The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29

Washington. Sept. 2.-(Special. .)-Tn. election in no State this year should at tract more attention beyond its borders than that in Maryland. In the first place President in the person of United Stata1 Senator Arthur Pue German. The State elects Governor and a Legislature, which will choose a Senator to succeed Louis E. McComas, whose term will ex- pire March 3, 1905.
 It was generally expected that the re- cent Democratic State Convention in Bal timore would launch the German boom with appropriate flourish of local enthusi- asm and laudation, but 1t seems policy Of silence on that subject was enJoined by Senator German himself. The Senator Is not the man to be lending himself to that sort of grand-stand politics so early in the season. He would much pre- fer to have amp popular demand for him old a politician not to be shy of pre- mature boom. Like Bill Nye. he is aware that there is no more discouraging thing in poltss t9 the t9sn W wait. It is believed he will rest his case and submit his merits to the test of the record which he will undertake to make There6ore, it may be assumed that he will be largely the architect of his own fortune.
 What Maryland has been doing at her latest elections is now an interesting sub
 Maryland is normally Democratic, and but for the negro vote would be as re- liably so as Virginia or the average
 In 1895. for the first time in twenty three years, the State went Republican by a plurality of 1S.767. The vote of the year a change in the Democratic plurality of that year, when Cleveland was elected of 21.130. to that given for the Republican candidate. In 1896 the gain in the total yptn of hn Gfat uya hn "a of 1892. and 10,657 over the vote of 1895. The Republican plurality in 1896 was 3D. PA. Nowhere was the doctrine of the free hemently antagonized than in Maryland. Its rejection was emphatic beyond cavii and turned Republican State that had been confidently ever counted staunch ally of the Democratic Solid South. Maryland has too plainly demonstrated that it will have none of the platforms ot 1896 and 1900 for the Democrats to hope to win it back by reiteration of the is However disagreeable that may be to the good and loyal friends of MT. Bryan. who should desire the success of the par ty above even the vindication of their favorite. it is the inexorable logic of facts and figures.
 There was a loss in the State vote of Maryland in 1897 of 9,0O1 from that of the the Republican plurality. the Democrats gaining 9.329. In 1899 the State vote was a slight gain over that of the presiden- tial election. the Democrats carrying the State by 12.133. Republican loss from 1896. 20.673; Democratic gain. 23,674 The Kan sas City platform was the issue in 1900. The vote was the largest ever cast in the State, showing an increase over 1896 of 13.669 The Republicans carried the State. but with loss from their plurality of 1896 of 1928. the Democratic gain being 17.536, yet enough by 13,9H votes. The vote of 1901 fell off from that of 1896 and 1899 and 1900: Republican loss from 1896. 40.6O3; Democratic loss, 8.25S; Republican loss from 1899, 19. 330: Democratic loss. Sl. 932: Republican loss from 1900, 39.s56: Dem- ocratic loss, 25.794. The Democrats in