Evening star., 1907-10-30
ARE WAGING VIGOROUS FIGHT
BOTH PARTIES CONFIDENT IN
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD.
Politicians Arouse Voters and Dis
pei Apathy-Close Vote Pre-
dicted on Local Ticket.

/ NothN LILLE, Nd. oCl0per l.sjI.
The closing days of the campaign in
Montgomery county find the democrats
! confident and the republicans hopeful OF
success on November 5 Both sides are
conducting vigorous fight. and there
! are indications that the apathy which
has been SO marked among the rank and
| file of both parties is beginning to be dis
! PEELED and that interest will increase as
election day approaches.
| 1t is conceded that Montgomery county
is no longer the Gibraltar of democracy
it once was, but there is no gainsaying
the fact that the county still retains a
/ place in the democratic column. Owing
to the influx of new residents the normal
majority has been gradually decreasing
until 1t is now small-probably not more
than three or four hundred. That Judge
| Crothers, the democratic candidate for
governor, and his associates on the state
ticket will come pretty close to getting
their fuii party vote Is the belief of un-
biased observers. Mr. Gather the repub-
lican gubernatorial candidate, will re-
ceive the support of some of his demo
cratic relatives. but 1t is not thought this
will cut very much figure IN the result.
SO far as the democratic county candi-
dates are concerned conditions seem to be
very different. Within recent years there
has developed among members of both
parties decided disposition toward inde-
pendence in voting for county officers,
and there seems to be good reason to be-
lieve that this will this year be exercised
in favor of the replIblican candidates
A,+; ca1. r.
Assue'
Notwithstanding all the candidates on
both tickets have pledged themselves to
the satisfaction of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Anti-Saloon League SO far as temper
ahce interests are concerned, and that
the league has decided to take no part in
politics as an organization this wear there
is believed 20 be little doubt mar Tia
sympathy of a large naioritv Of tbe
members of the orpa nization 10 ,,ith -
tam tam of the republican candidates and
dav, # is also annarent tbnt tba I, eha,tnoa ,oh
of the democratic candidates will suffer
as a result Of the agitation over public
1bat bat0i hS.a ri,"i,s ,., W hether the criticisms
school hoard a,ia i. "PuH .tte COUNTY
fact remains that there is a wjdasnread
feeling That the public school interests
nave suffered under the present manage
htHt IN certain sections of the county,
particularly IN Bethesda district there
seems to be dIspos ton among a good
lldHy democrats to vote against their
touHty nominees as a means, as one
prominent cltizen OF that locality put it
al d recent mass meeting at Bethesda, of
demonstrating o ihat our rights cannot be
tralhpied upon without our being heard
rom rom ana IN TINS way 1t is hoped to re-
. o.ske t!'ose responsible for the school
troubles.
ne republcahs are also hopeful that
I l4ey WI! be the gamers 50 far i'm
piopeiIP marked ballots are concerned.
ly OiuiIarIiy the loss from this cause is
bDt"t 49, -; a s'anu- -on between the two parties,
t out ms ms year the republicans have in
liIe heId poDtall ticket, and they
a,sue ss tnat t,1 IL VIII prove less difficult for
their liitefates to properly mark ten