The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-01-21
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
The Senatorial Fight Warming Up
With Rayner Leading.
GoRMAN WILL THROW SMITH OUT
If He Possibly Can and DispIace Him
With Bernard Carter, Pennsylvania
Railroad Attorney-Mr. Rasin In
dignant at Newspapers.
From our Special Correspondent
STATE HOUSE, ANNAPOLIS,
January, Goth. 1904

January, Goth. 1904
Although by the time you go to
press it will, doubtless, be all over,
the senatorial situation as it now
stands is more mixed than it has been
since it opened, and the fact that the
Senate and House of Delegates in
separate ballot failed today to elect a
successor to Mr.. McComas, does not
simplify the situation.
AS the result of a conference in
Washington Saturday, at which Sen
ator Arthur Pue German was the
host, rumors were current all over
Baltimore that night and the next
day that Rayner's strength had
scared Messrs. German and Rasin to
such an extent that they were nearly
frantic for candidate to beat the
independent runner. 1t was alleged
that Senator German and Mr.. Rasin
even feared Rayner's nomination on
the first ballot, unless some one was
produced who could draw votes away
from the exAttorney- General. To
accomplish this it was plausibly sta
ted that they were willing to turn to
anyone, Bernard Carter or ex-Gov.
White or anyone who could get votes
from Rayner.
This of course alarmed Smith and
his friends, who had no idea that
Rayner had grown so strong. and by
the same method inflated Rayner, who
had claimed all along that he was
very strong indeed To add to the
force of the manouvering it was de-
veloped that this and that man could
not possibly vote for Smith because
OF the intense feeling in this and that
mans home county. The Montgom-
cry delegation was doubtful about
voting for Smith in the face of the
enormous petition for Rayner, and
JOSH Miles announced that the ex-
Governor was the most III popular
man in Somerset county, all of which
showed the trend of the current that
Smith was unpopular and that it
would be impossible to force him
through.
On the heels of that, however, came
a rumor that this deal had been
Matched up weeks ago between Sena-
tor German and the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad to elect that corporations
counsel, Mr.. Carter, and that all this
balderdash about Rayners strength
and Smiths unpopularity was simply
a bluff to give Senat tor German an
opening to throw Smith out of, and
by means of which to drag tile rail
road lawyer in. Anyhow, the result
OF this conference to which Smith
was not invited was diyulged to the
Ex-Governor, and with it he was re-
quested to withdrew in Bernard Car
ter's favor. The Ex-Governor prompt
ly and fatty declined.
The ht-thinking men. even the
ones who bitterly oppose ex- Governor
Smith, realize that he has ten claims
on this senatorial seat where Carter
has one, and to nine out of ten men
in this State Smith is the choice over
Carter. In addition to that, men
who remember that Senator German
owes the very office he is in at this
time on two separate and distinct
counts to the generosity and unset
1ishness OF the present candidate, are
more than free in the expression of
opinion. To throw Smith overheard
after all he has done, is, in the opinion
of even the Rayner men at Annapolis,