Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-25
Baltimore Managers Eager for Sue
cess of Their Ticket.
PARTY VERY MUCH DISTURBED
State Machine Bent on Putting
Through Observation-Disclosures
lures Made to Warfleld.
Special Correspondence OF The Star.


BALTIMORE, Md, July II. 1909
/ There appears to be some friction be-
tween the state and city organiza ton
| leaders of the democracy. The local
leaders. while declaring for the disfran-
chisement amendment and promising to
support it, are paying far more attention
| to the candidates for city Offices, and
notwithstanding the declaration of the
leaders at the conference held ip this
city some weeks ago that the ticket must
| be subordinated to the amendment the
local managers do not propose to do any,
thing OF the kind.
! The state leaders are for the amend
ment first, last and all the time and are
willing to lose the local offces-and even
the legislature at this time-if they can
thereby pull the amendment through and
make Maryland one-party state. These
| leaders realize that the political control
of Maryland is slowly slipping from their
grasp Hence their wild anxiety to get
that Straus plan OF ready-made political
victory on the statute books. The demo-
cratic bosses realize that party lines are
fast fading away in this state and that
without any real issues in an election
the candidate looms up bigger than the
party lines Maryland in national poll
tics is pretty close to being a republican
state and is drifting toward the doubtful
column in state elections. With an hon
est and fair election law it would he
a doubtful state at all elections, city or
state.
Machine Bosses Desperate.
1t is the knowledge that such condi-
ton exists that makes the machine bosses
desperate. They have held the reins OF
power and lived on the fieshpots SO long
that they do not relish the idea of CIV
| ing. up control. 4 new order of things
politically is bound to come in Maryland,
and the starting point will be the defeat
of the plan to rob the people Of the
i right OF franchise.
And defeat viii come to the amend
ment next November as sure as gun S
iron The democrats are sorely split on
the franchise issue and the leaders are
unable to check the opposition to the
plan within their own ranks. The indie
pendent democrats are solid against the
amendment and will fight it vigorously
on the stump and in other ways. The
independent republicans are likewise
against the straus plan and will work
zealousIy to encompass it's defeat. 1t is
we'll known fact that the independents
of Observation-Disclosures and democrats
hold the balance of power. That such Is
the case has been proved on several &C.
casions in recent years. Added to the
independents is the solid republican vote
of the city and state arrayed agains,
the amendment.
Overtures to Warfe1d.
Such is the true and unbiased situa-
tion in the paramount fight in this state
today. Is it, therefore, any wonder
that the big democratic chieftains whose
Irnio - to faI-a ,s<-
stricken as they view the situation? 1t
is known that emissaries Of the state
machine have been sent to former Gov.
Warfield, who is regarded as the leader
Of the Independent democrats, for the
/ purpose Of inducing him to come out
tor the amendment Warfleld has re-
ceived these emissaries courteously and
has listened attentively to their siren
notes, but lie remains as a sphinx. CIV
ing no indication as to his contem-
plated stand. To The Star correspond
/ ent today Mr. Warfield said: NY po-
sition regarding the Acknowledgement
amendment will be made at the proper
time and in no uncertain language"
And beyond that statement Warf1eld
will not bulge an inch even TO his most
intimate friends.
The organization leaders know that
under the personal guidance of Edwin
Warfield the Poe amendment went down
under a 10000 majority several years
peat. itself this fall. They know. too
I that Warfield has an old score to settle
with the ring for the treatment he re-
ceived in the senatorial primary two
that Warfield carried the city and that
votes cast for him were thrown out by
the handful. In one polling place 9
Warfield watcher. who protested agains
the dishonest counting methods pursued
was elected bodily from the polling
roOro These things have not heen for
gotten by Warfield. and his friends as
sert that the former governor cannot
| unless he wishes to stultify himself, d.
otherwise than declare against tn,
Straus plan.
City Organization Ticket.
The city organization has placed it:
| ticket in the field. This ticket was mad,
up by an advisory committee Of 12O rep
resentatve business men-men picked
by the organization to do it's work
This ticket will go before the people a,
the peoples ticket" The organization
disclaims any part in its makeup bu
the fact remains. nevertheless. mat ever.
candidate on the peoples ticket is al
organization man. And the organization
Is going to work for this peoples
ticket as it never worked before II
the primaries next month.
/ And when the ticket is given it's sec
ond baptism by the direct primary il
will still be the peoples ticket" ant
will be touted from the hustings as thu
peoples ticket The plan of selection
is regarded as master stroke by thu
local leaders because they have buried
there heads in the sand. believed them
selves hidden. and think the voters ar.
in the same condition.
But there is a battle Of ballots to b,
fought this fall in Maryland. Issues
and men are before the voters. And, un
less all signs fail there's a jolt com
ing to the "unterrified" democracy boil