Evening star., 1901-10-05

representative Mudd Thinks the Re-
Publicana VIII Win.


| representative Sydney E. Mudd Of
MARYLAND, who was In the city today. has
nigh hopes of the republicans carrying the
state this fall To a Star reporter he said:
see no reason why we should not
Iairiy look forward to republican victory in
Maryland this fall. 1t is quite true that
neither party can claim a walkover or any
ehins approaching a certainty OF success
IL Is campaign involving an unusual
amount OF work, particularly upon the
part of the republicans, and the result will
unquestionably be close. 1t is a campaign
IN which 1t is utterly impossible TO predict
anything upon results of elections In the
| last few years. because we have q new
erection law unlike anything We have ever
mad before, in that there is an educational
Qualification for voting. The educational
quaiincation is not very difficult one,
however, owing to the fact that the name
OF the party of each candidate is affixed to
ms name on the ballot to be voted. BY
dligent. hard work and intelligent and
skiiltul organization for the purpose of
erecting this work a very large percentage
election
1T is frank to say that the republican
party OF Maryland has a majority Of Hit
crates In its ranks; majority. / believe.
as ascertained by statistics, to be about
fO1 or $500. This is due, of course, to
the existence among us of a very appre-
ciable number of coiored persons, the ratio
OF whose numbers to whites, however. is
found by the census returns for the last
lew decades to be constantly on the de-
cline These persons, In the main, vote
the republican ticket, but by no means en-
tlrely So 1t can be demonstrated, for IN
stance, In proof Of this fact, that suffi-
Smith at the state election in 1899 to ac-
count for his election over Governor
Lowndes. This, l repeat, is capable of
such proof as to amount to mathematical
'One advantage in our favor, however
which will, to a considerable extent be an
offset to the majority of illiterates on our
side lies in the fact that the republican IL
literates, that Is to say where they are
colored persons, submit to instruction much
more willingly and earnestly than those on
the other side. A white man who for gen.
eratons has had the opportunity of pri-
mary education, whether he awaited himself
Of 1t or not, is slow to admit his ignorance,
and 1t has been found by the brief expe-
rience we have had under this law Is fire.
quently unwilling to submit to instruction
at the hands of his party workers. against
whom he naturally also feels quite a re-
sentiment in that they, after many years of
his faithful and unQuestioning service to
his party, have undertaken to disfranchise
him.
There is no feeling Of this kind against
the republican party, that party having
StreHuOuSly resisted the passage OF this dlS-
franchising law, and because of that fact
being more than ever credited with sim
certify in its professions of friendship and
championship of the theory of universal
manhood suffrage. The Independent senti-
ment of the state is unQuestionably with
us. This exists most largely in Baltimore
city, and our people generally are conf
dent of carrying the city.
I'm so far as previous elections held un-
der this law will be taken as an indication
at all, that Indication points decidedly in
our favor, inasmuch as We carried Balt
more city at the spring elections by a de-
cisive majority, though on light vote. for
the republican ticket. We carried the city
of Annapolis for the republican ticket for
the first time in eighteen years, and held
our own in Frederick, so that l think on
the whole we cannot be credited with rain
bow chasing If, with the active, energetic
and capable work that is being done and
the unquestioned preponderance of public
sentiment in our favor, We predict the sue
cess of our state ticket as well as the ma
jority of our legislative ticket at the COM
ing election.
There is no doubt that we have a ma
jority of the people of the state In favor
of our success. If We can get the votes
cast and counted, notwithstanding the
harsh and unusual provisions of the extra
session election law, I think we shall,
Maryland will remain, as it is now. upon
the basis of the most recent election, q
republican state