Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-08-07
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POLITICAL SITUATION.

"Qui Vive" expires 'es the situation in
democratic circles in Baltimore this week.
All are waiting. All are keenly alive.
Jones is waiting 10 hear II he IS TO DC
nominated for Governor OF Mary land,
and Warfield is listening tor the same
word. Unless German, the man whom
all are watching. and on whom all arc
waiting, and TO whom the "qui vive
situation is due. says otherwise, Jones OF
Warield will probably be nominated.
JACKSON, STRAUSS AND SMITH.
The same conditions which prevailed
last week with regard to the other nomi-
nations on the ticket, still prevail with
the same feeling OF watching and waiting
for German as in the gubernalorial match
Ex-Governor Jackson will accept the
comptrollership, 1t is said, provided il Is
offered to him, and it is generally under
stood that it will be preferred TO the Gov
ernor.' He seems. by long odds. to be
the strongest man in the field tor the
place, and the announcement that he
would accept the compIollership has
been great source OF satisfaction to the
leaders here. His name would add more
strength to the ticket, aside from his
fitness for the position, than that OF any
other man in the State OF Maryland.
likely to be mentioned for this place.
Isaac Lobe Strauss boom for the at
orney-generalship is practically unchal-
lenged and no one to contest his fitness
for the place has as yet reared his head
in opposition from the the level OF the
democratic ranks. The city, unless the
republicans change their present tactics
and that quickly, will 60 sohdly demo
cratic at the election and the delegation
from Baltimore to Annapolis will then
most certainly elect Governor Smith to
succeed Senator MoComas in Washington
MURRAY vANDIvER.
Through all the uncertainty and all
the anxiety one man in democratic Cir
cles, that man sharply outlined or Sill
houe,ed fer public view because OF his
position and because OF the man himself.
continues undistuTbed in the careful
manipulation of the wires within his
hands. and the wires are many. Murray
Vandiver. state treasurer, and chairman
OF the state democratic committee, and
probably the most talked OF man in the
State OF Maryland during the course OF a
political campaign, continues on his bril-
liant way. Murray Vandiver, at the
head Of his party, Is supposed to favor
neither one OF the democratic guberna-
iorial aspirants more than the other, and
while he may, and doubtless does. favor
one or the other, he is one OF the few
men-politicians in the real sense OF the
word, who is not spending the half Of his
time at this moment in watching and
waiting for German to speak.
WHERE yANDIvER is STRONG.
Murray Vandver's marvellous strength
on details is probably the surest explana-
tion OF his success as politician. and as
running mate TO this his wonderful
talent for the game OF politics and his
personal acquaintance with every man
OF any const quence throughout the State
OF Maryland, has undoubtedly been ol
the greatest assistance to him. He knows
the situation in every section of the state
as no other man knows il, and he knows
just who to call on for new information
IN every section OF the state as develop
menls from time to time make this neces
sary. He is in close touch with the lead
eIs in every voting precinct Throughout,
The state and from this closeness oftouc h
and intimacy with the situation aud the
causes actuating every result, his power
is great. An unexpected development
finds him not nonplfssed and at loss to
understand the situation AID further at a
loss to cope with 1t as many a good man
less well posted would be, but ready and
strong and sure. Murray Vandiver is a
power in the State of Maryland, and to
him the democrats look more than any
other man for the success Of the ticket,
after 1t has been nominated.
THE REPUBLICANS WEAKNESS.
II the republican ranks had Vandiver
there would be no factional fight and no
internal dlssentions. strong enough to
preclude the possibility OF success to their
party, not alone in Maryland, but prob
ably throughout the country as well since
the national campaign promises to be
unpleasantly close and possibly to hinge
on Maryland for republican defeat or
success. Under these circumstances
little wonder that many eyes turn to
Vandiver, and that this gaze searches
him more, far more closely than the men
he is manipulating In the great game
for nosition and honor w