Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-08
TWO OF THE VICTORS
Higher Honors Proposed for Lowndes
and Bradley.
MISTAKEN EAGERNESS OF FRIENDS
Their Success Was Not in the
Larger Sense Personal.
WILL PERFORM THEIR DUTY

Instantly, as is usual in such cases. the
victors in the hard struggles in Maryland
and Kentucky are being doomed for even
greater things. Personal admirers seem dis
posed to give them no rest but to push them
| right along toward the very top of the ma
tfonal heap. Evidences of vice presidential
strength and availability are discovered in
Gov.-elect Lowndes, while the presidency
itself is being dangled before the eyes Of
Gov.-elect Bradley. Combinations of cne
kind or another being suggested and
canvassed, and in this way entirely new
turn is given. or sought to be given, to Tues
days work in those two states
Not Personal Success.
In some quarters this is regretted. 1t is
thought to represent shortsig gh tedness, and,
Indeed, failure to appreciate the full and
real meaning of what has been accomplish
ed. Popular, and able, and deserving as
both men are, the success of Mr.. Lowndes
and Col. Bradley is net in the larger sense
| regarded as personal. Both, it is insisted,
represent a movement which, according 10
the voice of Tuesday, must be carried out
by them. The people of Maryland did not
feel themselves to be making a candidate
Tor Vice President, ror the people of Ken
lucky candidate for President as the
| immediate result of Tuesdays work They
"CiS StlNlHS " ellSCl a CnanSe local to
themselves-to supplant bad conditions
with good condftions-and therefore selected
the two men in question to carry out their
program. In this view of the case the post
OF duty for the reXt four years for both
Mr.. LoWndes and Col. Bradley will he that
that has just been assigned them The
surest way, 1t is thought, for botn Of them
to reach even higher stations VIII be to
content themselves for the designated time
with the work that has been cut out for
them: tfe. end perform it with all the skill and
,El 1aithfulness of which they may be capable.
Ihe republicans, it is insisted, cannot afford
TO rest with simply laying gained power
They must show by their performances that
they were worthy of it, and having gained
IL snould strive hard to keep it.
Will Not Mistake Their Duty.
Those who know the two men have every
confidence that they will not mistake their
duty at this time. and set off on chase
after the inadvisable and the unattainable.
They have shrewdness, judgment, patience
and pluck They have ambition, too. but
instructed by large experience. They have
worked and waited weary while for what
at last they have now secured. Col. Brad
ley has served the scriptural term of four
teen years for his office, having made for
himself or for others, four distinct can
vases Of the state in gubernatorial years.
The Two Scnatorships.
This same line of argument is thought
also to apply to the two senatorships that
have been gained. Ii is held that neither
Mr.. Lowndes nor Col. Bradley should per-
NIT the use of his name in connection with
that office. The party in both states is
fortunate in the possession of material well
suited to it, and unembarrassed as to ac-
cepting the place. In Maryland the names
OF Gen. Agnus, Chairman Wellington Judge
McComas and eX-Congressman Findlay are
mentioned. Mr.. Findlay is spoken of as tho
most brilliant man in the state, her great
est orator since Henry Winter Davis and
is said to be anxious to return to political
life. In Kentucky the republicans il the
legislature turns out to be definitely theirs,
Will consider the names of John W. Yerkes,
chairman of the state committee and a
lawyer of excellent repute: A. Z. Wilson
OF Louisville, who ranks high among the
political leaders in the state; st. John
Boyle, Congressmen-elect Walter Evans
and Godfrey Hunter and Judge T. T. Nor
row. They are all al lie men, and have long
enjoyed the confidence of their party.
Harrison and Bradley.
The story that overtures from the east
are already being made to Col Bradley to
run second on a presidential ticket attracts
attention because of the bearing it has en-
Gen. Harrisons candidacy. 1t seems %
have been forgotten, however that CO..
Bradley has always been in high favor with
the Indiana leader. The mission to Corea
was rendered him soon after Gen. Harrison
was inaugurated President. and in the dis
tri5ution of the Kentucky patronage Col
Bradley was freely consulted. The result
was that at Minneapolis, in 1892 the Ken
lucky delegation under Col. Bradleys lead
ership, stood under the Harrison standard,
and Col Bradley himself resisted the most
tempting offers to go to the Blaine
side. What Col. Bradley's views may be
with regard to bringing Gen. Harrison for
ward again next year is yet to be de-
veloped He may be opposed to it. But it
is thought to be safe guess that his per-
sonal feelings toward the ex-President are
still very friendly. and that he will not lend
himself to any movement having for its
object more the embarra ssment of the eX-
President than his own welfare and ad-
vancement.