The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-06-01
REPUBLICANS ARRAYED
AGAINST EACH lOTHER
France, jackson. Weller to Fight
Out Troubles With Goldsborough,
LOwndeS And Parran.

Out IrOuDleS WIN GOlUSDOfOuSH,
LOwndes And Parran.
Baltimore, Nd, May 31.-While
the Democratic leaders and the rank
and file of the party in the city and
counties, are showing every DISPOSE
ton to get together preparatory to
the contest for State offices next year,
the Republican factions are quietly,
but with much determination and
skill, making preparations to tight
their troubles out among themselves
for control, not only of the State or
ganization, but also for the nomina-
tions for State officers who will be
voted for at the election In 1913.
On the one side are the forces ar
rayed under the leadership of Sena-
tor France, State Treasurer Jackson,
and Mr.. o. E. Weller, who are sup
posed, to be in practical control OF
the Maryland Republican machine at
the present time; while opposed to
them are the old time Republican
forces, who have given to the Repub-
lican party whatever responsibility
it has possessed in past years in this
State, and who are led by ex-Gover-
nor Goldsborough, Gen. w. Bladen
Lowndes, and eX-Congressman Thos.
Parran. These gentlemen and their
predecessors in authority, were the
men who gave all the real tone, to
which they could lay claim, to the
Republican party in Maryland, and
whatever victories it has won in the
past generation, were due to the re-
spect in which they were held by the
Independent voters of Maryland. The
two Republicans who have been cleo
ted Governors since the Civil War,
both have belonged to this class. and
no man of any other class would have
had any show OF success in winning
victory.
The new leaders, especially Mes
srs. Jackson and Weller, have had no
part in what was won by their party
in those years Mr.. Weller had new
er been heard of-in fact, he lived
out of the State at that time, and no
one knew who he was until Cover
nor Goldsborough placed him in the
lime light when he made him chair
man of the Roads Commission in
1912. Mr.. Jackson was unknown at
that time-in fact, no one who did
know him in his own locality knew
whether he was Republican or a
: Democrat, and the Jacksons had been
Democrats on the Shore until the ia
Their of the present leader joined the
Republicans in one of the Bryan
acmpaigns, and since that time they
have been known, entirely, as large
contributors to party campaign
funds. Mr.. Jackson served short
term, by appointment, in the United
States Senate, and for all that he
did while there, the State might as
well have been unrepresented. In
fact, no one knew he was there, so
! inconspicuous was the part he play
ed in Washington.
But Messrs. Jackson and Weller
claim to have control of the Republi-
| can party, and are making prepare
| lions quietly and forcefully, and,
| they hope, successfully, to thwart the
old and highly honored and respec-
| ted leaders who have given their par
| ty all it's tone and caste, beginning
| with the election of the late Cover
nor Lowndes, in 1895. The Lown-
| des, the Goldsboroughs, the Parrans,
| the Gathers, and others of the old
time Marylanders, descendants of
| the old Wings, who have given their
party a tone and standing, a respec-
| liability it would never have had
without them, are thrust aside and
| ignored, while the Wellers, the Jack
| sons, the Taits, and other men who
were never heard of few short
years ago, who have only been resi-
dents of the State few years, and
who never gave tone or strength to
! any political Or public movement of
any sort, are to assume charge and
carry everything their own way.
Signs are not lacking, however, that
| there will be fight, and before it
| is over there are not few indica-
tions that Messrs. Weller and Jack
son will know they have had a fight
that is, if there is anything politi-
cal left of them to know anything
Ex-Governor Goldsborough is some
thing of politician himself, and
when it comes to practical politics, he
is not ignorant of the game, as those
| engaged in belittling him may find
to their cost. Before either Jackson
| or Weller had even taken up the
game, he was past master in the
art He knows the exact value OF
every Republican leader, big and lit
tie, in Maryland, and while he is
apparently devoting his time to cam
paigning for Government loans, Red
Cross donations, and other work of a
patriotic character, he is closely OBJ
serving the trend of State political
affairs, and when the time comes he
will be ready for the fray. Messrs.
Jackson and Weller are shod with
gum shoes, and no one is supposed
to know where they go or what they
do. If they are doing any work of a
patriotic character, the public does
not know it, while Mr.. Goldsborough
and General Lowndes are working
day and night in aid of the Govern
ment, and are at the same time keep