The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-08-21
Republican Hypocrisy !.

Turn to the first page and read the article
Under the above caption. 1t is a clear and
truthful presentation of the thoroughly incon-
sistent precept and practice of the Republican
party ON the subject of Civil Service Reform,
not only in Maryland but in the general gov
eminent.
LLOYD Lowndes went about this state ~
1895 and necessarily held up the idea, an
nounced in the platform upon which he was
nominated, that sail public Offices exist for
the good of the people only He was
scarcely seated as Governor before he began
prostitutiug every Office within his gift to the
end that his boss, Wellington, might be elected
TO the United States Senate. One Sydney
Mudd, then Speaker of the House of Dele
gates, wanted to go to Congress and he held
out against Wellington, casting his influence
for another. He was seen by one b. II.
Warner, of Washington, D. c., and his
change to Wellington was followed by the
filing of the state tobacco warehouses with
his supporters from the fifth congressional
district Sydney way elected to Congress,
and while serving his first session he con-
ceived desire to go to the Senate. In the
meantime Lowndes announced his candidacy
as the successor of Mr.. German, and when the
little governor found that Mudd was a candl-
date also, he at once removed all the Mudd
men from the tobacco warehouses, on the
ground of incompetency. Investigation
showed that there was downright corruption
in the warehouses; But of this more here
after 1t is just possible, however, that had
NOS Mudd appeared in the field as senatorial
aspirant there would not have been any re-
moyals from the state tobacco warehouses,
for we have no confidence in the high nrofes-
sions of political purity of Lloyd Lowndes
1t is very singular, at least, that while cor
ruption in the warehouses existed for over a
year Lowndes did not discover it until just
before the Republican primaries in Prince
Georges county, where he and Mudd were
eontssting for the legislative ticket
This reformer, Lloyd Lowndes, who hum
bugged the people of Maryland with his de-
claration that ''alI public Offices exist for the
good of the people only has proven man
of exalted professions and low practices.
And the reform legislature, that was under
promise to give the people of Maryland a
civil service reform law, evaded the promise
so far as it dared, and the hypocrisy ofthe party
in the matter is clearly pointed out And the
article also points out the hypocrisy of the
Republican party in the national administra-
ton, although since it was prepared Mr.. Nc
Kinley has made pretence of belief in civil
service reform. We say pretence, for he has
allowed pretty general sweep Of Democrats
from Office before he promulgated his recent
order about removals only for cause.
Let every subscriber to the ADVOCATE read
the article closely and learn something of how
the people we're deceived in 1896 when
they elevated to power in Maryland set ofpol-
iticians the worst that ever afflicted the state.
As bad as German and Raisin we're alleged
to be, they we're then even saints compared
10 Wellington, Lowndes, Sloan, Mudd, and
the weaklings brought to the surface 10y the
upheaval of 1895.