Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-10-16
FOR CONGRESS,
DAVID j. LEWIS,
PEARRES PITTFUL PLIGHT.

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PEARRES PITIFUL PLIGHT
Colonel George A. Pearre, OF Allegany
lnty, who has served ten years In the
ngress Of the United States as a represen-
i've of the Sixth Congressional District OF
.ryland, elected to that office five success
Q times as a Republican; who was re-
minated away last spring by convention
ntrolled by him through set OF office
Iders kept in place at his behest; who,
oughout his ten years service, has moth
TO his credit save little bill relating to
ord of wood in the District OF Columbia
! the earnest championship OF the mea'
e which secured for him an increase OF
Der cent. in his salary as Congressman
his same Col. Pearre spent last week
king half dozen speeches In this coun-
In none of these speeches, 80 far as this
wspaper has been able to ascertain, did
1. Pearre attempt to defend or commend
record in the Congress Of the United
ties; he said nothing about introducing
Is "by request for the relief OF disrep-
able black man named Flipper, discharged
m the army for disgraceful conduct;
thing about writing to the temperance
ople Of this county that he had been put
the Congressional Committee on the
dietary for having supported a temper.
&c measure in the halls Of Congress
thing about having imposed upon the
orklng people Of Allegany county with
Pecksniffiian tale that he had been ex-
lied from said committee because he had
PRODUCED ("by request') an anti.injunc'
IN bill; nothing about the actual Truth,
at he had been unceremoniously dumped
pm that committee simply because he had
lied to attend to his official duties as
ember of ii and was nothing more than a
,rnacle upon It,
No, Col. Pearre did not tell the very few
sople In Montgomery county who did him
le honor to listen to his dreary speeches
hything about these things. He did tell
r efs Ia Ia q feHEd hopt way, what he said at
Ie Rockville depot short time ago, that
le Hon. David ]. Lewis, his former law
artner for eight years, was "a - little
monkey and not "foeman worthy OF his
Geel." He further charged that Lewis had
Imported him many years ago when Lewis
aought land no doubt there were then many
theirs who shared the thoughO that he was
man worthy of support, and that since
S95 Lewis had been consistent Bryan
IAN. Stripped of transparent buncombe
nd rank hypocrisy, this is all that Pearre
I'D to say for himself in his speeches In this
ounty. But he had his say in the presence
+ very lew people, for his meetings were
-osts in every instance, except at Clarks-
urg, where District Attorney Baker, In
ratitude for Pearre's favor in aiding him to
OF the place he holds, got number Of good
eople to go to the Colonel's meeting at
lat place.
The oratorcal visit of Colonel Pearre to
lontgomery county has not altered this
ate of facts: He has been an utter failure
, Congress as the representative OF the
ixth Congressional District, and he Justly
eseryes to be relegated to private life by
40 voters OF the district. This has been
proclaimed by prominent men,
era Of his party In this county. Two years
20 a Montgomery county Republican, who
splred to succeed TO Pesrre's official boots,
rent up and down every district OF the
ounty and publicly proclaimed to the men,
ers OF his party that Pearre had mover been
I any service in the halls OF Congress, and
nat he never would be; and, although that
anne Republican politician is now the spe'
ial champion of Pearre's candidacy for re-
lection, he said nothing but the truth In
is former estimate Of Pearre; and the re-
ait Of the last Republican primary election
! this county, when the Pearre ticket got a
aeasly six hundred votes out Of total poll
twenty .one hundred, showed conclusively
lat the masses Of his party were 10 full
ccord with the aspiring politician above
eIerred to, OF least so far as Pearre was con-
erned, even If, two years earlier, they had
Bpudiated the claims of the politician who
,ade the proclamation of Pearre's utter IN.
rorthiness as q representative in Congress.
Now, here lie the logical and just conclu-
ion from what has gone before It's nothing
MS than shameful that Pesrre should seek
, lolst himself upon this people after the
tier failure he has made in Congress during
N long years of opportunity, and it is no
rs shameful that members of his party In
lis county, who know his unfitness and
ave voiced it long ago, should now go be-
IRE the people and advocate his reelection.
We do not believe that their advocacy will
6 Of any service to candidate who, &C.
ording to their own testimony, has been
'eighed in the balance and found wanting
nd we believe that the majority for David
Lewis In this county on the third of No
smber next will be so large as TO show
lie righteous resentment our people feel
ward the monumental humbuggery which
A been imposed upon them so long.