Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-26
OUTLOOK IN MARYLAND
Republican Chances Seem to
Be Improving.
REGISTRATION FRAUDS
DISCOVERED IN SOME DEMO
CRATIC STRoNGHoLDs.
Attack on Mr.. Warfield's Record Puts
Candidate for Governor on
the Defensive.

| lists, gave out statement reinforced by in
disputable evidence, showing that the poll
books mad been padded in the interest of the
democrats.
The fourth ward, notorious for fragrant
registration frauds in the past, was the
bailiwick selected for investigation by Mr.
Roger w. Gull, chairman of the Reform
League executive committee. In three pre-
cincts of this ward-the fourteenth, six
tenth and seventeenth-it was found that
500 persons had registered. This number
being far above the normal figures the
league adopted novel means to bring the
fraud to light. The league agents found 259
names on the book which they had reason
to believe were illegally placed there. Ac-
cord1ngly that number of registered letters
were sent to the voters at the addresses
they had given the registrars. OF the 259
registered letters sent out 219 were returned
by the post office authorities with the infor-
nation that the persons to whom the letters
We're addressed could not be located A
careful search through the city directory
ana the police census returns also failed to
reveal the names of the 219 persons regis
tered
Chairman CULTS Report.
Chairman Gull, in his report to the league,
said:
ut is important to point out more par
the fourteenth precinct This precinct
with a portion of the sixteenth ward, is the
habitat of the Marsh Market space bum
"On the last registration days the space
was the scene Of mingled police and bum
activity. The buns assembled in blocks
of five, or ten or fifteen, waited near the
registration offices until their turn came to
be ushered in by the kind officers of the
police. and twenty buns. rapid was the
business at one time, We're registered in
eight minutes.
1T was discovered that some of the
names the final list were of persons
whom the republican registrars in one of
the precincts had requested their demo-
cratic colleagues to summon as suspects
on revision day, the democratic registrars
however, declining to summon. The repub-
hcan registrars then summoned on their
own authority, but their summonses were
diSregarded and the suspects remain upon
the registry.
Another sensational feature was a bitter
attack upon the legislative record of Mr.
Warfleld, the democratic candidate for gov
ernor The article, which was printed as
paid matter on the first page Of every daily
newspaper in the city, charged Mr. War
field with being 1.-The supporter in the state
senate of 1886 of the three leading meas
ures OF the German ring" which Mr.. Sew
ern Teackle Wallis. the noted jurist, de-
.nounced as "the plot for the political SUBJ
jugation of Maryland"
Yesterday another bitter assault on Mr.
appeared III the daily press. L
was headed in flaring letters More Light
on Mr.. Wartield's Record" and charged
that the now democratic candidate for gov
ernor was in 1888 the chief of the lobby
engaged in forcing through scheme for
personal gain which the Sun exposed as a
job in the worst sense of the word and
"a fragrant attempt at robbery of the pub
lic.'''
Another Charge Against Mr.. Warfield.
= The article continues: During the legs-
lative session Of 1888 after Mr.. Edwin War
field had left the senate, he caused to be
introduced into the house of delegates bill
known as the legal journal bill, which was
intended to compel the publication in a
legal journal in Baltimore city of all notices
which are required by the courts to be pub
lshed in connection with the settlement of
estates and the conduct of law suits, both
in Baltimore city and the counties. This bill
was intended for the benefit of the Daily
Record, legal newspaper, of which Mr..
Warfield was the promoter and chief owner.
This measure passed the house without at
tracing much notice, but when it reached
the senate public attention all over the
state awakened to it's monopolistic and
other evil features
All this has had the effect of placing the
democratic ticket on the defensive. and
padded registration lists and the lobby
record of democratic candidates have be-
come the paramount issues just the clos
ing week of the campaign is about to dawn.
AnOtner important FACTOR IN the campaign
and one calculated to bring many votes to
the republican ticket from Williams to the
bottom man. Is the distribution throughout
the city and state of an eight-page circular
urging all union labor men to vote the re-
publican ticket.
The circular is headed Senator McComas'
record as given by the executive committee
Of the American Federation of Labor and
says:
THE way for every labor man to help
re-elect Senator McComas Is to vote for the
republican candidates for the legislature,
who will vote to re-elect McComas, the
champion of the eight-hour bill, to the
United States Senate
Extracts From the Report.
Then follows extracts from the favora BILE
report to the Senate Of the measure, writ
ten and presented by Senator McComas
Under the caption Labor Leaders Want
McComas Reelected" the circular says:
Tho foremost leaders of the cause of Ia
Dor realize the vital necessity of re-electing
Senator McComas. whose record on labor
questions in both houses of Congress they
fully approve and whose championship Of
the eight-hour day makes his reelection to
the Senate the sure forerunner of victory
for an eight-hour work day.
The circular then gives the following in
tervtew from President Samuel GOmpers Of
the American Federation of Labor: --.
THE attitude of Senator McComas in the
House of Representatives. as well as in
the senate. on ldDOr questions mas always
been generous and fair. In the House he
was a strong advocate of the present eight
hour bill. and made speeches in advocacy
Of Its passage. In the Senate as chairman
of the committee on education and labor
he has investigated. and has had better
opportunity to investigate the merits of the
eight-hour bill. which the American Fedora
ton OF Labor had prepared and introduced
in both House and Senate. than any other
man.
II should not wonder II Parry and other
enemies of organized labor were bitterly
opposed to the return of Senator McComas
to the Senate. The employer who is an
tagonistic to organized labor and the en-
ployer who knows nothing about the SUBJ
ject, may, perhaps. be aroused to have all
the prejudices against labor. and against
any man in public or private life who may
be doing all he can to be helpful in trying
to bring about more rightful relations be-
tween workmen and their employers, and
to the Improvement Of the condition Of the
working people Senator MeComas is one
of these men. and I would not, therefore,
be surprised to find Mr.. Parry antagonis-
tic to him."
Extracts From Duncan's Speech.
Then follows an extract from speech
delivered by First Vice President James
Duncan Of the American Federation IF
YAber on Labor day in this city. Mr.. Dun