The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-12-11

apparent to even Mr.. Rayner's partisans.
What has Rayner done? He has been
a member of Congress for many years,
and later still, Attorney General of Mary
land. AS a Congressman, his friends
point out with pride that he introduced a
number Of bills. Any man who has a seat
in Congress may introduce bills. They
further state that he was a prominent fig
ure in all debate. As a result of being a
prominent figure, Mr.. Rayner, according
to his own friends, succeeded in the
course of six years in having adopted one
single amendment to a railroad bill, of no
value to this State one way or another.
His friends refer to his Congressional SER
vice as "his brilliant career in Congress-
These same friends compare Mr.. Rayner's
six or more years with Governor Smiths
term, which lasted just exactly one day
before he became Governor of this State,
and draw %unfavorable differences from the
comparison. How fair Mr.. Rayner's
friends are to Mr.. Smith!
In the end, too, it seems that Mr.. Ray
ner is ch%ampioned, with some exceptions,
by the men who want, or cannot forsee in
his election, democratic disaster in the
future, because he has good lungs.
Governor Smith and ex Governor Jack
son, who is ignored by the Rayner boom
people, unlike the Attorney General, be-
gan life with anything but silver spoons
in their mouths. The great personal for
tunes of both stand as monuments to their
honesty, shrewdness and ability. Good,
sound common sense, unquestioned bust
ness ability and skill in matters which has
made both of them Governors Of this State
are the requisites for successful represen-
tatives in the nations Senate.
Although, as MI. Rayner's friends and
their enemies have pointed out, both
Smith and Jackson have been rewarded
by party preferment for all that they lave
done, it will be hard to convince the men
who know politics in this State and who
knew just how slim the chances were
for democratic victory at the two critical
times when Governor Jackson and later
Governor Smith came forward and boost
ed the party out of a hole, carrying the
State where it is doubtful if other men
could, that their returns have been in any
way commensurate with the obligations
under which democracy still is to these
two party-spirited men.
1t was no favor to Smith to be allowed
to run in '99. He had won back the East
ern Shore, and ex Governor Frank
Browns assistance in e%lecting Hayes in
Baltimore that year had little to do with
Smiths fight. 1t will be remembered that
the counties in '99 were ever more de-
cisive in Smiths favor han the city, and
certainly Mr.. Browns assistance to Hayes
had nothing to do with the State outside
of Baltimore.
With a very few exceptions, the Hal
ford Democrat" and one or tow other
good old time papers among the number,
the journals and men who are supporting
the Honorable 1sidor Rayner are iniml-
cal to the democratic party organization,
and represent the men who have turned
from the party when it needed them
most. The so-called democrats in Balti-
more who favor Rayner are, to a large
extent at least, men who fought and
voted against the democratic ticket in
'95 and '96.
There is little likelihood that Senator
German can be made to see that Mr..
Rayner's election will benefit either him
self or his party. The men who would
be aroused if Mr.. Rayner be turned down
are, with few exceptions as has already
been stated, aroused against the party
anyhow, and arousing them once or twice
more or less cuts NJ figure whatever.
Real party men know full we'll that all
the hostile elements within the democra-
tic party bulwarks are in league for
Rayner and that their att itude at this
time is merely one of coercion, in which
are attempting to force the party to
make a move, presaging almost certain
disaster.
Miles and Crothers and the rest are
bona ide candidates of course and regu-
lar party men, but they are not so strong
as Smith and Jackson. The choice lies
between these two, on the grounds of fit
ness, ability, party loyalty and what the
party owes to them. If Smith
is elected ex, Governor Jackson will feel
no injury. If Jackson is elected, Cover.
nor Smith will probably be the first man
to congratulate him. Should Rayner
win, these two would be justified in turn
ing their backs on the democratic party
for all time, and without their support
Maryland would flop back in the republi-
column, a thing above all others
which many of Mr.. Rayner's noisy, loud
voiced admirers desire to happen.
In 80, although both lelieved in gold,
hey both believed that Maryland's wei
fare demanded democratic control, anI
Tor this reason, both Smith and Jackson
did their utmost, spent fortunes and work
I'D until the end, in what they knew to be
. losing fight, when neither was in any
way at stake, in order to keep the demD-
party together and in order to re-
what they might from the disas-
Jer.
The Honorable Isidor Rayner was out
openly on the other side.
In winning campaigns Or in times Of