Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-13
SUPPORTS BABCOCK
MR.. MUDD FOR THE WISCONSIN
MAN FOR SPEAKER.
Discusses His Majority for Congress in
the Fifth Maryland
District.

Representative Sidney E. Mudd of the fifth
Maryland district Is enthusiastic sup
porter of Mr.. Babcock's candidacy for the
speakership Mr.. Mudd, while not speaking
with authority for his three republican
colleagues of Maryland, hopes and believes
that they will all be united In favor of Mr..
Rabcock. Mr.. Mudd has served with Mr..
Babcock on the congressional committee,
and also on the House committee on the
District of Columbia, Mr.. Babcock being
chairman Of both these committees. Mr..
Mudd is the ranking republican member OF
the District committee, and the promotion
of Mr.. Babcock to the speakership would
Undoubtedly result in the appointment Of
Mr.. Mudd as chairman of the District COM
nlittee. Mr.. Mudd has always taken a live
ly interest in District matters, this interest
undoubtedly being accentuated by the
proximity of his congressional district.
Representative Mudd was in town today
on departmental business, and these are his
words on the speakership situation:
LAS l have heretofore stated In brief IN
terview in this city on the occasion of my
visit here last week. my choice for the
speakership is Representative Babcock. My
relations with him, as member of the COM
mittee on the District of Columbia and the
republican congressional committee, for the
last several years, have been close and
pleasant and l have ample confidence In
high Office with satisfaction and credit.
Viewing the matter from the standpoint of
party services certainly no man deserves
more than Mr.. Babcock. Any one Of the
gentlemen thus far named would make an
excellent speaker, but Babcock is my choice.
and in most respects, in my judgment, best
fills the requirements of the situation. At
any rate, l shall support him. 1 am glad to
see that others of my colleagues have eX-
pressed similar purpose, and l hope and
believe that the four of us will in this mat
ter be united"
Mr.. Mudd's Majority.
Mr.. Mudd also had a few remarks to
make in analysis of his Increased major
ity.
There seems to be- he said, "an i'm
preston in some quarters that the increas-
ed republican ma ajority in my district this
year grew out of the fact of the addition
of republican precincts of Baltimore city to
the district by the last legislature. That
is an error. Only small proportion of my
increased majority came from the new ter
ritory added to my district, and my whole
majority in the Baltimore city end of the
district was but little more than that re-
ceived two years ago.
THE fact is, the most noticeable feature
in our Maryland politics this year was that
in the ctv the movement seemed to be to-
ward the democracy, while in the rural
sections it was largely toward the republic
can party.
''The portions of the city in my district
| held their own better than any other. and,
| in fact. made the city republican to the ex-
| tent that it was. while the majority receiv-
ed by me in my whole district, which was
in round numbers about 5000, mounts up to
about five-eighths of the whole republican
majority in the state.
ut looks to me that our chief reliance for
republican success next year will be in the
counties: though both the city and a ma
joritv of the counties can be carried with
lS
| that both can be easily lost with bad man
agement.'