The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-05
MARYLAND'S TALE MoURNFUL.
LEGISLATURE ALMOST SURE TO Bn
REPUBLICAN.

Arthur GOrmnn's Days in the United
states senate Seem to BE Numbers
ed-AIexander shaw, ex-Congress-
man John FindIRy, POstmaAter
General Gary and Congressman
Sidney E. Mudd Announced as Ass
pirRnts For the SenatOrship-The
Democratic State Chairman Re-
fuses to Admit Defeat Yet.
Baltimore. Md, Nov. Am official count
of the ballot cast on Tuesday made to-
day leaves no further room for doubt that
the republicans have control of both
branches of the legislature, and that q
republican win succeed Arthur p. Gors
man in the United States Senate. Five
members Of the assembly and one senator
We're taken from the democratic list %
probabilities and added to that of the re-
publcans. Three of the members and tha
senator are from Talbot county, and one
member each from Prince Georges ana
Carroll. This gives the republicans forty-
nine members in the House and leaves the
democrats but forty-two.
1t also gives the republicans eighteen
senator's to eight for the democrats, and
majority on joint ballot of seventeen.
The result in Talbot county arose from
the fact that eighteen votes in Tighmau
precinct were found to have been counted
twice for the democratic ticket. This be-
ing corrected, gives the republican legls-
lative candidates majorties ranging from
sixteen to nineteen vo9es. In Prince
Georges similar correction elected Un-
derwood, rep, by four votes, while in
Carroll the recount showed that Stans-
bury, rep defeated Grouse, dem, by twen-
ty-three votes.
The doubtful votes in Montgomery and
Washington counties also went into the
republican column by small majoritles
The democratic state headquarters were
closed up to-day and all the members OF
the state committee have gone to their re-
spective homes Before leaving, however,
Chairman Murray Vandlver gave out the
following statement:
AS far as the joint convention of tho
general assembly Is concerned the matter
Is not entirely settled, and will not be un-
I'll the official reurns are made up
"In regard to the House of Delegates
am still Of the opinion that the democrats
will have "a majority In that body and will
organize II. The election in several of the
counties Is so close that it is impossible
to tell at present which side has won,
and / believe a recount win be demanded
In Montgomery county by the democrats
who claim that they have elected at least
one, and possibly two, members OF the
House, while the republicans claim that
they have elected all three A recount
may also be demanded In Talbot and in
Carroll counties to determine the result
with certainty. At any rate we have not
given up our expectation of controlling
the House, whether we have majority
on joint ballot or not.
1.-THE democratic candidates who have
been defeated in the close counties, have
been. In many instances, noted as anti
German men, while in the same counties
the German men have been elected. In
one or two instances which could specify
these men we're cut simply because they
were not believed to be German men. This
shows that the anti-Gorman outcry did
not hurt the democrats in the counties,
for there the senator has always had his
stronghold. To large extent am more
convinced than ever by the result of this
election that the anti-Gorman sentiment
is almost entirely confined to the city OF
Baltimore and that the democrats of the
counties are measureably free from IT, In
my opinion, even IL 1t should turn out that
the senator is defeated he Is stronger to-
day In the country districts of the state
than he ever was"
Among those most prominently mentions
ed as the probable successor to Senator
German are Alexander Shaw, former Con-
gressman John V. l.. Findlay, Postmaster
General Gary and Congressman Sidney =.
Mudd.
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