Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-03-08
Marbury'S Democracy


writes to the Baltimore Sun claiming
that Mr.. Marbury is not a Democrat.
and submits facts to prove it. His let
ter TO the Sun is as follows:
To the Editor Of the Sun, Sir
Will those who are bringing out Mr..
Marbury for the United States Senate
against our Democratic Senator. John
Walter Smith, please tell US how he is
Democrat and how he is Progress
i've and what his claims upon Democrats
for this high honor rest on us? al
ways remember Mr.. Marbury as sup
porting, if not belonging to, the Repub-
lican party of Maryland. know he
was Republican all through the eight
les and nineties, and in late years has
done little if anything for the Demo-
cratic party. He spoke and fought and
voted for Republicans against such
good Democratic tickets. as William
Pinkney Whyte. Isidor Rayner. Robert
NJ. McLane, Sr.. Elihu Z. Jackson.
Frank Brown. John p. Poe. Thomas G.
Hayes, Ferdinand C. Latrobe, Isaac
Lobe Straus, A. Leo Knott, Charles b.
Roberts, l.. Victor Baughman, Edwin
Hurst. James Hodges. Henry Williams
and many others. In fact. if the Demo-
cratic candidates for office on State,
legislative and city tickets whom Mr..
Marbury has fought and knitted for 30
years were counted. they would be al
most enough in themselves to defeat
him in the Democratic primaries.
Why not run sol" Warfeld or"Char-
ley" Bonaparte for Democratic Sena-
tor? They are just as good Democrats
as Marbury and Marbury is just as good
Democrat as they.
Mr.. Marbury's candidacy will, indeed.
to use his own language. summon
Democrats to the firing line" but their
fire will be against him and not against
Mr.. Smith or Mr.. Straus. who have not
spent their political lives driving their
knife into the Democratic tickets.
And where does Mr.. Marbury come
IN as progressive? He fought Bryan
hard in 1896 and 1900 and was against
his nomination in 1903 and did nothing
to help HIM after he was nominated that
year. No doubt he was with The Sun
and Taft. He has not been for any pro-
gressive measure. He tried to kill the
Public Utilities law and attempted to
sneak through flake" substituted for
it, which Governor Crothers and Mr..
Straus knocked out. He went down as
the hired lobbyist of SOL Warfield
and the Gas Company to keep the gas
monopoly fastened on the city of Balti-
more and argued before the legislative
committee against the bills to repeal
that monopoly. He was all mixed up
in the Maryland Telephone fiasco and
its broken contracts with the people and
the deal which handed them over to the
telephone monopoly. He is the chief
figure in the Houston Oil Company,
which was lumber proposition, draw
ing its revenue from the Kirby lumber
contract. While I have no sympathy
with some things which have been
said about the lumber interests of Sena-
tor Smith. MIR. Marbury is just as much
alumber-interest man as Senator Smith.
And how can he claim TO be progressive
when in 1896 aud 1900 he fought Bryan
harder than any man in MARYLAND and
in 1908 failed to help him?
No corporation lawyer can be real
progressive. and there is no mask which
Mr.. Marbury can put on which will dis
guise him from the thousands of Mary
land Democrats who have known him
only as an opponent of their party and
a supporter of Republican tickets. and
as in favor Of laws for the corporations.
WILLIAM PATERSON,
Govans. Baltimore Co.. Md. Feb. %.