Evening star., 1900-10-27
Baltimore's Vote Will Probably Garry
the State for Mckinley.
BRYAN MAY GAIN IN TEE COUNTRY
Complete and Harmonious Organi-
zation Of the Republicans,
FIGHT FOR CONGRESSMEN
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

BALTIMORE. Md, October 26. 1900.
Early in the campaign it was conceded
by both political parties that Maryland
was a doubtful state. Up to the 1st of
October the state was confidently claimed
by the democrats and the republican lead
were inclined to put it in the Bryan
column without very much question. Dur
ing the past four weeks there has been a
steadily rising tide of republican confidence,
which has now reached such point that
the republicans have an apparent monopoly
of the confidence and the democrats are on
the defensive
The reason for this increase of republi-
can confidence is found in the relations of
the vote of the city of Baltimore to that of
the state at large. The vote of Maryland
outside of Baltimore will be close with a
small plurality for one or the other of the
two great parties This puts the fate of
the electoral ticket in the hands of the
city voters and as the city goes so will go
the state.
The total vote of the state of Maryland
in 1896 was 250.S42. Baltimore casting 102,-
S02, nearly one-haf of the whole. In
1896 the state as whole gave the repub-
lican electors a plurality of 32,224. The
Mckinley plurality in Baltimore was 2l,o9S
and outside of the city, II, l26
Democratic Gains in the Country.
lnere Is reason TO DelleNe lndI tHe TuIdl
districts will show larger democratic vote
this year than four years ago, owing to
the return of some of the gold democrats
to their party and to the slight increase
in the Bryan vote which is to be found
this year among the wage earners.
The democrats base nearly all Of their
claims for this year upon the fact of a
democratic candidate for governor receiv-
ing plurality of 12,114 in 1889. The asser-
ton that Maryland has always been
democratic state in presidential years ex-
cept in 1896 is impressive as indicating the
natural tendencies but when the demo-
cratic party adopted a platform which was
obnoxious to all the great commercial in
terests in Maryland previous political af1ili-
ations became of very little value in eSt-
mating the outcome of vote for ma
tional candidate.
The commercial interests of Baltimore
are as solidly opposed to Mr.. Bryan and
his theories this year as they were four
years ago and during the past two or
three weeks nearly all of the industrial
forces of the city have been engaged in an
active campaign against the democratic
party. The gold democrats are organized
under the banner of an honest money
league, and are furnishing money, speak
ers and personal effort to advance the re-
publican cause. The democrats admit this
condition, but base their hopes upon
change in the Industrial and labor vote.
The city of Baltimore will give plurality
for the republican electoral ticket, and
from present indications this plurality will
be sufficiently large to overcome any plu-
rality the democratic ticket may secure out
side of the city. Large employers of labor
have made indirect investigation to the
political status of their employees. They say
they cannot find any evidence of such a
Bryan wave is claimed by the democratic
workers. One man employing several hum
dred men in the city said
our firm has not brought any direct in
f1uence to bear upon its employees this year.
We never talk politics to our men. We
have, however taken the pains to find out
about how they stand, and have done this
in a way which gives most reliable re-
turns. We find here and there man who
voted for Mckinley in 1896 who will vote
for Bryan this year, but such men are very
hard to find. Nearly all of them salts
fed with present conditions, and even those
who not fully satisfied fear that the
election of Bryan would do them no good.
1t stands to reason that the men in our en-
| plOy no different from those in the en-
| ploy Of other firms in this city, and in fact,
other employers inform us that they have
| had similar experience in their investiga-
| ton of the political leaningS of the men
| upon their pay rolls
| Complete Republican Organization.
The republican organization in the state
| as well as in the city, is harmonious and
| most complete. The democratic organlZa-
| ton is hindered by dissensons among the
! local politicians in the city and by the gen.
| eral impression which prevails throughout
! the state that many workers in the parry
| are not strongly interested in the effort to
| carry the state for Mr.. Bryan
Senator Wellington's speeches against
| the republican administration are not espe-
! cally well received. He Is not training
| with the regular democratic organization,
| and seems to be man without party or a
| following.
| Votes of Gold Democrats.
| There We're twenty-five hundred Palmer
| ard Buckner votes in Maryland in 1896 and
| nearly all Of these will be cast for the re-
| publican ticket this year. The support of
| Mr. Bryan by the Baltimore Sun has prob
| ably been an excellent and even a necessary