The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-09-13
Senator German Is Not an Issue
in this Campaign.


hostility may be gratified, cannot de-
Jude the Democratic voters of Mary
land into believing that Senator Cor
man is an issue in this campaign. The
two leading parties in the country are
contending for ascendency in this
State. The Sun does not deny that
Mr. Lowndes is the Republican candi-
date for Governor. Mr.. Hurst claims
to be the Democratic candidate for the
same office. Mr.. Lowndes was nomi-
mated by convention composed of Re
publicans and which claimed to be a
Republican Convention. Mr.. Hurst
Was nominated by convention COM
posed of Democrats and which claimed
to be Democratic Convention. The
claim of the one is certainly not better
founded than the claim of the other.
If the evidence relied on to support the
claim of Mr.. Lowndes that he is the
Republican candidate be sufficient to
establish that claim, precisely the same
character, kind and amount of evil
dence exists to prove that Mr.. Hurst
is the Democratic candidate. Without
willfully shutting ones eyes, and then
with the stubborness of mule refusing
to credit what everybody knows, there
is no possible way of ignoring the fact
that between these two candidates
: the one claiming to be the Republican
candidate and the other with just as
much right claiming to be the Demo-
cratic candidate-the canvass has be-
gun. If Mr.. Hurst be usurper, why
is it that the one whose place he has
usurped does not come forward and as
/ sert a sup 'rior title? These two candi-
dates profess to represent antagonistic
political parties. Is there any one
Republican or Democrat-simple
enough to believe that if Mr. Lowndes
We're elected Governor he would pur-
sue the same policy or profess the same
political creed that Mr.. Hurst now
does, and will, after his election con.
tinue to do? Does anyone believe that
Mr.. Lowndes would, as the executive
of Maryland, shape his administration
so as to aid the Democratic party in
carrying this State in 1896 for Demo-
cratic presidential candidate? Does
anyone doubt that Mr.. Hurst will?
These two candidates represent two POI
litical parties that are as far apart and
as unalterably opposed to each other,
not merely in policy but in principle,
as they were when the one now rep
resented by Mr.. Lowndes had control
of Maryland in the early sixties and
signalized that control by disfranchis-
ing Democrats and by trampling on
their personal and political rights.
Surely all the external indications
that ordinarily mark the difference
between the Democratic and Republic
can parties in every campaign exist to-
day in the contest in Maryland; and
from these the natural inference would
seem to be that that contest is being
waged between those two political par
ties. If this be so, then it is Il contest
in which the principles and the policy
OF one are opposing and striving to
gain ascendency over the principles
and the policy of the other party; and
that is precisely the issue which is al
ways involved when the Democratic
and Republican parties face each other
the country over. 1t is the same issue
that the same two parties Join in Mas
sachusetts as well as in Maryland; and
Senator German is no more part or
factor of that issue in Maryland than
he is or can be in Massachusetts,.
But let Us look below the surface. If
Mr.. Lowndes should be elected Cover
nor and the legislature should be Re.
publican, Senator German would not
be affected, because he would not be be.
fore the next legislature for reelection
it is the Legislature of 1898 and not
that of 1896 that will elect his success
sor. If the Republicans should obtain
control of the Legislature by the aid of
Democratic voters, is there any Demo-
crat so supplemented as to suppose
that a Republican legislature would
elect Democrat, Senator? But should
Mr.. Lowndes be elected and the legis-
lature should be Democratic, how could
Mr.. Lowndes prevent the legislature
from electing whom they pleased? In
no possible way could Mr.. Lowndes. if
Governor, influence the election of n
United States Senator by a Democratic
legislature; and hence the pretext that
the election of Mr.. Lowndes would de-
stroy Senator German is downright
nonsense-and no one knows this BET
ter than the editor of the SIN The
election of Mr.. Hurst will have Just as
little to do with the selection of a Uni
ted States Senator. 1t is the legisla
ture that elects the Senator. If ma
jority of the legislature favor Mr.. A.
Mr.. Hurst cannot make them elect
Mr.. b. Under no conditions can Sem
ator German he a candidate before the
legislature of 1896.
But pass all this by, and then tell us
what comptroller of Maryland and
an Attorney General have to do with
the election of United States Sena-
tor. Neither has vote in the leglsa-
ture. The duties of the one pertain to