Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-02
MARYLAND'S CONTEST
For Control of State and City
Organizations
BITTEREST ON RECORD
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE WILL
MEET JUNE 10.
View on the Democratic Side is Not as
Roseate as It Might
Be.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

can party in this state is on. The battle
| will be for control of the state and city or
| ganizations AS things look now, the lead
ers on the part of the organization Will be
Senator McComas, State Chairman Colds
| borough and Collector of the Port stone
| while the anti-organization forces will be
| led by former Governor Lowndes and KEEP
resentatives Mudd.. Wachter and Jackson
| Chairman Goldsborough has issued call
| for the meeting of the state central commit
| tee, June 10, in this city, and this is taken
| as assurance that the fight will be started
without delay One of the most important
| questions to come before the committee will
| be the ways and means of adopting the
| Crawford county system for use in the pri-
| maries next fall. About two years ago the
chairman of the state committee was au-
! thorized to appoint a special commission to
| revise the constitution of the republican
| party, and in accordance herewith Chair
| man GoldsbOrough has named Stevenson A.
| Williams. George r. Gather, B. A. Rich
mond, Thomas Parran, Stephen r. Mason,
| George r. Heffner and Isaac A. Barber.
This commission is expected to complete
! it's work in time to report new, more
modern and more coherent constitution to
| the state convention this year for promul-
| cation. 1t is expected that the state COM
| -mittee will recommend to the commission
| the adoption of the Crawford county sys-
TEN.
| Under the convention system, which is the
| only one authorized by the republican con-
| stitution and was used at the recent mu-
| nicipal primary election. there would be
| about 800 names on the party ticket in the
city primaries in September and the super
| visors Of elections, well the republic
| can leaders. object to any such cumber-
some ballot. Such number of names is
made necessary by the fact that the super
visors enforce the law requiring each candi-
| date to be nominated by a convention to
| have a full set of delegates on the official
| ticket.
| Nominations Next Fall.
! The offices for which nominations are to
| be made next fall are: Governor attorney
| general. controller general assembly,
which will elect a United States senator
| and a state treasurer; two judges of the
| supreme bench of Baltimore, states attor
| ney, register of wills, sheriff, surveyor,
| clerks of the criminal court circuit court
and court of common pleas.
For the republican gubernatorial nomi
| nation the contest will be between former
Gov. Lowndes and State Senator Steven
son A. Williams of Hartford county. The
| latter will be backed in the primaries by
| the McCCmas or organization forces. In
Allegany county, however, Lowndes and
McComas have fixed up a deal whereby
the senator is to get the legislative ticket,
while the former governor takes the dele
| cation to the state convention.
1t was currently reported last week that
| McComas and Lowndes had reached an
| agreement and would work together with
two objects in vieW-the reelection of the
! former to the United States Senate and the
| nomination of the latter for governor. 1t
was ascertained, however, that this agree
| ment applies only to Allegany county.
| The organization has no hesitancy in
| stating that it is opposed to Lowndes.
| 7 his is due mainly to its belief that the
| former governor was an active and in
terested party at the launching of the anti
| organization fight which the Wachter
| forces set in motion here last week.
They learned that Representative Mudd
| came to Baltimore last week to be pres
ent at the opening of Wachter's fight for
| control of the city organization; that he
| advised and counseled Wachter's friends
| as to tn, processes to be followed, and
| that while he was so engaged in his rooms
at the Hotel Rennert former Gov. Lowndes
| was present as q participant.
| This the organization people claim Is
proof entirely sufficient for them that
| LOwndes Is in the reported MuddWachter-
Jackson-Gary combinati ton TO bring about
the defeat of Senator McCcmas. and they
are. accordingly. actively preparing for the
war that is now inevitable.
| That the fight will be a bitter one and
| that 1t will arouse political animosities and
| antagonisms of far-reaching Importance,
| there is doubt; and that it will leave
| wounds which will have weighty bearing
| on the fall election there is also no doubt,
|
f1uence upon the May election.
On the Democratic Side.
On the democratic side the view is not
| such roseate one. either. The only avowed
candidate for gubernatorial honors is Ed
| win Warfield. who announced his ambi-
| tons last week. There are those who are
close to some of the big leaders who say
| that Gen. L. Victor Baughman of Frederick
desires to succeed Gov. Smith, and they
| claim that If he wants the nomination he
can get it, There is little doubt that the
regular city organization is ready to rally
around the Baughman banner, and 1t is re-
| garded as significant in this connection
that Mr. l. Freeman Rasin will not go to
| Europe for an extended trip, as has been
| announced
The men who bore the brunt of the late
| municipal campaign cannot a bright
| future for the democrats. The men who
| were Indifferent, who chided those intrusted
| with the management of the campaign and
| those who did not vote the whole ticket or
| any part of it, think they see victory ahead
| If the management Of the campaign Is in
| trusted to them. AS the situation now
| stands the men who did the active work
| and who contributed the greater portion of
| the fund in the mayoralty fight promise
| themselves to take this position.
| First, to fight for retention of the party
| organization for future purposes mainly to
| be in harmony with the state organization.
| Second, to be hands off absolutely in the
| SeleCtlon OI all cdnQlOdteS, city ana state,
| and to permit those who think they can
| do better, who did not support the ticket
| but who claim to be democrats notwith-
standing they have knitted the ticket more
| frequently in recent years than they have
| voted 1t, to name the candidates
Third, the organization people promise to
| vote for every candidate on the ticket ir-
| respective of the past record of each candi-
| date and irrespective of the future inten-
| lions. each candidate to work for his own
| glory and not for the general advancement
of the party.
| Fourth, the management of the campaign
| to be fntrusted to the men who select the
| candidates. They will also have to con-
| tribute the bulk of the campaign fund.
| Fifth, the organization adherents will de-
| mand that men be named as candidates
| who possess as high standard as those pre-
| sented by the organization.
Effort to Depose Rasin.
| A determined effort will be made by the
| anti-organization elements to depose Mr..
| Rasin the party leader, and this fight
will be waged in the election of ward and
| precinct executives, which win take place
| at the coming election. This effort will
meet with determined resistance on the
| part of Rasin and his organization.
If the last democratic primaries, at which