Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-11-03

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false charges of Mr.. Mudd were al
ready reacting upon him. If elected TO
Congress Mr.. Smith declared he Will
go there not as the representative of
any special interest, but of the whole
people OF the district. q am. he
said las firm believer in organized
labor as any man on earth, but il
elected l will not go solely as the
representative of organized labor. /
say this in the presence of Mr.. Com
pers. / Will stand for it, but / will
not go there merely for that purpose.
Mr.. Mudd knows we are after him
this time and he is making every
effort to make up for the inroads we
are making. ! do not believe the
people of this district will place any
confidence in the dirty charges Mr..
Mudd is making against me, mad
believe | will receive their support.
Mr.. Gompers said i'm part:
last week | went in the district
of Mr.. Crumpacker. in Indiana. and
presented to the people there facts that
astounded them. As rule, the
correspondents at Washington do not
allow the things to filter through their
reports TO their papers that show the
sordidness and the unfitness of the men
in Congress, so, after all, it is n good
thing that sometimes we exercise our
right 10 speak directly 10 the people.
Now, as to the Congressman of this
district, he has been profuse in his
charges against me. One of the things
he says about me is that / am a DEM
ocrat and have always been one. Now,
there are worse crimes than being n
Democrat, but the truth is am not
one and never have been. | cast my
first vote for General Grant in 1872.
Several times the people in my own
State have tried 10 nominate me for
various Offices on the Republican tick
ct, but / believed that l could do my
best work as a private citizen and
have fought shy of these offers. In
all of my voting life | have been
non partisan and an independent. An
other one of the things which this gem
tIeman charges me with is being Il
free-trader. Now, as to this,I simply
want to say that the American feder
alton has carefully eliminated the
tariff from its policy and plank, indi-
ating that it fayors either free trade
or the protective principle.
To show that he himself has no free
trade leanings and that Mr.. Mudd's
statement is untrue MIR. Gompers read
from an article written by himself
last June in which he held that the
best policy of labor was to depend on
itself and take no stand on this ques-
tion. Taking up Mr.. Mudd's charge
that he was an advocate of free silver
Mr.. Gompers replied that he did be-
lieve in free silver at time when the
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that creed and at that time he thought
that policy the best for the American
people.
MIR. Mudd says ] stand for free
trade, he said, free silver and free
riot. / am willing to have my record
as man and what / stand for with
what Mr.. Mudd is and what he
stands for. The labor movement
stands for better conditions for the
man who works. Great and glorious
as is our country, it is not half good
enough for the American people; and
we purpose TO inaugurate a better
day than has ever gone before, despite
the Rockefellers, and the other fell
lows, including Mudd. Mr.. Mudd
has no objection to my coming here,
| he says, as private citizen, but
when Mr.. Gompers attempts tc deliver
the votes of the labor people to the
Democrats he is attempting to use his
position for the benefit OF his own
party. I would like to know what
my own party is. / have never yet
been able to discover its headquar
| tiers.
There is absolutely no trath in
Mr.. Mudd's statement. l owe no al
| legiance to any party. I belong to
none and j believe | can conyinc e
you that that is true. / have opposed
Democrats, / have opposed Repub
licans. / have fought union men and
non-union men, irrespective of their
party affiliations. My record shows
| this. Now, j am here To speak
word for George Smith. true Amer
lean, who truly represents the best
spirit and sentiment Of the people of
| this district. He is a man .whO will
not be found wanting when he is
called upon to protect your interests
and fight your battles. ] don't say
| that Mr.. Mudd has never said a
word for the inteests Of the people
l he represents. but he has generally
said it at the wrong time. Mr.. Mudd
| law of 1898 for which hs claims some
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not know that the tenth section of
| the law has already been declared
unconstitutional? l would like to
know what he had TO do with the
bill. anyhow.
81 have made no attack upon Mr..
Mudd, I simply, upon request, gave
Mr.. AIudd's record, with very little
or no comment The truth is, the rec
ord was enough. Mr.. Mudd has dis
puted none Of the statements / have
made as to his record. OF conrse, Mr..
Mudd attacks me. He has added to
his vocabulary BY saying I am a
spurious nondescriptn and an annex
| 10 socialism. The sum total Of AIr.
Mudd's grievance is that could
neither be coaxed, cajoIed or brow
| beaten even by as bold, daring and
slick a politician as Mr- Mudd. He
can't throw mud NJ ne and still keep
clean hands.
Mr.. Mudd believes that the entire
political campaign inaugurated by the