The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-08-24
The Purposes of Boss Mccomas
From Eastoa (Md.) Ledger.

From Eastoa (Bfd.) Ledger.
The greatest, boldest most arrogant and
most INSCRIPTIONS political machine ever set
up in the State of Maryland is that made and
controlled by Senator McComas, and it owns
the Republican party in Maryland as abso-
lutely as Quay does in Pennsylvania or Platt
ever did in New York.
1t was not for fun that Louis McComas re-
signed life time judgeship with big salary
attached in Washington II was ambition,
the desire to build up great machiue IN
MARYLAND and to boss it, and to make every
Republican in the State who dared to ques
ton his autocracy bite the dust. Never, in
the political history Of Maryland, was there
such a domineering and constituencies boss
as this same McComas. His first step was to
crush the life out of poor Wellington; his next
was TO get the Mudds and Chings OF Southern
Maryland and the Sam Davis gang of Balti-
more with him; he then proceeded TO bulldoze
that gentle and genial Eastern Shore gentle
man, Philips Lee Goldsborough; to put his
foot upon the neck of Hon. Isaac Ambrose
Barber came naturally and in proper sequence;
he Juggernauted former Governor Lloyd
Lowndes; he issued orders to Stevenson Arch
er Williams which he will no more disobey
than Line Dryden would; what were census
frauds to him or he TO census frauds? Dis
covery may have worried him; there is no
evidence the crime ever did.
He bossed the State convention noml-
mated the candidates and made the platform.
What is his next move2 The State conven-
ton developed it. 1t is to obtain control OF
the Board Of Public Works, and to this end
he ordered the nomination for Comptroller of
his kinsman, one Herman Plat, who is at the
head of gigantic oyster trust combination.
The subseryient convention obeyed the behest.
Given a Republican Legislature, and boss
McComas will be given control of the Board
of Public Works by the election of State
Treasurer of his own ordering.
Give boss McComas the Board Of Public
Works, then what /? His coyetous eyes and
those of his conferes are upon the oyster
bottoms of the Chesapeake bay, and with a
Republican Legislature and, as its outcome,
McComas owning the Board of Public Works
they will accomplish their purpose in spite of
Governor JohnWalter Smith who will then be
merely the representative of a shorn and bound
Democracy. The firm of Platt McComas d
Company will be entrenehed in power for all
time to come, as far as can be seen ahead, as
owners of the State, its waters and material
interests What price to pay because OF per-
sonal or political hostility to two or three
Democratic leaders
Given Republican Legislature and boss
McComas is given absolutely the selection of
a United States Senator IN succession to Wei
lington. John Fisher, Lloyd Tydings and Ber-
ry Benson if elected will have nothing in the
world to do with it,except as henchmen obey
ing Boss McComas's orders. Whom will he
select for United States Senator McComas
has never been accused of political ingrati
tude, and if he never is to be, his choice must
fall on Sydney Mudd. 'Vrhe Maryland dele
CATION, Speaker Reed is quoted as having
said, SIS composed of FIVE fools and one ras-
CAL Sydney Mudd is not fool. -
The Democrat who votes for the Republi
can candidates for the Legislature votes for
the most formidable and threatening political
machine ever organized in Maryland votes
for the most arbitrary and Inscriptions po-
titical boss the State has ever known; and
votes to put in the hands of Republican poll
ticans as owners under corporate trust to be
formed the most important industrial interests
the State has, which have always been kept
by the Democratic party for the use of the
people