Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-04
Unless the Signs Fail Republicans
Will Win.
CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN BALTIMORE
A Campaign That Has Been Full
of Abuse.
REP UDIATION OF BOSSES
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

BALTIMORE, November 2, 1895.
To-Day practically closes the mostly hotly
contested and exciting campaign Maryland
has gone through since 1875. For more
than three months. that is ever since the
nomination of Mr.. John E. Hurst by the
democratic state convention on July 81,
the entire state has been in the throes of a
political convulsfon,w which promises Tuesday
next unless all the usual signs fail, to turn
the executive department over to the repub-
leans. and perhaps carry with it the leg
islative branch of the government over to
the representatives of the same organiza-
ton. On all sides the prediction is openly
made that Lloyd Lowndes will be elected,
and such representative demo Gratis as Gov
ernor Frank Brown express the fear that
tha movement for the head of the republic
can ticket may carry with it the defeat of
the whole list of nd.dates, including the
entire democratic city ticket. Indeed, bets
are freely offered today by some of the
shraWdest observers in the state that not
only Will LoWndes be elected, but that the
republicans will cleo. their entire city
ticket as well. The most significant part of
the whole affair is that no one appears to
he willing to take up any of these BETS ex-
cept where the odds are at least two to one
There is plenty of money to let on
Lo"ndcs, even, but the Hurst men want at
least two to their one.
How 1t Looks in Baltimore.
The Star Thursday gave an account of
the situation in all the counties in the
safe, and all that remains is to review the
condition ( affairs here in Baltimore The
review Thursday showed that The signs
We all favorable to the republicans, and
although two days have passed the only
changes that can be noted make a more
Ia orable showing for the EowniaS ticket
iii the rural sections of the state. The
large numbers of republicans who have
VS. tel their party headquarters from tho
equities have brought moss encouraging
rep ris, while the democrats who have
Teen in town during the past TWO lays TO
get their share Of the campaign funds
have all insisted that the only way in
% ties on Tuesday would be by the lavish
ca nendture of money. The money waa
furn shed and the only uncertainty as to
tie result arises from the fact tina. the
democrats are abun iantly supplied with
c"sh. while the republicans have no. more
tn n the amount necessary for the leSit--
II ate expenses of the campaign. AS there
are large Numbers of vena. voters in the
counties as well as in the city, the size of
tie campaign fund may play large part
IN de ermining the result. although the
tide moItg the reputable people seems SCI
n so strongly toward Lowndes II is nara
t. see how it can be overcome even by
cash.
- situation in the city is even more pro-
nounceI than in the counties Ihe Two
democratic dailies the Evening News and
the Sun together with the American and
the World, pouring hot shot into the
ranks of the democrats, who are left without
newspaper support. except such as they re-
ceive from the publication of paid cards in
the Herald and in the advertising columns
of the journals mentioned above.
In addition. some of the most effective
speakers for Mr. Lowndes have been demo-
Gratis of prominence, who have gone to the
most extreme limits in his behalf. All these
things have made the city ever since the
campaign began tumult of mud-slinging
vitnnoratiOn heretofore eQlaleQ,
dirty as Maryland political fights have al
ways been. The revolving democrats and
their newspaper organs have out-Heroded
Herod in their attacks on the regular ma
chine leaders, and those men have been
without any defense whatever except on
the stump, and that has been perfunctory
and weak. 1t has been mud-slinging cam
paign from start to finish, and more per-
sonal friendships of years standing have
been strained or sundered altogether than
can be healed in a lifetime.
The Tide Seems for Lowndes.
In the city the tide today seems all for
Lowndes. In every business house, on the
street, in the offices, in the workshops; in
fact, everywhere, people are talking politics
and almost nothing but politics. and all seem
to be- with the exception of the professional
politicians, the office holders and their
friends and dependents of the opinion
that Lowndes will win. Up to today many
thought that the democratic city ticket
could be saved, but now the general impress
sion prevails that it, too, will be swept away
18th the flood of votes. and that the republic
cans will carry everything away in the inn
pending storm. The revelations of rotten
hess and corruption in the ranks of the boss
IS, the selfishness shown by them in their
management of party affairs, their AFRO
Sanca in making nominations regardless of
popular sentiment, all combined appear at
last to have aroused public sentiment to
such pitch that it will vent itself at the
polls Tuesday in way not to be mistaken.
In fact, many old-time democrats. young
democrats. men whose boast has always
leen that they have never scratched q tick
ct" ard that they would vote for the devil
were he nominated by democratic conven-
ton are now openly denouncing the demo-
cratic nominees. and rot only defiantly as
sorting that they intend to vote for Lown-
des but are at work trying to persuade
others to do the same thing.
At the present time it looks as if Senator
German had at last lest his grip on the peo-
pie of Maryland. and was about to meet
with defeat. He made himself the issue by
taking the stump. and, against the advice of
some of the most conservative of his friends
defiantly said that he could not be forced
out If the ticket is defeated. it will mean
that Gormansm ard German have been re-
pudiated by the long-suffering people of this