Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-03
MARYLAND CAMPAIGN
DEMOCRATS TO OPEN THE CAN
vAss TOMORROW NIGHT.
Latest Opening in Many Year|Har-
mony in Party Ranks Presages
victory-Republican Hopes.

Special Correspondence OF Inc Evening oe"i-
BALTIMORE, October 3, 1904.
The democratic campaign In Maryland
will be formally opened with big mass
meeting tomorrow night at the Lyric. GOV.
Warfield will preside and the principal
speakers will be Senator-elect Rayner Oh
Maryland and Senator Culoerson OF ieAas'
Never In the history of politics IN MARY
land has the local campaign been so late
in opening This delay is not due to
lack of readiness or willingness on the part
of the campaign managers OF the TWO par
tics for they have been ready for weeks
to plunge into the fray, but the TACT Is the
voters have not been in mood to De
aroused They have been iethargic and in
different This is due in a great measure
On far as the democrats are concerned, to
tho almost supreme confidence displayed by
the state managers that Parker VIII carry
MARYLAND by a great majority.
The leaders point to the fact thae eouay
tbare EXISTS degree of harmony OF action
tbrouehout the party heretofore unknown III
the history of Maryland democracy. lhes
claim that absolutely no friction eAls's anu
that the three leaders - Senator Ioriiah
Sna+or~elect Ravner and Gov. Warheld-
are all working toward one eno-the 80
to-, Of the presidential and congressional
tickets. caa+
The republican leaders likewise express
great confidence in the ability OF the presi-
DENTAL and congressional tickets TO sweep
tha state next November. They assert that
the same conditions that existed In 1850 ana
1900 exist today and that no logical reason
can he set forth why the financial and mer-
camille interest and the labor element
should change their allegiance from the
republican to the democratic party III 81
far as national issues are concerned.
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state is without friction-a condition whlch
did not exist in the two Mckinley cam
naigns and point to the fact that on each
occasion handsome republican ma1orities
were rolled up for the national ticket.
So much for the claims of the state lead
ers of both parties. review OF the pollt-
ical situation for the past eight years SHOWS
that beginning in 1896. Maryland, for the
first time since the war period, broke away
from the democratic column at a presl-
Dental election and gave Mr.. Mckinney the
enormous plurality of 32,224. which was
larger than had ever been given demo-
cratic presidential candidate by this state
An Inexplicable Event.
In 1898 there occurred one of those in
explicable events in politics. Although
President McKinley's administration had
carried the country through a most sue
cessful war and the country was enjoy
ing prosperity, with no labor disturbances
or any moment, Will the ci'y ehuu S'"'S ~
ministrations in the hands OF the repuDll-
can party including all the patronage of
these administrations the election resulted
in the loss of two representatives and the
curtailment of the 80 224 plurality in 1896
to 6,503, loss of 25,721.
In 1900 both parties renofninated the same
candidates who were in the field for cleo
ton to the presidency In 1896. The demo-
Gratis had, however, found a new issue,
which they made their paramount issue.
They called IL imperialism
1t attracted a large vote in this state
because of the large foreign population
and its dislike of militarism, which 1t con-
founded with Imperialism, and which i'm
migrants had disliked at home The re-
publican plurality of over 5000 in 1896
was a result reduced to 1881
Twice during these eight years demo-
Gratis have been elected to the gubernatorial
chair by over 1900 majority. and twice
also had democratic legislatures been
: electeh