Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-11-27
PEARRES PLANT.

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Col. Geo. A. Pearre, OF Allegany county,
who was reelected to Congress at the late
election by something over four hundred
majority, who was badly beaten In his own
precinct Of the city of Cumberland, who lost
his own county with normal Republican
majority Of about fifteen hundred) by more
than two hundred votee, and whose total ma
jority over Mr.. David J. Lewis, the Demo.
cratic candidate, was nearly five thousand
less than he had boastfuly claimed and
forty-five hundred less than he had formerly
received, appears TO be very sore over the
result Of said election.
According to the Washington and Bal.
timore newspapers, the Colonel lost no time
after the election In taking his sore spots to
the capital city and exhibiting them first TO
DR.. Theodore Roosevelt and then to the
general public, through the columns of the
press. How much salve and sympathy be
received from the White House doctor we
are not in position 10 know, but we can
say that the general public, so far as it has
given expression TO its sentiments on the
subject, does not appear to be very deeply
grieved at Colonel Pearre's political discom.
fture In fact, the prevailing opinion is
that be brought his troubles on himself and
his party by forcing himself upon the ticket
once too often, and that he not only deserved
to be slaughtered as he was, but ought to
have been signally defeated.
In bewailing his woes and his narrow es.
cape from defeat, Pearre follows the usual
course in such cases OF trying to tell how II
all came about; and, like the average selfish
politician under wel-deserved rebuke, BIO
forfeits all claim to COMMUNICATION by play.
ing the baby act. In trying to account for
the tremendous slump in his vote he deliv.
cred himself as follows:
"There were a number of factors that Cd.
Grated in my district TO reduce my majority.
In the first place. all the interests that were
opposed TO anti injunction legislation oppos-
ed me vigorously and with all their power
In the second place, all the interests, and
some Of them powerful interests, who were
opposed TO the Littlehed bill in Congress
opposed me violently. In the third place,
there was treachery toward the Republican
party upon the part of two gentlemen who
aspired to the nomination for Congress.
One of these is from Allegany county, and
the other is from Montgomery county
These are the three factors, In my judgment,
which tended to reduce my plurality"
Mr.. Lloyd Lowndes, Of Alegany county,
and Mr.. Brainard II. Warner, OF Montgom-
cry, having been the only candidates in the
primaries against Colonel Pearre, 1t must
be these gentlemen to whom he refers. We
have seen no reply from Mr.. Lownes upon
the subject, but Mr. Warner positively de.
mics the charge, 30 far as he is concerned,
and cites his public efforts In behalf OF the
Colonies candidacy.
Although this paper has no concern In
this particular feature of the controversy
and does not care a rap about 1t, yet we take
the liberty to offer the suggestion that Mr..
Warner might have found something better
at which to employ his time than In work.
ing for the re. election of man who has
done 80 little for the Sixth District during
ten long years in Congress and should have
been retired long ago We cannot refrain
from saying, further, that Pearre's denun-
citation OF Warner serves that gentleman
right for aiding to send such man back to
Congress, even by the scant majority Of a
little over four hundred.
Colonel Pearre is right when he says that
there were number OF factors that operated
to reduce his majority; there were several
that he did not mention, such as the expo.
sure Of his pretentions concerning antrim
junction and other legislation and his con-
Trajectory excuses for being ousted from all
committee work Of importance, but these
things only help to form the one great reason
why Colonel Pearre fell back forty five hun.
bred votes, and that reason was that he had
been found to be Of practically no use to his
constituents in the halls OF Congress, that
the people were tired Of him, and that there
was a considerable number of independent
minded members of his party Ia the Sixth
Congressional District, uncomfortable by
him or any one else, to give him notice Of
their disapproval OF his course by quietly
Withholding their votes from him.
Colonel Pearre has been most literally
taken care OF in political way he ought
to have been able to see before this time the
IMPROPERLY of continuing to impose himself
upon neglected constituency; he was Gig
nally rebuked on the third OF November,
and he really did not get all that was com.
Ing TO him-he ought to have been badly
beaten.