Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-19
REPUBLICANS GAINING
Situation if Maryland I'm
proving for Williams.
MR.. McC0MAS' VIEWS
GREAT ENTHUSIASM IN WESTERN
MARYLAND.
Democrats Fail to Make Capital Out Of
the Presidents So-Called
"Interference."
Special Correspondence of The Evening star.

BALTIMORE. Md, October IS, 1903.
The fifth week of the gubernatorial cam
paign opens in this state with the chances
in favor of the election of the republican
ticket The conferences held in Washington
between President Roosevelt and the vari-
Gus state LADDERS hav had a salutary effect
in solidifying the party, and today har-
mony exists all along the line.
The democrats have endeavored to make
capital out of what they term the Presi-
dents "unwarranted interference in state
politics., but as an issue 1t has fallen
about as fiat as the negro domination"
cry. At any rate the advantage gained
by the republicans through the restoration
of harmony among the leaders will more
than counterbalance any loss that may
have resulted from the so-called "Presi-
Dental interference"
Probably the most important event of
the past week in Baltimore was the speech
delivered by Representative Wachter last
Wednesday night at Broadway Institute.
He urged his friends to work as hard for
the republican candidates as they had
worked for him in the mayoralty contest
and to vote the whole republican ticket,
from Williams to the bottom man"
This action on the part of Representative
Wachter. who is the recognized anti-organi-
Zation leader in this city, is attributed to
President Roosevelts influence, and his
open declaration will bring to the polls
many thousands of his followers who might
otherwise have ''sulked in their tents"
on election day Just now the indications
are that Baltimore will go republican
AS to the Prohibition Vote.
An important factor on which both the
democratic and republican campaign man
ayers are endeavoring to get line is the
prohibition vote. The prohibitionists failed
to Ia tIniy lictp toto n x1yif} fbf,
secretary of state at Annapolis within the
specified time, and hence will not appear on
the official ballot. The republicans claim
that they will get this vote because the
democrats, being in control of the liquor
license board in Baltimore, can be blamed
for issuing licenses to saloons against which
there We're protests. The greatest gain is
expected by the republicans however, from
a greater simplicity in the ballots to follow
the absence of the names of the prohibition
state candidates. This alone reduces the
number of names to three for each office
republican, democratic and socialist
Sui another advantage and one upon
which the republicans are relying large
ly. is that simpler method of instructing
their illiterates how to mark the ballot is
furnished by the exclusion of the word
prohibition Heretofore the instructors
have experienced great difficulty in i'm
pressing upon this class of voters marked
differences between the words republican"
and prohibition" To the eye Of the il
llteldto lL:It Is no stunning uiileIeICc Dc-
tween the letters RI and "P,' while each
word ended with an n" 1t is calculated
by the republicans that hundreds, If not
thousands, of ballots can be saved which
were heretofore defective, because Of the
ease with which the illiterate voters can
be taught in this campaign to mark their
ballots accurately.
Because of the closeness of the two lead
ing parties in Maryland, as indicated by the
vote, If cast for the candidates of either the
municipal ticket last spring, the prohibition
vote. if cast for the candidates of either the
republican or democratic parties, may eX-
ercise an important bearing.
Two years ago the prohibition candidates
poled $40 votes in the state. of which
1865 were cast in this city. Probably the
strength of the prohibitionists is best
gagged by the vote cast in 1899 for Mr.
Swami. the candidate for governor, who re-
ceived o,215 votes. glance at the prohibit
ton vote in many counties will show that
thai vote. If cast for the candidates of
either party would be the deciding factor.
The vote by the city and by the several
counties four years ago was as follows: