Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-10-11
TRYING TO HIDE MUDD AND
JACKSON UNDER HIS COAT
TAILS

Mr.. Gather, In his speech In Montgomery
county on Friday evening, favored his audi.
ence with some thoughts upon the election
of United States Senators in Maryland. We
are told that house divided against itself
will fall, and it looks as if this saying will
be illustrated at the November election. Mr..
Gathers sefstyled Independent organ es-
teens the election Of Senators TO be 30 i'm
portant an issue in this campaign that 1t ad-
vises its readers, after voting for Mr.. Gather
for Governor, to vote for the Democratic
candidates for the Legislature. The cleo.
ton Of Democrats 1t regards as 80 desirable
as to justify the splitting of tickets, although
the Democratic party in this State, accord
ing to Mr.. g. ]. Bonaparte, has no distinc.
tive principle except to cheat at elections
To vote for Republican Governor and a
Democratic Legislature, the organ aforesaid
takes pains to explain, is, under the form Of
ballot now used In this State, precisely as
easy as to vote for Republican Governor
and q Republican Legislature or Demo-
cratic Governor and Democratic Legis.
lature In this regard and in some others
the candidate and his organ are like sweet
bells jangling out of tune.
Mr.. Gather pretends to think the election
OF Senators in this State rather unimpor-
tsnt affair, as the United States Senate, he
says, will probably remain Republican and
the Senator from Maryland will not be likely
to hold the balance of power. But that is
what no man can ioretell. 1t is not at all
improbable that it may come to pass that a
vote or two will decide the complexion Of
the Senate. The Senator to be elected al
Annapolis next winter for the long term
will hold office until March 4, 1915. On
the 4th of March, 1909, when this Senator
will take his seat, the terms of 10 Republi.
can Senators will end. Two Democrats
will come in from Oklahoma, and that will
raise the Democratic membership in the
Sixtieth Congress to 80. If they should
hold the seats they now have and gain Ii
seats before March A, 1909, the Democrats
will control the Senate, and such gain is
not without many presidents. Even with.
out considering the subject from any Other
point of view, the Importance of sending q
Democratic Senator from Maryland ia OBJ.
vious.
But Mr.. Gather has sense enough to know
this, and even the most unsophisticated can
see that he is attempting to minimize the
Senatorial election in order to divert atten.
ton from the dominant figures Of Mudd and
jackson, who are vainly trying to hide In
his holy shadow. No man fit to be at large
doubts that a Republican Legislature would
elect to the Senate the two men who con.
stitute its supreme court and who are the
absolute rulers Of the party-Mr. Mudd fol
the Western Shore and Mr.. jackson fol
the Eastern Shore-"Sydney and Me-" the
Heavenly Twins Of Maryland Republican
politics. 1t is natural enough for Mr.. Gather
to wish TO keep these two bosses in the back.
ground until after the election, but he knows
as well as anybody else that they will be
the whole show II perchsnce or permits.
chance he should be elected Governor. Mr..
Gather, we believe, Joined with enthusiasm
in the fight against bosses in 1895, and il
seems 10 be the irony OF fate that he should
come to be the pawn of the bosses dozen
years later. The Democratic bosses NOM
mated candidate for Governor in 1895 pre-.
cisely as the Republican bosses nominated
Mr.. Gather in this present year Of grace.
German and Rasin had the votes to nom.
mate Mr.. Hurst and "Syd and Me" had the
votes to nominate Mr.. Gather. Mr.. Hurst
was one OF the most intelligent, determined
and honorable citizens Of Maryland. But
because he was nominated by the two Demo.
cratic bosses the people would not have
him. Mr.. Gather was nominated by bosses
just as completely in control Of their party
machinery as the men who nominated MIR.
Hurst. MIR. Gather was then fighting bosses.
Now he is fighting for them, has accepted
their commission, is leading their forces and