The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-09
MARYLAND'S VOTING.
Smiths Plurality Between H.
900 and 1000.
A COMPLETE DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
The Democrats Will Organize Both House
and Senate-Returns From Western
Maryland Counties.

The Democratic State ticket, head
ed by Col. John Walter Smith, of
Worcester county, was elected Tues
day by plurality in the entire State
which is estimated by some at $4,000
and by others is confidently predicted
to reach $4,000. Four years ago, when
Governor Lowndes was elected, the
Republican plurality in the State
was IS, 767
Over half of Colonel Smiths plural
ity was contributed by Baltimore city
which went Democratic by plurality
that was but 425 less than in the
spring election, and this, too, in the
face of the fact that the total vote
cast was some 1000 or 5000 less than at
the election in May. The size of the
Democratic pluralities in the city and
State was surprise, even to the
Democrats, who, while they had pre-
dicted their own success, never claim
ed more than 5000 plurality in Balti-
more city and 5000 in the State.
In the city the Democrats elected
their entire ticket, including two SEN
ators, 1S members of the House of Del
egates, the States attorney, clerk of
the city court, th, ee judges of the or
phans' court, sheriff and surveyor.
Judge Samuel d. Schmucker, Repub
lican, was elected to the court of APP
peals, for which judgship the Demo
Gratis made no nomination. Judge
Schmucker did not receive more than
1900 Democratic votes, his total vote
of 4S, 997 being contributed almost en-
tirely by Republicans. Mr.. Archi
bald Taylor, who ran as an indepen
dent Democratic candidate received
over $4,000 votes.
AS compared with the vote at the
spring election, the Democrats show
ed gains in all but eight wards. These
latter included the distinctly indie
pendent wards like the Twelfth,
Thirteenth and Fifteenth, Sixteenth
and Eighteenth, all of which showed
more or less heavy Republican gains;
the Tenth and Eleventh, both of them
Democratic strongholds, and the
Fourteenth, in which there is very
large negro vote. Smith carried every
ward that was carried by Mayor elect
Hays with the exception of the Thir-
teenth, which showed a change of the
780 votes and went Republican by "a
plurality. But in return for this Col.
Smith was given 176 plurality in the
Sixth ward, which went Republican
in the spring by 131. Col. Smith,
therefore carried IS out of the "a
wards, just as Mr.. Hayes did.
There was much cutting of the tick
ct, particularly in the uptown wards,
some precints of which were not
heard from owing to the difficulty ex-
perienced in counting the vote, until
a late hour this morning. The Fif-
teenth ward was one of the last to be
completed, and the Thirteenth and
Sixteenth were also slow.
Col. Smith received the largest vote
of any of the candidates, it being oyer
300 greater than that given DR.. Her
ing for Comptroller, and nearly 1900
greater than that received by Mr..
Isidor Rayner, candidate for Attorney
General, who was cut very heavily in
the distinctively Democratic wards.
He exceeded Colonel Smiths vote,
however, in the Fifteenth ward.
The figures for the entire ticket
seem to indicate that where dissatis-
fed Republicans shook off party ties
they voted the straight Democratic
ticket instead of simply cutting Gov
ernor Lowndes, as it was intlmated in
certain quarters they would do. Gov
ernor Lowndes, by the way, received
nearly 1000 votes less than Mayor
Malster did in the spring and Colonel
Smith got over 1000 less than Mr.
Hays did.