Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-21
al Correspondence of The Evening Star

Special corresrondenee of The Evening Star.
| BALTIMORE, November 81, 1891.
Ex-Congressman Charles II. Gibson's ap
pointment by Gov. Jackson as United State
Senator to succeed the late Judge Wilson unit
the meeting Of the legislature Is as gratifyin,
as it is surprising Except to few persona
and political friends of Mr.. Gibson and Gov Jack
son there not the smallest intimation of tn,
appointment until few hours before il wa
announced in The STAR. Indeed, while it ba
| been indicated in these letters from time t.
time that Mr.. Gibson would probably be electct
by tie legislature for the full term, it was gen
orally supposed that Gov. Jackson would ap
point Hon. Robert F. Brattan, president of the
state senate at the last session of the legisla-
I tTre.
| While his appointment OF Mr.. Gibson was
without doubt made in large part on the score
/ of warm and lonS-standing personal friendship
between them. 1t is also equally certain that he
was finally induced to do il as concession to
| the earnest wishes of Senator German and the
PARTY leaders. There IL no man in Maryland
more popular than Mr.. Gibson wherever he is
known. or more beloved by his friends and
! those who know him well.
THE APPOINTMENT AT FIRST REFUSED.
Mr.. Gibson at first positively refused to have
L
pointment and only consented to do so at the
earnest solicitation of his close personal friends.
lie considered that he was honestly committed
to the fight for the clerkship of the House of
Represe ntatiyes, and while he had at 10 time
concealed his ambition for the United States
senatorshIp for the full term he could not see
that the appointment for so short n portion of
it. with whatever chances it might give him for
the full term, would justify him in abandoning
the fight for the clerkship with such excellent
prospects OF success. There is now every indi-
cation that the results OF the near future will
bear out the wisdom of his final action
and that the legislature will elect him for the
full term, though there are some opinions to
the contrary. Those who hold them say that
Mr. Gibson cannot oppose Gov. jackson in the
legislature for the full term now that he has
accepted the appointment at his hands. This
simply evidences II lack OF familiarity with the
situation as it really Is.
GIBSON AND JACKSON.
Mr. Gibson will not oppose Gov. Jackson,
but, on the contrary, they are in thorough
accord. Gov. Jackson has invariably supported
Gibson in all of his congressional fights and his
support has been very valuable to him,
and Gibson was one OF Gov. JAG
kson's stanchest supporters when he was a
candidate for the United States Senate
two years ago. If Jackson cannot be
elected himself when the legislature meets, his
will go to him, and in the event of his own
failure he will have the satisfaction of knowing
that he has strengthened Gibson s position by
appointing him. Gibson, on the other hand,
will do all that he honestly can to elect Jack
ron. and has said that if he were in the legis-
lature himself he would certainly vote for him.
Gov. jackson has certainly not strengthened
his own position by his appointment OF Mr..
Gibson. as he would have done by the appoint
ment of Mr. Brattan. who could not by any
possibility have been elected for the full term
1t is certain THAI at this time Gibson and
jackson are the two central figures for the
Senate and nobody is thinking or talking much
about the other candidates except their own
individual friends The seeming strongest
possibility next to Gibson and jackson is State
Senator John Walter Smith of Worcester
county and he and his friends still pro-
TESS to be sangune Of his election. The other
Candidates named. Judge Robinson Of Queen
Anne's county, James Alfred Pearce Of Kent
county and State Senators John 4. Writ Of
Cecil county. Edward Lloyd OF Talbot. Gibson's
county. and Levin l.. Waters of Somerset
county, cannot more than control their own
county delegations, if they can do that