Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-31
MARYLAND CAMPAIGN
LEADERS OF BOTH PARTIES ARE
CONFIDENT.
Has Been Conducted on Strictly Legiti.
mate Lines-Contests in Various
Congressional Districts.

Congressional Districts. 80
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
BALTIMORE, October 31.-The opening
OF the last week in the most desperately
fought national campaign In the history of
Maryland finds the leaders of both parties
in q confident frame of mind. Despite the
fact there will be no let-up in the strenu-
Gus work that mas marked the past fort
night and there will be final dash by both
parties, which for rapidity. vigor and bold
ness promises TO eclipse all former attempts
III that line.
In every ward III this CITY, in every cleo
| ton precinct in every county of the state in
which a meeting has not been held there
will be oratory and brass band music. The
managers of both parties are pressing into
service every available speaker, and the
congressional candidates are hustling night
and day. Thus far 1t has been a campaign
in which money has not played a conspicu-
Gus part, and, further, money will not be
spent by either party as lavishly as in past
presidential and state contests.
Along Legitimate Lines.
The campaign has been waged along legiti-
mate lines and no hint of corruption has
been heard. The republicans have used the
| record of their party during the past eight
] years as their campaign shibboleth, justi-
tying every act or President Roosevelt and
pointing with pride to what has been &C
complished under republican administra-
tior of the country's affairs. The people
have been told by the spellbinders that the
republican party stands pat' on its rec
ord and that no apologies are to be made,
because of the fact that no apologies are
needed for anything that has TRANSFERRED
| during the past four years.
| The democratic campaigners have played
| upon a harp of two strings-race prejudice
and imperialism. The negro question has
| been paramount on the hustings and every
known method has been brought into play
| to inflame the public mind and exaggerate
| the so-called dangers of negro domination.
The democratic campaign has been d.
| rected solely by Senator German. Not
| move in the national contest in this state
| has been made without his sanction. The
senator has found the race issue potential
| III carrying the party to victory in two re-
| cent campaigns, and his belief that the
| regro- cry will land Maryland in the demo-
cratic column next week remains UNI
| shaken. His views regarding the conduct
| of the campaign have been Endorsed by
every leader in the state, and his orders
have been followed out implicitly and to the
letter.
The Congressional Campaign.
The congressional campaign has been
WaReO WITH the same ueSTee VI oli ShuOSAly
as that of the presidential campaign. The
candidates have spent the daylight hours
| In making personal canvass and at night on
the hastings Contest every inch of
| ground" has been the motto on both sides
Senator McComas during the past week
| did some effective work on the eastern
shore and reports from every county show
| that the republicans are making SubStan-
tial gains. Representative William H.
| Jackson is making splendid canvass all
| over the first district and the managers
| claim that he will win out by a handsome
| majority On the other hand, his opponent,
Mr.. Thomas A. Smith of Caroline county,
is making an aggressive fight and has the
support of former Gov. John Walter Smith.
which means much to democratic candi-
| date on the eastern shore.
In the second district the republican can
| didate Mr.. Robert Garrett, is making
|, great uphill fight against many odds and is
+ giving his opponent, Representative Tai
|: bolt, the fight of his life. The Talbot
| managers, however, will not admit this,
| and assert that the second district will go
democratic by the greatest majority In its
| history.
The third district is furnishing the pic
| turesque campaign. Within its confines are
| to be found people from all over the world,
and ~linguists here find fertile field in
| which to eXhort the denizens in foreign
| tongue. The campaign literature distribut-
ed simply runs the gamut 1t is in this dis
! trict that Representative Wachter and Mr..
Lee S. Meyer, democrat, are battling for
| supremacy. Both candidates are Supremacy
| confident of winning. They have canvassed
| the district never before in congress
sional contest, and wthal there has not
been scintilla of personal acrimony.
Only One Disagreeable Feature.
| Only one disagreeabIe feature has married
| the campaign, and that occurred at the
| Bijou Theater last week During the prog
| ress of a republican meeting some dem
ocratic workers among the audience scat
| tered the contents of bottle of bi-sulphide
| of carbon over the floor of the hall, filling
| the atmosphere with a nauseating odor. In
| the excitement that followed a panic was
| barely averted. This trick proved a boom
| erang, inasmuch as certain democrats Wig
| orously denounced the affair, and repub-
| ncanS claim that 1t has made many voters
| for Mr.. Wachter among the independents
| who do not believe that ''all is fair in love
| and war''-and politics.
| Great dignity has marked the canvass
of Mr.. John Gill; democratic c, ndidate lin
| the fourth district. He has confined his
campaigning to club house meetings. and
| has not appeared on open-air stump.
| His opponent, Mr.. w. c. Smith, on the
| contrary has been working day and night,
| making two or three speeches each evening
| in different parts of the district, besides
| conducting a house-to-house canvass
| Representative Sydney E. Mudd is put
| ting up a strenuous fight in the fifth dis
| trict. and is vigorously denouncng what he
| terms democratic tricks to defeat him by
| placing many Mudds the ballot. DIR.
| Richard S. Hill, his opponent, is likewise
\ making a vigorous campaign, and his
| friends claim that he will carry the dis
| trict.
! In the sixth district even the most san
! guine democrat is not chasing rainbows,
| and the district is conceded to Representa-
tive Pearre.
! Both parties will close the oratoricaI part
| of the campaign next Saturday night. The
| republicans will hold a great demonstra-
| ton at the Union League. at which Mr.
| Charles Emory Smith, former Postmaster
| General. will be the orator of the evening
| The democrats will hold a mass meeting
| at the Lyric and Governor Aycock will be
| the principal speaker
POLICE INSPECTION.