New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-30
MONDAY,
DECEMBER 80, 1895.
BROWNS DESPERATE PLAN.
LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF HIS STEALING
MARYLAND OFFICES.

THE PROJECT or THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR
DENOUNCED BY SENATOR GoRMAN-coN'
TESTS FOR LEGISLATIVE HoNoRs
Baltimore Dec % (specaD.-The Maryland Legs.
Iature will In biennial session at Annapohs
on New Years Day. Governor-elect Lowndes via
be inaugurated on Wednesday, January INC
event will be made the occasion OF great Hepuo-
Lean celebration. All the accommodations Tor
visitors In the little capital city have already been
secured Every Republican club In the state VIII
turn out It's full numbers number OF steam
boats have been chartered to take the enthusiastic
Republican crowds from this city and points on the
eastern and western shores OF the Chesapeake to
Annapolis. Special trains will carry hundreds more
from the southern part OF the State.
Governor Brown has tried to brighten the Repuo-
licans by intimating that he may make number
OF State appoin tments and thus try to retain In
Office some Of his old political friends before the
new Governor takes his place In the Executive
Mansion. Governor Brown says he could secure
the cooperation OF the Democratic majority In the
State Senate but this is doubtful While he has
the legal right to exercise the appointing power
until his successor Is iaaugurated. no other re-,
firing Governor has ever thus encroached upon the
privileges OF the incoming Executive. Senator Cor
man has out strongly against the Governors
scheme, stating that such move would be against
all precedent and injure the Democratic party In
the State. The Republicans and their allies. says
the Senator. carried the State last November IN
fair, square contest, and they entitled TO AL
the offices.
Governor-elect Lowndes and Congressman Wei
lington indignant Governor Browns
threats At first they and other prominent Re-
publlcans treated his boasts a joke, but he
issued statement that he was In earnest Both
Messrs. Lowndes and Wellington now say that
any attempt the part OF the Governor to con-
tinue in office men identified with the Democratic
machine would be resented by the whole people OF
no and hey do of
cratic Senate would confirm the reappontments or
in any way help him in carrying out such base
scheme While his legal right to reappoint the
present oficeholders during the first week In Jan.
uary cannot be disputed. Governor Lowndes can
in turn exercise his right to remove them, ana
the Republican leaders say he would have good
and sufficient for doing in the case OF
every appon IT is generally believed. how.
ever, that Senator Germans avowed opposition -
any such move will prevent its contamination
The caucuses for officers Of the House and Sen.
ate will be held in Annapois on Tuesday night
4 conference OF the Republican members OF me the
speakership Contest test Is far from being settled tx
Congressman Sidney e. Mudd. Of Charles County,
the fact that the eighteen members Of the Balt.
more city delegation have agreed 70 vote as unit
S w ss H Of the ha t P Ssss sSs
| Charles F. Markell, OF Frederick, is also in the
r ns the MEMBER OF the
SO far however NJ schilling seems to iead me me
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| dark horse.
The Presidency of the Senate is giving the Demo-
| Gratis considerable trouble W. Cabe Bruce, the
| anti-Ciorman Senator from Baltimore holds the
key to the situation in the Senate. The German
! men cannot do anything without the aid OF Mr..
| Bruce and the other independent Democratic Sen
| ator from Hartford County. Some OF German
friends working hard to beat him for the Presi-
dency. Colonel John Walter smith, the last Pres!-
| dent of the Senate, is the German candidate.
The contest for the United States Senatorship
| has been quiet for week. owing to the interest
taken in the approaching organization of the egs-
lative bodies. Mr. Wellington still seems to be q
| formidable candidate although he cannot be elected
| without the repeating or ignoring OF the Eastern
| Shore law. which requires that one senator must
| come from that part OF the State. Senator Gibson
is the Eastern Shore representative. and both Re-
| publican and Democratic members 81 the Lsgis-
lature declare they will fight any attempt TO alter
| the law The principal Eastern Shore candidates
| for Senator are State Senator Abraham Lincoln
| Dryden, of Somerset County. and state senator
! Charles T. Westcott. The latter has the lead but
| horse Nearly every county on the Eastern Shore
| has a candidate and so far the fifteen Republican
| members of the Legislature from that part OF the
| a conference tomorrow. at which each candidate
will be expected TO show the support he can count
| upOn from Baltimore and the western and south
ern counties. The Westcott men are confident, and
| saw their candidate command the most votes
| from the members outside of the Eastern Shore
| delegation Among the other Eastern Shore cam
| ddates are George VI. Russum, of Caroline County:
| A. T. Barnes. of Worcester: Colonel James G. Mul-
| likn of Easton and Phillips Godsborough.