The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-11-14
MARYLAND's VOTE ANALYzED.
Baltimore Srr.

Baltimore Sun.
The number of persons who voted for the
Democratic candidates for Congress in Mary
land November Sd, and refused to vote for Mr..
Bryan for President was over 5000. That is to
say, on the Congressional vote the State went
Democratic by 6,073 majority and on the Presi-
Dental vote went about 600 Republican. Mr.
Taft owes his election to the business men of
the country and to those Democrats who sup
ported him because they believed that the BUSH
ness interests of the country would be safer
with him at the head of the Government than
Mr.. Bryan. The vote of Democrats for Mr.. Taft
was of course, more pronounced in the business
and Industrial portions of the State; that is to
say, In Baltimore city and county and in the
great western counties. In the city no less than
$500 persons who showed their party preference
by voting for the Democratic candidates for
Congress voted for Mr.. Taft for President, and
many Democrats voted for Taft without voting
for Congressman. In Baltimore county, where
there are large financial and industrial interests
and good number of independent Democrats,
no less than loo voted for the Democratic can
didate for Congress and for Mr.. Taft for Presi-
dent. In the Sixth, or Western Maryland dis
trict, while Taft got majority of some 1,7OO,
the Democratic candidate for Congress was
The total vote cast at that election, or rather
counted, was about 1900 in excess of the vote
of 1904. Mr.. Taft's vote was about 5000 in ex-
cess of that of Mr.. Roosevelt. which is the more
remarkable, as Mr.. Roosevelt was running at a
time of the high tide of national prosperity, for
which the Republican party was claiming all the
credit. Mr.. Taft's candidacy was at a time OF
general and extreme business depression. The
figures at this election show that many voters
were puzzled by the ballot and that Mr.. Taft
lost more heavily for this reason than did Mr.
Bryan. In Baltimore the vote for Judge Taft ID
more than 5000 in excess of that cast for Parker
in 1904, and that year Parker had majority OF
nearly D. nm in tho oitv. Tho law OF 1900 made II
far more difficult for the iiterate to vote in the
Wilson bill counties by denying the use of sam
pie ballots. The loss to the Republican candi-
dates by reason of this law was doubtless large
and yet, in Anne Arundel and several of the
Wilson bill counties the vote for Taft exceeds
that for Roosevelt. In Allegany, where there
was a large detection of the Republican labor
vote, the vote for Taft is less than 30 below that
for Roosevelt in 1904. and in all the other coun-
ties of the Sixth district Taft got larger vote
than Roosevelt.
In the Eastern Shore counties Mr.. Covington
made a strong. active and popular candidate
and his majority exceeded all expectations, but
it is below that received last year in the same
counties by Governor Crothers. In the Second
district Mr.. Talbot gotabout the normal Demo
cIatic majority. while Mr.. Bryan fell far below
the regular party vote. The figures in the Fourth
district, where Mr.. Gill received large ma
jority, indicate the strength of the independent
and business mems vote of the upper city wards