Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1914-07-03

Mr.. EDIrom-If you will permit. II
/ will afford me pleasure TO have You
publish these few lines which may be
construed by yen aud your friends, AS,
I not defense Of you and your past,
, present and future course as leader OF
the Republican party in this county, be
cause you need none, but merely as a
comment upon articles published in the
Baltimore newspapers and which have
been given wide circulation, especially
in this, the Fifth Congressional district
under the bead Of "Posey notified to
support s. Il. Mudd." Who Er.
Editor are these people that are so
pompously asserting that they have
served notice on you as to what you
shall or shall not do We have been
informed and verify believe that many,
very many indeed Of the suggestions as
to what they must do TO Gust You from
leadership by the old stale cry OF zone
man power" and "bossismr emanates
from the headquarters of your and our
political opponents In your home town
Ct La Plata. These self-constituted
people, who so arrogantly lay down
the law for your and our guidance, in
my humble opinion are actuated by two
principal motives, first, 10 politically
shelVe you and the other, after thu first
Is accomplished, they can more easily
do, is to secure for themselves all tn
political ''plumsn upon which they are
now gazing with avarlcious eyes and
watery mouths.
The articles published above referred
to are intended to mislead the public
as to pledges made ia 1918 as to the
future candidacy OF Sydney Il. Mudd
Those pledges were to the effect that il
Mr.. Mudd aud his followers would get
behind the ticket agreed upon, loyalty
support 1t and every person named
thereon, and thus prevent bitter con
test at primary, in fact to have no
primary, then you agreed not to oppose
MIR. Mudd Senator Lancaster even
went so far as to say at that time upon
the faithful performai CO Of this az e.
ment would depend his future course
There was primary that year, al
though the baltimore newspaper CON
munications all falsely say to the con-
trary, and that primary was neccessi-
tated because candidate for the Office
of Sheriff strong Mudd adherent and
a candidate for County Commissioner
believed to be at that time opposed to
you as leader in the county refused, or
was not induced, as it is believed they
could have been, to withdraw from
the ticket had party harmony 0 ly
been desired by your enemies III
your own party, with the result bitter
feeling was engendered and the candi-
dates for Sheriff and County Commits
sioner agreed upon were put to much
unnecessary expense. do not know,
not having talked with you about the
matter what course you intend to pur-
sue as to the candidacy of Mr.. Mudd,
but do know that the agreement made
in the fall Of .0l3 was broken that year
and not by you or your friends, but by
the friends Of Mr.. Mudd. and it does
look to me like Il slanderous assertion
when it is said and published that
should you fail to support Mudd that
you would be breaking a solemn agree
ment, when that agreement was broken
almost Immediately after 1t was made
by Mudd's strongest adherents, with
ard over whom he should if he did not
have. influence enough to keep from
running IN the primaries and thus pre-
vent what may turn out to be a more
bitter primary fight than that OF last
fall made by Mudd's adherents and sup
ported by Mudd men, although it is
persistently and falsely published that
there was no primary fight at all in this |
County. 1t is use ess 10 add that |, for
one, have confidence in ard will stand
by you because Of your long adherence
to the Republican party, your pros
in party councils in the |
State and also because OF your
euterprising Q efforts through
your newspaper and 10 every other
honorable way known to you during the
whole OF your long business career
to periodically help build and advance
the interests Of our county when so
many others by false and slanderous as
sertions as to conditions existing here
were, for political reasons alone doing
all. Republicans and Democrats alike so
very much harm.
REPUBLICAN.