Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-10-27
JOKE ON THE LUM|NARY
Baltimore Sun Has Things A
Bit Mixed As To Conditions
In Anne Arundel County
SAYSWELLS FACTIONS COLD
Takes In Too Much OF Republican Dope
As To Conditions Regarding This
COuntS's Feeling For Raw

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CountS's Feeling For Ray
LET US hope that the predictions
of Democratic success in other dis
+ tricts which have appeared from
time to time in the Baltimore Sun
/ are more reliably written, and have
more foundation in fact than the
/ bum guess as TO the situation in this
district which appeared in that paper
/ this morning. said a prominent
I Democrat of Annapolis.
The article referred TO was the
composition of staff correspondent
I who was in Annapolis yesterday
/ gathering data" In it is cast
/ serious doubts on the sincerity of DR..
George Wells in the present fight for
James Enos Ray, Jr.. and the opin-
ion is expressed and frankly credited
to a Republican soUrce-Postmast
Daniel r. Randall-that DIR. Wells
and his friends do not want to see
| Ray elected for fear that such a vic
tory would be credited to the strength
of the Moss-Nutwell faction of the
party and result in that wing of the
county democracy getting the ions
share on the next "pie-cutting.
That such thing would or could
come to pass was laughed at heartily,
but Democrats expressedithe opinion
that the supposedly most powerful
Democratic organ in the State was
handing out stuff that was far from
accurate and if written of some coun-
ties not so loyalty Democratic as Anne
Arundel, might do the party candi-
dates harm.
DR.. Wells was accused of playing
'cold hand and not wanting to see
| Ray elected, in the very face of the
fact that that sterling old War
Horse of Anne Arundel democracy is
today paying for a call to the Demo-
cratic voters of the county to support
Ray. This paid advertisement of
DR.. Wells opinion of Mr.. Ray and his
desire e see the Democratic voters
line up solidly for the.Prince,George's
man against Parran, has been run
ming for some time in The Capital
and in the Advertiser-Republican.
This, say Democrats, does not look
| as if DR.. Wells had cold feet as to
Rays election
Coupled with the tip given out
by Mr.. Randall as to DR.. Wells
stand in the fight, the Sun az tice
finds that DR.. Wells refusal to be
| interviewed by its correspondent
chimes in curiously enough" with
| the Republican guess. which is
more than likely fathered by
desire" rather than a hope" 1t
is we'll known to every person at
all we'll acquainted with DR.. Wells
that he does not rush into print
and that he never gives interviews.
This is the only significance tha
wise persons attach to his declina-
tion to tell The Sun what he felt or
thought. His advertisement endors
ing the present party candidate is
now running in two papers which
will reach the voters of Anne Arun-
del and have more influence with
them than has been possible in the
case of The Sun since that paper be-
gan jumping about from 1.-THE support
of Democratic to Republican candi-
dates in national elections.
Que true insight into the Demo
cratic situation in Anne Arundel as
| given in The Sun through the follow
ing interview with Col James w.
Owens, of Annapolis:
The situation in the Fifth Con-
gressional district of Maryland is
most encouraging for the election of
]. Enos Ray, for the following rea-
sons:
I'm 1908, Mr.. Mudd's majority
was largely reduced from that Of
1906. For example, in 1906 Mr.
Mudd received in Anne Arundel over
1900 majority and in 1908 George NJ.
Smith, Democrat, received a major
ity of over 800.
The State organization believed
Smiths candidacy was forlorn hope
and let Baltimore city go for Mudd
in default. Besides this, Mr.. Mudd
has always received a large Dem
cratic vote in Annapolis on account of
his efforts in behalf of the Naval
| Academy.
1T is true that Mr. Mudd was Wig
orous in his efforts, but he had be-
hind him the proposition that the
Republican party had to find sources
of large expenditures in order to keep
up high protective tariff for the
benefit of trusts and corporations
that contributed the sinews of war for
their campaigns.
The Republican party has made
a great deal of the expenditures By
it for the Naval Academy, yet ii
never says a word about the Demo.
Gratis, James K. Polk and George Ban.
croft, who laid the foundation stone.
After the close election of 1905
the State people awoke to the fact
that the election could have beer
carried by proper efforts on their
part in Baltimore, and now they are
trying to retrieve, as the meeting ir
Holy Cross Hall, in South Baltimore
on Monday night demonstrated.
ITO summarize, Mr.. Ray has behinc
him all the forces in Howard county
He aas his own friends, Senator.
Claggett and Wells, Charles II
Stanley and DR.. Hill, in Primo
Georges; Walter ]. Mitchell and u