Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-05-24
raston correspondence Of baltimore Sun,

Easton Correspondence of Baltimore Sun.
With Congressman to be elected
next fall for the unexpired term
of Governor John Walter Smith
and one for the full term of two
years, both es-ReEublicans and
Democrats are anxiously overhauling
their available material. Congressional
timber usually grows luxuriantly on
the Eastern Shore, tut the woods seem
to have been thinned out somewhat in
recent years.
There was time, not very remote,
when every county in the eight in the
First district, from Worcester up to
Kent, had one or more favorite SONS
with whom to complicate the situation
and necessitate foreign intervention.
But that day has gone by. A change
has come over the spirit of the Con-
gressional dream, and it may all be at
tributed to skillful home rule, exem-
plified in the steady advancement of
the most favored of sons, in his unpre-
cedented progress as State Senator,
: Congressman, Governor-all, as it were,
in the same breath. To Gov. Smith
most assuredly must be given the credit
of SO changing political conditions in
the Eastern Shore counties as TO insure
Democratic solidarity of
interests-insteado of fractional strife and
the perpetual ciasbing of individual in
terests. His course as State Senator
made him the logical candidate for
Congress, and after "redeeming the
DISTRICT the further labor of redeem
ing the State" was logical sequence.
Now the natural inquiry is, What
further 'redeeming'' is to lie donei
Every Eastern Shore Democrat will re-
ply by putting hiss finger on the page
Of the statutes of Maryland where thu
compact Is recorded which was violated
January ed, 1896, My the election o
George L. Wellington Of Alleghen,
Eastern Shore Democrats have held tn
Senatorial matter steadily in memor,
through all subsequent mutations, AMI
it is recognized fact that the Repub
licans have not had any show of hold
ing on to power from the day the
failed to elect Mr.. Phillips Lee Colds
borough of Dorchester county, or som
other Eastern Shore man, to the Unite
States Senate MIR. Goldsborough ha
now been made chairman Of the Re
publican State Central Committee
where he will have brilliant oppol
tunity for making a record as re
demptorist, but many Eastern Shor
Republicans fear that the doctor ha
been called in too late to bel of servic
/. to the patient.
In the distribution of State Offices
has been remarked many times that th
Eastern Shore has received its quotf
Probably it is the just reward Of th
a redemptioners, and this is not sal
inyidiously, for 1T is generally recol
nized in our politics that the worker
in the vineyard should be rewarded
Certainly il the bestowal of Office ca
produce harmony among politics
elements there ought to Ee one lor
sweet Song Of Joy waited from shore
shore and from end to end of IL
Peninsula.
y 1.-THE governor has been looking aft
his fences very closely" is the way
good old Democrat diagnosed Il
situation, but he added: at must
conceded, too, that in the lawful exc
else Of the cover placed in his han
Gov. Smith has made choice of frs
class men. Eastern Shore men are
his own family, so to speak. file kno'
his inen--all Of them. He has made
mistake in any Of them.'
The list of these appointments abo
which 30 much has been said includ
selections from Eastern Shore count
as follows:,
Worcester Insurance Commission,
Lloyd Wilkinson, and Fish Comm
sioner, o. L. Vincent.
Wicomico-- commissions of the La
Office, EX-SENATOR E. Stanley Toadvi
Enthusiastically OF State, Wifi
Bateman.
Queen Anne's-Fire Marshal, l
Robert M. Price.
Caroline of the Bureau
Labor Statistics, Thomas A. Smit
Superintendent Of Public Schools,
B. Stephens.
To these five counties in the Gibr
tar Of restored Democracy seven of
chief appointive Offices have b.
awarded. Much or little may be mi
out Of the superintendent, according
the disposition of the individual
find fault or to be satisfied.
governor, it is we'll known, conside
the other parts Of the State had lie
claim or the right by custom to cert
appointments, whereas all allotme
to the Eastern Shore would deg
upon executive favor and the
dividual merit of applicants.
1t is to be noted that the Sixth
trict, which is Republican, got few
the pluns, but it was not asking
much. The Fifth district, which
also Republican, got the tobacco W,
houses and is not happy in possessi
The Second district got but little.
the city was awarded the Adult;
IL Generalship and the many places
longing to 1t legally.
On the Easterng Sbora Kant
Somerset were left out in the @
They were not among the rede
TONERS. Dorchester may cone N
State Tax Commissioner when
Robert P. Graham's term expires.
State Tax Commissioners is appoi
by the Board of Public Works.
considered probable that Sen
William f. Aprleaarth, whose
as Senator will expire next year,
be slated for Tax Commissioner
four years. In such case he would
be entered for the Congressional sw
stakes.
As Queen Anne's county is the
ner Democratic county of the dist
it is thought that the nomination
the short term In Congress will
there and either Mr.. Hopper or E,
ii. Brown will get the call as
may determine between themsely
the local primary.
RI Worcester seems to be consic
slated for the long term. If so Sci
John I. Moore, who was Gov. SIN
Senatorial successor, will also b
successor in Congress-. The Democ
nominating convention will be he
Ocean City August 18th. Ocean
is in Mr. Monra,s hnme county n,