Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-29
THE OUTLOOK IN MARYLAND
Why Republicans Hope to Garry the
The Transition Stage of Politics.
Young Men Coming Forward
The SenatOrships.
CORRESPONDENCE of The Evening Star.

BALTIMORE, June 81 1898.
The political situation in both the demo-
cratic and republican parties in Maryland
is daily becoming more interesting. The
fact that the republicans are so encouraged
at the victory they won last year as to
warrant the hope that they may elect
their state ticket this year is causing
considerable alarm among democrats. VINO
are unable to find that public sentimen: has
changed to any great extent from what
It was when 1t manifested itself at the
polls in November last and caused this
heretofore rcck-ribbed democratic state to
give popular plurality for the opposition
and elect three and possibly four republic
cans to the national House of Represen-
tatives.
The election this year is for governor.
controller of the treasury and attorney
general, as we'll as general assembly,
which Will choose state treasurer. two
police commissioners for Baltimore city
and a successor to United States Senator
Charles H. Gibson. The state senators,
thirteen In number, to be elected this year,
will hold over for four years and thus Will
vote for the successor to Senator Arthur
p. German in 1898. 1t will therefore be
seen that the prizes to be commended for are,
in political sense. the greatest the state
affords. and the democrats and republicans
who are interested in party affairs are
fully alive to the situation and will do
everything in their power, fair aud unfair,
just and unjust, to attain their ends Poll
tics will be played for all it is worth in
Maryland this year. and. although neither
party has held it's state convention. the
campaign is on headquarters are opened
and from one end Of the commonwealth
to the other politics and politicians are
actively at work. Each passing day sees
more and more party men allied to both
the great organizations In Baltimore re-
ceiving instructions and encouragement"
from the leaders to continue the work with
vigor and enthusiasm.
Senator Germans Power.
The primaries that have been held up to
the present time indicate clearly that while
there is much discomfort in the ranks and
file of the democratic party, yet Senator
German is still in absolute control of the
machine or organization, and that his word
will be the law of the occasion when the
state convention meets, July 81. and who
ever the senior Senator desires will be
named as the party candidate for governor
of the state. All the candidates for the
general assembly that have been nominated
by the democrats are open friends of Sem
ator German, and Will do his bidding when
at Annapolis. should they be elected. While
1t Is true some of the country conventions
have passed resolutions indorSng President
Cleveiand's administration, many of them
have also Endorsed, with emphasis, the
course of the Maryland Senators, and on
those resolutions have nominated German
candidates without exception 1t Is safe to
say that the conventions to come will fol-
low the precedents already laid down, and
democratic victory at the polls this year
means victory for German and Gibson, and
the reelection Of the latter to succeed HIM
self next winter for another six years.
Nothing is clearer to even the most
perficial observer Of affairs than the Sena-
tor German is making Senator Gibson's
fight part Of his own, and that the Cor
man triumph will mean also the triumph of
his colleague, and his success in his can
vass for Endorsement by the people That
such is the case is openly asserted on all
sides. and many of the anti-Gorman demo-
Gratis say that rather than see such state
of affairs they will work for and vote the
republican ticket. Indeed, many of the
anti-Gorman men state that the only way
in which it Is possible to overthrow tho
German reign is to support the republican
ticket for state and legislative offices-and
they express their intention Of doing so at
the coming election.
Republican Hopes.
The prospect of republican success in
Maryland. based on the vote of last year
as well as on the fractional divisions of the
dominant party at the present time, has led
to great activity in the ranks of that
ganization, and consequent multiplicity
| of candidates for every office, which Is
really the only alarming feature of the
case from that standpoint. Already the
factional divisions in republican ranks,
which have for quarter of a century been
the chief source of democratic strength in
this state, have broken out, but the leaders,
having profited by the experience of the
past. are doing all in their power to bring
about harmony, and at present with excel
| lent prospects of success. The younger ele-
| ment of the republican party, the men who
have grown to manhood since the war,
have come to the front. They are the sons
of the old whig families, which for a lcng
period were dominant in this state. and
are naturally republicans. Maryland was a
whig state before the breaking up of that
historic party, and gradually the old, in
herited wing hatred Of the democratic
party Is becoming manifested in the young
er generation. many OF whom We're driven
INTO animation with the democratic party
| dread Is now fast disappearing IN this
state. As soon as the few remaining old
wings ana their many descendants are con-
Vlnced That republican control does not
mean negro domination, 1t Is asserted,
large majority of them will become repub-
means, in action as well as in theory and
then Maryland will cease 20 be a demo-
cratic state. These people have been rest
less Tor years, and now their restlessness
seems about to eliminate in q return to
the principles they have long professed, but
never carried out in practice at the rolls.
1t might be surprising to some to see
Maryland go republican this year by q good
majority, but 1t would not surprise in the
least large number of the best informed
men mere, VINO, IL they vote and act as
they are now openly talking, will do much
to bring about that result. The anti-Gor-
man sentiment is not strong enough, it is
Claimed, to carry a primary In a single
county, but 1t is strong enough at the
polls to make probable the defeat of any
ticket put up.
Governor Brown openly says that he
considers the outlook for his party any
thing but brilliant this year, and consa-
quently declines to enter the fray Other
democrats make the same statements, and
take the same position, and so there are
politicians who believe that If the repub-
| licans eschew their factional suuabbles
Maryland may this year astonish the
| country by going republican for the first
time since the war.