Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
MARYLAND POLITICS
DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE TO MEET.

6peciaI Correspondence of The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md. May 70, l3'o
The democratic state central committee
will meet in this city Thursday next. at
which time a date in the latter part OF
July will be set for holding the state con-
vention 1t is not at all unlikely that
gubernatorial boomlet may be launcheo
over the cigars and coffee at the dinner
which follows the adjournment of the COM
mittee. This boomlet will be the property
of Gen. L. Victor Baughman of Frederick,
according to the tip that is going the
rounds here. For long period the guber-
Material lee has been buzZing about the
Frederick county leader, and 1t is generally
understood that Gen. Baughman and his
friends will make a hard fight to land the
nomination al next years convention.
OF course the launching of the Baugh-
man boom will depend in a great measure
upon the view taken by Senator German
of the situation. 1t is a well-knOwn fact
that Col Spencer Jones of Montgomery
county also nurses gubernatorial ambitions
and was the only avowed opponent .,ov-
ernor Warfield in the last primary cam
paign. When Col. Jones withdrew in Mr..
Wariield'S favor at the last convention 1t
was stated that the Montgomery county
leader had been assured that he would be
given the nomination four years hence.
Therefore it is not unlikely that Senator
German may decide to keep the Baugh-
man boom within the incubator, as the
state leaders ambition is to bring all the
faithful in solid company front to battle
for the passage of the DISTINGUISHING amend
ment.
Germans Activity.
That Senator German proposes to run the
campaign this year is evidenced by his ac-
tvity even at this early date. During the
week he was in Baltimore in conference
with !. Freeman Rasin, the city boss, and
Chairman Vandver of the state committee
The conference between the two leaders
took place behind closed doors in the Hotel
Rennert, and just what transpired will
probably remain secret II is known,
however. that Mr.. Rasin'S attitude regard
ing the Poe plan is a source of much con-
Germ to the senator. and it is understood
that Mr.. Germans visit to this city
for the purpose of endeavoring to persuade
the city boss to come out openly for the
DISTINGUISHING amendment.
At the recent conference held in Wash
ngton Chairman Nandivers roseate view
Of the situation not shared by Mr.
Rasin who was present this occasion
and while the city boss did not exert him
self in combating the report of Mr.. Van
diver, it evident to all present that
Mr. Rasin was of the opinion that Senator
German. Chairman Nandiver ct al. We're
leading a forlorn hope. And it is a we'll
known fact that Mr.. Rasin never had a
hankering for a seat on the mourner's
bench of forlorn hope.
Reform League Work.
y meeting of the Reform League of Mary
and is being arranged. at which initial
steps will be taken in the campaign which
hat organization will wage against the
Poe plan At the proposed meeting all
citizens. irrespective of party, who are
opposed to the amendment will be asked
to Tend their aid in preserving free and
fair ballot and in defeating the scheme by
which 1t will be possible for a few demo-
Gratis to perpetuate their power
The Reform League is non partisan body
and its activity in the campaign will be
welcomed by a large number of democrats
who are opposed to the Poe plan, yet do
not feel ready to cooperate with the re-
publican organization 10 bring about it's
defeat, and through the Reform League
they expect to make their opposition more
effective.
Mr.. John F. Semmes president of the
league. said to The Star correspondent to-
day that any attempt to restrict the suf-
frage to the few is bound to react upon
the party responsible for such restriction
ANY effort to disfranchise a particular
class said Mr. SemmeS, lis unfair and
should not be tolerated. / am convinced
that a plain, straightforward educational
modification will be for the best interests
OF the state. The introduction OF the
'grandfather's clause into Maryland poll
tics cannot but react upon its authors"
To Increase Industries.
At a largely attended meeting of manu-
facturers, merchants and men prominently
Identified in financial circles in this city.
held this week, plans were formulated for
bringing more manufacturers to Baltimore,
A large and more prosperous city was the
theme of the seventy more who
attended the meeting. and today they are
and all enthusiastic over the determined
effort that is to be made to build up the
city industrially.
As a result of this meeting to arouse In
terest in the development of manufactures,
the general opinion in business circles is
shaping itself along the following lines:
Permanent organization to direct move
ment TO secure factories.
Modification of city and state tax laws
so as to meet the competition offered by
other cities.
THE creation of an appreciation the
part of Baltimoreans to invest more liber-
ally in manufacturing enterprises at home.
More liberal treatment in the matter of
banking credits for manufacturers here or
who may come here and are worthy of such
confidence.
THE formation of corporation that will
be ready TO investigate factories already
here which may desire to enlarge their
business and to subscribe the additional
capital necessary. This corporation also to
assist financially factories which may desire
TO move to Baltimore.
Typhoid Fever Serum.
op1ie liHpot tdht StcpS tc"diu 'hN uSNoN-
cry of an effective curative serum for ty
phoid fever has been made in this city. and
an account of the results up to date has
just been published by DIR. w. r. Stokes,
city bacteriologist. and DR.. John S. Fulton,
secretary of the Maryland state board of
health, in the current issue OF the Journal
of the American Medical Association.
AS the result of the use of the serum ii
has been found that in 1856 cases of typhoid
FEVER which We're treated with the serum
a fn talf y
while the general fatality from the disease
In the Paris hospitals was about 10 per
cent. Professor Tavel OF Berne has also
recorded the use Of a serum by which the
plateau stage of fever was greatly les
sened.
or the twenty-three cases in Baltimore
which came under the notice of Drs. Stokes
and Fulton, and where serum was used
there were only TWO fatalities. and among