The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-10-05
The Purposes of Boss McComas.
From the Easton 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 absolute
ly as Quay does in Pennsylvania or Platt ever
did in New York.
1t is not for fun that Louis McComas re-
signed lifetime judgeship with big salary
attached in Washington. 1t was ambition, the
desire to build up great machine in Mary
land and to boss it, and to make every Repnb-
lican in the State who dared to question his
autocracy bite the dust. Never, in the politi-
cal history Of Maryland was there such dom
ineering 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 Baltimore with
him; he then proceeded to bulldoZe that genial
and gentle Eastern Shore gentleman, Phillips
Lee Goldsborough; to put his foot upon the
neck of Hon. Isaac Ambrose Barber came
naturally and in proper sequence; he Jugger-
nauted former Governor Lloyd Lowndes; he
issued orders to Stevenson Archer Williams,
which he will no more disobey than Line Dry
den would, what were census frauds to him or
he to census frauds7 Discovery may have
worried him; there is no evidence the crime
ever did
He bossed the State onvention-nominated
the candidates and made the platform. What
is his next move? The State convention de-
veloped it. 1t is to obtain control of the
Board Of Public Works, and to this end he or
dered the nomination for Comptroller of his
kinsman, one Herman Plat, who is at the
head Of gigantic oyster trust combination.
The subservient convention obeyed the behest.
Given 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 covetous eyes and
those of his conferes are upon the oyster bot
toms of the Chesapeake bay, and with Re-
publican Legislature and as its outcome, Nc
Comas owning the Board of Public Works,
they will accomplish their purpose in spite Of
Governor John Walter Smith, who will then
be merely the representative of a shorn and
bound Democracy. The firm of Platt Nc
Comas Il Company will be entrenched in pow
er for all time to come, as far as can be seen
ahead, as owners of the State, its waters and
material interests.
Given Republican Legislature and Boss
McComas is given absolutely the selection of
a United States Senator in succession to Well
ington. Whom will be select for United
States Senator2 McComas has never been
accused of political ingratitude, and if he
never is to be, his choice must fall on Sydney
Mudd "The Maryland delegation, . Speaker
Reed is quoted as having said, sis composed
of five fools and one rascal. Sydney Mudd is
not a fool
The Democrat who votes for the Republican
candidates for the Legislature votes for the
most formidable and threatening political ma
chine ever organized in Maryland; votes for
the most arbitrary and INSCRIPTIONS political
boss the State has ever known; and votes to
put in the hands of Republican politicians 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.