Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-25

managers when they were urged TO eSpOaSe
his cause. Two months before the nomina-
tons were made it was stated that Thomas
G. Hayes was the one man who could split
the dinner bucket vote and bring to his
support every property owner. This predlc-
ton is now verified.
Effect Throughout the state.
The republicans throughout the entire
state are at last beginning to realize the
fact that May = will probably prove an
important date in the history of their party
in Maryland. despite the knowledge that
the election is merely local and for city
Offices Baltimore city contains half the
population and slightly more than half the
voters of the state Baltimore influences
the surrounding counties more Than is the
case with most other large cities. for the
business and social interests of Maryland
are so intertWined with those of Baltimore
that the TWO form practically one COM
munity. Politicians of both parties are,
therefore, fully alive to the effect of the
result May on the future politics Of
the state. Democrats and republicans alike
are beginning to understand that the Baiti-
more city control is but the opening Skin
miSh preliminary to the great fights which
will take place over the state government
in November and the national election in
1900. The chances are very strong that the
party which wins now will win in the state
in the fall, and be enabled TO win again in
the next presidential election
Realized by the Politicians.
Politicians and party leaders on both
sides admit this, and one great reason why
the fight has merged into a partisan con-
test of an unusually bitter character arises
from this fact. 1t started out as a purely
local affair for what is called a business
and non-partisan administration of the city
government. 1t has at last become des-
perate struggle between the two great
parties having for its object the control of
the commonwealth in national and state
elections. The character of the fight has
been wholly changed. Republicans who
were bitterly opposed to Mr.. Malster a
week ago. when they looked at the cam
paign as nothing but a fight made by lot
of office-holders to retain their places, now
take the broader view, and Will aid their
party to maintain Its supremacy. While
the democratic leaders and candidates do
not openly admit that they are taking the
same view Of the case, privately, however,
they do make such admissions, and are
using all their influence to gain votes on
that ground. Republicans at Washington
and elsewhere who are interested in the
political control of Maryland may as well
realize that at the present time that con-
troll is in great jeopardy, and If Mr.. Malster
should be defeated, the chances are ten to
one that his party will be deprived of power
in Maryland next fall, and of the vote of
the state in the electoral college in 1900.
Harmony Among the Democrats
The democrats. regardless of faction, are
together here as they have not been for
over twenty years. Men who have been
fighting their party, under the guise of re-
formers, for a. generation are now lined up
with the old, resuscitated machine. and are
not only working hard Tor the ticket, but
are contributing their money to aid in the
election of Mr.. Hayes.
The republican reformers. however, are in
many instances either lukewarm toward
their party ticket. or. as in the case of
Mr.. Charles J.. Bonaparte, openly hostile to
it. While these gentlemen are prominent.
and can attract a great amount of atten-
ton when they speak. their influence over
the voters is small. and. in truth, Mr.. Bona
parte himself. and many of his CO.
reformers. are neither voters nor actual
residents of the city, living in the county
adjoining, where they vote. Whatever in
f1uence they have, however, is being used
against the republican ticket. although IT
is noticeable that in all their speeches they
have nothing to say, favorable or other
wise about the democratic ticket. They
abuse Mr.. Master and the republican can
didates, and cover them with a flood OF