The Democratic advocate., 1908-11-06

usual democratic vote with which he
has been accustomed to make up for
his Republican cut.
The Democratic leaders in the coun-
ty this time are greatly interested in
the reelection of Chief Judge A. Hun
ter Boyd, of the Court of Appeals, next
year. Pearre is opposed to Judge
Boyd, and, it is known, intends to make
fight against him. 1t has been said
and was charged in the campaign that
he, himself, expected to be candidate
against Judge Boyd. The Democratic
leaders realize that if they beat him
in Allegany this time it would knock
him out of the Iudgeship fight next
year. Accordingly, the fight made for
Lewis in Allegany county was twice
as aggressive as usual, and he also
had the advantage of the support of
all of Judge Boyd's Republican friends,
who saw the politics of defeating Pear
re in the county.
In Washington county the Republi-
cans were also disappointed at the
slump in their vote. While they car
ried the county for Taft and Pearre,
the majorities are so small as to be
almost a Democratic victory. 1t is
! said that many of the Dunkards in the
county, who usually vote the Repub-
lican ticket, voted for Bryan because
of their admiration for him as
preacher.
Taken all in all, Lewis made
great, game fight and came pretty close
! to making good what he said to
Chairman Vandiver two months ago.
You do not believe it, but l will
carry Allegany county and l believe I
can carry the district"
Mudd's Narrow Escape.
Another Republican Congressman
and leader who pulls through by the
skin of his teeth is Congressman
! Sydney e. Mudd. Last week some
friends of Nh Mudd remarked sgd
ney looks worried" The result in
his district proves that he had every
reason to be. His plurality in the
Fifth district is 354, compared to
1898, which he received two years
ago. Also Mr. Mudd received the jolt
in the places where he least expected
it. He had every reason to think
that he was in danger from the city
end of his district, as here was the
chance Of Collector Stone and the city
/ organiz tion~ people to sandbag' him,
and here also was the stronghold Of
the Federation of Labor, which SO
warmly espoused the cause of the
Democratic candidate, George NJ.
Smith. two years ago and succeeded
in turning a Mudd majority in these
wards of 1900 into a Smith majority
OF 503 1t was in the city wards that
it was believed Captain Smith had his
chance. Two years ago Mudd made
up for the city's direction by getting
huge majorities in the county end OF
his district-1,3S2 from Anne Arundel,
73S from Prince Georges and 1,O4S
from Charles. His total majority was
1898.
This time for some unaccountable
reason Smiths vote shrunk consider
ably in the city end of the district,
but gained tremendously in the coun-
ties. Instead of 500 in the city he
gets $50 majority. 1t is said that this
is due the fact that the 1aboring men
did not make the house-to-house fight
for him they did two years ago and
also because lot of them voted for
Bryan and Kern and for nothing else,
neglecting to mark for the Congress
man at all.
Where Smith surprised not only
Mudd but the Democratic State man
ayers and politicians generally, was
in Prince Georges and Anne Arundel
counties. DR.. George Wells, the Anne
Arundel leader, had his shoulder to
the wheel and had promised the coun-
ty for both Bryan and Smith. The
result shows that he knew what he
was talking about and that he "deliv-
cred the goods" Bryans majority in
Anne Arundel is 42S; Smiths is $50.
This is the county Mudd carried in
1906 by 1882 In Prince Georges
county Mudd's 73S shrunk to 9, and
Bryan carried the county by "a. A
similar shrinkage is shown in Charles
county, which two years ago gave him
1,O48 and this time gives him 6S1, and
also in ST. Mary's and Calvert coun-
ties, although not to the extent of the
others.
Anyhow, Smith, while not elected,
has wiped out Mudd's big plurality of
two years ago and left him margin
so small as to take some of the starch
out of those who have looked upon
Mudd as invincible in the district.
Captain Smith has shown that Mudd
can be beaten, and that had his own
vote not fallen off in the city he would
Rave beaten him this time.
The lesson the Democrats have
drawn from the figures in both Fifth
and Sixth districts is that neither one
of them is to be classed hereafter as
I,,noIoec1v PapuhliccO nd that neither