Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-04
LLOYD LowNDEs AT EAsToN.
Democratic Revolt Along the Eastern
Shore.

Shore.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
EASTON, Nd, September AIR Lloyd
Lowndes the republican candidate for gov
ernor, and other republican nominees were
greeted by a gathering Of several thousand
persons at the Talbot county fair grounds
here today. The reception to Mr.. Lowndes
was most enthusiastic, and hundreds of
democrats of the best class Of eastern
shore men assured the antl-Gorman candi-
date that they and others would support
him on November at the polls. Repre-
sentative men from every county on the
peninsula are present, and all report that
the anti-Gorman feeling is on the increase,
and that never before since 1875 has the
regular democratic ticket been in such dan
ger of defeat in this section of the state.
Mr. Lowndes' two days visit here has
| aroused great enthusiasm in his behalf and
people look on his candidacy from a nom
partisan standpoint rather than as the
nominee of the republican party.
Throughout the eastern shore lifelong
democrats are openly asserting their in
tention of deserting the democratic ticket
for the republican or for the several in
dependent democratic movements which
are now or will soon be well under way.
The situation Is a most critical one, and the
Hurst supporters in this section of the
state are extremely moderate in their fore
casts, which is significant and a strong
contrast to the enthusiasm of the regulars
during previous campaigns.
In Worcester County.
In Worcester county, which, under ordi-
nary conditions, gives democratic major
| ty of from GOO 10 1900, the fight is not only
against Senator German and Er. Rasin,
but against the special leadership Of Col.
John Walter Smith and Mr.. Clayton ].
| Purnen These two gentlemen control the
democratic party machinery in Worcester,
and the fight against them is occaSicned by
| their manipulation Of local political affairs
| and by the expenditure by the county COM
missioners of the public money.
An indepeEdent democratic ticket has
| been nominated in Worcester, which is ex-
pected to poll several hundred votes at the
| expense of the regular ticket, and Mr.. w.
| Sidney Wilson, son of the late United
| States Senator Ephraim X. Wilson, and
| other lifelong democrats expect to take
| the stump for this movement.
In Wicomlco county, In addition to the
| decided opposition to the regular ticket,
| there is growing opposition to the politi-
cal dictatorship of ex-Gov. Jackson, who
| is regarded as a political back number.
! The eX-governor's action in becoming a
| candidate for the state senate at the or
| ders of Senator German is regarded as an
undignified bid for that leaders, support
for the election of a successor to Senator
| Gibson, and the combined opposition to the
| regular ticket and to Jackson is apt to
| prove disastrous to the chances of demo-
cratic success in Wicomico.
| In Dorchester the local ticket has not
been nominated, but the resentment felt
| among the rank and file Of the party
against the leaders Is extreme and is bound
| to be apparent on election day.
In Somerset. although there has been no
| public expression of revolt. hundreds of
| democrats have expressed their intention
| of voting the republican ticket.
! In Caroline county the revolt is SO de-
| cided that although the county ticket
| which contains the names of some strong
| anti-Gornan men, may be saved, there is
| slight probability that the state ticket
will receive the full support of the party
| Devoted to Reassessment.
] The support Of the eastern shore demo-