Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-01
DEMOCRATIC LOSSES
Many Voters in Maryland Will Bolt
the Chicago Ticket.
FORMERLY HOSTILE ELEMENTS UNITE
Bryan's Hope is in Large Free Sill
yer Accessions.
)RMERLY HOSTILE ELEMENTS UNITE
MR.. WELLINGTON'S CLAIMS


BALTIMORE, Nd, July 81, 1895.
The political situation In Maryland Is
| more mixed than usual this year. For
many years there has been a general fu-
| SIGN of certain elements Of the democratic
party with the republicans on local or state
| issues, and this fusion last year brought
| about the election of a republican governor
and general assembly and the turning over
| of the state and city governments to the
republicans for the first time since 1867.
These fusion movements have never here
tofore included national elections, but, on
| the contrary, the very men and the ele-
| ments at their back who have aided the
| republicans in state and city politics have
allegiance to the democratic party IN ma
| tional campaigns, and have worked side
| by side one year with the very men they
! have fought to overthrow in local affairs
| the year before.
Boiling Democrats.
This year, however, the situation is Alto
| gether different. The elements of the dem
ocratic party known as the "reformers,"
| largely reinforced by business men whose
| boast it has always been that they never
scratched a ticket, are even more ener-
| gettc than the republicans In their hostil-
| ity to the Chicago nominees and platf orm,
ticket and platform which they contend
represents the sound money side of the con-
test. In fact, up to the present time the
campaign, SO far there has been any
campaign, has been confined almost en-
tirely to the democratic factions The re-
publicanS, united for their ticket as they
apparently are have looked on in mild sort
of amaZement and surprise at the fact
that the most enthusiasm for their ticket
has been manifested by certain prominent
democrats, who have always been opposed
to them, and who have been espe cially
strong in their manifestations Of hostility
to Mckinley and what they have called
Mckinleyism.
Democrats Of the most pronounced free
trade views are among the strongest sup
porters of Mckinley and Hobart, as the
representatives of the gold standard, and
such men Gen. J. Mckenney White,
Harry A Parr. Douglas II. Thomas, Daniel
Miller, Randolph Barton, eX-Mayor Robert
/. Davidson. eX-Mayor Robert T. Banks
| and others equally prominent, nearly all of
whom have been noted in years past for
their adherence to and devotion in the ser
vice of the old Rasin-Gorman machine. are
openly enlisted in favor of the election of
the republican ticket.
These men have never been allied to the
anti-ring or reform element of the demo-
cratic party. They have never been fol-
lowers of Mr. John X. Cowen, but have
always been known as German demo-
Gratis and have been ready to sustain and
support any ticket nominated at the dicta-
ton of the senior Senator. They have
headed democratic business mems move
ments' over and over again for nearly a
quarter Of cen TRY, which have backed
! up and saved their party from defeat in
more than one holly contested election.
They sustained German and Rasn and the
ring; they supported Mr. Hurst for gov
ernor last year. but they say they cannot
and will not support Bryan any other
man on a free silver platform. There they
draw the line, and they are ready to take
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money Platform rather than any member
of their own party on what they call a
platform of dishonor and reputation.
They nave therefore joined hand with
Mr. CoWen. ard together all these elements
are working to carry Maryland against
| their party nominees and for Mckinley and
Hobart.
Democrats Preparing for Hard
Fight.
With the republicans united and enthu-
siastic. with large contingent of infiuen-
tial democrats openly aiding them, and
with their own party still suffering from
the disorganizing effects of the crushing
defeat of last year. the democratic organi-
cation is preparing for the contest this
!. year. The situation is of such character
they have never faced before, and it is
difficult to see how they can win Their
only hope IS in the spread of the free sill
Yer sentiment among the people to an eX-
their own ranks. and this, they claim, is
sure to be the case.
There are other obstacles in the path of
the democrats in addition to the detection
in the ranks of their most prominent men,
bers and sometime leaders. They are alb
solutely without any organ in he daily
press of the city. The American. re-
publican paper. is supporting the ticket
nominated at ST. Louis. The two avowed
democratic papers, the News and the Sun.
have bolted the Chicago platform and
nominees and are also supporting Mckn-
ley. The Herald and the World, the two
supposed non-partisan Independent papers,
are also against Bryan. and the only way
the democratic organization can reach the
people will be by way of campaign docu-
ments and paid advertisements. Any one
who knows much about Maryland politics
will understand what the above statement
means. Unless some sort of newspaper
support is obtained they will have a diff
cult task to hold a large percentage of
their vote in Baltimore.
The above are but a few of the existing
phases of the political situation which
led Senator-elect Wellington to claim the
vote of this state for Mckinley and Ho-
bart by large majority. There are other
phases which are not yet so evident but
at the present time all the indications point
to a veriticatfon of Mr.. Wellington's fore
cast, as given in Thursdays Star Impair
ttal observers concede that he is not far
out of the way.