Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
AFFAIRS IN MARYLAND
BOTH PARTIES PREPARE FOR
THE CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST.

special Correspondence Of The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, September y, 1905
The managers Of both parties are now
buckIins on their armor preparatory to
onenine the congressional campaign. Chair
man John B. Hanna of the republican state
central committee was in the city during
the week making arrangements Tor opening
I'D headquarters and will personally direct
the campaign. The first republican gun VIII!
be fired Tuesday evening next, when Chair-
man Hanna will entertain the county eal-
tors at dinner at the Rennert. All the dig
leaders of the party throughout the state
have been invited to attend and deliver ad-
dresses The issues Of the campaign Will De
defined and following the dinner, there Whi
BIO an informal conference at whlcn the s
plan OF campaign in the six districts Hnl
be mapped out. Indications at this time
point to the election of five republicans
provided that harmony prevails In the Sc
lection OF q candidate in the third distrlct'
now represented by Frank C. Wachter, VINO
! has declined a renomination. In any event.
the republicans are practically certain oi
| the election of four representatives.
| The democratic managers find the rank
| and file Of the party in an apathetlc nooo'
| The small number of votes cast IN the
| primaries last Monday caused genuine
! alarm at democratic headquarters, ana the
executives of the wards have been sum
| moned to explain why they failed to get out
! a full vote in their respective balh"iGks
| The returns also indicated that BOSS hd-
sins city machine is rapidly going to pieces
| and that Rasin Is no longer the domlnan'
| factor in democratic politics In Baltimore
| In the judgeship contest Rasin passed wore
| down the line that William A. WheatleS
| was his choice. and. although the heuteh
| ants of Rasin worked hard Throughout
nla
| with money, they could not bring out oVel
| 10000 voters. although the reglstratioi
books show $1,000 declared democrats. IL Il
| therefore apparent that Rasin does not con
troll even a fourth Of the democrats In Bal
| timore today; that his days of undisputet
leadership are over and that at best ne cal
only use the remnant OF his once ail-po~e.
full machine to defeat the ambitions OF thos
| who may have opposed him in the past.
The downfall of Rasin can be traced oil
rectly to the door of Gov. Warfield. VIII
appointed a board of police commissioner
whom Rasn could not control. and folloWe
this up with board Of election supervisor
inimical to the city boss. Rasns grea
power in the past has been through his ma
! nipulation of the police department q!
days gone by not an appointment was MAD
to the force until the applicant saw MI
Rasin or secured the Endorsement of one o
the boss. trusted lieutenants. Prior to ls9
all of the police captains were the close pc
| litical advisers of Rasin and carried out hi
instructions to the letter on election day. L
the boards of election supervisors the sam
conditions prevailed Every judge and cler
of election was named by Ras1ns Ward ex
| ecutives and took office solely for the pur
pose of advancing the political fortunes o
| the .'old man" Shorn Of the control of thes
important boards. Rasin today finds hlmsel
| a boss In name only and unable to contrC
many of his trusted lieutenants of forme
days.
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