Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-14
Master Men Leave Baltimore for
Cambridge.
ON TEE EVE OF TIE CONVENTION
Bitter Feeling Between the Fac
tons.
MR.. BAKERS PROSPECTS
pecial Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, August 1.-THE cor
ridors of the Carrollton have been crowded
all morning with hundreds of republicans
who leave for the Cambridge convention
this afternoon and evening, and final
preparations for the departure of the re-
publican hosts have been made.
The adherents of William T. Master
over 1000 strong, left this afternoon on the
steamer Enoch Pratt, and will be the first
large body of partisans to arrive on the
sceEe of tomorrow's battle. The Master
headquarters have already been opened in
Cambridge, and the Master men expect to
be very Well entrenched before the appear
arce of their rivals.
The Lowndes party will leave Baltimore
at midnight on the steamer Jane Moseley
and will arrive in Cambridge early to-
morrow morning. Extensive preparations
have been made to entertain the republi-
can hordes and the general impression here
Is that the convention will be a most men,
orable one.
The result of the primaries has gratifled
the Lowndes men beyond measure, and
they claim an easy victory for the Cum
berland banker, whom they expect to see
nominated on the first ballot.
The Master men say they were never
more sanguine of their LEADERS, nomination,
and they are prepared to fight to the last
with the seven votes won at the primaries
Monday, and the couItry votes they can
depend on, they can organize the conven-
ton, and this they propose to do. They
threaten, in case there is no hope of MIR.
Masters nomination, to throw their
strength for Congressman William 3.
Baker. and should Mr.. Bakers name be
brought forward, the Malster men claim
that many delegates who are expected to
vote for Lowndes will come over to Baker.
The Malster faction are extremely indig-
nant at what they regard as the fraudulent
work OF the LoWndeS men in Mondays
primaries, and if their outspoken denuncia-
tons of the methods of the Lowndes fac
ton can be taken as significant, Mr.. Bak-
er's nomination, in case of Mr.. Masters
withdrawal, is not improbable. The feel
ing between the two factions is extremely
bitter, and the prospect of a split is oc-
casioning the conservative much anxiety.
The cooler leaders recognize in the feel
ing aroused among the democrats by Mr..
HCrst's nomination a splendid opportunity
for republican success and they feel that
the Lowndes- Master fight will jeopardize
that opportunity.
Talk has been going around today that
at the last moment Maj. Alexander Shaw
of this city will be sprung on the conven-
ton. Maj. Shaw is friend of Mr.
Lowndes, and his nomination would be ac-
ceptable to all factions.
Many Politicians ut Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE, Mo, August 14.-Cam-
uiioSe 10 dill dSoS Win excitement over the
republican convention tomorrow Already
the town is well crowded with delegates
and political enthusiasts. but it is not until
late this afternoon that the full crowd is
expected TO begin to arrive.
There are few Master men on the
ground, Col. George C. Boynton being III,
only prominent one of the lot On the
other hand the Lowndes men are we'll rep
resented, and they are getting things Wen
in hand for the fight tonight
Among those who arrived this morning
ar David w. Sloan, states attorney of AL
legany county, who will make the speech
nominating Lowndes. Harry NJ. Clabauyn.
chairman of the state central committee;
Congressman Chas. E. Coffin, ex-Reven,,e
Collector F. Snowden Hill, Jno. c. Mot:er
of Frederick, Geo. Russum OF Caroline,
Geo r. Gather, jr. of Baltimore city,
Norman b. Scott, ir., of Washington.
Others
The steamer Enoch Pratt will arrive
about G:30 with large part of the Master
delegation and rooters, and the Jane Nose
ly will arrive at an early hour tomorrow
morning with the Nineteenth Ward Social
Republican CLUB and friends, all Master
men. The reg liar steamer, the Avalon,
will bring a large crowd, arriving at 7:39
and the trains will bring the rest of the
crowd.
Looks Well for Lowndes
1t begins to look as if the Lowndes peo-
pie have the situation well in hand, and
that they will nominate their ticket pretty
much as they choose They are making
all their arrangements down here today
with the evident idea that they will have
the control of the convention. The plat
form Is about agreed upon, and it Is said
that it will be a plain, forcible document
which will not daily much with the Nc
kinley bill and national affairs.