The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-07-10
WELLINGTON'S BLUNDER.
Press Opinions on His Exhibition of
Bad Temper and Bad Manners.
He is Scored for His Action in the
Warner Matter.
Washington Post of saturday.


Warner Matter.
Washington Post of Saturday.
We are not greatly interested III the
quarrel which Mr.. Wellington, of Mary
land, has undertaken to fix upon Mr.. B.
H. Warner. The latter, we fancy, can
take care of himself in any emergency that
a person of Wellington intellectual equip
ment is likely to precipitate. There is
word to be said, however, touching Wei
lington' attitude and language with refer
ence to this newspaper, and that word, in
all Difference to our readers, we shall pro
ceed to utter.
Mr. Wellington presented to the coun-
try yesterday the weird spectacle of sen
ator rising to a question of privilege for
the purpose Of denying a newspaper re-
port of his behavior on the day before and
winding up by admitting the substantial
accuracy of everything the newspaper in
question had alleged 1t is a fact that he
interspersed his remarks with such epithets
as lliar, ETC., but it is equally fact that
before he stopped talking he had corrobor-
ated the Post account of the committee
proceedings in every important and mate
rial particular. He denounced the Post s
report as untruthful and malicious, and
then wondered pathetically how the Post S
reporter could possibly have obtained the
details. He hurled anathema at the base
wretch who had accused him OF criticislng
the President, and in the next breath no
tilted the universe that he was not
slave, and that if the price of recognition
was to be servility he declined the bargain.
Upon the whole, Wellington made per
fectly luried ass of himself, and suggested
nothing so much as criminal negligence on
the part of once industrious foolkiller.
We have only to say that our report,
yesterday morning of the proceedings of
the Senate Committee on Commerce on
Thursday was in all essential respects a
model of accuracy. The circumstance
that Wellington cannot locate the source
of our information is not momentous, and
the fact that he denounces our publication
so bitterly, suggests only that he is unable
to refute it. But the incident has its
value. 1t has enabled a great many we'll
meaning persons, who might otherwise
have been in doubt, to satisfy themselves
that Wellington is a mournful blatherskite,
and it may-we hope it will-restrain the
people of Maryland from ransacking the
backwoods hereafter when they want TO
find a senator.
Every Saturday Review
One of Senator Wellingtons alleged
reasons for opposing the appointment Of
Mr.. B. II. Warner, Jr., as United States
consul at Leipsic is that he is young
man. Mr.. Wellington is himself scarcely
free from the charge of adolescence, but 1t
is crime which everyone outgrows if he
lives long enough. But Mr.. Wellington
evidently has more cogent reasons for op-
posing Mr.. Warner than the youth of the
latter, and, according to the newspaper
reports. he has been expressing himself in
language unbecoming gentleman and dis
graceful as senator. In fact, the actions
of the Duke of late have been OF such a
nature as to cause him the forfeiture OF the
respect of decent people, and he should
mend his manners if only to sustain the
dignity of the position he occupies. lmag-
inc Senator German so losing control OF
his temper as to apply opprobrious eplthets
to man such as Mr.. Wellington Is said
to have made to a newspaper correspon-
dent concerning Mr.. Warner. 1t is be
lttling, to say the least, and his friends
should caution him to prune down his vol
uble Billingsgate and assume virtue II
he has it not.
Philadelphia Times.
Mr.. Wellington, of Maryland, is new
senator, but he resents any poaching on
his patronage reserves like hoary-headed
veteran. He is mad at the President for
making a consular appointment from the
state Of Maryland without his sanction; he
is madder still at some unnamed ''crea-
ture" for reporting his peppery remarks
upon the appointment before committee
Of the Senate. and maddest of all at the
newspapers for publishing what he said.
1t didn't look well IN print, even to Wei
Gneton. and he is now crawfshing by de-
nying his own remarks.
Before the Maryland senator becomes
veteran in patronage peddling, he Is liable
to learn good many humiliating lessons
about the ingratitude of presidents, and il
will be wise for him to cool off and begin
to harden himself as preparation for othei
disappointments. If he starts out by
imagining that President Mckinley ist al
lowing senators sufficient control of patron
aee. he will meet some real disappoint
ments during the administration OF some
future president that will take his hreatl
away.
Washington Star.
1t is quite time that an end should b.
put 10 the pretensions of Senator Welling
ton that he in any sense represents tn
Republican party of Maryland in his dis
graceful course lately His boorish air
and his scurrilous abuse of everybody i
the party who has failed to obey his dicta
ton have caused revolt against his boss
ship that is manifesting itself all over tn
state. The Warner incident, in which h
used his gutter vocabulary in such epithet
as .'infamous liar, creature, fraud,
etc, is but one instance of his yulga
abuse of his opponents.
y an, Vory rpribuua
The Maryland senator fatally mlsread
the drift of American politics since l88
if he imagines that the senatorial preroga
tive which Roscoe Conkling vainly wrecke
his political fortunes to maintain and e'
tablish can be successfully asserted now
If Mr.. Wellington seriously contemplate
enforcing the senatorial veto power on fed
eral appointments which he contends fol
he is likely to discover very promptly tha
he had begun his crusade for shattere
senatorial privilege at least eighteen yeal
too late,
Philadelphia Record.
Senator Wellington seems to be losln
his head at the prospect of losing contr'
of the Republican party of Marylan
through the insurection against his dlcta
tiOn.
Baltimore American
Senator WELLINGTON simply wants th