New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-17
THE PASSING THRONG.

Ex-Governor Frank Brown Of Maryland when
seen at the Waldorf-Astoris yesterday dis
inclined 70 talk u Maryland poll
HEAVY tics or to make prediction as
REGiSTRA- to how that State would cast Its
IION IN vote in the coming election. II
BALTIMORE. have only recently returned from
Europe" said Ex-Governor Brown.
and while I was at home was out OF my house
and office only once. talked politics with no one
and am wholly unfamiliar with the present pOliti-
cHI OUTLOOK IN Maryland. and am in consequence,
hot competent to venture \ prediction as to how
toral vote. The registration i'm Baltimore this year
mas 3een unprecedentedly large. Il is customary
voters IN given place by calculating one voter
TO every five Inhabitants. But the present regstra-
ton in Baltimore taken this one to five basis.
the oitys police census as well II has gone beyond
parties. This registration Is voluntary registra
ton BY that l mean that 1t is not due 70 the
initiative to the people themselves Consequently
both parties are at sea as TO what II portends II
may foreshadow Republican success or II may
mean great Democratic victory in November
As neither side is responsible for getting this vote
out neither side knows what to make or Il Inere
Is powerful lot OF guessing in Baltimore Just
have heard that the registration Is heavy all
over Maryland this year but :, 90 mot *, know ~
the high tide registration OF Baltimore"
General Edward C o'Brien, president Of the
Cuban and Pan-American Express Company. was
president OF the Dock Board IN
PREDICTS der the Administration OF Mayor
BIG Strong and is a lifelong RepuhI-
REPUBLICAN can. General O'Brien has kept up
VICTORY. his interest in and touch with
politics. and yesterday at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel he talked OF the possibilities
of the coming election as follows;
Il believe that Mckinley and Roosevelt will not
only carry the State Of New-York by an over
whelming vote, but that they viii come very close
carrying if they do not actually carry, the en-
larged city / think the vote in this city Will De
surprise that will delight the Republicans and DIS
hearten the Democrats. l know OF quantities OF
Democrats who going to vote sup rosa LOT
Mckinley Openly they give their allegiance 70
Democracy. but when IL comes 10 cast-Is me.
votes their will 90 under the eagle ana n3S
Under the star A number of tradesmen nave tOiu
me they intended do this and told me tnat any
number of their acquaintance were going 70 90
likewise. They do not say openly that Jhey VII
the Republican ticket. but they intend casting
their votes for the full dinner pail Just the same
From personal observation and what nave near q
from well informed the country over. lOoh
for Mckinley and Roosevelt 70 carry Maine. Ne"
Hampshire Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Isl
and. Connecticut New-York. New-Jersey. Deia-
ware. Maryland West Virginia. Pennsylva ANA
Ohio Illinois. Minnesota. Wisconsin. michigan
Iowa North and South Dakota, Kansas Washing
ton, Oregon and California or total or AS votes
in the electoral college, thirty-nine more man as
but that the election there will be closer than III
the other Northwestern States. There are otnel
States in addition to those l have mentioned where
the Republican prospects are anything put DIS
couraging, but those that have named reel GER
tain will carry"