Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-06
Indications That Two Republican
Congressman Will Be Elected.
THOUGH DEMOCRATS CLAIM ALL
Estimates Of Majorities in the Fifth
and Sixth Districts.
DISORDERS IN BALTIMORE
s,ecirl Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, November 6.-The
weather is clear and COOL and up to noon a
heavy vote had been polled in all parts of
the city. The indications are that the full
vote win be cast here as well as in the
counties. Congressman III. w. Rusk, chair
man of the democratic city committee, states
that the outlook for the election Of the
entire democratic ticket in Baltimore Is
brighter than it has been. He says that he
has reports Up to noon from every precinct
and that the democrats generally are voting
FOR the entire ticket excepting the twelfth
and seventeenth wards, where fractional
fights are going on between the ward bosses
which may to some extent injure the candi-
dates for Congress. He further says he has
no fear whatever as to the result on the
whole ticket He claims that Mr.. Cowan
(democraD will be elected in the fourth dis
trict by about 5000 majority over Mr.. Smith
Cepublican), that he himself will be re-
elected by about 5000 majority over DIR.
Booze republican, in the third district. He
also claims that Mr.. Kerr (democraD will
be elected judge of the supreme bench by
about 5000 majority over Mr.. Dobler, the
republican candidate, and that his party will
control the city council No city officers ex-
cept judge of the supreme bench and first
branch councilmen are to be elected today
AT democratic state headquarters the Off
Gals claim that their party will carry the
entire six districts in Maryland.
The Fifth and sixth Districts.
fhey admit that the vote will be close in
both the fifth and sixth districts. At re-
publican headquarters those in charge claim
as certain the election of their candidates
in the fifth and sixth districts.
Secretary NALL of the republican commit
tee asserts that only the most barefaced
fraud can defeat them, not only in the fifth
and sixth districts. but also in the second
and fourth. t. republican party authorities
claim that the democrats are voting repeat
ers In all SECTIONS of the city, and are also
sending gangs to rebeat Into the suburban
towns and villages in the second and fifth
districts. They state that they are power
less to prevent 1t, because the police and
election officers side with the democrats and
give the republicans no show.
The best and most impartial judges here
IN both parties concede the election of dem
ocrats to Congress in the first, second, third
and fourth districts, and the election of re-
publicans In the fifth and sixth districts.
1t is believed that MIR. Coffin republican, in
the fifth district, will secure a majority of
from 500 to ~l,UOO, and that Mr.. Wellington,
republican. in the sixth district, will be
elected by at beast :Hki majority. The cleo
ton up to noon had been quiet, except in
the seventeenth ward, where a serious fight
took place early this morning, In which one
man was shot in the legs. About 10 am.
another fight too. place in the seventeenth
ward between the partisans of the Wyler
and Busey factions, democrats, in which
several men were hurt, though none seri-
ously The police stopped the row and took
nine of the -riRgleaders to the watch house,
where they will be Kept until tomorrow.
Three of MIR. Bdsey' So SOFAS are already IN
Jail. charged with shooting policeman and
a saioonkeeper in a prediction row last
week