The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-08-15
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
BALTIMORE FAVORABLE to LoWNDES
BALTIMoRE. AUGUST lem. iona

BALTIMORE, August 18th, 1908.
AeSsTs. Editors The Democrats in Baltimore
are pointing with delight to the "tanRle," as they
are pleased to term the unsettled situation in
Republican State circles. without apparently a
sng an oi a1fn noaa snd mess Is
very noisy Democrats say that he is going to be
their candidate. If he is the Republicans won't
have to get together to beat him; he'll beat
himself.
In marked contrast with the way Warfeld is
bootlicking and prostrating himself before the
little politicians of Baltimore is the course be-
ing pursued by ex- Governor Lowndes who sim
ply will not have the nomination unless he is
entirely assured that he will not have to enter
primary squabble.
The Democrats have sneered at the Republi-
can party ever since it was formed and have held
up the long lineage of its office-seekers pointing
with pride to their ancestors and to the fact that
they are, and have always been, gentlemen. 1t
is pleasure, therefore, to look at Governor
tions toward office and politics and man to his
finger tips. The same is true of Williams
~ wiz De a peasurS, 1nereIore, Ior the hepub-
Independents of Baltimore and the State to line
up behind Lowndes when the campaign begins
in earnest, for by that time it now seems more
than probable that the field will have cleared,
leaving the Ex-Governor the only man in it.
The Democratic howlers-the voicey men
seem to favor Warfield, and it is possible that
there is some fire behind their smoke, although
Colonel Jones has worked even more quietly
before than now and IS a clever politician where
succeed in putting Warfield up, but the Repub-
licans won't want anything easier than Warfield
against LOwndeS.
Warfeld struts. Warfleld talks about Mary
lands debt to him and about the State oaOiaq
him the Governorship and all that sort of thing.
He started ont, too, with such a high hand
against the Democratic organization, until
Jones appeared upon the field, that the instan-
taneous effect of Jones' appearance was to throw
three quarters of the Warfield hackers either
up on the fence or solidly and outspokenly for
Jones.
story illustrating the sun-rises- and Sc Sin
me attitude, which Warfeld assumes is we'll
told by some men who happened to be in War
fields office on one occasion and who saw the
whole performance as it happened.
Some religious society was soliciting advertis-
ing for program and in the course of their pill
grimage called upon the Office of the Fidelity
and Deposit Company. They could see the great
man through his great glass door and could see
that he was discussing weighty matters with
his bookkeeper. Nevertheless the man of affairs
made it take some time, during which the dele
cation waited. Then the great man came out.
The nature of the request was made plain. War
that he was the central figure for all eyes and
then he spoke.
Advertise in that !" said he. Advertise in
that! Certainly will. IdppT0Ce Of ChTistidnity!"
That of course was all that Christianity needed
Edwin Warfeld's approval. 1t had existed for
a few thousand years without his approval but
now the word had been spoken.
They do say that the add cost him SO.
When all is said and done and the situation is
looked at impartially, neither factionally nor in
partisan spirit, it certainly is good politics to
look enthusiastically upon the situation for Re-
publican success. If Edwin Warfield is the
Democratic nominee the thing is certain and
the Republicans should give him many votes to
win the primaries for him.
Behind Lowndes will be the Republicans of
Maryland, the Independent voters-more
straight Democrats than the Democrats imagine
and Theodore Roosevelt President of the
United States. JAG.