The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-04

! State House, Annapolis, Jan. 81
| The Republicans have at last sue
ceeded in electing ex-senator Will
liam F. jackson State Treasurer, but
do not seem to have ended their
troubles here, although the office is
the chief prize at stake in the cleo
ton last fall. Mr.. Jackson is gen
orally known as the Angel of his
party in Maryland, although some
people irreverently speak of him as
The Golden Calf Of the Eastern
Shore" He is the man who usually
puts up the dough" in campaigns,
and he certainly is entitled to any
hOnOrs his party may have to give
out. Ii is generally believed that he
will be the nominee of his party
next year for Governor, and that the
State Treasury is but the stepping
stone to the higher honor. How his
old time friends, but now rivals, ex-
Governor Goldsborough and General
W. Bladen Lloundes, will receive his
prospective candidacy for Governor
is a problem, for one or the other Of
these distinguished gentlemen is be-
ieved to have been slated for the
gubernatorial succession. At any
rate, Mr.. JacksOn's election to the
State TreaSurership has not been re
ceived with satisfaction by the fol-
lowers of Ex-Governor Goldsborough.
who. in quiet way, beneath the sur
face, did all they could to prevent
Mr.. JackSon's success. Had they
made an open fight the probabilities
are that they would have been sue
cessful, at least 10 the extent of hav
ing some other than Mr.. Jackson win
the Treasury. As it is the Republi-
can factions are as far apart as ever,
and the so-called harmony in the
Grand Old Party is like the harmony
which exists between the Roosevelt
and Taft factions in the National Or.
ganiZation.
Among the recognized leaders OF
the Senate is Mr.. Harrison, of Wor
cester county. He is probably the
best posted among the active bust
ness men in the upper house of the
General Assembly, and ranks high as
a man of large affairs throughout
the State He devotes the same care
and industry to his work here as a
representative of the people as he
does TO his own extensive interests,
and is most painstaking in all that
he does Literally speaking, he is
Uu Ills JOD DIS SldI6 SGudlOI anu uOSS
not confine his work to the purely
local interests of Worcester county,
but in a large and broad sense rep
resents the people Of the entire
State. He considers himself one of
the trustees of the whole people,
regardless of party and faction, and
while he is a regular and loyal Dem
ocrat, he is in large sense a Mary
10 ha Of he Ix-bN 10
State enters into all of his calcula
tons. He may be looked upon as
one of the future leaders in public
affairs, in what many believe will be
a better era in the history Of Mary
land.
The coming Congressional fights,
scheduled for the present year, are
being discussed here by the repre-
sentatives from all sections of the
State. In the first district, it is the
general belief and hope among Dem
ocrats that Mr.. Price will not be a
candidate, owing to the fact that
he had such a narrow escape when
he was elected by about fifty MAORI
ty two years ago. The prevailing
opinion among Eastern Shore men is
that Colonel Albert w. Sisk, of Caro-
line county, will get the nomination.
Colonel Sisk is one of the leading
business men OF the Fen!.a1s ufa, anu
is man of superior intellectual, as
we'll as business attainments. He
has for years given his services to
the State as a member of several of
the important non-paying commits
sions, and has never been found
wanting when the roll was called.
No man in Maryland has devoted
more time, cheerfully and ungrudg
ingly, to the public welfare, and no
man is better informed as to the
needs of the State as they should be
represented in Congress. The pres
ent indications are that he will be
the democratic nominee without
serious opposition. Who Mr.. Jack
son will select as the Republican
nominee is not known.
In the second, third and fourth
districts the present Democratic in
cumbents, Messrs. Talbot, Coady,
and Linthicum, will no doubt be re-
nominated without opposition.
In the fifth district the leading
Democratic candidate is State Sena-
tor Duvall, of Annapolis, while Mr..
Sidney E. Mudd will probably be re-
nominated by the Republicans.
In the sixth district Mr. Zihlman,
the present Republican Cons ressman,
seems to be facing a fight for renom-
ination, with DR.. J. Mcpherson
Scott, of Hagerstown, as his probable
competitor The only Democratic
candidate mentioned is Mr.. H. Dor
sey Etchison, of Frederick.
PAUL WINCHESTER.