Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-03-07
TAXPAYERS ASSOC lat ION.
IS IT A DEBATING SOCIETY
Resolutions Condemning The Press
Judge Magruder Calls
The President to
Order.

N|RtAANNAN tNGbAf ANC iNAE0HNt AANAutA-
ing the newspaper men present, attend
ed the meeting this morning of the
taxpayers association in the Court
House. Bad weather and other CON
ditions were given as the cause of the
small attendance. In the absence OF
Mr.. Q. X. Boswell, the regular secre-
tary of the association, Mr.. q. l.. Tate
acted in that capacity.
After the minutes of the preceding
meeting had been read Judge Magru-
der arose and stated that there had
been serious omission in the min
utes. he stated that no reference was
made TO the address of Mr.. Mancha.
in which the latter had referred TO the
matter of pensioning judges He re-
quested that the error be rectified A
motion was put and carried that the
error be rectified and made n part of
the minutes.
After the motion had passed Mr..
Mancha got TO his feet and began TO
make an explanation relative Co the
speech in question. Judge MagrudeE
speedily cut off his explanation, stat
ing that Cushing's manual offered no
precedent by which question not be-
fore a body could be discussed. Mr.
Mancha was seated. Judge Magruder.
was again brought TO his feet in de-
fense Of Cushing's manual when Presi-
dent Melvin stated that Mr.. h. $.
Riley had agreed 60 make an address.
The judge stated that the chair had
not the right to designate speakers
and abrogate to himself the power of
telling the members of the association
what they shall hear and who they
shall hear.
Mr.. Melvin insisted that the chair
had the power where there was no oh.
lection. Judge Magruder protested
and claimed that the matter should be
decided by vote, appealing from the
decision of the chair. On putting the
matter to vote the chair was upheld.
Mr.. Riley then proceeded to read his
address, which was very pleasing and
was on the subject of 1.-The High
Rights of Taxation. Space forbids its
publication today.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the address Mr.. Mancha arose and
stated that as all of the papers of the
city and county had expressed a will
ingness to publish the proceedings of
the association that they all be given
every opportunity of doing so Z He
was requested to commit his statement
to writing. which he did, changing
the phraseology but little. The report
was accepted without comment, but
was received with broad smiles by the
spectators because of the fact that
every county and city paper was rep
resented with the sole exception of the
official organ, which had no repre-
sentative present.
Judge Magruder again dealt himself
hand and asked the chair the cause
of the delay in making the appoint
ment of the various committees which
were TO transact the various investi-
cations for the association. 10 this
President Melvin replied that he had
no opportunity of meeting with the
executive committee owing TO the bad
weather, but that at the next meeting
of the association he would make
known the membership of the COM
mittees.
Then Judge Henry Tydings, of the
Orphans Court. who had fathered the
resolution at the last meeting of the
association selecting an "official"
paper to publish the proceedings, ask
ed TO be heard on a matter of privi-
Iege In his hands, which were
trembling violently, he held several
sheets of note paper, from which he
read what he had to say in reference
to an editorial which appeared on Feb
ruary 20 in the Maryland Republican
and the same day endorsed and pub.
Iished by the Evening Capital He
called attention to the wording Of the
editorial and denied that he was a
schemer or had identified himself
with the association for political ag
grandizement. Referring to the
writer of the editorial he stated that
he did not have the nerve TO publish
the facts concerning the shell steal
which had been unearthed by him.
He characterized the editorial as
prompted by spite and brought out at
time when the writer thought it
would aid him politically.
Judge Tydings said that the editor
ial curtailed liberty of life and action,
but, that he was willing to be judged
by his friends. He characterized it
as prompted by the inner man, a
cowardly attack and not having any
foundation or fact on which to build.
In closing he dealt several body blows
which came dangerously near being
below the belt.
No remarks were made anent the
reading of the philippe and the hiatus
which then existed was filed in by
reading a communication from Mr..
G. L. Tate, president of the Third
district local of the association, which
contained many structures on the edi-
tor and paper publishing the editor
ials which had aroused Judge Tydings'
ire. The words 'treachery'' and
tdishonor' were FURNISHED bright
and writ large in the letter. Mr..
Tate denied that politics had any part
or parcel in the meetings of the local
and stated that such discussions were
tabooed.
A resolution. somewhat along the
same lines was adopted by the local
and these werdAread after Mr.. Tate's
letter was disposed Of. These pro-
duced no discussion or lifting of
scalps and they were made part of the
record of the proceedings.
Judge Magruder found pair Of
openers in his hand and referred TO
the charge of Judge Tydings that there
had been dishonesty IN the matter Of
the purchase of shells. He wanted to
know why something more than talk
had not been done about it an asked
that the chair appoint q committee Of
three to investigate the matter, to con-
fer with Judge Tydings and see who
had been reIniss in their duties. He
put il before the meeting as q resolu-
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