Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-17
MARYLAND POLITICS
PRIMARIES TO BE HELD MON
DAY.


BALTIMORE. Md. Sept. 16, 1908.
Republicans and democrats will hoid JOIN
| primaries in this city on Monday next, ahe
| there is every Indication of lively times al
| least so far as the democrats are concern
| ed. The republicans will choose Delegates
| to conventions to nominate legislative. judi
| cial and city candidates. The democrats VII
| vote under the Crawford county system
| for all candidates except those for the mouse
| of delegates Under this plan the people
| will vote direct for candidates for judge
| clerk of the city court. sheriff and surveyor
and for state senators from the thiro ahN
| fourth legislative districts.
The democratic candidates for the mouse
| of delegates would also have been chosen
by the Crawford county system had II ho'
| been necessary to have convention in all
| the legislative districts in order to name
| delegates to the state convention which
will adopt the party platform and renomi-
nate Dr. Gordon T. Atkinson for state con-
troller
The split method of selecting the demo-
cratic candidates shows the clever handi-
work of l. Freeman Rasin. the city BOSS
By naming the judge clerk of the city
court, sheriff and surveyor by direct vote
the necessity of holding a city convention
no longer exists. The party III Baltimore
is thus relieved of the necessity OF indors-
Ing or ignoring the Poe amendment
Some of the most influential regular demo-
Gratis of Baltimore have long been of the
opinion that action on the amendmehI
would endanger the entire city ticket MI
Rasin feels, 1t is stated, that since the
amendment was forced through the leglSla-
ture for the benefit of Senator German ana
the state machine. he Is not called upon to
sacrifice himself and his ticket by making
fight for it.
German at Helm.
The past week has been one of great &C
tivity among the big chiefs of the demo-
cratic state machine. and with Mr. German
they held conference at the Rennert last
Thursday and made a thorough canvass OF
the situation. Those who attended the
conference were former Representative
Joshua w Miles. former Governor Frank
Brown, Representative j. F. {. Talbot,
City Chairman Harry Welles Rusk. j.
Frank Smith of st. Mary's county, 1. Free
man Rasin and Frank A. FurSt Chairman
Vandiver and Gen Baughman were unable
to attend, being confined to their homes by
illness.
The most important action taken at the
conference was the decision to form a COM
mittee to take charge of the Poe amend
ment end of the campaign The men Sc
lected for the work by Senator German
were former Gov. Jno. Walter Smith. former
Gov. Frank Brown, former Representative
Miles. Representative Talbot, J. Frank
Smith and Col. Buchanan Schley. 1t is ex-
pected that Gen. Baughman will be named
by the state boss to head this committee.
1t is pointed out as significant that al
though Mr.. Rasin was in the conference he
was the only one who does not appear in
the list chosen by German to make the fight
for the pet measure of the sage of Laurel.
This fact has caused much qualification
among the city democrats who are opposed
to the Poe plan. They assert that it shows
Mr.. Rasn is unaterably opposed to the
measure and that none of his admitted
powerful influence in Baltimore will be en-
p!oyed to secure the passage of Germans
amendment.