Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-02
Claims Made by Both Parties on the
Eve of Election.
REPUBLICANS SURE OF Two DISTRICTS
Democrats Assert They Will Garry
Every. One.
A GENTLEMANLY CAMPAIGN
Correspondence of The Evening Star.

BALTIMORE, November z, 1874.
The campaign in this state will close
Saturday night with a grand mass meeting
at the Cyclorama and torchlight process
sion by the republicans The democrats VIII
close tonight with great meeting at the
same place, at which eX-Gov. and ex-Sen-
ator William Pinkney Whyte will preside,
and the bright particular stars will be
Congressman William L. Wilson of West
Virginia and Mr.. John K. Cowen, demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the fourth
district. ..
Yesterday was summing up" day at both
democratic and republican state headquar-
tiers here, and the leaders in charge made
their estimates as to the result Of the ballot
on Tuesday next. The republican claims are
that they will certainly elect their cand1-
dates in the fifth and sixth districts, and
that their nominees have lighting chances"
in the second and fourth districts. The
first and third they concede to the demo-
Gratis by greatly reduced majorities.
The democrats, on the other hand, claim
that they will win in the entire six dis
tricts in the state. They concede that the
margin will be close in both the fifth and
sixth districts, but assert that with the
election machinery in their hands the odds
will be so decidedly in favor of their candi-
dates that they will win They give no
figures, however while the republicans are
ready to/state just on what they depend to
carry the fifth and sixth; and the best in
formed judges in both parties here seem
sure that the republicans will elect Mr..
Wellington in the sixth and Mr.. Coffin In
the fifth district. The bets are all that
way, namely, that the republicans will
carry the fifth and sixth, and that the dem
ocrats will win in the first second, third
and fourth districts on Tuesday next. The
democrats all admit that the maJorities in
every case where they will win will be
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Introducing Religious Questions.
The American Protective Association has
been rapidly growing in Baltimore, and
suddenly this week, to the surprise of the
politicians Of both parties. jumped into
the political arena with several manifestoes
intended to influence voters next Tuesday.
Circulars issued by this association have
been scattered broadcast over the city,
warning voters against certain candidates
on the tickets of both the republican and
democratic parties. But most of those
named as obnoxious are men on the demo-
cratic ticket three or four at the greatest
being wel-known republican politicians of
Irish descent, who happen to be Roman
Catholics. MIR. John X. Cowen, who is
Presbyterian; Mr.. Charles G. Kerr who is
| an Episcopalian, and other Protestants are
on the list, while Mr. John F. Doyle, who
is a Roman Catholic and a candidate for
the council is left off. Other A. +. a.
handed out at the doors of Protestant
churches when the congregations are going
out after services. 1t is not believed that
| 1t will have any great effect either way.
and the republican leaders were as prompt
in their reputation of 1t as any one else.
In fact, some Of the most prominent re-
publicans In Maryland. notably Mr.. Charles
j. Bonaparte, are Roman Catholics, and
they deprecate the introduction of religious
questions into politics as much as do the
democrats.
The Associate Judgeship.
The hottest contest in the city is that
over the associate judgeship of the supreme
bench, for which position Mr.. Charles G.
Kerr, at present states attorney, Is the
democratic candidate, and Mr. John J. Do
bier the republican In addition to being
supported by the Baltimore American, the
republican organ, Mr.. Dobler Is receiving
active support in the News, a democratic
evening paper, while Mr.. Kerr has no act
i've newspaper support whatever, the other
daily papers maintaining silence on the
question. AS Mr.. Kerr has been elected
states attorney four times, however, by
large majorities, in 1891 receiving over
10000, 1t is generally conceded that he will
be elected. 1t is also conceded that the
democrats viii elect majority of the city
council, as the regular machine was never
in better working order than 1t is during
the present campaign.
l., A Gentlemnnly Campaign.
One of the most noticeable features Of
the present contest has been the entire abb
sence of diSagreeable personalities from the
beginning up to the present time. The OPP
posing orators and candidates have always
mentioned each other with expressions Of
the greatest personal respect, and the en-
tire campaign has been purely one between
the principles of the two great parties. Not
one dsrespectful word has been spoken, so
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candidates.
In truth, all the nominees are men of the
highest character and standing in the
state, and in most ir stances are warm per-
sonal friends. In the sixth district Mr..
Williams, the democratic nominee was at
one time the Sunday school teacher Of Mr..
Wellington, the republican candidate, and
in the fifth district Mr.. Coffin, the repub-
lican candidate, and Mr.. Rogers. his demo-
cratic opponent, served together in the state
senate, and are personal friends. In the
fourth district Mr.. Cowen, the democratic
competitor, are both Presbyterians and
personal friends, and always speak Of each
other. with respect, and similar statements
might be made Of the other candidates.
The contrast between this and former
campaigns Is so striking in this regard that
| it causes much comment.
Senator Germans refusal to take part in
the campaign is greatly regretted by his
friends here. A variation Of the criticism
that has been poured out on him was af-
forded last night at one Of the largest mass
meetings in the suburbs, when State Sem
ator Thomas c. Hayes devoted a consider
able part of a long speech to a defense of
| the Maryland Senators, and predicted that
no long time would pass before many would
reverse their hasty decision to their
course, and that they would regain all their
old time popularity. Mr.. Hayes state
ments were received with hearty applause.