Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-08-22
DEmOCRATlC STATE TICKET.


"wha. d the moralf Who rides may
read.
When tbs Bigh. thick and the tracks
are blind,
A friend q pinch IL friend indeed;
But fool TO wait for the iaggard
behind;
Down % Gehenna or up 20 the throne |
He travels the fastest VINO travels alone. |
swhefsfore the more you be holpsn and
STAYED by friend In the hour of toll.
Sing The keretical song have made
His be the labor and yours be the spoil.
Win by his sid and the aid disown--
HetraSels the fastest who travels alone"
In another column We reprint Con-
gressman Mudd's authorized interview
wherein he repudiases Joseph Henry
Ching and his works. II Is the learned
Cotton says the devil laughs at hypo-
crisy, his Satanic majesty enjoyed
hearty guffaw when he read the Herald
Of August z, 1901. Mudd denouncing
Ching and repndiating his methods ID
an amusing thing indeed. Why for
long years Mr.. Mudd never found the
slightest fault with Ching OF his methods
and we have first-class republican tssti-
meny that he has stood godfather for
them, for on ore occasion when his at
tention was pointedly called to some of
Joe's doings, he dismissed the complaint
with the remark: "Well, Wash, TIL tell
Ching he must stop calling you A."
The Federal census rolls were padded
aud che government detected the fraud.
There was hue and cry raised all over
the country. After full investigation
before ~ honest, upright. correct and
learned Judge 40 sits upon the Federal
beach it was demonstrated that frauds
had been committed. II will be noted
that Mr.. Mudd does not condemn these
frauds, but condemns Mr.. Ching, appar-
emily adopting for his motto, "Deprendi
Miseran est. Fabio eel JUDGE cincGm." We
are no apolgists for Mr.. Ching, and no
one more thoroughly deplores the CEN
sus frauds than we do, but We fail 20 see
why the Sc. Msry's man should be held
up 70 public scorn and others who were
NJ deep In the mud as 81. Marians were
In the nire should not also be condemn
ed. Ching's connection with fraudu-
lent census returns was certainly not
for his own benefit and Ching's influence
and pull could not have dragged Anne
Arundel and Charles county ehumer-
ators into the scheme to pad the lists
and increase representation in the
General Assembly.
We are surprised at the new glimpse
this interview gives of Mr.. Mudd's
character, for We have heretofore re-
garded him IS q man who disdained to
play to the galleries and as politician
90 open ast0 scorn disguise. We live
aud learn. And this interview Is rs full
Of information as an egg is of meat.
Mr.. Mudd tells as, "Ching did not, GER
tainly not In any material sense at all,
shape the course of the convention, &C."
And, "that cannot fairly be called
Ching convention which nominated
Senator Wilkinson for the Senate" Il
can Just Is fairly be called Ching con-
vention, Mr.. Congressman. as you can
be called q Wilkinson man or Senator
Wilkinson be called Mudd man, and
the two nomenclatures now seem to be
all right, aud conclusive evideace that
politics make strange bedfellOws.
Further, in 1899. convention assembled
In Sc. Mary's county, and there Is abund-
ant living republican testimony that il
was aching convention" Il nominat-
cd for the House Of Delegates two gen
tieman who are on the present ticket for
the same positions. They were certainly
Ching men then. And Treasurer Love
and Sheriff Springer have assuredly al
ways been and are yet, we believe, Mr..
Ching's devoted friends. We think none
Of these gentlemen will deny their
friendship for Mr.. Ching because he
now happens to be In trouble. The
other candidate. Lewis K. Mattingly. Is
We think, democrat. Would Mr.. Mudd
not have acted like Mr.. Ching had he
been In Ching's place.
Az to Mr. Mndd's views on the reso-
luton. candor and truthfulness compel
NJ 20 state that the idea that it was
meant to reflect on the court by which
Ching was recently tried" Is new TO US,
aud we believe TO the great majority Of
the people Of the county. We thought
and we think otkers here thought with
us, that IL was slap at supposed local
enemies and had no reference to the
court. The resolutions were certainly
read we heard no motion TO strike out |
any part OF them; there was 6 conten- |
tion about reading all of the resolutions;
Senator Wilkinson wanting all read at |
once and others contending that as the |
resolutions Dealt with entirely separate |
and distinct propositions they should be |
considered AZ different times. II was |
determined 20 defer consideration OF /
the resolution to repeal the Crawford |
system. and the chairman said: Seen
tlemen. y0u have heard the resolutions
read all In favor of their adoption win |
say. aye" There was a unanimous /
faye" and the chairman declared the
resolutions carried. There may be some
who say the convention struck out part
Of the resolutions, hut we have not heard
them express themselves. What was
doae in caucus IL caucus secret and the
public knows not oft.
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