Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-31
WANT A NEW MOSES
Rasin Lieutenant Discusses
Baltimore MayoraIty Fight.
DARK HORSE FOR CANDIDATE
Justice Loden Thinks Man Not Yet
Named Will Be Chosen.
WACHTER MAY NOT ENTER
Selection Of Timanus by Republicans
and Party Harmony IL Predicted
-Bonaparte May Help.
wACHTER MAY NOT ENTER
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

BALTIMORE. Md, December 81, 1905.
The "feeling-out' process adopted by l.
Freeman Rasin, the democratic city boss
in regard to the mayoralty nomination took
decided shift last week. From the silk
stocking north end Of the city, where Rasin
had started booms for w. Cabell Bruce
and Sherlock Swami, he switched to the
lower END, or, to be more accurate, East
Baltimore, the Gibraltar of city democracy
Inc latest in the field from the Rasin
camp Is Select City Councilman John HUI
pert. an ironmaster and a man immensely
popular with the masses-the toilers in the
great manufacturing plants Of the city,
10 the Hubert boom Rasin also attached
one Mr.. Robert J. McCuen, the present city
superintendent of lights. McCuen has
been slated for controller on the ticket
with Hubert and 1t must be admitted that
sucn COMPUTATION would prove a strong
drawing card for the voters
McCuen, during the past eight Years as
superintendent of lighting, has given the
city the best illumination in it's history
ana mas decreased the cost thousands of
dollars. McCuen is strong with the masses
and could poll the full strength of the in
dependents, having become a public official
during the administration of Mayor Hays,
, WIG was swept into the city hall on
REFORM wave that rolled the democratic
ma1orlues into thousands. McCuen in ad-
d1tlon, Is warm personal friend Of War
oen John F. Weyler Of the Maryland peni-
tentlary who broke with Rasin years AFRO
and has conscientiously fought the ..oId
man In all his plans In the south end of
the city. For some time past there have
peen rumors that Weyler and Rasin had
given McCuen lends strength to the re-
port. Wv
May Be a Dark Horse.
The ward executives Of Rasin are all
at sea- They dare not declare for any
one candidate and turn off all questions
with the remark that 1t is too early to dis
cuss the mayoralty fight. Again, there
fore. the hand of Rasin shows, for he
has In the past few years used Police JUS
ice Daniel J.. Loden for his mouthpiece.
Ioday Loden Is as close as g. clam
Haven't thought Of the mayoraity." said
MI. Looen to The Star correspondent this
AFTERNOON. "Oh, yes. Hubert Ia s a good
. man IKE many others that may be men
soon. It's month before the candidate
VIII be selected, and it seems to me that
many OF the so-called booms will die a.
men thus far named will be the party
nominee The situation looks favorable to
an outsider-that Is, a dark horse. What
we want Is the strongest man possible, ir-
the party, and who will to a certainty polI
the full party vote in the spring election.
those who can do this have been men
tioned as possible candidates; still from
all appearances, 1t seems that a new Moses
Will be called upon to bear the shibboleth
or democracy in this fight. 1 am for the
party nominee. no matter whom he may
be, and that man will receive the full SUM-
port OF the organization"
Wachter and Timanus.
Close observers of events in The repub-
ican party are now predicting that Wach-
ter wilLnot enter the primaries; that condi-
tons will SO shape themselves that IT.
manus will be the unanimous nominee of
the party; that harmony will prevail, and
that the candidate for mayor will poll the
full republican strength From a hereto
fore reliable source The Star correspondent
learned that such a contamination is pos
sible-in fact, that a conference with At
torney General Bonaparte, as the presid-
ing genius, is being arranged. If Mr..
Bonaparte Is able to bring about such a
condition he will have added to the many
obligations which the republican party in
Maryland owes to him.
Mr.. Bonaparte by the way, is not the
dreamer in politics that his enemies would
have the public believe. He is the cleverest
straightout politician that the republican
party has had at the helm in years. An
other powerful factor In the politics of the
city, Gen. Felix Agnus, will be found a
great factor in making the party united.
features, and with the right men as the
guiding hands in the crisis the party can
march to the polls in the spring as one
united and enthusiastic body.