The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-27

Maryland will cast its electoral vote
| for Bryan and Stevenson" said a Mary
land Republican at Democratic headquar-
tiers today.
| THE Republican party in Baltimore -
he said. is divided into two factions. One
President of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company; S. Davies Warfeld, post
master of Baltimore, and Senator Louis
E. McComas. designate themselves as
the better element Collector Stone IS
attached to this faction.
The other faction, designated by the
Cowen-Warden-M cComas party as the
exMayor Master. This faction contains
the great bulk of the Republican vote and
controls absolutely the 20, 600 coIored vot-
ers Of the city.
The surface Indications are that these
two factions are working together in the
utmost harmony, but under the surface
there are heartburnings, distrust aid
jealousy. The day after the election in
1899, when Lloyd Lowndes was defeated
for Governor, the leading Republican pa
per in Baltimore said that in the conduct
of the campaign by the better element,
which controlled and still controls the
State organization:
" Senator Wellington was ostracised
and the Master element insulted because
John K Cowen and S. Davies Warleld OBJ
jected to Wellington as chairman OF the
committee and stephen r. Mason as head
of the city organization. In the active
management of the campaign the Master
element in the city. which includes q
great majority of the Republican votes,
was totally disregarded'
The article concluded as follows:
1t is questionable If yesterdays de-
feat was not better for the party's future
than victory would have been. It sends
the party out OF power. it is true, but it
opens its eyes. gives II an opportunity TO
rid itself of its cancers and 10 set up the
standard around which all Republicans
may rally in the futIre and on which will
be emblazoned this party slogan: The
Republican party for Republicans"
In this expectation the newspaper was
disappointed. The cancers as Mr.. Cowen
and Mr.. Warfeld are politely termed, have
not been gotten lad of. On the contrary
they have eaten into the tissue OF the
whole party and Mr. Cowen is today
through WarfeId, McCou4as, and other
agencies, as completely in control Of the
Republican organization If he were
the king. It must be remembered in this
connection that Mr.. Cowen pulled Cover
nor Lowndes cut OF the Senatorial fight
and through the agency of WarheId put
McComas in the Senate.
This explanation will serve to make
clear the cause of the present anxiety.
The better element uses Eoneyed words
to the lower element Mr.. Master has
been promised warshiD TO build at his
ship yard and also the Cowen- McComas
influence TO get large claim he has
against the Government allowed. But Mr..
Master perhaps has a proper estimate OF
prediction promises and is aware that
fine words butter no farsnips. He per-
haps remembers that he got no aid from
Mr.. Cowen or the better element in his
mayoralty campaign against Hayes. 1t is
true that the Cowen- McComas State or
ganizaticn has engaged Stephen Mason in
the campaign work and has the campaign
orators Ia charge of Charley Wilson, and
that Warfeld went TO Wilson the other
day and begged him to get a crowd to-
gether for the Honest Money League
meeting at Music Hall Thursday night and
that Mr.. Townsend agreed to do it. 1t was
he who distributed the railroad tickets
for out-of-town people and he used up Sl2
worth OF postage stamps in sending ap-
peals to the Master people to attend
He knew what he was about and advised
WarfeId 10 have platform built outside
for an overflow meeting, but the Money
Leag uers were afraid to risk that
Now what troubles the Master people
IS this: They are anxious for the election
of Mckinley and they have convinced
themselves that MS election is assured
without the vote OF Maryland II Mary
land goes for Mckinley under the Cowen-
Warfeld- McCoIna5 management, it will
fasten their power upon the party SO Sc
euFely that nothing can shake them of
Senator McComas served in the House with
Mr.. Mckinley and is now upon the most
familiar terms at the White House and in
the enjoyment of Mr.. MeKinley's conf
dence. In his speech at Music Hall Thurs
day Mr.. Cowen boasted OF his personal re-
lations with the President, and If these
men can convince the President that they
are the Republican party in Maryland, the
Master element VIII be ignored in the
Of patronage, and by its use
Cowen and McComas viii control the nomi-
nation of every city councilman and Ieeis-
lative candidate, as well as mayor and
Governor when that comes around. It is
also suspected by the Master people that !
r large part of the liberal campaign fund {
will he held back by the committee for use |
In the primaries next year. With this /
money and with the patronage and sup |
port of the Federal Administration Il VIII |
be seen that the lower element will be |
out of the game IT, on the other hand, /
Maryland goes Democratic the organiza- |
ton and the Administration, when it comes |
to tie election OF a Legislature and a |
United States Senator, will have 10 come |
to this lower element bearing gifts and |
with distress signals flying
The conclusion is that II the Republf- |
cans carry Maryland this fall the Cowen- |
Warfieid- McComas aggregation will bs su- |
preme and Master ~Fil disappear as a |
factor in Maryland politics."