The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-10-19
THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE SUN
PAPER

F1t LII
If anything further were needed to
convince the calm and dispassionate OBJ
server of passing political events that
the Democratic party in Maryland, its
sponsors and apologists, are in bad
way-were stronger proof than that
already furnished by the LEADERS" and
managers in their aimless wanderings,
incoherent mutterings and indefinite
conclusions, required to make ridiculous
the past and present efforts of those
qualified to speak with authority in be-
half of the Democratic candidates and
policies in this campaign, we need only
refer to the attitude and utterances of
their lone and solitary mouthpiece-the
| Baltimore Sun-whose remarkably in
consistent and grossly misleading argu-
would make it the laughing stock of the
State were it not that the doctrine it
seeks to promote is of such a gravely
dangerous and seriously mischlevous
| character as to demand sober reference
and calm consideration.
The Sun has been manifestly illogical
and persistentlY ambiguous throughout
these stirring political times in Balti-
more and the State, almost from the
| beginning of the Baltimore Mayoralty
| campaign some months ago, becoming
more energetic in its tllp-fops and in
creasing in the rapidity of its lightning
changes until up to the present moment
it would require more than the ordinary
intelligence with which the average
person is endowed to properly guage its
sincerity, measure its meaning or faith
ON its purposes.
In the Baltimore City mayoraIty con-
test the Sun bitterly assailed and siren
ously opposed the nomination of Mr..
Preston upon the high and reasonable
ground that his intimate associations
with Boss Mahon untitled him for the
responsible position Of mayor; yet after
Mr.. Preston was nominated, lor sup
posed to have been, pending the re-
counting Of the ballots by the Grand
jury, the Sun by its dense silence per-
mitted him to be elected without fur
Their protest or complaint.
During the 1910 session of the Mary
land Legislature the Sun vigorously
criticized, we may say castigated, the
Hon. a. p. German for his exception
ally bad conduct as a member Of the
State Senate and as its presiding off
GER; yet we now find the Sun urging Mr..
Germans cleo ion for Governor Of Mary
land in preference to Hon. Blair Lee or
some other more acceptable party man,
but preferably Senator Lee, because he
was Mr.. German 5 opponent in the pri-
mary, and because he was the one man
who opposed Senator German in all of
his official acts for which, as stated, he
was SO roundlY scored and properly con-
demned by the Sun.
And now, following the great upheav-
/ el within the Democratic party, since
establishing the truth Of the Suns oft
expressed suspicious Of corruption and
fraud practiced by the Democratic ma
chine, in face of the disclosures by the
Grand Jury Of ballot-boX stufiing. re-
peatlng, vote Juggling and Justification
of the returns-in the full knowledge
that Mr.. Germans nomination was
forced upon the party by the Mahon
machine, convinced, as it must be, that
without the support OF the City gang
Mr. German could not have been nom
mated - in view of all this the Sun
stands immovable Gf alone) in advocacy
of Mr. Germans retention upon the
ticket and of his election as Governor of
this great State.
But that isn't all. The Sun is gro
tesq IelY persistent limits inconsistent de-
mand upon Governor Crothers to call a
special session of the Maryland Legis-
lature which would have for its dual
purpose the legislating of Mayor Pres
ton out of office because he is so closely
allied with Sonny" Mahon and the
machine, and in order that special
emergency Legislation NAV be passed
that will insure the election of Mr..
German, Governor of MARYLAND, not
withstanding the undeniable and incon-
trovertible fact that he is as much
political creature of Mahon and his gang
OF election sharps, repeaters and ballot
corruptionists as Mayor Preston is. And
the real humor of the situation is that
the people know all these facts whether
the Sun gives them credit for knowing
them or not.
And only few days ago the Sun in
leading editorial, commenting upon the
prospective reputation of their ante
election promises to the people for a
Statewide primary law and other pop