The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-05
TWO MACHINES
By sAyoYARD

Washington, October 4-(Special. )-The
 peach has the sunny side and it has the
 green side, and there is shallow sop in
 the skillet as well as deep. Thus the three standpat republican papers of this l town-the Post, the Herald. and the Star 1 are radiant with joy over the victory Of the Martin machine in Virginia, but they
 are plunged into the depths of grief over
 the positive announcement of a Hast ap-
 pearancee of Joseph W. Bailey as. dem | ocratic statesman in the United States
 Senate. They got no consolation out of | the victory of the Gorman-Smith ma
 chine in Maryland, which is Cadmean in
 the substantial. but there is hope for them in the Bailey abdication, which pos l sibly has string tied to 1t.
 | As for the triumph of the Martin ina chine. 1t is characteristic of the grand people of the old Dominion. Not only are they conservative to a degree, but they are eonfiding in the extreme. Where they trust they trust implicitly, as did Gen. Andrew Jackson, and the more evil that is spoken of one of theirs the closer they cling to him: but let old Virginia come to know that she is deceived in public servant her rage will be terrible, and the punishment she will. nfiict on him condign. It was not until 1911 that the world knew how Tom Martin man. aged to beat Fitzhugh Lee for the United States Senate in 1893; but Virginia refused to credit the evidence, which was conclu- siye to the rest of the world. And neither would Virginia hear the charge which was sustained against MT. Swanson, who put himself in the class with Matt quay and Schuyler Colfax, when he speculated in stocks in Wall street while member of the ways and means committee, which at the time was deliberatng on the rate of taxation the trust that uttered the stock was to be assessed. But old Nir- ginia trusted the man, and no evil Ee- port of him would old Virginia believe It was the tribute ignominy imposes on nobility. But it is the one certain bet that Tom Martin will not be the tituar or actual, leader of the democratic side of the United States Senate in the Sixty third Congress, whether that party is vic tor or vanquished in 1912.
 I am told that there is a game of cards known as draw poker and perhaps it is not. necessary to read Bret Harte to know that one playing poker has material ad- vantage over an adversary if he should abstract from the deck three of four prominent cards. such as aces and lodge them in his sleeves to be drawn there from at opportune times and used to re-
 nforce his hand. Well, the German Smith machine in Maryland had the three aces up the sleeve. employed them guilty of further strengthening its hand by appropriating cards from the discard so to speak.
 That is to say, the machine went into the game with Baltimore city nailed down, up the sleeve. Thus it was neces- sitated to gain but 37 delegate votes in the interior to control the convention, whereas the anti-machine people had to get 65 votes to obtain a victory. After getting their 2S votes in Baltimore, some of them fraudulent, as was subsequently, discovered, the machine was reduced to the necessity of resorting to fraud and bribery in other parts of the state to ob- tain the required S7 votes When the final result was announced the machine had 65 votes and their competitors G4 which is marvellous when we consider all the circumstances.
 Senator Rayner was i'll during the cam paign, and thus the anti-machine ticket was deprived of his invaluable services. The machine had all the money that could be used, and more too. It availed itself of marked tickets. in positive violation and utter contempt of law It had the Baltimore gang in pay that has been mo- torious time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. An old Ger man, prosperous citizen of the District of Columbia, related that he was an in- migrant boy in Baltimore in 1855 and that the Plug Uglies took him in charge and made him vote the know nothing ticket over 50 times election day that year. And that has been the character of the Balti- more election bullies all the time. Of course, their conduct is not so fragrant now, but they are practically as efficient
 Blair Lee, the anti-machine candidate
 is a grandson of that Francis P. Blair editor of the old Washington Union and premier of President Jacksons "Kitcnen Cabinet the whigs called it in de- rision He was a native of Kentucky, a close personal friend and bitter political enemy of John J. Crittenden with whom Jackson picked up a paper that Blair ed ited in Frankfort, Ky, read an editorial in it. and declared that the editor of it must be brought to Washington and to support his administration. That is how Blair came to leave Kentucky and settle in Maryland, short distance from the