The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-04
THE MARYLAND
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Senatorial Matter Still In Doubt on
Tuesday Night.
G0RMAN'S INFLUENCE WANTING
In Making Selection as to Who Shall
Succeed Senator Louis e. Nc
COmas-Some Proposed Garrett
County Legislation.
From our Special Correspondent
STATE House, ANNAPOLIS,
- FEBRUARY end, 1904.

FEBRUARY end, 1904.
At the time this is written, and i'm
mediately after the 18th ballot in the
joint assembly of Senate and House
of Delegates of Maryland for a sue
cessor to Louis E. McComas in the
United States Senate, the situation
seems no closer to settlement than
it did last week.
The only change in the balloting
today over the last few ballots taken,
and not due to absentees, was that
caused by the switching of the Som
erset delegation in the House from
Joshua W. Miles to Elihu E. Jackson
and Senator Dashiell was absent as
was SenatorApplegartho of Dorchester
These two votes would have swelled
Ex-Governor Jackson's total to nine :;
and including the two Cecil votes
which he got week or more ago,
making eleven delegates and Senators
in all who have voted for him.
Rayner, Smith, Carter and McCo-
mas polled less than their full strength
because Of absentees There was no
switching from the columns of any
of them. The situation, therefore.
save that five candidates now occupy
the field held thus far by six or more
is unchanged.
So far it has been impossible to
verify the report or to locate it's
source, but the Smith following comes
up once more today with the asser-
ton that Senator German has at last
realized the impossibilityN Carer s
election and has sent word down the
line to elect Smith. This may be so,
but it has not been demonstrated yet
and it is by no means certain that
this is Mr.. Gormau's plan. The OPP
ponents of the Ex-Governor wonder if
Mr.. German. is now for Smith what
the significance of the Miles votes
going to Jackson is, and if Mr.. Cor
man is for Smith why Miles votes did
not go to him.
Senator Germans whereabouts to-
day is also the subject of speculation
Some say he is at home others that
he is in New York, and others think
he is coming here, The Smith people
seem very confident that he is not
coming here, while the Ex-Governor S
enemies seem to think he is.
There is talk of caucus for tomor-
row night and with the rumor the
under lips of the Raynor men begin
to droop. 1t is really surprising
how blue these fellows get on the
very shortest notice at the barest ru-
rumor of a caucus. They understand
that a caucus with a secret ballot will
leaye Mr. Raynor perhaps fifteen
votes, but very probably less, SO they
are blue, for at present Rayner is
footing the bills.
The outcome is difficult to predict,
since there are combinations of posi-
bilities which might elect any man
now in the democratic field. The
Baltimore papers seem as much at
sea as anyone else, the most of them
having predicted, at one time or
another, the election of every candl-
date in the field from the start save
Miles, and the Sun did hint, in two
column story of the possibility of
Miles. The papers can nearly all
write las we predicted in the - two
weeks ago, so and so was elected to-
day when the affair finally closes.
AS the contest now stands Senator
Germans word will make Rayner, or
Smith or Jackson his colleague, and
little urging in connection with this
word of his would probably make
Carter, although there is no gain
saying the fact that the Honorable
Bernard Carter will be the hardest
man of the lot to force through, in
spite of his more than pre-eminent
fitness for the place.
There is one consolation in the sit
uation now, however, In spite of the
deadlock the wheels of legislation are
| beginning to turn. A number of bills
have passed the Senate or the House
and business is being transacted A
large commission interested in the
st, Louis Exposition came down this
morning and presented the needs of
the Maryland exhibit at the big fair
to the Finance Committee of the
Senate and the Committee on Ways
and Means of the House. They ask
for 100000 and they want it quick,