The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-01-14
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
Governor WarfieId Inaugurated on
Wednesday In Imposing Style.
ASSEMBLY AGAIN IN SESSION
Tuesday Night - Managers Seem To
Be In a Snarl Over Proposed Leg
islation - Rayner People Hard at
Work In Montgomery County.
From our Special Correspondent.
STATETHOUSE, ANNAPOLIS,
January, 14th, 1904.

January, 14th, 1904
Governor Warfeld was inaugurated
yesterday in imposing style, and the
new democratic regime opened aus
piciously, with large majority in
both houses of the General Assembly
to back up his Excellency and his
party in their plans for the manage
nent of State affairs. But, as has
often happened before, when open
ings were most suspicious, the peace
and serenity does not last, and al
ready there are mutterings in the air
which indicates that before long
trouble may come and the way of the
new administration be strewn with
thOrns rather than with roses.
The General Assembly reconvened
here Tuesday night from its adjourn
ment last Wednesday, but the meet
ing was of little interest, being used
merely to get the members back to
Annapolis, in ;order that the demo
Gratis in caucus might discuss the
various party measures to be adopted
during this session.
The managers seem to be in more
or less of snarl over the proposed
bill to eliminate the negro voters, and
at the present moment, the Attorney
General of the state, Mr.. William
Shepard Bryan, and the distinguish
ed lawyer and eX-Attorney General
Mr.. John p. Poe, are havinga very
Just what is to be done. When this is
understood, some idea may be CLEAN
ed of the difficulty which will be en-
countered in getting the members to
understand and vote on such meas
ure, after it is presented.
The town has been full OF people
during the week attending the inaug-
uration of Governor Warlield, but
even that was in the back ground, for
the senatorship occupies the center of
the stage. The developments of the
past week, especially the frantic ac-
tivity of the sun, has KEYED interest
in this fight up to an unusu ally high
pitch. Petitions have been appear
ing for several days now in the col
umns Of theiSu1, all tend ing to prove
what it has been claim, g since the
5rd of November, that the people en-
mdSSe want Rayner.
a dead set has been made, too, on
Montgomer y county, in order to move
Spencer G. Jones, the President of
the Senate, if possible, inaRayner's
favor. Montgomery has always been
a hot-bed for anti Gorman and anti
ring democrats, who are making their
hostility to the regular organization
apparent at this time, by endorsing
with great yehemence this anti-Organ-
ization candidate, If their appeals
move Jones, who has ALWAYS been I,
friend of Senator German, and if their
petitions induce him to support Raw
ner, the moral effect of the move will
be worth the votes of half dozen
county delegations put together,
hence the efforts on Montgomery
especially.
Colonel Jones has given no sign,
and his friends consider it extremely
doubtful if he will, for that gentleman
is a very resonrceful and wise old pol
itician indeed, and it would be strange
il he did not see through this maneu-
vre for moral effect.
Furthermore, the secret of these
kayner petitions all over the state is