The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-02-20
DISTINGUISHED
MARYLAND MEN
A Chicago Newspapers View Of
Senators Smith. BayneT and
Whyte.

Assembly of Maryland, in Joint
convention, elected as United
States Senator for the full term of
six years, beginning March l.,
1909, Col. John Walter Smith,
Governor of Maryland from 1900
until 1904, hence the independent
Warheld's predecessor in the Gu
bernatorial chair, defeated asp1rant
for the Senatorship won by the
independent Rayner, who had
served as Attorney General during
his term of Office as Governor, and
lifelong adherent of German and
the German organization. The
election makes Colonel Smith the
successor Of Senator German in
the State as we'll as in the Senate,
as it confirms his claim to the
leadership Of the Democratic ma
chine, which last fall, under his
management, captured for himself
the Senatorship, endorsed Cover
nor Warield, elected the State
ticket headed by Judge Crothers,
fortified the organization by the
1000 offices which go with a
sweeping State victory and elect
ed 90 out of possible 12S mem
bers of the General Assembly of
the State.
Young Arthur P. German, who
was elected State Senator, carry
ing Governor Warfeld's horne
county against him. and whose
chief ambition is to succeed his
father in the leadership, is by cleo
ton made the head of the Demo-
cratic party in the State Legis1a-
ture and will be one Of Colonel
Smith 5 licutenants. And if their
| plans do not gang agley, he will
be Smiths colleague in the upper
house of the nations legislature
three years from now, when he
hopes to succeed Isidor Rayner to
the seat which that astute indie
pendent kept Colonel Smith from
filling. All Of which looks as if
the German power had not so
greatly waned but that man of
astuteness, ingenuity and resource
fulness in political combinations
has been able to make it again a
formidable force, This man is
Col John Walter Smith.
It is a fascinating game-that
of politics, and Colonel Smith has
never tried to resist its lure. a
millionaire several times over, and
one who made his own fortune, he
has spent thousands to help the
Democratic party in its campaigns.
Few men have given so literally.
When he received the nomination
tor Governor i'll 500 the Republi-
|
cans, with Lloyd Lowudes as the
State Executive, had for nearly
four years been in complete con-
troll of the State, as we'll as of the
Federal offices. There was no
Democratic assessment fund, and
a candidate with a "bar'l" was a
necessity. At that time it was
said that Colonel Smith expressed
a willingness, if nominated, to
sign his check for $50, 900 for the
legitimate expenses of what prov.
ed to be redhot campaign. His
rival for the nomination at that
time was Edwin Warfeld, the
Baltimore fnancier. Handsome
Ned, who having suffered defeat
in the Baltimore primaries, laid
the foundation Of his later sue
cesstul candidacy for Governor by
a display of good sporting blood
when on the convention S floor he
made the speech which nominated
Smith Though political rivals,
these men were at that time per
sonal friends, and had been inter
ested in the same business ven
lures, Smith being a stakeholder
and director in the Fidelity and
Deposit Company of Baltimore,
which War6eld had founded and
of which he was president. Sena-
tor Platt, of New York; Senator
German and the Republican Gov
ernor. Llovd Lowndes. who died