New-York tribune., 1900-09-29
CONFIDENT OF MARYLAND
REPuBLICAN MANAGERS BELIEVE 1T
WILL. GO FOR MKINLEY.

Baltimore Sept 2s (SpeciaD.-While the Repub-
lican managers do not expect large plurality
for Mckinley in Maryland he received in 1895.
they are confident that he will again carry the
State Notwithstanding the fact that the Demo-
cratic State ticket elected last fall by plu-
raIity Of 1923. Leaders of the Honest Money
Democratic League believe that at least four thou
sand Democrats who last year voted for Colonel
John Walter Smith. their partys candidate for
Governor will this year vote for Mckinley. Hun
dreds of these are Hebrews Including many of the
leading merchants i'm the wholesale and retail trade
They were Democrats until Bryanism and free sill
became the National issue. AS prominent
Hebrew merchant said the other day when de-
cllning contribute to the Democratic campaign
fund he was for Mckinley for business reasons
and he could not how any business man could
be for Bryan. Many other Democratic merchants
who always contributed to their party's campaign
funds. except in 1896, again helping the Repub-
lican committee in the interest of Mckinley.
Senator MCComas, who. with Chairman Colds
borough of the State Committee is directing the
campaign. is said by his friends to be the only
Republican politician I'm Maryland who is match
for ex-senator German. For years he has made
politics study. He never misses opportunity
to point I'm the great game. The members
of the committee and the party workers have be-
come imbued with his tireless energy and minute
attention to details and the good result is shown
in the new registration lists. There are few, II
any, Republicans. white colored in this city who
have not been registered. The quiet but
methods of getting out the vote being pursued
in the country districts.
While Maryland has been classed as one OF the
doubtful States for five years the registration and
election figures show that the Republicans have
fairly good grounds for the contention that the
State is Republican when the party united. In
1895 the Republicans. under and honest cleo
ton law. swept the State for the first time in
thirty years. A year later Mckinley carried the
State by plurality of 1928 Palmer and Buckner
the Gold Democratic ticket receiving 900 votes
Last year the Republicans were divided. The Bit
ter fight between Senator Wellington and Governor
Lowndes and the factionaI differences in Baltimore
kept hundreds, yes, thousands. of conservative Re-
publicans from the polls Wellington was a dis
turbing factor that cost the Republicans many
votes
The Democratic managers admitted after the
election that they had won great victory, SO
far as maiorities went Examination and compari-
of the registration figures and the vote cast
revealed some startling facts.
The registration in the State was as follows:
Cl'y
Vote for Governor I'm 1899:
For Iowndes Republcan). in counties 99 9s9Ss
For Iowndes in the city 7131
For smith, in the 3aS39
Total .1O2 40
............,... 1890
Stay at home vote in the CITY .............'. 1o721
Total stay state....,........ SO211
In other words there were 30 211 voters in Mary
land who did not vote at the State election. 1t
was conceded that, in view of the superior organ
zation of the Democrats. the acknowledged apathy
of the Republicans and their dssensions. as offset
by the harmony and enthusiasm Of the Democrats,
least two-thirds If not more, of this enormous
stay home vote Republican.
The stay at home vote last year came within two
thousand Of the great Republican plurality given
Mckinley in 1895
Tho Republican managers laugh at the conten-
ton that Senator Wellingtons detection will lose
Mckinley three thousand to four thousand votes in
Maryland The reports circulated by Democrats that
the Duke" would carry with him into the Demo-
cratic cams mansTrGerman Republicans have not
been proved
Only few Germans in Cumberland the home Of
Wellington, who heretofore voted the Republican
ticket, have sthBss5ar declared for Bryan. There
are some Republicans in this city who oppose the
Administrations Philippine policy but who. never
theIess. say they will vote for Mckinley for busi-
ness reasons.
To determine the extent of the detection II there
is any careful inquiry has been made by the Re-
pubiicans and the fact has been ascertained that
Germans. a rule. in this State will stand by
their respective parties
More than 20 per cent Of the merchants of Balt-
more wholesale we'll retail, will vote the
Republican ticket regardless of their political
afiliations, This information comes from an infiu-
you viii ind he said that as rule profess
sional men, who at best only theorists, antago,
business men generally, strongly favor the annexa-
ton OF territory, believing that It will furnish them
with an additional outlet and stimulate business.
They are also afraid that Bryans election will dis
turb trade Fo lr years ago, when they announced
that they would for Mckinley. they were
bounded from pillar to post by politicians. who
cd O induce them to stand for Bryan. This time
tha majority say little nothing for publication,
but on Election Day they will quietly vote for
Mckinley" ,..,
That the business men here and throughout the
South are in favor of McI[ineys election is shown
b(5 the answers received and published in The
Manufacturers Record" OF Baltimore in reply to
lett of Presidential
naIgr With a few exceptions every firm declared
against Bryan and hoped for the election of the