The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-06-15

accuracy OF a geometncal or arlthmetical
proposition, then let them all 60.
ssHere is a map of st. Mary's county.
Leonardtown is in the centre of it and there
Ching, ike q spider, sat weaving his web,
while the districts where these frauds we're
committed surround it, Go back into the
history of the case little. The schedules as
sent back by Bowles and Graves and Abel
and Guyther about the first of July were prac
lically perfect. There were no fraudulent
names upon them and only few unimportant
Implications and omissions The lists were
sent in and the men evidently thought their
work completed.
ssBu. from the middle of July to the middle
of August, Mr. Guyther sends to the Census
Department 1873 fraudulent names, Mr.. Bowles
sends in 312 fraudulent names and Abel, who
was on the stand here before you, and who
prevaricated and shufied and lied while he
was on the stand, sends in 528 fraudulent
names. They had all completed their work
and had done it well by the first of July, when,
presto comes the middle of July, and they
all steep themselves in the most degrading
fraud and attempt to swindle the Government.
"Mr. Marbury would have you believe-and
il is not an impeachment of his remarkable
ability that he is unable TO set up stronger
defense, for he cannot construct rope when
he has nothing but pile of sand with which
TO work-Mr Marbury would have you believe
that this all grewup out of the desire TO SWIM
die the Government out of the three cents
paid for each name enumerated; that Guyther
sent in these fraudulent names because he
wanted the So extra that he would receive for
them, and that at the same time Mr.. Bowles
and Mr.. Abel and Mr.. Graves were seized
with the same impulse TO swindle the Govern
ment after they had finished their work hon.
estly.
1.-THE argument will not hold They could
not have been seized with this desire stimuli
taneously, for they did not even have the
schedule with which TO carry it out nor was
there any way in which the additional names
would be counted unless the way was paved
for them and unless the schedules were sent
to them first.
Mr.. Cans then gave the jury common
sense idea of the meaning of conspiracy
within the eyes of the law, and showed that
there was no difference between legal and a
common sense view of it. He showed that
there must be a master or directing mind, and
that while each person did his part, it fell 10
the master mind to patch these pieces together
and make the greatest use of them for some
purpose. Mr.. Cans showed that there were
only l6, 998 names on the original lists as sent
in by the St. Mary's enumerators about July
/, aud that 1902 additional names were needed
in order to bring the population of the county
up to 5000, when it would be entitled TO an
additional member of the House of Delegates,
of the State Central Committee and of the
State Convention.
There must have been man, continued
Mr.. Cans, who could go to Rollins and say
How many names have you got from our
county now aud heay many shall | send in to
bring it up to 18,000g He may have been
aided by persons who are not indicted here,
but who Dug hit TO have been, by people who
were her i'll politics and other things than
Ching, but the names do not appear in this
Indictment.
Now who is Ching? A lawyer? Yes;
but not a very good one if the advice he gave
these poor enumerators was sample of the
kind of legal advice he had to give. He is a
member of the State Central Committee of the
Republican party in st. Mary rs county and a
lieutenant of the most prominent politician in
Southern Maryland, and that is the Congress
man, Mr.. Sydney E. Mudd.
at is not crime to be Republican; but
it is a crime to be Republican like Ching,
and think every good Republican within the
sound of my voice will say so. He is pracli
cally the whole Republican Committee in the
county. Enoch B. Abel and Adam Mahoney
are also members of it. but Mr.. Abel testified
that he appointed only one OF the enumerators
and Mr.. Ching appointed all the others, SO
that looks as if he is the whole thing.
"Who started this business, anyhow? There
is grave suspicion that some one not in this
case did the starting, but | am not permitted
to speak of suspicious, and there is not suffi-
cient evidence to have him indicted So far
as we know, Ching started it, Why? For
the purpose for which the fraudulent names
were afterward used-for swelling the names
up beyond the $4,000 mark. Isn't that fair
proposition? They did commit this fraud and
they did use the names to bring the county
out with an additional member of the House
of Delegates.
Then Mr.. Cans showed that when Guernsey
received letter from the Census Department
written by Mr.. Sloan, the chief geographer,
telling him that Congressman Mudd had called
and had asked that Guernsey be sent to see
Ching, as Ching knew of at least so names
which had been omitted, he said that Ching
knew the contents of this letter before Guern-
sey received it and tackled him about it as
Guernsey was walking away from the Post
Office. He related Guernsey's testimony as
to what Ching said to him
Il have been to Washington and had this
thing fixed up, and you had better go back
home. You will have Senator and Con-
gresham behind you if anything comes Of it.
You know the kind of report to make; make
it a general report and don't say anything
specific about the dead men,
"Does not that establish their motive for
the frand? Ching went to Rollins and com
plaiaed that St. Mary's county was not prop
erly enumerated Rollins and Mudd went to
Merriam. Merriam sent them to Hunt the
proper Chief of Bureau. Mudd wentto Hunt,
aud then Mudd came back to Rollins and told
him to go ahead, and Rollins did go ahead.
''Who keeps the various people implicated
together during the preparation of the sup
Elemental lists? Ching. Who sees that they
do not oyerrun their time Ching.
''Let us look at the dates little. Ching
prods Graves along until he sends in his lists
on August L, as Ching directs. He does the
same thing with Guythers schedules. which
are also sent in on August |. Bowles' sched
ules are sent in on August 2. So all are in
except Abell's, and it becomes necessary for
Ching to know how many names are required
to make up the $4,000, and these names are
all to go on Abelfs lists They held Abells
list out until after August IL. We know that,
for he enumerated the dead body of Mrs
Sanderson and the undertaken, Mr.. Nally,
who did not reach ST. Mary's county until
August Ii, and then he sent the Abel SEIZED
ue in, and on August IA Rollins sent all the
schedules to the main Census Office. Ching
himself sat down and put IA names on Abelfs
schedules, and Robert Abel added four with
Abel's signatures. My brother ask you to
leave Ching out. In Heavens name, if you
leave anyone out, leave them all out but
Ching.
$50 you see that Ching not only gave birth
TO the child, but nursed it, and when it was
sent on its way his was the hand that gave
it its last pat and his parting blessing.
This was ALL st. Mary's county had another
Delegate, and, as Mr.. Posey says, great
work had been accomplished for the Repubi-
can party. Mr.. Ching, so far as this evidence
shows, took holiday.
''But when the child fell sick again. Mr..
Ching becomes the doctor and attends very
carefully to his patient. The Census Office
experts started down into St. Mary's county
on the morning train on February 81 and on
February 20 Ching knew that they were COM
ing. He wrote to Billie Bean, the postmas-
ter at Valley Lee to warn Guyther, the blum
dering farmer. In parentheses, be might
have said
81 got this information from Rollins on
the quiet, but he did not
Mr.. Cans read Ching's letter to Bean in
which Ching told Bean that the census experts
were coming and to post Guyther and tell him
to tell the experts that all of the names on
his lists were all right and were residents of
the district when he enumerated them and
not TO slip up. Mr.. Cans made the point that
unless Mr.. Chings connection with the con-
spiracy had been certain he would rot have
written this letter.