Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-11-03
GOMPERS DENOUNCES MUDD
PRESIDENT OF FEDERATION OF LABOR
RECEIVED WITH ENTHUSIASM.
AY GLORY OF NAVAL ACADEMY FROM MR.. MUDD
WORKINGMEN ENTHUSIASTIC OVER
LAST NIGHTS Bio MEETING.


meeting at the Court House. which
was under the auspices OF the Work
ingmen's s Association, and was adj
dressed chiefly by Mr.. Samuel Com
pers. president OF the National Feder-
alton of Labor.
MIR. Gompcrs was given an ovation
and was enthusiastically received.
He was eheered To the echo when he
denounced Mr.. Mudd. Congressman
from the Fifth district. VINO is can
didate for reelection, and especially
when he took from Mr.. Mudd the
glory and credit for bringing about
the new Naval academy. This credit
and glory. Mr.. Gompers said, was
due wholly and solely TO Baltimore
newspaper and incidentally to Con-
gresham McIntire and the late Sena-
tor German.
The meeting was the biggest gun
fired by the National Federation of
Labor during this campaign, and IL
was fired broadside upon the Hon.
sydney +. AIudd. Indeed, all the
big guns, little guns. schrapnel and
whole battery was turned upon the
Republican congressman TO the de-
light and enthusiasm of the audience,
which packed the Court House to
overlooking. Earnestly and emphati
cally Mr.. Gompers appealed to the
people of the Fifth district to vote MIR.
Mudd down because of his upfriendly
attitude toward the laboring interests.
He denounced Mr.. Mudd as bold,
daring and slick politician who had
failed 10 either cajole, coax or brow
beat him. That the Fifth district Con-
gressman had done what he could TO
kill the principle of the eight-hour
law and had consistently voted and
acted against the best interests of the
workingmen of his district and coun-
try was the charge that the labor
leader hurled at MIR. AIudd.
Mr.. Mudds record upon many bills
was taken up. analysed and condemn
ed while the crowd cheercd and APP
plauded. Indifferent and hostile to
the things and measures that mean
life to the American workingnan, was
another accusation made by Mr.. Com
pers. who likewise Indignantly denied
the statement made by Mr.. Mudd that
he is and has always been a Democrat
who is fighting him for the benefit OF
his party. Great enthusiasm was
created when he declared rs baseless
and untrue the claim made by MIR.
Mudd that his efforts were responsible
for the preservation of the Naval
Academy and the splendid improve
ments there made.
The meeting was a thoroughly rep
resentaive one and there were in the
audience number of Republicans
who gave Mr.. Gompers warm re-
ception. The audience, which was
largely composed of workingmen,
also numbered such prominent Demo-
Gratis as DIR. George Wells, Senator
Luther III. Gadd, Robert Moss. James
w. Owens. The worlSingmen present
indicated that they all belonged to the
union. inasmuch as when the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress, Mr..
George NJ. Smith, arose TO speak and
declared he had always carried a
union card about with him, he was en-
Enthusiastically cheered to the echo.
At the beginning of the meeting a
Mudd man attempted to create dis
turbance by interrupting the speaker,
but he was soon suppressed. and the
labor leaders were delighted at the
success of the demonstration.
The arraignment of Mr.. Mudd and
the defense of the attitude of labor by
Mr.. Gompers were vigorous and inn
pressive and considered tremendously
effective by the labor leaders who ac-
companied him here. To Mr.. George
M. Smith, the Democratic candidate
for Congress in the district, Mr.. Com
pers paid high tribute and pre-
dicted his election over Mr.. Mudd.
Mr.. John III. Brinkman, Of the In
ternationaI Carriage and Wag0ners
Union, also spoke. as did Mr.. George
G. Griffin, general organizer of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners. The former denounced Mr..
AIudd as politician who had proved
himself utterly unfit to represent the
Fifth district. He called him the
Matthew Stanley Quay of Maryland,
who had announced his ambition to go
to the United States Senate and did
not care by what methods he got
there. Mr.. Brinkman told how Mr..
Mudd had turned down labor COM
mittees that had called upon him to
ask his help at Washington, and de-
scribed how gladly he would have
welcomed them had they been million
aires. After the meeting Mr.. Gompers,
at the invitation OF Governor Warfield,
called at the Government House, ac-
companied by Messrs. George B.
Smith, Brlnkuans 0flt1iH anu IlQW8Iu
Hirsch, the president of the Baltimore
Federation OF Labor. They were warm
ly greeted by the Governor. who ex-
pressed his pleasure at meeting Mr..
Gompers and his interest and friend
ship toward organized labor.
The meeting was called to order by
Mr.. George Woolley and was presi ded
over by Mr.. II. IL. Miller. The vice
presidents were l.. NJ. Hopkins, Al
fred Phillips and Thomas sands
Messrs. Charles g. Hill and Samuel
w. Hardesty were secretaries. Dir.
Miller, in a brief speech, told why
the labor organization had entered into
his campaign, asserting that il had de-
terInined to make an effort to have
true representatives Of the people in
Congress. In referring TO Mr. Mudd
he reiterated Mr.. SuIlivan's charge
that he had lobbied against the Rail-
road Telegraphers' bill He also in
sisted that Mr.. Aludd had refused to
come to fhessrelief of the employees in
the Naval Academy when they pre-
sented their grievances TO him.
Mr.. smith asserted that Mr.. aIudd