The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-10-29
KING MI DID.
THE Hon SIDNEY +. MUDD, OF CHARLIE:
COUNTY, THE RECoG MED LEADER
OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.


COUNTY, THE RECOGNIZED LEADER
OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Such was the statement of Il distinguish
ed Republican who has been prominently
identified with the Republican party from
Lincoln's time until now; one who has
rare opportunities to know what is being
done on the political chessboard and, yet,
one who has never held office, and who
does not seek Office, but who has given
his time and means and personal in
fluence for the success of Republican
party, because he believes in its princl-
pies He however, is not content with
the present conditions, and is fearful that
the Democratic Mugwump allies OF the
Republican party in the State of Mary
land will be permitted to dictate such
terms as will wreck the Republican party
by driving from its active support the
earnest Republicans who stood by and
made the party when its present allies
| would-bc dictators-were in the Demo
cratic ranks and the most bitter opponents
in social as we'll as in political life.
| The attention of this gentleman was
called by one of the new converts to the
editorial in an afternoon paper, denying
that in the event of Republican success
Mr. Mudd would succeed Senator Cor
man in the Senate and the new convert
challenged his statement in regard to Mr..
Mudd.
| LOOK At TIE RECORD.
The old Republican repeated that Mr..
Mudd's supremacy is recognized by every
regular republican. His power he said
lis complete" He is Il master of politics,
| and only such can be 4 recognized leader.
| If any doubt this let him look at the re-
cord
In 1895 the republicans carried the state
| and elected the Governor and the House
of Delegates. Mr.. Mudd was elected to
| the House from Charles county Yelling
| ton who wanted to become the United
States senator, was anxious that Il Balti-
| more city man or an Eastern Shoreman
should be elected sp eaker. That was his
natural combination ; but Mudd, being his
superior intellectually, outgeneraled Wei
| llngton and Lowndes, and forced his own
| election as speaker of the House of dele
gates. As speaker, he appointed all the
| committees, and legislation was as COM
plctely in his hands as in the hands of
| Speaker Reed during the Fifty-tirst Con-
| gress, of which Congress Mr. Mudd was
member.
| No bill or resolution could be passed by
the House of Delegates without Mr..
| Mudd's sanction. He had to be "secn
first" to use Mr.. Wellington's language.
He did not advertise this, as did Yelling
ton, but it was fact, nevertheless, he
dominated the House of Delegates of Ma
ryiand as Mr. Reed dominated the House
of Representatives.
The time for the election of Il United
| States senator approached. Wellington,
with all the power of the Governor at his
back, and with the patronage under the
control of the chief executive of the State,
| openly used in his behalf, could not force
his election until he arranged with Mr..
| Ihuul, VINO ucllldHtcu as Il consideration
the appointment of the inspectors of to-
bacco and all the other patronage i'll the
| tobacco warehouses that goes to Southern
Maryland. He insisted that his political
enemy, Senator Wilkinson, of St Mary's
county, who was Wellin gton's follower
and friend, should be turned down and
left out in the cold. He demanded that
Mr.. Coffin, who was then member of
Congress and Il resident of Prince Georges
| county, and Mr.. Snowden Hill, of the
| SAME county, should not be considered in
| the distribution of state patronage. All
| this was accorded him, hut vet he was not
satisfied
| TIE DEAL At ANNAPOLIS.
He demanded that he should have the
state support of the administration for
Congress to succeed Mr. Coffin, and yet
| he was not certain that he had enough.
| So, according to the statement of Mr.. B.
ii. Warner, Of Washington city or Mont
| gomery county, he tWarncr) went to
| Annapolis to induce Mudd to vote for
NO
| in Mr. Wellington's presence that he did
50 arrange it, that it was a political ar
rangement that Wellington should sup
i port Mudd tor United States Senator to
succeed Senator German. Not until this
promise was made was w ellington elected
| Mudd boldly led the movement and claim
ed the credit for Wcllinyton's success,
and he was entitled to it. He now de-
mands that the arrangement shall be car
ricl out III good faith
| Governor Lowndes, clever, but not very
astute in politics, was induced to announce
himself publicly as IA candidate for United
| Stltes senator, and gave his reasons there
Tor. Lowndes was put forward by some
astnte and cunning men to break Mudd's
| power in the state. 1t was an easy matter
| tor these cunning and designing men to
| induce the Governor to prosecute Mudd's
| friends. Then came the rumor from
Annapolis that Mudd's appointees in the
warehouses were not conducting them
selves properly. Then Governor Lowndes
caused an investigation of the accounts of
| all OF Mudd people, and on the tilmsIest
sorts Of prcteNts, Mudd's friends were re-
moved and disgraccd, so far as they could
be dIsgraced, by this action of the Cover
nor. Everybody understood that it was
purely political move to break Muddrs
power.
MORE THAN MAJORITY FOR MuoD.
Look Al the Republican nominees for
legislature in Republican counties-Cal-
vert county, Charles county, Prince
Georges, Anne Arundel county, Third
| Legislative district of Baltimore city, First
Legislative District of Baltimore city,
Cecil county, Caroline county, Talbot
county, Dorchester county, Somerset
county. These, without taking into &C
| those hiatt. h., fr,p