututon, but it is equally true
I'M proposed amendment is utterly
Y, " as reform measure. and
II iaVorably voted upon would be
~ 'eiy nugatory in applying the
! system to appointments to polit-
u olnces It is not worth the ex-
4 u publishing the governors
~ y ,ha in regard to the election,
b tpe Passage of the bill through the
,asur g tainted with trickery. Any
~ Sno VII take the trouble to refer to
b fS oila Q, the house of delegates
- ona ow the civil service act in its
y fla, Oourse will be struck with the
81 INA .iat that body was striving des-
1--Ad some ~sap '.laa.D saa4 -.