Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-11-09
MARYLAND'S CHANGE
Governor LOwndes Defeated BY
John Walter Smith.
SENATOR WELLINGTON is PLEASED.

He Charges the Defeat of the Repub-
lican Party in the state to the Gov
ernor,s Candidacy For Reelection.
Democrats Control the Legislature.
Baltimore. Nov. 9-Unoficial re-
turns from .altimore city and all the
counties nf fhe state show that the
Democrs swept practically every
thing se.Gga them in Tuesdays con-
test. john walter Smith, DR.. Joshua
Herine and Isidor Rayner, their candi-
dates for governor. controller and at
torney general, respectively, were
elected over the Republican candidates
nv apni oxinaately Il, 300 majority. The
offfcial count, it is thought, will not
materially change these figures.
The Democrats elected ii state SEN
ators for four year terms, which, with
their four followers. will give them
Is out of a total membership Of 70 in
the upper house of the general assem-
bly,. In the lower house, composed OF
81 members, the Democrats elected So,
while the Republicans will have only
rs delegates in the legislature to meet
in January of next year.
In Baltimore city the Democrats
elected judge of the court of appeals,
clerk of the city court, sheriff, states
attorney, city surveyor and three
judges of the orphans court. The
plurality in Baltimore city of all the
Democratic candidates runs close up TO
those of the leaders on the ticket,
while in the counties local prejudices
cut down the majorities of the success
full candidates for local offices.
Many theories have been advanced
as to the cause of the Democratic
landslide, but careful analysis shows
that the Democratic Independent yot-
ers supported Colonel Smith, while
many disgruntled Republicans either
remained away from the polls or cast
their ballot for the Democratic candi-
dates.
A special election in the First con-
gressional district will be made neces-
sary by the success of Colonel Smith
as candidate for governor.
The Gold Democrats, as an organi-
cation, supported Governor Lowndes,
but they seem to have but little, if any.
effect on the result.
A special from Cumberland to the
Baltimore Sun quotes Senator Well
lington as saying that this was one of
the happiest days of his life. The
senator added:
1.-THE defeat of the Republican party
in this contest was not surprise to
me- At the time of my retirement
from the Craftsmanship of the state
central committee of the party there
was no question in my mind as to the
result. | counseled Governor Lowndes
then that his only escape from defeat
was his retirement from the ticket.
felt convinced that after his duplicity,
weakness and treachery it would be
impossible for him to be elected He
preferred the advice of the coterie OF
Republicans and Assistant Republi-
cans, Cowen and Warfield, at whose
dittation he had betrayed me. knew
that he was foredoomed to defeat, and
though some of my friends thought it
uFwise for me to put myself on record
in declaration that he would be
beaten, felt no hesitation, because of
the conviction | had
-Four years ago, by my efforts, he
was nominated for the governorship
and elected to that office This year
it was only necessary for me to stand
aside, at his bidding, and inevitable
and overwhelming defeat came upon
him, notwithstanding the assurance
that the independent and gold Democ-
racy and corporation influences would
be exerted to the utmost in his behalf.
1.-THE defeat | told him of has come
upon him. and he has not only the
bitterness of candidate that is beaten,
but of one who, in his own heart,
knows that the defeat is just chas-
| tisement at the hands of the people
for his weakness and treachery.
"This is not defeat for the Repub-
lican party; 1t is defeat for Lowndes
and his personal allies. BY the exper-
fence gathered in this campaign the
Republican party must take warning
and make for itself future.
"Lowndes is politically dead and
buried, and the malign influences
which surround him will no longer
have weight in Republican councils.
The party must gather itself together
and do battle as Republican party
under Republican leadership, domi-
mated by Republican influence and
standing upon Republican principles.
win victory in Maryland for the Re-
publican party"