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Saw Die? Never Never
Will Mr.. Goldsborough

Former Governor Goldsborough's
back is to the wall, but he still is
fighting. Headed off by the Jack
son-Stone people in his ambition tc
be renominated for Governor, he
played along for position as candi-
date for the nomination for Senator
beaten by the JacksonStone people
for the nomination, after he had
made gallant fight, he surveyed the
ground, perceived that he had no
eral place if the Presidential candi-
date favored by the Jackson-Stone
people were nominated and elected
and Immediately jumped to Colone,
Roosevelt.
And, changing the figure, he is
playing the game like the old-stager
he is. Holding pair of deuces
against Billy Stones three aces, he
a vote to his name in the Maryland
delegation to the Chicago convention,
he calmly went to New York last
week and told the Roosevelt leaders
there, according to report, that he
intended to use his utmost powers to
swing the Maryland delegation to the
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best never played a shoestring more
suavely and coolly.
1t is dollars to doughnuts, too that
he has the Roosevelt people in New
York kissing his hand If there
should be a stampede to Roosevelt in
the convention, and the Maryland
delegation, or a considerable part of
it, should be swept to the Colonel,
Watch Mr.. Goldsborough cash in, if
Roosevelt should be elected That
is, watch him cash in if Charles J.
Bonaparte does not take it into his
head to upset the cash drawer.
Although Mr.. Goldsborough has
few, if any, votes in the Maryland
delegation that he can deliver : to
Colonel Roosevelt in the convention,
it seems that he has carried to the
Roosevelt standard a great many of
his followers in this State; certainly
he has carried many of the more
prominent ones. And therein may
be found food for thought by some
of those political thinkers who, de-
ploring the emotionalism of the
masses, reason that if political con-
troll were in the hands of the
CLASSES" the upper strata-politi-
cal action would be coldly intellectu-
al and entirely reasonable.
Most of Mr.. Goldsborough's close
and conspicuous friends have been
conservatives of the most ,pronounc-
ed type. They were against Roose-
velt in 1912, and some of them have
been bitter critics of hi msince that
time. Until very recently several of
them were against him, so intensely
that more than one went so far in
private as to say that he would not
support Roosevelt if nominated. Yet,
number of these very men are for
Roosevelt today, now that Mr.. Colds
borough, the leader of their faction,
has jumped to him. If you are puz-
zled about this, call OF Andy"
Burns, Charlie" Heintzeman or any
other of the leaders of the masses"
in the lower wards of Baltimore city.
They can explain the puzzle without
stopping moment to think; they
are entirely familiar with that sort
of thing.
1t IS bit interesting Just now,
while thinking of Mr.. Goldsborough,
to go back a moment and speculate
about the "might-have beens" Two
years ago, following the adjourn
ment of the Legislature, Mr.. Colds
borough, then Governor, had three
appointments to make upon the State
Industrial Accident Board, which
had been created by that Legislature.
There were two Republican places,
and Stone, about to retire from the
Collectorship of Customs, wanted
one of them. He and the Governor
had been on the outs since the begin
ming of the Goldsborough admins
tration, but it was we'll understood
that if Stone were given one of the
places he would forget his griev-
ances and become friendly with the
Governor again. Mr.. Goldsborough,
disliking Mr.. Stone and feeling that
his organization in the city was ov-
er-rated-a house of eards-f1atly
turned him down, and turned him
down in way that made the Jack
sons angry. The place Mr.. Stone
wanted went to Charles D. Waga-
man, of Washington county.
Stone started out to get Goldsbor-
ough. More than any other man in
the State, he was responsible for the
lineup behind former Roads Chair
man o. E. Weller for Governor,
which, with that gentleman's power
full hold upon the public as an eftlci-
ent, honest official, made 1t impossi
BILE for Mr.. Goldsborough to obtain
another nomination for Governor.
And Stone, almost singlehanded,
blocked the nomination of Goldsbor