The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-14


party, as Mrs. Lowndes will not arriFe
in Annapolis until Tuesday of next
week The table was ornamenteu
with a mass of blossoms on the great
state centerpiece of the mansion. TlHe
Governor sat at one end of the table A
and Gen. l.. Allison Wilmer at the 4
other. At the Governors right was
Gen. Adam E. King. One of the most
interesting was DIR. w. A. Smith. of
Dorchester county, the elector from
the first congressional district. Drl
! Smith was member of the House OF
| Delegates in 1850, forty-seven yeary
ago. Since that time he has served
in theHouse of Delegates five sessions,
in the Senate two sessions, and was d
member of the constitutional conven-
ton of 1864. The Governors guests
were besides the eight electors: Adjt.-
Gen. l.. Allison Wilmer, Attorney
General Harry Clabaugh, Comptroller
Robert p Graham, Treasurer Tb9s.
J. ShryOck, Senator John Writ pan
dali, Phillips Lee Goldsborough, Capt
l. E. Emerson, tool. j. Frank
Supplee, Police Commissioner w. w
johnson, VIM. 7. Henderson AID
George r Gather.
THE FIRST REPUBLICAN VOTE.
Thirty-two years ago, namely, an
December, 1864, the electoral vote ~
Maryland was cast for the first and
only time until now for the Republi-
can candidates for President and Vice
President of the United States.
Those candidates were Abraham
Lincoln and Andrew johnson. Lin
coin was assassinated and johnson
became President, and so the vote
of the State went for a sort of Dem
Ocrat after all. The vote received by
the successful electoral ticket in the
whole State was only 40, III, %, 1000 less
than the successful ticket this time
received i'll Baltimore city alone.
And of the vote in 1864 $500 was the
soldier vote. The vote for Mcclellan
and Pendleton was SO, 739, the rest of
the Democratic vote being disfran-
chised by the test oath in the cOnsti-
tuition of 1864, which had just been
adopted before that election. 1t is
interesting to note that one of the
electors at large who in 1864 cast his
vote for Lincoln and johnson was
VIM. J. Albert, father of Talbot j
Albert who was elected in 1896 and
cast his vote Monday for Mckinley
and Hobart. The other electors were
H. H. Goldsborough, w. H. W. Far.
row, Isaac Nesbit, VIM. Smith Reese,
George w. Sands and R. Stockett
Mathews.
THE GOVERNORS PROPHECY.
"To-day,n said Governor Lloyd
Lowndes, witnesses the fulfilment OF
my prophecy made during the com
paign of 1895, that if the Republican
carried the State at that election
Maryland would be in line for the Re-
publican candidate for the presidency
in 1896. To-day the vote of the State
has been cast for Mckinley and Ho-
bart. If had been defeated in 1895
and the Democrats had carried the
State | believe they would have car
ried it last November for Bryan. In
carrying the State for Mckinley the
Republicans were aided by the honest
election law enacted by the last Legis-
lature. Without that law we might
not have succeeded. | believe that
the success of the Republican party
in Maryland and in other States, in
fact, the election of Mckinley was
brought about by the aid of the gold
Democrats
Speaking of State affairs generally,
Governor Lowndes said that he ex-
pected the Republicans to carry the
State next fall. Probably the most
important issue, he said, will be the
United States senatorship. ''If the
Eastern Shore fails to unite upon
someone he continued, las it has
failed heretofore, or if it goes Demo
cratic, it is not to be supposed that
they Will get the Senator if the Re-
publicans have the legislature
"Republican success in Maryland
next fall will depend, in my Judgment
more upon what takes place at Wash
ingtOn in the interval than in the
State. If wise counsels prevail there
and the new Republican federal ad-
ministratioh and Congress give the
people government and content it
will be great aid to us in Maryland
AS far as the STAGE administration is
concerned we are now on record before
the people and will be judged by what
we have done.
''As regards the civil-service amend
ment to the constitution, which will
be submitted to the people in Novem-
Der, 1897, that is a Republican party
measure, and the administration will
favor it, and the Republican State
convention will doubtless indOrse it.
| am well aware, however that there