The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-11-03
DEMOCRATS THINK
MONTGOMERY SAFE
Oasis Of Party Enthusiasm and Con-
fldenCe in the Sixth District.
GARRETT WILL GO REPUBLICAN
Giving Her Usual rIajority-R
Claims OF Both Parties Indicate A
Plurality For Pearre OF 1000
Garrett His Stronghold.

\ correspondent of the Baltimore
News, writing to that paper from
Rockville, Montgomery county. said
in Tuesdays edition of that paper:
"A Democrat who traverses the
Sixth Congressional district of Mary
land may find at various points indi-
cations of party activity and 'straws'
Of more or less value in stimulating
his hope for victory in Western Mary
land, but he does not come into CON
tact with the real "unterrifed" spirit
Of Democracy until he enters the
good old county of Montgomery,
sab" For the first time in, his jour
neying he meets fellow Democrats
who say they will carry3their county,
and say it without qualification or
reservation. This is the home of
Hon. Walter A. Johnston, the oppo-
nent of Colonel Pearre
If Mr.. Johnston reduces Colonel
Pearre's plurality belowE1j0O he will
sui III lSC IlOt OIllN lile htIluDll-
cans, but the Democratic leaders as
well, notwithstanding the predictions
that he has an excellent chance of
winning. 1t is possible, though not
at all probable, that Mr.. Johnston
may develop more strength in Fred
erick and Washington than he now
shows and he may be aided by cir
cumstances in cutting down the Pear
re vote in Allegany. But among the
rock ribbed mountains of Garrett
there is a Republican majority as
strong and as enduring as the noun
tains themselves. Garrett is the Glib
raltar of Maryland Republicanism,
and the most discouraging feature in
the Democratic situation there is that
increase in the population means,
politically, increase in the Republican
poll. A steady stream of staunch Re
publican voters is pouring into the
county across the Pennsylvania liue
Capital and labor, attracted by the
vast physical resourcesi of Garrett,
are connected by the closest ties
with the economic principles of the
national Republican party. The race
question has no effect there in favor
of the Democrats. On the contrary
it can be raised only to their detrl-
ment through reyiving in the breasts
of the opposition IA sense of the
duty" owed by Republicans to the
brother in black" so of a registra-
ton of 1000 votes the negroes contrib
uted last year only %.
THE Republican majority in Gar
rett in the last Presidential year was
962, Two yearsiago Pearre's majority
was 1877 The Democrats have been
hoping that the candidacy for Vice
President of Hon. Henry g. Davis
would aid their vote in Garrett and
other Western Maryland counties.
but it is hard to discover any extern
al evidence of such a tendency. A
Davis-Parker instead of a Parker
DAYS. ticket might have appealed
more strongly to Republicans in Gar
rett. AS matters appear to stand,
this county is safe" for Roosevelt
and Pearre by 1000 votes-a few more
or few less. The most sapguine
Sixth district Democrats do not care
to assert that MONTGOMERY Twill bal
ance Garrett, although it is tolerably
certain that the former will give
Parker and Johnston 200 popularity,
with likelihood of an increase over
that figure in case of aggressive Dem
ocratic effort until election day. The
Republicans, knowing that they
can get votes in Garrett easier than
elsewhere, having there no factional
differences to heal nor toe-tr eading to
avoid have been making the hottest
kim of campaign in the coun tv, and
confidently expect to poll their full
strength"
ON GUARD. REPUBLICANS!