Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-07
What the Figures I'm Maryland Show.

To the Editor of the EVENING STAR:
The full returns Of the election in the con
gressional districts Of Maryland which lie
entirely outside the city of Baltimore or only
partly therein. viz, the first. second, fifth and
sixth. were published in yesterdays American,
and the figures show the following:
In 1888 in the first district. Is. las republi-
cans voted; IN 1880, II, ASS; stay-at-home repub-
licans in 1880, 2.6S1. In the former year,
democrats voted. 1852; in the latter year.
li.727; stay-at-home democrats in 1880. 800: ex-
cess of republican stay-at homes, 800. Demo-
cratic plurality IN 1890 2,2G9
Second congressional district. in 1888, the
number Of republicans voting. 1870: in 1880,
II. O56; stay-at-home republicans IN 1880. 4. 532.
In 1883. democrats voted, 40: an 1890 IL, g79;
stay-at-home democrats in 1890, AL; excess Of
republican stay-at-homes in 1890, 4,O4l. Demo-
cratic plurality in 1890. 1928.
Fifth congressional district republicans
voted in lsss, 1928; in 1880. II, 9sS; stay-at-
home republicans in 1890. 1926. In the former
year democrats voted, l6,2s0; in the latter
year, IA, 72l; stay-at-home democrats in 1880,
1859; excess OF republican stay -at-homes,
l,S36. Democratic majority in 1880. 1, 733.
A singular fact is that the prohibitionists put
no ticket in the field in this district which
may have helped Compton's election. Also
the new registration law helped reduce the
vote in 1880, undoubtedly affecting the two
parties unequally, but. without which, II the
stay-at-homes of each party had voted, Mudd
would have been elected
Sixth district, in 1885, 1906 republicans
voted; in $780, l6. 7S3. and 2273 STAYED at home.
In the first of the same years IL, 422 democrats
voted and in the last l6, 999; the number Of
democrats who did not vote in 1880, 423! Excess
OF republicans over democratic stay-at-homes
in 1890 1,S50i Democratic plurality IL 1880, 2l6l
So it can be easily seen that Mr.. McComss
was defeated by republicans staying at homo
and also, probably. Mr. Mudd.
Iain "A a Hhl0
to observe the causes and effects in the late
election, am able TO say that do not believe
that either the tariff law or the election bill
operated to defeat Mr. McComas and Mr. Mudd
What the new registration law did not do for
them, combined with the dissatisfaction on &C
count of the appointment Of postmssters and
other appointments, general apathy did The
republican farmers preferred staying at homo
10 husk corn and the mechanics to earn their
daily wages, unsuspecting the great democratic
tidal wave sweeping over the country and their
districts.
Senator German, in an interview In this city
published in this mornings Sun, confirms this
view. He says that the democrats viii have to
fight to hold their own in 1892; that il was the
stay-at-home republicans that gave them their
present victory He says that a study OF the
returns in Baltimore shows that the democrats
cast within 800 of their full vote in Baltimore,
while several thousand republicans stayed 40
home.
From all this it is safe to predict that two
years hence the democrats will not have any
larger majority in Maryland than in 1885 and
very probably not SO large, and like causes
having obtained in the late election throughout
the country the republicans will easily WIN the
presidential election in that year as usual, as
the republicans will all then vote in all the
states. This was an of year" for the repue-
licans. sokk-
Engineer VIM. Lewis and Firemen George
A.