The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-10-07
GOV. L0WNDES.
A COMPARISON OF HIS UTTER
ANCES AND PRACTICES.
A PICTURE BY RAYNER AND A
CHARA CTERIzA BY
WELLINGTON

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 uJterances.
1t has already been proven that Gov.
Lowndes, after deliberately and knowingly
Repubhcanizing every board of county
school commissioners in the state. as was
shown by giving the political status Of every
board by counties on January /, 1896,
and January |, 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 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 edu
cation. was to vote to retain the present
able and compe,eu, principal OF the State
/ Normal School For this act he claims
great credit, but he never knew, perhaps
( that the Democrats kept Prof Newell,
Republican, in the same position for about
/ twenty years The fac, WAS not heralded
abroad, for the Democrats did not Use the
| public school system for political ends. ike
/ Gov l.owndes aud the Republican party Is
doing
Gov. Lowndes has lately said much in
the public press abou, believing in lifting
the Judiciary about partisan politics Since
be became Governor three vacancies have
occurred on the bench BY reason Of the
! deaths Of three Democrats In two in-
stances he appointed straight and pro-
upuuced Republicans. Judges Russum and
| Schumacher Judge Russum had been one
Of the most active Republicans on the
I Eastern Shore, and Immediately resumed
his partisan activity when he retired froR
the bench IL he third iastaHcs Cor
/ L0trsslss gaue Il RpHjiicgs he nfssaf of
Ba appoiHfmes' Ii WIS not his fault that
a Republican did not succeed Judge Rob
erss Aud when he did ill the vacancy
/ he selected a gentleman who had materially
aided che Republican party lately
Gov. I.osudes. when a candidate for
. Governor in lS95, talked nicely Of civil
service reform He has given evidence uf
how much he believed in 1t by Repuslican-
izins the county school boards. who in turn
replaced experienced and efficient school
examiners with inexperienced ones.
lie said that public ofiiee was public
trust. to bc administered for the good of
the public interests, not made the rewards
for par,isah activity lie sas scarcely
. warm Ia the Executive Magssion before he
be-sn dealing out Offices to make yelling
ton Senator aud enable Mudd to set q uon-
inasioa for Congress,
In no instance can it be- shown that the
Governor Practice has har,nonized with
biz public utterance II l. inconceiyable
huw be can have the cfrpn,ery, With his
record altogether 90 the contrary, to go into
print and say tha, public otfiee should be
used solely for the public good and no, a.
rewards for partisausE;p, thst the Judiciary
should be- taken out OF politics, aud that
pol;gies should b. eliminated FROM the prac-
tieal management Of the public school sys
tom,
Gov Lowndes Is an extreme partisan,
and be has shown it in every act since be
was inauguraied HIS published views 70
the contrary arr only intended 20 deceive
and draw attention away from his record
Hon Isidor Rayner. in his speech at Fred
erick. On September q. drew i very good
picture Of the Governor a. paFisl in pal
iiies. He said
"He Gov, Lowndes IS Is shrewi aud as
scheming politician as was ever graduated
from the political seminaries Of AlegAny.
When he Is framing his poliiiea, contracts at
the Maryland Club, be j. IA ardent refurmer,
ha, whea be Is dining and Niuing "a, kepuhli-
can leagues and bauqueis be Is As bitter an
enemy of the Democratic party as the eN-
tremisi fanatic from the shores OF New Eng
land. When he leaves his home amid the
celestial regions OF Allegauy county and lands
iH Baltimore city, lie euvelops himself "a his
dazzling domino OF reform, so that he can
ilirt gracefully with the independent vote Of
the city.
The plain meaning Of what Mr. Rayn-r
said is that the Governor word eanuo; be
depended upon in politics and it Is a fact
that mast of the Republican leaders place
no confidence in him. Neither Master
Wellington nor Mudl trus; him yelling
ten. who knows him better than the rest i.
says he Is uutrnthful Ia letter to the
Governor, on September -, in answer to
one asking him TO resign Is chairman Of
the State Central Committee, Senator Well
ington used this language
II wuie more in sorrow than in anger, bat,
above al, there is present with me for yOu,
mingled with some pity for your weakness,
immsastrable and unutterabie contempt for
go,a eaRt of FRANESEss and TRUTH.
Such Is the character of the man whom
the people elected to the high Office of
| Governor of Maryland His talk on the
stump and through the press in 1895 and
ever since about political reform, non-par,i-
san schools, 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 char
acter and viii bury him with their ballots
ON November Z.