The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-07-01
GORMAH WORRIED
Argues With Rasin To Come Out Fer
Amendment

Thursdays BnltimJrc News says
Senator Arthur l'ur Gornt,n came to
Baltimore yesterday. and, according t.
l,lort, which are current upon the
streets today. Used all Of his powers to
cajolc. thrtatcn or hypittizr Mr.. |. Free
nun RoSiu into coming out openly for
the Poe DISTINGUISHING ;.nrnGmcnt. ;led
swinging the ,v'al on lnizat,H int" line
with the state machine. According to
thu-r same reports his mission WIS not
| a.tog, Their Il success.
Scigltpr GoIntrL HIS >;r,rrd clear of
Baltimore city for several weeks past.
bur from his cIu,lyd retreat in Howard
niLty has hcrn working the wires Wig
..,.,l>.y in ord,r t. get the city nrganza-
| t.IL into line. Somehow ~ urothcr the
| N.r,% did not seem to work IL wei! Il.
l. nal. The harder the Senator pressed
| the hCtt,I the more on, lt.iuu hccamr
| the "il IHvnts If his pct mcn.urr Long
| distance efforts were mld,. Ia get Mr..
! RnSim, and through him the city ,rgaui-
| ZatiUn. openly into line. but somehow or
| aMpthrr these rilGltS were alm,,i fruit
| less.
The growing opposition in Baltimore
worried Senator German 4 good deal:
more in fact. than he would admit. Int.
| according to the talk among loyal Dem
| oclat$. he comfoltrd himself with the
| a. Irancc given him by county leaders
| that. 10 matter how much majority Bal.
| timore city gave against the amend
mcnt. the counties would Offset it with
| Il bigger majority in favor Cf it. This
waS all very well until the COUNTIES be-
gan To revolt. Talbot county Democrats
first Sprdng IL surprise by not in;,n>ing
the amendment At the county convene
ton. On top of this came the spit in
Queen AnrT'S cc:lnty. and the dctrlmina
ton Of til" independent Democrats there
t. openly fight the amendment.
Tn" outcl"pping of tn spirit of re-
hrll,ua against his G,ctat1IShiI is rc-
ported to have made Nuly WANTS senior
Scl.atrr feel more thu ever worried
about the outlook AID to mive caused
him to determine on the Baltimore trip.
with the end in view Of heading 81 the
opposition III the fountain head. so to
Baltimore he came. in the usual Cor
mHnu@que way. and early Yesterday
morning messages began going out from
the Hotel Rcmcrt for conferences.
During the day Senator German saw
Congressman j. Fred. G. Talbot. Mr..
John T. Poe, State Chairman Murray
NnnIiver. State Senator Arthur Puc
German, Jr., and Mr.. RaSin. The last
uamcd was i'll conference with the Srna-
tor ut the Rcnncrt. and the conference
WIS IL long Cac.
Many reports are current ON the street
today rs TO what took place in the con-
ference room ut the Rennclt. but while
all vary as to details they agree on the
main fact that Senator Golman made
the play of his life to get Mr.. Rasin to
come out openly for the amendment.
The local politicians tell about how tine
Senator tried his hypaotizin.. tactic,r on
the city leader, AMI tried to demonstrate
to him the ACCESSIBILITY of the city or
ganization coming out strong at this time
for the amendment
Despite Senator Germans effort TO
brng about Il change in local conditions.
there is apparently no greater sentiment
among city Democrats in favor of the
amendment than there WAS yesterday
previous to the Senator's visit Appar-
emily the calm of the surface at the UNI
official Democratic headquarters on st.
Paul street where Mr.. Rasin transncts
his business. is not disturbed in the
least o'ay. Things are going along
about as usual. amd nobody there seems
to be greatly agitated or Hurried over
tie result of the Senator's visit to the
city.
Mr. Resins position at present ac-
cortling to his friends, is one the city
leader delights in assuming. When in
this position he takes a pessimistic view
of everything. The amendment is beaten
in the city, the Democrats won't have a
chance to win if the amendment is made
! c0nSDicu0us and the counties connot
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