Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-07-13
THE DIE Is CAST.
Frank Brown Declared the Win.
ming Man.

ming Man.
A little over two weeks remain
before the meeting of the Democrat
ic State Convention, in which the
several candidates for gubernator.
ial honors have to formulate plans
aud consolidate forces. Political
conventions are uncertain quanti-
ties, where so many combinations
are formed, aud it will be dIfiicnt
even at this late day, in view of
all the circumstances. to positively
say who will be the winning man.
Indications at this writing, however,
point most conclusiyely to Farmer
Brown, of Carroll county, as the
coming man, if we are to judge
from public sentiment.
The Baltimore american, which
cannot be taken as partial Brown
organ, in it's Sunday edition, has
the following to say on the situation:
Mr.. Hodges attitude in his canvass
for the governorship may be likened to
that of Mr. Snodgrass in the Pickwick
Papers, in the fight which followed the
arrest of Mr. Pickwick and Mr.. Tupman
Mr. Tupman was Mr.. Pickwick's sec
ond In the duel which that illustrious
gentleman was about to fight with Mr.
Peter Magnus, and the arrests were
made TO prevent that sanguinary encoun
ter
When Grumbler, the beadle, was con
yeying his prisoners with great ostenta-
tion before George Napkins, Esq, the
magistrate who had issued the warrents
he was met by Sam Weller. who stoutly
demanded that he be told who the occu
pants of the conveyance" were. Grum-
mer refused TO tell him and finally collar
ed Sam. who very unceremoniously
knocked the unhappy beadle down and
proceeded to thrash him. The fighting
became contagious. and Mr.. Wrinkle was
the next to take hand AS soon as he
saw drummer fall he found an outlet for
his valor In small boy who stood near,
and WHOM he pummelled numerically
Finally, when the fighting was all over
Mr.. Snodgrass called out in loud tone
hat he was going to begin; and proceed
ed with the utmost deliberation to pull
off his coat.
No better illustration of the situation
could be given. The fight for governor
ship is over, but Mr.. Hodges refused to
get back into his coat, and persists in
calling out in loud tone that he is GO
ing to begin. Possibly, like Mr.. Snod-
grass, he believes in assuming a virtue,
though he has il not. Possibly the fable
Al Al.
him that in politics, as In fiction, the
race is not always to the swift. But in
the fable, 1t was the hare, and not the
tortoise, that slept.
Frank Brown and his friends arc laugh
ing at Hodges slow haste. They have
eiEectually blocked the way TO Annapo
lis, and no sooner was Hodges coat off
than be, like Mr.. Snodgrass, was prompt
ly surrounded and secured
The Hodges boom is in rigor mortis.
1t has passed beyond the skill of politi-
cal physicians and nostrums. Slow
''a-bornin, il was swift to pass away
from the scene of its abbreviated activ.
itY, and now it has been laid away in the
vast cemetery of dead hopes and buried
ambitions, whence there shall be no po
litical resurrection morn-not for four
years at least. Like the three weeks
babe in Cheltenham Cemetary, its only
epitaph must be:
1T is SO soon that am done for,
| wonder what was begun fol"
The chances are that if Mr.. Brown
should fail to get the nomination
on the first ballot, his delegations
may become divided, and either 60 to
Jones or Hodges-but such is the
strength manifested by Brown upto
this time it is said he will get the
nomination by reclamation.
Col. Spencer g. Jones is acknowl.
edged as the next strongest candi-
date, aud should Browns delegates
jump, it is thought they will go to
Jones first. and give him the nomi-
nation. Ii dges, it is believed by
many, is overheard, aud will not be
able to rally enough strength to give
him half the required number. The
Anne Arundel Alliance, while they
did not adopt resolutions endorsing
any one for Governor, they are out
spoken for Brown.