The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
Governor LoWndes.
A COMPARISON OF HIS UT.
TERANCES AND
PRACTICES.
A Picture by Rayner and a
Characterization by
Wellington.

publican Party" it was said-"We
charge, and we will prove, that
Gov. Lowndes has usually acted
contrary to his public utterances."
1t has already been proven that
Gov. Lowndes. after deliberately
and knowingly Repu5licanizing
every board of county school COM
missioners in the State, as was
shown by giving the political
status Of every board by counties
on January l, 1896, and January
/, 1899, said in an interview pub
lished in the Baltimore SIM of
May %. 1899
81 believe that it is of the high
est Importance that politics
should be eliminated from the
practical management of the pub
lie school system"
The only non partisan act the
Governor has ever done in the
matter of public education, was
to vote to retain the present able
and competent principal of the
State Normal School. For this
act he claims great credit, but he
never knew, perhaps, that the
Democrats kept Prof. Newell, a
Republican, in the same position
for about twenty years. The fact
was not heralded abroad, for the
Democrats did not use tine public
school system for political ends,
like Gov. Lowndes and the Re-
publican party is doing.
Gov. Lowndes has lately said
much in the public press about
believing in lifting the judiciary
about partisan politics. Since he
became Governor three vacancies
have occurred on the bench by
reason OF the death of three Dem,
ocrats. In two instances he APP
pointed straight and pronounced
Republicans, Judges Russum and
Schumacher Judge RusSum had
been one of the most active Re
publicans on the Eastern Shore,
and Immediately resumed his par
tiSan activity when he retired
from the bench. IN the third IN
stance Cor. L0~ndeS gaze q Re-
publican the retuSot Of On appoint
ment. 1t was not his fault that a
Republican did not succeed Judge
Roberts. And when he did fill
the vacancy he selected gentle
man who had materially aided
the Republican party lately.
Gov. Lowndes, W hen a candi-
date for Governor in 1895, talked
nicely of civil service reform.
He has given evidence of how
much he believed in it by Repub
licanizing the county school
boards, who in turn replaced eX-
perienced and efficient school eX-
aminers with inexperienced ones.
lie said that public Office was a
public trust. to be administered
for the good Of the public inter
ests, not made the rewards for
partisan activity. He was scarce
ly warm in the Executive Man
sion before he began dealing out
offices to make Wellington Sena.
tor and enable Mudd to get a
nomination for Congress.
In no instance can it be shown
that the Governors practice has
harmonized with his public utter
ance. 1t is uncomfortable how he
can have the effr0ntery, with his
record altogether to the contrary,
to go into print and say that pub
lie Office should be used solely
for the public good and not as re-
wards for partisanship; that the
judiciary should be taken out of
politics, and that politics should
be eliminated from the practical
management of the public school
system.
Gov. Lowndes is an extreme par
tizan, and he has shown it in ev-
cry act since be was inangurated.
His published views to the con
trary are only intended to deceive
and draw attention away from his
record. Hon. Isidor Rayner. in
his speech at Frederick, on Sep
TENDER 81, drew very good pic
ture of the Governor as a purist
i'll politics. He said
"He (Gov. Lowndes) Is as
shrewd and as scheming a polite
ian as was ever graduated from
the political seminaries of Allega-
ny. When he is framing his polit-
lcal contracts at the Maryland
Club, he is an ardent reformer,
but when he is dining and winning
at Republican leagues and ban
quets he is as bitter an enemy of
the Democratic party as the ex-
tremist fanatic from the shores OF
New England. When he leaves
his home amid the celestial re-
gions of Allegany County and
lands in Baltimore City, he envel.
opes himself in his dazzling dom.
inc of reform, so that he can tiirt
with the independent vote of the
CITY,"
The plain meaing of what Mr.