The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-09-05
poL111os IN MARYLANp.
Items OF General Interest to All
Parties

The Democrats of the Sixth Congressional
District last week nominated Blair Lee, of
Montgomery county for Congress. He is a
LAWYER been free siveriie for some years,
and has a small size bari. He will be elected.
John H. Rowlenson, of Baltimore, who was
secret political agent for Governor Brown, in
q recent interview, said:
maryland will give majority Of $1,000
for free silver. You remember | predicted
the majority Frank Brown would get for Gov
ernor, and / told you that Lloyd Lowndes
would get at least 10000 more votes than
Hurst. just you wait and see if I'm not
as close to the result this year as l was last.
Senator German and Mr. Rasin claimed that
not more than 10000 or $4,000 Democrats
would vote for Lowndes. My friends, there
were 80, 600 of them.
''What has that got TO do with it? This:
Every silver club that has been started so far
has been started without the aid of the regular
Democratic organization, its leaders or its
workers. The officers of these clubs are
almost all men who last year fought the Demo-
cratic ticket. The active Republicans are for
Mckinley, of course, but there are thousands
of quiet Republicans who propose to fool the
Republican leaders in Maryland this fall just
as the quiet Democrats fooled the Democratic
leaders last year.
II know Of factory in which there are 35
votes Last year not three of them were cast
for Hurst. This fall not more than three of
them will vote for Mckinley. There is
department of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road in which there are "a votes: of these
were east for Hurst, but this year % of them
are fot Bryan. These are few samples of
what | find. To my mind, they indicate
petty plainly the tendency of politics. Bryan
and Sewall will sweep Maryland and they will
sweep the nation"
Judge Stake was beaten 70 Washington
county Republican primaries and convention,
and Alexander r. Hagner has the delegates
to the congressional convention, which meets
at Oakland next week. Montgomery county
delegates are for Capt. Mcdonald, but Hagner
seems to be Wellington's man.
The faction fight in Frederick county in the
Republican party has broken out afresh.
Two calls have been issued for a meeting of
the central committee. The Motter faction
call is for meeting today, and the Haffner
call is for September u.
The Republican State Central Committee
met in Baltimore, and one of its acts was the
approval of the dismissal of Capt H. Clay NALL
as Secretary of Committee by Chairman Well
ington. A resolution of thanks to Capt NALL
was offered, but he would not allow it to
be considered.
EN-State Senator Robert Moss, OF Anne
Arundel county, was nominated for Congress
in the fifth district. He will defeat Mudd.
Moss is in his 34th year.
DIR. W. c. Saudrock, of Baltimore, believes
Bryan will win. He says:
81 have been lifelong Republican, but
| am now for Bryan and Sewall and free sill
yer. My brother, who lives in the Seventh
ward, was named as Republican election
officer, but he told the supervisors that he
was going to vote the Democratic ticket this
year, and they excused him. Another old
Republican who is supporting Bryan is DIR.
John II. Bolton. l know of upward of 80
friends of mine who voted for Lowndes las
year who will not support Mckinley on gold
platform