New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-31
MARYLAND WILL GO REPUBLICAN,.
FOUR OFT OF THE SIX DISTRICTS SAFE
THE PARTY MAY SWEEP THE STATE

FOUR OUT OF THE SIX DlSIkltio SNr T.
THE PARTY MAY SWEEP THE STATE
Baltimore Md. oct 80 (SpecaD-Four out OF
the six districts in Maryland will certainly 20
Republican In the Congress elections. Chair-
man Wellington of the Republican state COM
mittee does not give up single district. WINE
admitting that there is some doubt about the
LIST District as that has always been the Demo-
cratic stronghold. he says that the free-silver
disaffecti6n will, with the natural growth ot
Republican sentiment in that section. insure the
election OF Colonel Wilbur F. Jackson Repuoh-
can Chairman Wellington and in fact all the
Republican managers count on Marylands dele
CATION continuing soidly Republican.
Chairman Vandiver OF the Democratic state
Committee is positive that tho LIST DISTRICT VIII
come back into the Democratic fold and elect
Colonel John Walter Smith. a banker and gold
Democrat He also thinks the chances are
about even i'm three other districts CHASING as
doubtful--the Id. lid and IVth-the latter two
being included in this city. Chairman Vandiver
attaches no importance to the free-silver fight
led b.. Major Willis the candidate OF the white
metallists in the Ist District The tactlonal feel
ing and the negro dissensions In the Baltimore
CITY districts are counted upon by Chairman
Vandiver as likely 10 cut down the Republican
vote.
4 canvass Just completed Of the four districts
outside OF Baltimore City, two 81 which include
wards OF the city. show that the Democrats can
not figure definitely on more than one district.
the LIST. These figures give Colonel Smith, Dem
ocrat plurality of not less than 600 after
making a fair allowance for the Free Silverites
In the Id District the four Baltimore City
wards will furnish a Republican majority Of
about thousand. The combined Democratic
majorities in Cecil Carroll and Hartford coun-
ties put down at from five hundred TO six
hundred. Baltimore County is uncertain. The
Democrats say that its vote will insure their
success. The Republicans confident their
majority In the city wards will more than
counterbalance the Democratic vote in the coun-
ties.
In the With District there is trouble in the Re-
publican ranks, while the Democrats are apa-
thetiC 1t must he said. however, for the former
that they are working to smooth out their diff
culties. while the Democrats are doing pracu-
caly nothing The return OF Congressman
Mudd. Republican, by plurality OF about lVoo
seems assured.
In the WITH District it is a walkover for
Colonel Pearre, Republican. whose majority may
exceed 1000
The address Of the National Democratic par
tvs Executive Committee and the statements
Of John X Cowen and other leading indie
pendent Democrats Of Baltimore city, urging
all Democrats to vote for the Republican can
didates. Notwithstanding the pretensons OF the
Democratic candidates TO sound money princi-
pies are having effect. At least two thousand
Democrats In this city who voted for Mckinley
and the Republican candidates for Congress
In 1896 will again support the latter solely on
account of the money question. The questions
Of territorial expansion or treatment or the
soldiers have cut no figure in the Maryland
campaign.