Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-06
CHANCES IN MONTGOMERY.
Forecast of the Result of Battle of
the ballots.
cial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, November 6, 1895.
In addition to the state nominees to be
voted for in this county at tomorrow's
election, there will be elected three mem
bers of the house of delegates, a states at
torney, a sheriff, three judges of the
orphans court, two county commissioners
and county surveyor. There are three
county tickets in the field-republican,
democratic and prohibition. The republi-
cans have candidates for every office except
that OF county surveyor; the democrats
have a full ticket, and the prohibitionists
have nominated candidates for sheriff
judges of the orphans court and county
surveyor.
The personnel of the several tickets is as
follows:
Republican-For the house of delegates,
Columbus w: Day, Alban G. Thomas and
Henry L. Black; for states attorney
George Minor Anderson; for sheriff, Uriah
H. w. Griffith; for judges of the orphans
court, William r. Fulks, Henry c. CLANCY
and William T. Lynch; for county commits
sicners, Aaron B. Hersberger and William
Eggleston Ward.
Democratic-For the house of delegates,
Oliver H. P. Clark, James Z. Deets and Jo-
siah J. Hutton; for states attorney, Henry
Maurice Talbot; for sheriff, Arthur Will
liams; for judges of the orphans court.
Samuel D. Waters, Charles R. Murphy and
George w. Meem: for county commission
Carroll; for county surveyor, Charles ].
Maddox, jr.
Prohibition-For sheriff. John P Ray: for
judges of the orphans court Robert T.
Mullinix, Milton Boyer and Louis H Du-
vail: for county surveyor, Album H Wat
kins
The prohibitionists and Anti-Saloon
League have Endorsed the following candt-
dates: For the house of delegates, James E.
Deets, Columbus w. Day and Alban g.
Thomas; for states attorney, Henry Mau-
rH,1I
Laurence A. White and William Eggleston
Ward.
1t looks very much as If it will be very
close tomorrow between the state candi-
dates. The democratic leaders are claiming
400 plurality for Smith. They give no rea-
sons for this claim, and it appears to be
based upon the hope that the independents
who voted for LowndeS four years ago,
when the county gave only eight demo-
cratic plurality, will vote the democratic
ticket this time Those who are managing
the republican campaign say if the demo-
Gratis carry the county at all 1t will be by
a small margin-probably by not more than
100 votes. In support Of this contention
they state that the republican party was
never in such good shape in the present
contest; that the democratic majority in
the county. which has been gradually grow
ing smaller for several years past, is now
not mere than go, and that a sufficient
number of Independents will vote the re-
publican state ticket to make the result
close and uncertain. All things considered,
the chances seem to favor small plurality
for Smith.
The contest for the county offices is COM
plicated. and at no time during the cam
paign has it been more than on the eve
of the election. One thing is certain-that
there will be an unprecedented amount of
scratching done, and both sides are sure to
suffer. Most of this scratching will be
done by the saloon and anti-saloon people,
and the inability to form any definite idea
as to the relative strength of these in
fluences renders the result exceedingly I'M
certain. Personal feeling will also enter