The Washington times., 1911-07-17
MARYLAND SOON TO
Be IN THROES OF
GOYERNORSH|P RACE
Numerous Democrats Ex-
pected to Announce Can
didacies This Week.
REPUBLICANS ARE
NOT DOING MUCH
Blair Lee Already Has Started and
Will Hold Meeting
in Tomorrow.
By ]. FRED ESSARY.


Within two more weeks Maryland viii
be in the throes Of governorship cam
patgn. Already the field is being scan
ned by ambitious leaders and candi
dicies aplenty will develop before the
fight proceeds much further
That is to say, Democratic candidates
viii multiply. 1t always is so with the
Democratic party in Maryland. No man
can run for office in Democratic pri-
mary In that State unopposed.
So far but one candidacy has been
formally announced. State Senator Blair
Lee, Of Montgomery county, is already
in the race He has told his friends.
and his enemies. too, that he wants to
be governor. and that he is, therefore,
going to make the fight.
No mincing Of words marked the an
nouncement OF Senator Lee. He spoke
right out and in the same breath used
in telling the State that he wanted the
office he told the people what his plat
form contains. He is for better roads
for corporation control, for a business
administration, and for all the people
all the time.
Brown Also Out.
No sooner had Senator Lee. who, by
the way, is as much a Washingtonian
as he is a Marylander. come out into
the open than former Governor Frank
Brown, of Baltimore, said that he too
was willing to be chief executive again.
He said it was time for a Baltimore
man to hold the office once more, in
asmuch as outsiders had held It fer
nearly twenty years.
Governor Brown, however soon gave
unmistakeable Indications Of the fact
that he could change his mind. He
withdrew. He still maintains that a CITY
man should be the Democratic nominee.
but he wants some other than himself
to DO the running.
This withdrawal left therefore only
Senator Lee In the field. But others will
come forward. Already the trends OF
State Senator Arthur P. German, son of
the former United States Senator by the
same name. say that before many days
pass he will be an announced candidate
Senator German is the leader in the
Maryland legislature. He is a lawyer
and county man. though he practices
law in Baltimore Behind him Is the
prestige of the name Gorman-and that
is something in Maryland-besides the
fact that the young man is rich and has
genuine ability. These things are a help
70 candidate for governor in Maryland
as well as III any other State.
May Interest Burke.
Then there is Judge n. Charles Burke.
Judge Burke has a following that will
have to be Teckoned with If he ever
saws he wants to be governor or any
thing else In Maryland. He, too, is a
county man.
The same thing applies to Joseph D.
Eaker, Of Frederick. Colonel Baker was
a candidate four years ago and came
near winning. He has an organization
in western MARYLAND that can produce
results on a big scale of the friends il
the banker finally prevail upon him to
make the race.
The most uncertain thing in the
Maryland fight just SOW is what Gov |
ernor Crothers intends to do. He has
said two or three times that he would |
not be a candidate to succeed himself |
under any circumstances. But that was |
when he thought he would put his re- |
form program through. THIS program /
10 only half law now and there is the |
strong possibility that the Governor Will |
ask the State to give him four more
years.
II Crothers enters the lists he will be
eet. He has his friends in every county
from Garrett to Wicomico. He Is from |
the Eastern Sho', and can look for that |
compact group Of counties for the neu-
clus of his strength. He may prefer to II
retire to private life, and If he does,
all the enaining candidates will go into
the fields on pretty nearly the same
footing.
Republicans Quiet.
As for the Republican end of the cam
paign, that does not seem to be excit-
ing q great deal OF interest Maybe this
is because the Republicans rarely ever
carry the State or maybe 1t is because
the candidate for the governorship is
named at little private conference of
party leaders. There is never the
scramble in that party that marks the
contests among the Democrats II
John B. Hanna, the Republican State
chairman, is being talked of as a candi-
date, and Internal Revenue Collector
Philip Lee Goldsborough is also.
The primaries will be held in few
weeks Both the Democratic and Re
publican primaries take place on the
same day.
A Democratic mass meeting to fur
Their the campaign Of State Senator Lee
Is announced for this evening in the
Masonic Hall in Hyattsville. The can
didate will be the chief speaker Of the
the State will assist Music will be
furnished by the Laurel Band and the
meeting is open to women as well as
men.
declares a platform for honest govern
nent economically administered: good
roads, solidly constructed: widely eX-
ended, and al lower cost. State Sen
nent as author of the State primary
sw in MARYLAND.