The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-19
THE CAMPAIGN IN MARYLAND.
1T Is ABLE FROM SEVERAL
POINTS OF VIEW.


German Making the Fight of His
+ Life-Olney's AmbitiOn-A Vigorous
Foreign POIie Misrepresentation About
ChandIer's Latest Interview-OIney
May Have a Presidential Bee in His
Bonnet.
Washington, Oct. 1S.-A very remarka-
Bile campaign is now in progress in Mary
land. Among other things, Senator Cor
man is charging his democratic oppOn-
ents and the republicans with being COM
mon cOnspirators and Theodore Roose-
welt of New York is charging German with
being a deliberate liar. This illustrates
better than anything else the bitter char
acter of the fight.
Under ordinary circumstances Maryland
is as safely democratic as Georgia. The
conditions this year are extraordinary.
There is a fight within the Democratic
party which is serious and may result
in giving the control of the state to the
republicans, although this is more of
possibility than probability. There are,
of course, two sides to the question. The
bolung democrats claim that they are try
ing to overthrow Germans dictatoriai
power. They charge him with being "a
shoulders
Pollcal SINS OF which the human mimi
can conceive. German, on the other hanG,
asserts that he is simply being used as a
cover Tor the real secret of the Oppositfon.
Maryland has not had a reassessment or
property since 1875 and MIR. German says
mat the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Mr..
Iloyu LoWndes, the republican nominee
Tor governor, and the Baltimore sun,
which leads the boilers are endeavorine
20 destroy the Democratic party in or
der TO prevent the reassessment to when
lndL party IN the state is pledged.
Mr. Gorman himself has jumped into the
campaign with both feet. In the Senate
ne IS cool, conservative and totally de-
Xold OF emotion in his public speeches.
On the stump he is very different man.
Lhere are apparently no words in the
enllte vocabulary sufficiently strong 10
Characterize the attitude Of the Baltimore
sun. He calls its owner an arcn-traitor;
ne speaks of its editorial writer's as
hired Hessians;" he consigns ii and ev-
erybody connected with it to the DEPTHS
OF intamy; He is equally severe upon
those members OF the party who threaten
to desert. He charges the corporate in
terests of the state with banding together
70 escape their just share of taxation
by nominating LoWndes as their willing
tool and offers to prove all his asser-
tons by sworn testimony. In fact, he
mas carried the war into Africa, burned
all his bridges behind him, and is making
| the greatest night of his life.
He is confident of victory and this
LseHnE rs shared by the democratic lead
ers IN the state. If he should win against
combination which includes the princi-
pal daily papers of Baltimore, a contin-
gent OF disappointed Otfice-seeking demo-
Gratis, the entire Republican party and
| the powerful Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, ne VIII certainly be the king bee
| m Maryland. His opponents are working
| like beavers, with better organization
! than they have ever had before, and they
too, are sanguine. Altogether, with daily
meetings IN all parts or the state and
| everybody wrought up to the highest
pltch, Maryland is having a shaking-up
such as it has not seen for years
A Off r1alaf fo L..
| confidence of the administration, informs
me that some very interesting develop
ments may soon be looked for in the shape
OF a vigorous foreign policy on the part
of the administration.
Mr.. Olney, ii seems, is a man of very
different temperament from the late Sec
retary Gresham. He wants this country
to take a decided stand in all foreign mai
ters and, If he could have his way, the
american nag would float in every harbor
and be backed by American guns The
President, too. is said to appreciate that
thls Is the popular position, and as he
pays great deference to the opinions of
Mr. Olney, the latter is likely to carry
events in his own direction. Secretary
Herbert will cooperate fully in this new
policy, and some of the demonstrations
made by our ships during the winter and
next spring will not be entirely without
meaning.
There is a political side to all this which
is being whispered here in Washington,
Mr. Cleveland will not be a candidate for
denomination, but his friends win GER
convention. If. as is not unlikely, Mr..
Oney's presidential boom should mate
rialize, he would have gained considerable
prestige if he has twisted the British
lions tail and stood up, first last and ali
the time, for American rights. If he really
wants the presidency and can get the sup
port of Cleveland and Cleveland's friends.
he is beginning to build the foundation of
his hopes upon national patriotism and
national pride.
1t viii be nuts and ralsins for the demo-
Gratis If Sena ter Chandler is speaking the
truth in his latest reported interview He
says that the Senate will be organized
upon the opening of congress by the votes
of the republicans and the voluntary sup
port Of the populist senators.
While Mr.. Chandler may call ii "volun-
tary support" the fact is that the repub-
licans are not in a majority in the Senate
and IL the popuiists vote with them it will
be evidence before the country that they
are willing to form such an alliance Mr.
Chandler may be willing to go into camp
with his friends. the populsts, but some
of his more worldly wise colleagues will
think a long before they put their party
in that position. The democrats would
like to see the Senate controlled by such
a combination.