The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-22
The NIaryIand campaign.


The remarkable increase in the registra-
/ ton in Baltimore, noticed in our dispatches
I yesterday. indicates better than words
( can express il the deep interest that is be
I ing taken in the campaign that is now go
/ ing on in Maryland. The registration
amounts to ll4.25l voters. about 1900 more
than We're registered in any previous cleo
ton.
The interest is not due to political issues,
but TO a determined fight that is being
waged against Senator German. by a fac
tion Of the democracy. Senator German
is not. OF course. a candidate. but he is
the democratic leader. It is alleged that
he named the democratic ticket and that
If the democrats carry the election his
influence viii be greatly strengthened
that he VIII, in fact. actually control the
state.
There are many charges made against
the senator, none of which. however. have
been proven. His enemies have gone so
far as to bring Police Commissioner Roose-
welt from New York to assert, in a speech
that he had once caught the senator in
a falsehood. Mr.. Roosevelt did not state
at the time he made the charge what the
falsehOod was. but on his return to New
York, in an interview, he explained that
the senator in a speech in the Senate had
asserted that a bright young man of Bal
timore, who was am applicant for let
ter carriers position, had been asked in
q
lating to geology, geography and astron-
omy-questions that had no bearing what
ever on the duties of a letter carrier. Mr..
Roosevelt, who was one of the civil service
commissioners at the time, tried to find
out from the senator who the bright
young Baltimore man was who had been
asked absurd questions, but the senator
gave him no satisfaction. 1t was on this
foundation that Mr.. Roosevelt rested his
charge that the senator was guilty Of hav-
ing told a falsehood.
It is apparent that Mr.. Roosevelt would
have been in better business If he had
remained in New York attending to his du-
ties as police commissioner. To travel all
the way to Baltimore for the pur-
pose of making such a charge
against Senator Gorman-a charge
resting upon the very slightest
kind Of a Observation-Disclosures that Mr..
Roosevelt is lacking in sound judgment
and is not so anxious in behalf of truth
and fair dealing as to justify placing much
confidence in what he says when taking
part in a heated political campaign.
If Senator German is to be believed the
whole animus of the fight that is being
made against him and the democratic
ticket is due to the declared intention or
the Democratic party to have a reassess-
ment of real estate. There has been no
new assessment of such property, it is
said, for long time. Consequently vast
amount of property is assessed far below
it's actuale market value.
The republicans, a faction Of demo-
Gratis and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
it is claimed by the senator, have COM
bined to defeat the democratic ticket in
order to prevent a reassessment of real
estate. If this charge is true the demo-
cratic ticket will be elected notwithstand-
ing the fact that faction of democrats
is acting with the republicans. The peo-
pie viii find out where the truth is be-
fore election day, and viii see to it that
the right prevails.