Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-21
What His Taking the Stump in
Maryland Means.
BE Is TEE issue IN TEE STATE
Don't Think the Administration is
Against Him.
CORP ORATIONS TO HELP

The appearance Of Mr.. German on the
stump in Maryland today is an event of
national interest. It is at once confession
Of danger and challenge to battle. The
Senator is in a close place and takes the
field in person, and that means much to
the other side. II he is to be beaten it can
only be by hard and harmonious work, and
after a skillful use of all the resources at
command. He himself is said to be we'll
fixed. He will not lack for the sinews of
war. nor is he minus a single enc of those
veteran lieutenants upon whom for years
past he has leaned so heavily in the fight
for control in Baltimore. Raisin and Hig-
gins in particular are both on deck, and
both in the fullest confidence of their chief
AS goes Baltimore. so. as rule, goes the
state. Are Rais.n and Higgins still carry
ing the city in their inside pockets?
Not Similar to Kentucky.
Democratic embarrassments in Maryland
and Kentucky have been bracketed to-
gether. They do not deserve to be. EN-
barrassments exist in both states. but they
do not spring from the same cause The
difficulty in Kentucky grows out of the
silver question. The threat of demo-
cratic bolt at the polls there comes from
men who resent the course of Mr.. Black
burn and General Hardin toward sound
money. These men are friends of the ma
tional administration, and hence the as
sumption in certain quarters for time
that the administration was inimical to the
party ticket This is now denied upon the
is hshen5 tSs cNst Mr. Carlisle lie himself
to be true that Mr. Carlisle could defeat
the ticket. If he were to signify. never
SO lightly, to the friends of the administra-
that democratic defeat this year might
prove to be blessing in disguise the jig
would be up with General Hardin. He
couldn't possibly be elected. But no such
fiuence will be thrown for his party, as
usual.
Mr.. German on the Issue.
In Maryland the issue is personal. Mr.
German is the issue. 1t so happens that
those democrats who are opposing the Sen
ator are all friends Of the national admin
istration. but this is not to say that they
are all the friends the administration has
in the state On the contrary. a majority
Of the principal federal officials in Mary
land-men who indorse the administration
heartily-are friends of Mr.. German. ard
want him to win this fall. and will help
him to win. OF this the German people
openly boast They go further. ana declare
that these officials could not be turned
against the Senator even by special orders
from the White House; that they would
surrender their places rather than SO
that. naturally. he would prefer the sup
port of all democrats, but they deny that
he has been making. or that he intends to
make. any special play for administration
support. He does not regard the admins
ration, as a party power, as being against
him. Certain men who are against him
all the time, one year as well as mother.
are bringing the administrations name
into the fight, but Mr.. German does not
tn nix this warranted.
This, then is the difference between the
situation in Kentucky and that in Mary
land. In the one state the administration
defeat the democratic ticket. But that
power will not be exerted to that end. The
administration forgives Gen. Hardin his
financial vagaries for the democracy that
is in him, and is supporting him for elec.
ton. In Maryland the administration Is not
involved, and could not, the German peo-
pie believe. control matters If 1t should
try. Too many Of its representatives in the
state are the Senator's friends, and have
enlisted with him for this war
Corporations Will Help Him.
The latest most interesting story in con-
nection with the Maryland campaign is
that mary of the leading corporations of
the country IN and out Of that state, are
desirous Of Mr.. Germans success. They
are looking beyond the mere matter of
Maryland politics to that larger matter of
national policy as 1t affects them. They
have found Mr.. German conservative In
the revision of the tariff, and they hope to
see that school of democrats control demo-
cratic states. A change. anywhere. for any
minor or local cause, might bring men to
the front of an extreme type. Business is
business, on Capitol Hill as well as behind
the shop counter, and when the business
man goes to Congress for legislation he
wants to find men on both sides of the
chambers of the two houses willing to
split business differences between two
propositions. This outside sympathy is
said to be the basis of Mr.. Germans con-
fldence in this fight.