The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-06
BALTIMORE LETTER.
Baltimore. Md. Sept. z. 1912.

That the Democratic party of Maryland
is tremendously united and soEdly ar
rayed behind the ticket was shown at
the meeting of the Democratic State
Central Committee. which was recently
held at the Hotel Rennert. when an aux
iliary Committee, composed OF one hun
bred and fifty members were elected to
assist in the management and conduct
of the State campaign. BY the selections
that were made on this committee the
party leaders. both State and city,
showed that they are enthusiastically be.
hind the ticket from top 10 bottom, and
they want the help OF every voter that
they can get in this contest, so as to
roll up an unprecedented majority. 1t
has been known by the rank and file of
the party since the day that the ticket
was nominated. that the organization
was Loyalty behind it. but for various
reasons, certain newspapers and men
have proclaimed that the organization
would LAY down." before the cam
paign closed and allow the election to go
by default, if such a thing were possible,
/ From the beginning, the leaders and the
workers have denounced these reports
as groundless, and now they have
so branded them forever as a result of
/ the personnel of the committee that they
| have named. The situation was entirely
! in the hands of the leaders and the
members of the State Central Com
mlttee. The latter body is the only or
/ ganization in the State which has the
| power TO appoint committee to partlc.
! ipate in the campaign and it is also the
only body which can make the selec-
/ tons individuals under the law can
not form a general committee.
! Anxious for every body in the State
! to get actively Interested in the coming
campaign the leaders threw down every
! barrier and made the committee as rep
resentative as possible Political as well
as personal enmties were forgotten by
! the leaders and by their votes they
| have placed upon the committee many
men who have fought the organization
| in the past. Some of them, it must be
stated, have fought the organization
without Just cause but vet, in order TO
maintain their records for political irreg
uarity, have invariably opposed its
preferences But the leaders and the
workers are now out to win. They are
now true Democrats and they want the
party to sweep the State as ii has never
done before, and in order to please and
| plaCate some independents, they cheer
fully named them on the committee. The
friends Of Governor Woodrow Wilson
are highly pleased over the personnel
of the committee, and they most as
suredly have right to be, as every
! Democrat who was present in the Gov
ernor'S primary campaign in this State
is a member of the new committee. This
is particularly so in Baltimore City. The
city organization recommended and had
elected upon the committee the men who
led Governor Wilson's fight, not only in
Baltimore CITY, but also in the entire
State. The city leaders We're not made
members of the committee. They did
not want it. They will do their work
without serving on any special conf
mittee, and now then it is up to the
members of the new committee to get
actively into the contest.
The Auxiliary Committee will not SUI
persede, but will work in conjunction
with the State Central Committee, which
is the only legallzed governing body in
the party AS a political body, it will
only have power in this present cam
paign and all of the power that it gets
will come from the State Central Com
mittee
Discussions are rife in the ranks of the
| Bull Moose party. There are a great
many petty iealousles and differences
among the leaders and they are con-
stantly at war with each other. Like
their chief leader, Colonel Roosevelt,
each Marylander wants to be the whole
! show. As a result, every meeting of the
/ leaders is marked by tilt and a wordy
combat Officers of the campaign com
mittee resign frequently, and lhen almost
Immediately withdraw their designations.
| The chief resigner, so far, is Joseph r.
| Baldwin, OF Hartford county, the treas
urer of the State Committee. He and
! Mr.. Edward c. Darlington. IT,, are con
/ stantly fighting one an5ther. On last
! Saturday September 2nd, Mr.. Baldwin
resigned as treasurer and declared that
/ he was through with the Bull Moose.
/ On Monday he went to New York, and
/ had long conference with Mr.. George
". Perkins, the chief financial hacker Of
I Colonel Roosevelt. The entire situation
was discussed and finally Baldwin de-
! cyded to come back to Baltimore.
For the purpose of deposing the Re-
! publican electors who are supporting
/ Colonel Roosevelt and who have refused
to resign, the Republican Stale Conven-
| ton will be reassembled in Baltimore in
few days. Three of the electors who
are supporting the Colonel have already
resigned and their places on the ticket
/ will be filled. At the convention the
Taft, or regular organization forces
which will be in complete control, will
nominate only enthusiastic Taft men.
The Taft forces in Baltimore opened
their city campaign a few nights ago
with a meeting of the City Committee.
! Speeches were made by the Collector
of the Port, William +. Stone, Chair
man John B. Hanna. of the State Cen
trail Committee, and Colonel Henry B.
Wilcox.