The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-08-17
GOV. LOWNDES TALKS.
I11Fes His Views on Political Topics of In
terest at This Time.

rSoAoiihOAO papers nave quoted UON.
Lowndes on the State political
s}tuation. In the Ne2cS he ex-
presses confidence in the election of
the Republican ticket, nothwith-
sanding the "jubilance of the Dem
ocrats over their fancied prospects,"
He said that he thinks it of para
mount Importance that the best leg
islative ticket obtainable be put up
IN Baltimore city. He said on this
point, "The leaders know exactly
hcw | feel on the subject, for have
/ written them implicitly my views. |
| will not accept the nomination for
Gosernorship unless aul salts
fed with the Baltimore city legislative
ticket and have told them so. They
know that l mean it. They can put
up my personal friends or my bitter
est political enemies, Just as they see
fit, so long as they are good men
whose names will be sufficient guar
antee to the community that they
are honest and capable of passing
good legislation for Baltimore city"
Ia the same paper the Governor
says:
What are the Democrats Offering
us? Three highly respected gentle
men as officers, it is true, but haven't
they always done that? Is there any
one who would have a word to say
against the personal character of
Bradford, or Swami, or Thomas, or
Carroll, or Hamilton, or McLane, or
Lloyd, or jackson, or Brown, or
Hurst Haven't they always picked
out their most distinguished lawyers
for attorney general, White, and
Gwynn, and Roberts, and Poe :?
Haven't their comptrollers been well
known gentleman of a fair state of
efficiency, indeed? The figure heads
on the ticket, if | may be allowed to
call them so, have invariably been
men against whose personal integrity
|
behind all Of them had grown up such
a collection of sores on the body
polite that after protesting and COM
| planning for years in vain, the people
rose in their might and overthrew it
\ in 1895. | am not vain enough to
think that the people preferred me
\ s4aersonally to Mr.. John f, Hurst in
1895. In the matter of original pres
tige Mr.. Hurst was probably much
my superior. They elected me and a
solid Republican ticket, because thev
believed we would give them much
needed legislation, reform legislation
if you like, and administer the affairs
of the State with an eye more trained
to the welfare of the people and not
for purposes of self-aggrandizement
Now hold that they will not turn us
down, except for one of two reasons;
either that we have failed to carry
out our promises, or that they have
reason to believe that the Democratic
administration will do more for them
than we have or will. | respectfully
submit that neither one nor the other
of these propositions is true.
'They promise absolutely nothing.
Their platform is meaningless and |
should judge would have been much
better let alone entirely. Its weak
points have been so ruthlessly assailed
from all quarters that it is not neces-
sary for Inc to go into it.
i Now, then, as to the proposition
of Mr.. German. | do not mean to
advance the proposition that Mr. Cor
mans influence in Democratic politics
is pernicious thing for the State at
large. That is a matter for the Dem
ocrats to decide themselves; it is
entirely a family matter in which |
have no right or desire to participate,
but | do say this, that anyone who
objected to Mr.. Hurst on the score of
Gormanism has exactly the same
grounds of objection against Colonel
4 Smith. Mr.. German may have been
enjoying himself ON the coast of Mas
saehusetts, but things went just as
well as if he had been here, and prob
ably a little better Mr.. German
stands in just the same relation to
the ticket of 1899 as he did to the
ticket of 1895. 1t may have been the
voice of Jacob which was heard at
Ford's Grand Opera House last week,
but was also the hand of Esau."
In the american, Gov. Lowndes is
quoted 81 am entirely satisfied
with the prospects at this time, and
am as certain as it is possible to be
on any question where there is an
element of doubt that the Republi-
cans will win this fall. Our lines are
thoroughly closed up throughout the
city and State there is no discord.
and the voters are standing together
in all solid phalanX, shoulder to shoul-
der. The general condition among
the rank and file of the party was
exemplitied in Tuesdays convention
in Allegheny county. There was
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