Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-20
WAKEFIELD OR DEFEAT
Democrats Must Nominate Him
or Lose the State.
AFRAID OF INDEPENDENTS
Peculiar Situation Presented in Mary
land Politics.
MANY BOOMS IN BALTIMORE
Mayoralty Contest Growing Warmer
Every Day-Clean Fight on Be-
tween Timanus and Wachter.
MANY BOOMS IN BALTIMORE
Special Correspondence OF The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star
BALTIMORE, Md, January 10, 1907
Il am not candidate for reelection;
seek the support Of no man." declared Gov
warmed In closing his address at the ban
quet OF prominent civic organization here
during the week. The speech of the gov
ernor was in the nature of reply to the
attack made upon him and his administra-
hon by state Senator German at the Con-
cora Cup banquet last week and he took
the hlsh plane In politics by declaring that
"hen ne became the chief executive of
maryland he became the governor of all the
people, irrespective of party and was in
duty bound to administer the affairs of
state for the benefit of all the people and
not IN the interest of one political party.
Inc 1act that the governor publicly an
nounced that he is not a candidate for a
second term does not mean that he would
refuse the nomination if offered The Star
correspondent can state authortatively that
MT warmed Will accept a denomination If
thefe is a great popular demand that he
again be the party standard bearer in the
fall campaign. But the governor will not
make even the slightest effort to secure the
honor OF a denomination. He is in the
nanus OF his friends and if they will follow
his desires no effort will be made to secure
for him denomination. His Ife's ambition
to be governor of Maryland has been at
tanned and he has no intention of seeking
further political honors. He holds, however
that II Is the duty of every good citizen to
accept call to public office. even at the
sacrlfce of personal interests.
Machine in Quandary.
The position taken by Gov Warfield has
placed the democratic state machine be-
tween the devil and deep blue sea. They
realize fully that straightout organization
candidate cannot win the gubernatorial cam
palgn If Warfield is turned down. because
by that act the Independents, who hold the
paiahce OF power in Maryland, will be alien
ateu from The democratic party. The De-
cuIlar condition existing within the marty
.ooay is, therefore, perhaps without parallel
IN the political history of any state in the
Union. The machine leaders realize that
e ene tepGoncans are in mighty good shape
Ior the fall campaign, and they also realize
mat W arfield is the strongest man whom
the party could nomina TEN fact the only
man who could hold the ranks of the indie
penuents solld. The state is Very very close
ana the independents are in a nosition r.
place either a republican or a democrat In
the gubernatorial chair Should y, arfield
be turned down through the machina lions
OF the old democratic ring 1t seems almost
certain that the republicans will capture
control of the state
Scholarships at Stake.
Inc legislature to be chosen next fall
will elect two United States senator's and
1t Is the possibility that these NAV be lost
TO the democrats that is causing the ring
leaders many an unpleasant quarter of an
hour. If 1t We're not for these senatorshins
Gov. Warfield would receive scant consider
alton and the organization would have long
ago sent word down the line to begin work
for some man to succeed him. The death of
Gen. l.. Victor Baughman, too. was a great
blow to the plans of the organization They
had practically decided upon the Frederick
county leader as the standard bearer this
year, and democrats of all factions admit
ted that next to Warfield he was the
strongest and most available man within
the party. In a nutshell, therefore, the
situation today is: Warffeld has all to gain
and nothing to lose, while the organization
has all to lose and. maybe nothing to
galn-not even the United States senator
ships. should they decide to give Warfield
a denomination. This condition of affairs
presents most complex problem to the
student of politics, and The Star CORE
spondent has not been able to locate a
machine democrat Who is willing to ven
ture prediction as to what the outcome
will be.
Mayoralty Contest
The contests for the mayoralty nomina-
tons In both parties are waxing warm
Candidates in the democratic party are
coming out OF the woods almost every day
and booms and boomlets are echoing as
frequently as the crack of the sportsman
e n during the ducking season. Every dem
ocrat in the city seems willing to be struck
by the mayoralty lightning. None of them
is coy and one seeking to hide his light
under coal heap would indeed be a rara
avis. And the funny part of it all is that
some of the aspirants who would not have
a ghost of a show in the general election
really think they are in the running From
present Indications it seems Likely that the
real contest for the democratic nomination
will be between State Senator I.inthicum
and the candidate yet to be announced by
the Rasin machine. And how the fur VIII
fly when that candidate is trotted out by
the machine.
Timanus VS.. Wachter.
In the republican primaries there will be
just two candidates-Mayor Timanus and
Representative Wachter. Contrary to all
expectations there has been no mud-sling-
ing, and both sides are in hopes that the
contest will be carried to an end in a dig
cation, which is behind Timanus, will not
resort to any other than clean and open
campaign methods, satisfied to abide by the
result of the primaries provided that the
campaign is conducted along the line of the
merits of the aspirants. Thus it is squarely
put up to the Wachterites to mold the line
of battle. A poll of the ward executives
made during the week shows that twenty
are behind Timanus and four declared Tor
Wachter. Those in charge of the repre-
sentative's campaign assert that these TWEEN
ty ward executives cannot control the votes
and that the Wacherites now control affairs
in sixteen or the twenty-four wards of the
city. And these claims and counter claims
are about as close as one can get to the
real situation.