The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-08-07

The spectacle presented by Republican
leaders and factions in this state is most dis
gushing. Nothing like it has ever been wit
messed before here, and nothing elsewhere
that is now recalled.
Wellington dictation and arrogant bossism
created a sensation and has aroused spirit
of resentment in many of the more respect
able members of the party, particularly in
Baltimore. His threats of knocking out
aspirants for Office who do not retire at his
bidding; his performance in the Heddinger
case and in that of B. H. Warner, Jr., and
later in the appointment OF Collector Of In
ternal Revenue, are still fresh in the minds
of the people and are all sources of disgust
and contempt.
Added to Wellington's disgusting conduct,
comes disgraceful fight between Governor
Lowndes and Congressman Mudd, both of
whom desire to go to the United States Sen
ate. Lowndes is prostituting the patronage
of his office to secure his election and Mudd
is using the party machinery that he has in
his grasp to seize every unfair means in his
power.
They locked horns in Prince Georges
county, and they have succeeded in dividing
the party and destroying the chances of either,
SO far as that county is concerned. Each side
has named a county ticket and elected dele
gates to state and judicial conventions, and
disguised whatever of decency there was in
the party in the county.
The Eight between these two aspirants is
Just begun, and the beginning is the most
disgraceful performance of the kind ever wit
messed in Maryland politics. 1t is difficult to
imagine what lower depths Lowndes and
Mudd can go, but each can be depended upon
to fight the other with any weapon at hand.
In Baltimore there are three factions headed
by three candidates for Mayor, each bitterly
opposed TO the others. Behind one the state
and city ring have placed themselves, and
the nomination of Marburg is to he forced
upon an unwilling majority.
In the same city the Republican party is
destroying the efficiency of the best police
force of the country, by removals upon himsy
charges and no charges at all, by imposing
hard service, by having the men watched by
spies, and by keeping them in a state of un-
certainty as to their tenure in the service.
Every branch of the city government is marked
by partisanship and incompetency.
This is only a slight outline of Republican
supremacy in this state, and as the days roll
on more disgusting does the record become
to all decent voters.
1t is scarcely to be conceived how law
abiding, state loving, tax-paying voters can
restrain from strong protest against such
spectacle the Republican leaders are making
in this state. Yet every Republican journal
is silent and the press of Baltimore that aided
in securing Republican supremacy in this
state are not only not protesting but are even
suppressing as much of the details as possible.
If the tax. payers and respectable voters of
this state do not hurl from power in Novem
Der such gang of trading politicians as now
rule the state, they will deserve every
humiliation, and every exhibition of low
politics that will surely follow, as well as
incompetency and corruption in state, county
and municipal governments.