The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-10-06
GOV. LOWNDES.
A Comparison Of His Utter
ances and Practices.
A PICTURE By RAYNER AND
4 Gil NRACTERIZATION
By WELLINGTON.

By WELLINGTON.
| published hy Authority of the Mtryltnd Dem)-
cratic Editors A>sociatiOn.)
| In the ~'Indictment of the Republican
Party" it was said-"We charge, and we
will prove, that Gov. Lowndes has usually
acted contrary to his public utterance.
1t has already been proven that Gov
Lowndes, after deliberately and know
ingly Republicanizing every board of
county school commissioners in the state
as was shown by giving the political
status of every board by counties on Jan
uary 1, 1896, and January 1, 1899, said in
an interview published in the Baltimore
Sun of May %, 1899
Il believe that it is of the highest i'm
portance that politics should be eliminat-
ed from the practical management of the
public school system"
The only non-partisan act the Cover
nor has ever done in the matter of public
education, was to vote to retain the pre-
sent 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 posi-
ton for about twenty years. The fact
was not heIalded abroad, for the Demo
Gratis did not use the public school system
for political ends, like Gov. Lowndes and
the Republican party is doing.
Gov Lowndes has lately said much in
the public press about believing in lifting
the judiciary above partisan politics.
Since he became Governor three vacancies
have occurred on the bench by reason of
the deaths of three Democrats. In two
instances he appointed straight and pro-
nounced Republicans, Judges, Russum
and Schumacher. Judge Russum had been
one of the most active Republicans on
the Eastern Shore, and Immediately re-
sumed his partisan activity when he re-
tired from the bench. In the third in
stance Gov. Lowndes gave a Republican
the refusal of an appointment. 1t was
not his fault that Republican did not
succeed Judge Roberts. And when he
did fill the vacancy he selected gentle
man who had materially aided the Repub
lcan party lately.
Gov Lowndes, when candidate for
Governor in 1895, talked nicely of civil
service reform. lie has given evidence
of how much he believed in it by Republi
canizing the county school boards.
He said that public Office was public
trust, to be administered for the good of
the public interests, not made the rewards
for partisan activity. He was scarcely
warm in the Executive Mansion before
he began dealing out offices to make
Wellington Senator and enable Mudd to
get nomination for Congress.
In no instance can it be shown that the
Governors practice has harmonized with
how he can have the etfrontery, with his
record altogether to the contrary, to go
into print and say that public Office should
be used solely for the public good and not
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 partisan,
and he has shown it in every act since he
was inaugurated. His published views to
the contrary are only intended to deceive
and draw attention away from his record.
Hon. 1sidor Rayner, in his speech at
Frederick, on September 81, drew very
good picture of the Governor as purist
in politics. He said
He Gov. Lowndes) is as Shrewd and
as scheming politician as was ever grad
uatcd from the political Summaries of
Allegany. When he is framing his poll
teal contracts at the Maryland Club, he
is an ardent reformer, but when he is dining
and wining at Republican leagues and
banquets lie is as bitter an enemy of the
Democratic party as the extremist fanatic
from the shores of New England. When
he leaves his home amid the celestial
regions of Allegany county and lands in
Baltimore city, he envelops himself in
his dazzling domino of reform. SO that
dent vote of the city
The plain meaning of what Mr.. Rayner
said is that the Governors word cannot
be depended upon in politics, and it is a
fact that most of the Republican leaders
place no confidence in him Neither
Maltster, Wellington nor Mudd trust him
Wellington. who knows him better than
the rest says he is untruthful. In letter
to the Governor, on September %, in
answer to one asking him to resign as
chairman of the State Central Committee,
Senator Wellington used this language
Il write more in sorrow than in anger,
but, above all, there is present with me
for you, mingled with some pity for your
weakness Unreasonable and unutterabe
contempt for your want of FRANKNEss and
TRUTH.
Such is the character of the man whom
the people elected to the high office of
Govern or of Maryland. His talk on the
stump and through the press in 1895 and
ever since about political reform, non
partisan schools, a non partisan judiciary
civil service reform, &c, was cant and
rank hypocrisy. 1t remains to be seen
whether the people have fully realized
his true character and will bury him with
their ballots on November =
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