Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-15
GOV. WAKEFIELD At BAY
Lively Times in Prospect Now
at Annapolis.
ALL ABOUT THE PRIMARIES
Charges Openly Made That Money
Was Used.
TACTICS OF THE GOLD GUARD"
Anti-Saloon League Preparing to
Wage a Determined Fight in
Maryland This Year.
ALL ABOUT THE PRIMARIES
TACTICS OF THE "oLD GUARD"
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
BALTIMORE, Nd, December IA, 1907.
Indications are not lacking that there
will be lively times during the session of
the incoming Legislature. It's going to be
war to the knife between Gov. Warfield
and the organization. Not an opportunity
to whack the governor and his admins
tratlon will be passed up by the machine
leaders. The recent pronunciamento by
the governor that money was freely used
to defeat him in the senatorial primary
and the charge mat he did not get
square deal has aroused afresh the ire OF
the "old guard" The governor, true to
his promise, as made in The Evening
Star on the day preceding election, gave
out an itemized statement of his expenses
incident to the senatorial primary and
practically challenged former Gov. John
Walter Smith to follow his example. 1t
Is openly stated that Smith not only
financed the state campaign, but con-
tributed about $4,000 to the city fight,
and in return secured the withdrawal
from the senatorial primary of former
Gov. Frank Brown The old guard
asserts that Warfield is a bad loser and
issued his statement simply because he
was chagrined at the comparatively small
vote he polled in the city and state The
Warf1eld adherents claim that the gov
ernor was defeated in his senatorial hight
because he did not get a fair count. The
agreement regulating tie primary was to
the effect that only democrats who voted
for the state ticket could cast ballot In
the senatorial primary. That the cleo
ton was not conducted fairly is said to
be shown conclusively by the fact that in
many voting precincts the senatorial re-
turns ran from 80 to 90 votes ahead of
the state ticket.
Governor Was Emphatic.
The fact that Warfeld did not mince
words in his statement and called spade
a spade has caused the 'old guard
leaders to sit I'D and take notice. They
had hoped that the governor would re-
main silent on the. result of the primary.
But they were fooled. The governor
stated that he. was induced to enter the
primary at the solicitation of Austin l..
Crothers governor-elect. That Warfield
was encouraged to run by the organiza-
ton leaders Is well known. and it is real
tied that he was used as a catspaw to
get out a big vote. If Warfield had re-
tired from the senatorial primary, as he
was advised to do by his best friends,
certain defeat would have been the por-
tion of the democracy 1t was the War
field following voting for Crothers, in
order that they might participate in the
senatorial primary. that brought out
sufficient democratic vote to enable the
ringsterS to buy up republican judges of
election and count out George r. Gather,
the republican candidate for governor.
The defeat of Gather for governor and
Warf1eld for the Senate can therefore be
traced directly to the control of the party
machinery by the "old guard" In sup
port of this 1t is admitted by prominent
republicans that had Warfield been re-
nominated by the democrats Mr.. Gather
would not have consented to run. thereby
practically admitting that Warfield would
have been invincible.
No+inpo1 poJ;%icc
1t now seems certain that there will be
a locking of horns over the election of
the Maryland republican delegation to
the national convention at Chicago next
June The demand made by former Rep
hsentative WacHter in a speech before
thH Pioneer Republican Club this week
thin tAe present leaders CT the party in
Maryland be opposed is regarded as the
serving of formal notice upon the party
equalization that trouble may be ex-
PsciaIy the fight viii be exceedingly
warm. For years there has been bad
blood between Wachter and William F.
Stone. the, recognized leader. and an
other battiesfo supremacy in city poll
tics -WRy be expected. Collector Stone
!. viii Be found lending his influence as the
national administration may desire and
will be supported by Attorney General
@Ronaparte and Stevenson A. Williams,
the Maternal committeeman for Maryland.
The anti-administration will probably con-
sist of Representative Jackson and Mudd.
former Representatives Wachter and
Lloyd Lowndes of Cumberland. In this
latter combination is conferred all the
&wealth of the party in Maryland, and the
1attle for control of the delegation VIII
b q hot one 1t Is admitted that the
fisIt viii be between Taft and Cannon
here md may result in q split delegation
going to Chicago. -----.....
Democrats at Sea.
Just who will be the choice of the Mary
laAd delegation to Denver in July is prob
lematical. During the past week a con-
siderable sentiment among leading demo-
Gratis not allied with the machine has
DEVELOPED in favor of Gov. Johnson of
Minnesota, but nothing tangible has de-
veloped. Friends of Gov. Warfield assert
that the strongest ticket the democrats
could place in the field would be john
son and Warfield. and some of them even
go so far as to suggest that Marylands
governor should head the ticket with the
Minnesota executive as his running mate
That Bryan will not have a ghost of a
show with the Maryland delegation goes
without saying. and 1t Is more than like
ly that unpledged delegation will go
10 the Colorado gathering. Bryan has
never been popular In Maryland and could
not secure the active support Of the party
leaders even when he was the regular
nominee. His active supporters in Mary
land consist of handful of democrats,
whose opinion and influence carry little
tf any weight with the bosses or the
masses. In two campaigns Bryan was
unable to carry the electoral vote Of the
state and IL Is safe to assert that IL the
Nebraskan is again the nominee he will
emerge from the contest for the third
time with Maryland in the republican
column.
Fight Against Saloons.
The Anti-Salpon League Of Maryland is
preparing to wage an active fight before
the legislature against the saloons. Mr..
w. II. Anderson, superintendent OF the
Anti-Saloon League. said to The Star cor
rasnnndent today: Owe are now having