The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-11-02
German or Mudd.

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A few Democrats in Maryland, very few,
however, are opposedto Mr.. German return
ing to the United States Senate, and they will
vote for Republicans for the Legislature.
If the Democrats carry the Legislature Mr..
German will most assuredly be returned to
the Senate.
If the Republicans obtain majority in the
Legislature the Honorable ~ Sydney Mudd
will be elected to succeed Mr.. Wellington.
Mr.. German is a stateman. No man in
the whole United States has the intimate
knowledge of public affairs that Mr.. German
has. No man isso welIinformed on Govern
ment affairs as Mr.. German. No man has so
complete knowledge of tariff schedules, ma
val and army appropriations and other matters
Of congressional control as Mr.. German. No
man in either the Democratic or Republican
party has exerted the same influence that Mr.
German has. When he spoke in the Senate
no man had so many intent listeners on both
sides Of the chamber as he had. And his
views had great weight, in matters not exclu
sively partisan. For years he stood with
out peer in the Senate. aud his infu-
ence was greater than that of any man in that
august body.
And the Republicans, if successful in car
rying the next Legislature, propose to put
Sydney Mudd in the Seuate-a mere politi-
clan. man of unsavory reputation, and one
who is suspected Of being the instigator of the
Census Frauds perpetrated in the counties of
Charles, St. Mary's and Anne Arundel.
Mudd has been, and is, one of the most
vindictive bosses the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict has ever known. Every man that has
opposed his ambitions and schemes has been
ruthlessly trampled upon, and he has builtu
the most INSCRIPTIONS and corrupt machine
ever known in that district.
When Mudd was elected to the House of
Delegates in 1895, he was not a millionaire
by any means, lie was made Speaker of the
House. and he did not lose any money in that
position. Neither has he lost any money
since he was elected to Congress by the large
Negro vote of the 9Th district, and he is not
placed in the list of paupers.
During the present campaign he is in the
background Activity on his part, it is said,
would call up very wildly the Federal Cen
sus Frauds. But Mudd seeming Indifference
is mere sham. Should the Republicans
carry the Legislature Mudd would at once
jump to the fore and be elected to the United
States Senate.
But Mudd cannot keep under cover The
Republicans must admit that he is slated for
the Senate, and must carry the burden. No
more INSCRIPTIONS politician ever appeared
in public affairs in Maryland. No more vim
dictive politician has ever been known in the
State. And those who do not suspect him of
engineering the Federal Census Frauds are
directed to the speech ofJohn c. Rose, United
States District Attorney, and Radical Re-
publican, delivered in the trial Of the rascals
who perpetrated the frauds. Mr. Rose said,
according to the report of bis remarks in the
Baltimore Sun
Mr.. John C. Rose in his opening statement
related the history Of the proceeding, saying
that enumerators had falsely raised the popu-
lation of st. Mary's county from Is, 99S TO !
49, 1876 IN order TO secure for the county an
additional member of the House Of Delegates.
He said that Mr.. Ching was the real mover and
brains in the enterprise and that when he
found, by getting advance reports of the re-
turns, which he should not have been allowed
to have, that the population was about Is, 900,
he Immediately began to try to fix upon some
plan which would give the required figures,
not only in the hope of getting another dele
For fI..
but with the idea that If the Republicans were
defeated in the elections st. Mary's county
would still have larger representation in
Republican councils and conventions in the
State.
''Then, said Mr.. Rose, "Mr. Ching fonnd
Congressman Sydney e. Mudd in Washing
ton and got him to go with him to Mr.. Will
liam L 5. Rawlins, census supervisor for the
district, who was importuned to have another
count taken, Mr.. Rawiins was doubtful of
his authority TO take that step and referred the
two to Director of the Census Merriam, who
in turn directed them to Chief Hunt, of the
Bureau of Population Statistics. Mr. Hunt
was informed of the fear that the population
of the county had not been all included. He
advised them that Mr.. Rawlins not only had
the authority, but it was his duty to order
enumerators to look over the field again and
See if any mistakes had been made.
''At this point, Mr. Rose said, ''the frauds
began, for of the people returned on the Sec
ond count most were fictitious, dead or had
moved away,
Stephen A. Abel was the first Census emu
merator arrested. He was member of the
Washington Police force at the time, appointed
upon the recommendation of Sydney Mudd
lie also was appointed censns enumerator in
st. Mary's county on Mudd's recommends
ton. When arrested he made confession of
wrong doing, saying he acted on the advice of
Sydney Mudd and others. Here is a part of
his statement
Last June | was appointed an enumerator
In the eastern part of the Third enumerating
district on recommendation of Mr.. Mudd.
When | went to work it was understood was
TO set down all men who had died within |
year-although | was to use my own discre-
ton and put down the men who died since the |
census before if thought best. Those were
my instructions from Mr.. Mudd, Mr. Ching |
and Mr.. Abel. They are all Republicans,
and am Republican, and | worked with
he Republican crowd.
And Mudd is slated for the United States
Senator should the Republicans win. Do
espectable Republicans indorse such man
or so exalted position? Do they desire to
lave Maryland disgraced by having snch
representative in the highest branch of our
rational legislature?
Let them consider what the election of
dudd means-a disgrace to the Republican
,arty and to the State. If they do this they
will not vote for he Republican nominees for
he House of Delegates.
Every Democrat who votes for one of the
Republicans for the Legislature, casts vote
or Mudd. Even complimentary vote for
ne of them, counts just the same as vote for
Judd,