Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-13
Recalls Germans Downfall.

tHdt just Sucn polltlcS DIS tney are play
ing caused the downfall of John E.
Hursts gubernatorial aspirations and the
ultimate defeat of the German ring in
1905. 1 wonder If they realize that" he
continued, and with added emphasis, said:
IF they don't, they will realize it in
time.
Lets analyze the situation" said the
former governor, shifting in his chair.
Go back to the time of Mahool's nomi-
nation. The old man CRasin) was ill. l
brought out Barry Mahool and started a
hurrah campaign to elect him. We had a
great fight-a hard fight to win Mayor
Timanus was strong intrenched. But
with the open-door policy and with the
fine record Mahool had made as city
councilman. why we just went along in
sailing style. OF course the organization
helped, but what else could 1t do?
why. some of the Mahon men, who
never would have come into line with
Rasin, hurried to get aboard the band
wagon because Rasin was out of it. Men
who had for years been out of the dem
ocratic party came back. We got all the
opposition that had been against the or
ganization for years, and we elected Ma
hool.
1.-THE trouble with a lot of these machine
politicians is that they made a lot OF
promises which they later found out they
could not make good. They sort of fig
ured, 1 guess, on general housekeeping
in the city hail. forgetting that in many
jobs good democrats had done their work
satisfactorily. They got the idea of a
wholesale clean out-that's all there is
to it.
The Governorship Fight.
LET us go back and recount the COVER
norship fight a year ago. Everybody
knows where the local crowd stood. The
gang was for Henry Williams, then city
collector. 1 gave them my ultimatum-
/ was for Crothers and told them they
could go for Crothers or go down in de-
feat. Everybody knows what would have
happened If Williams had been the nomi-
nee. Former Gov. Jackson was slated for
the United States Senate. and that meant
that on the eastern shore former Gov.
John Walter Smith would have laid down
republican.
Every one recalls how / was talked
of in connection with the gubernatorial
nomination and the senatorship. l could
have made the run against Warfield for
the senatorship and Col. Smith would
never have entered the race. But 1 did
not. ] put m own ambition aside. l
tell you ] could have had the nomna
ton for governor by a turn Of my hand
stepped aside, however. because l
knew If we named Crothers that John
Walter Smith would take his coat off and
go to work to elect the whole ticket
and lineup the whole eastern shore.
"Well, l put both of these ambitions
aside if they could be called ambitions.
and for the benefit of the democratic
party 1 helped to name Crothers for gov
ernOr.
Says Mahon Cried.
why. Sonny Mahon actually cried
when Williams was side-tracked, and an
other gentleman-well,n never mind. At all
events, Crothers was named. He won.
1t was easy to elect hm-easier than to
elect Mahool; and then came the Bryan
election. Well, the state was naturally
for Bryan, and the organization did not
have to fight real hard. 1t has not been
in a real fight yet. Let's see what it can
do when 1t gets into a real fight added
the former governor significantly.
so far as I am personally concerned, 1
have had all sorts of friends driven to
me by this incident. You know it is a
grave question to my mind whether the
REDUCTION of the city collectors salary
Is legal The state constitution says that
no mans salary shall be increased Or de-
crea sed during his term of office. / don't
mean to say that 1 have any intention
of making any fight on that point. l can
stand the cut If they can. But Just Incl
dentally remark that l think the action
of the council Is Illegal" ]. NJ. D.