Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1910-12-17
siamese Cat Out of the Bag


WEsTERNroRT, Mp. December s, 1910.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
So much was said last month about
the election of Mr.. d. J. Lewis over Mr.
B. H Warner in the Baltimore Sun that
was misleading, | hope you will publish
few facts. interspersed with questions,
in your fair-play paper about that mem
orable election.
1t seems it was arranged in Cumber-
land to have the report of the election
sent to the Baltimore Sun, giving credit
to Mr.. Hugh A McMullen for the sue
cess of MIR. Lewis, in order to hide the
real reasons therefor, and thus deceive
the republicans of this Congressional
district.
But this has not been and cant be
done, for the voters of A'legany county
know that the friends of Mr.. George A.
Pearre and Mr.. George l.. Wellington
did not support Mr.. B. H. Warner. and
everybody knows just as well that Mr..
Hugh A. McMullen can't get republi-
cans to vote as he wishes.
Who, then, turned the / 800 republi-
can majority in the county away from
Mr.. Warner, their own nominee?
Somebodies did-sure
Ask Mr.. Pearre and Mr.. Wellington
Ask the republican committeeman who
expended money to get out the vote for
Mr.. Warner that Mr.. Warner didn I get
Ask, too, how long it took to collect in
formation of what republicans could be
depended upon to vote for Mr.. Lewis,
and what republicans. who will not vote
for a democrat, could be kept from the
polls.
Why, in my native town, Barton,
more than 100 republicans did not vote
and this is one of Mr.. Pearre's strong.
holds Did Mr. McMullen keep these
patriots from the polls?
And the tariff had nothing to do with
the result either. If it had been a live
issue in this county, as it should have
been, so many Republicans would not
have staid at work or at home.
And Mr.. Lewis popularity with the
miners is not by far as great as the pa
pers report. In Barton, for instance g.;
miners voted the socialist ticket. If Mr.
Lewis is So popular in that quarter why
didn't they vote for him? Why didn't
more miners at Homecoming, where over
a third remained at home, vote for Mr.
Lewis?
Then, every voter i'll the county knows
that Mr.. Lewis got |, 100 votes less this
year than he got two years ago. If Mr.
Hugh A. McMullen had "a Lewis organ
ization'' does the man in Cumberland
who writes election fables for the Balti
more SIM believe it great popular
achievement for an Organization" tt
lose 100 votes for its nominee?
AS far as the democratic voters need
ing "a leader" it wasn't necessary
rk,, I1, tDI 81,
and voted their ticket; if the republi
cans, unled. had done the same Mr.
Warner would have been elected.
But this is the way the friends of Mr.
Pearre and Mr.. Wellington want it tt
appear-that Mr.. Lewis election is the
outcome of IAN organization. Blu
these gentlemen can't fool the voters Of
| Allegany county by having someone il
| Cumberland write story to the Sun, il
| Baltimore, to come back here in prin
| telling repu blicans that Mr. McMullen' I
Organization elected Mr.. Lewis. The
latter knows better; if not, he is not ca
pable of representing this great district
i'll Congress.
If Mr.. Pearre had staid in the field he
would have been nominated and elected
| But he lost his nerve, and, disliking Mr.
permitting it to elect an ex-republicar
democrat to succeed himself.
This is not the first thing of this kline
that has been done to the republican
party of Allegany county, but the people
who did it paid dearly for it.
| may be called "a dissatisfied repub
lican," or something worse, but all
have tried to say is true, and more anC
stronger things can be stated of the way
Mr.. Warner was hit from the rear
| floored, and dragged out of the house Of
his friends"
A LIFELONG REPUBLICAN,
P. $50 far as "a McMullen," OF
even "a Lewis organization" is con
| cerned, whoever heard of it-before the
election? And what is it if it be not the
little crowd of democrats (?) who cut the
ticket when somebody on it is sin oul
way'-just as they did no longer than g
year ago? Anyway, whoever heard OF
a democratic Organization" in this
county that can ''serve two masters -
its republican master better than its
own? A LII. r.