Evening star., 1898-10-26
CLEAN SWEEP IN MARYLAND
This is What Senator Wellington Claims for
Republicans.
He Has Made Speeches All Over the
State and is Confident
of Success.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star

BALTIMORE. Nd. October 25 1898.
Senator George L. Wellington. chairman
of the republican state committee, has just
returned from a tour of the eastern shore,
where he made speeches in the larger
towns of that section.
In speaking to The Star correspondent
about the political situation be said:
II have now completed tour of the
state in which l have spoken to large
meetings wherever 1 have been. l was
surprised and pleased to find the east
ern shore counties in such excellent shape,
and feel that we have a much better
chance to carry that district than | had at
first supposed
The fight over the bay is different from
what it is in the other districts. The free
silver democrats there have separated from
the regulars. and are running their own
candidate, Mr.. William Willis, who Will
poll at least 1,50O votes, all of which Will
be taken from Col. John Walter Smith, the
regular democratic nominee Thls fact OF
itself would make the contest close, put
what Will work in favor of the republican
candidate is the further fact that while our
party workers are active and full OF en-
thusiasm. the democratic workers are
apathetic and Indifferent. We shall also
secure the votes of several hundred gold
democrats. who are unwilling to consider
the fight for sound money ended until the
necessary legislation is enacted to estab-
lish the gold standard, and they look to the
next Congress, Il republican, to pass this
legislation
II have, since the campaign opened, made
speeches in the state from Garrett county,
in the extreme west. to Wicomico, in the
eastern section of the state. l have also
visited st. Marys Calvert Charles, Prince
Georges, Cecil, Dorchester and Hartford
counties. and the meetings in all those
places have been large and enthusiastic.
In addition to attending the public meet
ings | have talked with the party leaders
there and have been greatly encouraged at
what they said. l have not depended alone
on the politicians for my information but
have talked also with men in all walks ol
life republicans as we'll as democrats, and
| am convinced. from what l have learned
that we shall elect our entire delegation OF
six members of the House, as we did two
years ago. While the majorities will not
be so great as they were then, they Will be
sufficiently large to overcome the votes OF
the opposition, and that is all that we can
ask in an off year.
In Baltimore city the situation is es-
peciaNy gratifying. The gold standard
democrats, with few notable exceptions
are coming nobly to our aid in quiet
way, and as far as the city districts are
concerned there is not the slightest cause
for uneasiness. We shall elect Mr.. Wach-
ter in the third district. re-eleCt Mr.. Nc
Intire in the fourth and in those wards
which belong to the second and fifth dis
tricts we shall poll enough republican votes
to offset any possible majorities the demo.
Gratis may secure in the outlying counties
AT one time the outlook was blue in the
extreme, but that is all changed, and
am pleased to be able to say that Mary
land this year will do as noby as she did
in 1896. and will send six sound money rep
resentatives to Congress"