Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-04
Frederick People Too Busy
: Putting Money in Bank.
NORMAL REPUBLICAN VOTE
Majority of About 700 in the
County Is Figured On.
STRONG AGAINST AMENDMENT
Democrats Will Miss Aid Of Wilson
Law at Coming Election-Chair-
man Dennis Active.
Special From a Staff Correspondent

Special From Staff Correspondent
FREDERICK, Md, October 4.-"Never
saw so many prosperous looking banks In
my life: banks to the right of me. banks
to the left OF me. banks all around Thus
i soliloauized, standing on the main street
of this dandy little town.
Yep croaked melancholy voice.
that's the trouble: too blamed many
banks" l turned and saw sad,eyed
gent with a rubicund nose. AfterWard
learned he was zone of our leading booze
dispensers.
why too many?'
Because the folks don't do anything
but run and put their money into the
banks they don't spend any Of it. I'm
a-gointer to move to Bristol
AS l looked about Frederick the signs
were not good for politics. Town seemed
too busy. The we'll paved streets. lined
with up-to-date stores. bore distinctive
air of cheerful industry. There was
hustle and industry in the atmosphere.
Farmers wagons and farmers automo-
biles. too. crowded the streets for 1t was
Saturday afternoon and court day to
shoot.
3 Now. your best atmosphere for real po-
itica discussion takes in few dry goods
boxes. about which the proetariat gath
er. with some horses switching their tails
idly in the and country dog being
walloped by the town CANNES in the mid
die of the street. Nothing like that here,
and my prophetic soul told me that pol
tiles wasn't the main issue in life in
Frederick.
An Interesting Old Town.
This Frederick is an interesting place,
combining the quaint and the modern
elements enchantingly. You leave the
business streets, with their solid and
attractive looking structures, and turn
off into Courthouse square. Here the
grass is green and lush, f1ecked with
shadows sitting through the stately
trees, and a fountain plays laZily in the
center about which sit few ldlerS
summing themselves.
On one side of the square are the an
cient houses now occupied by lawyers,
one story structures, with moss on the
roof When you enter you encounter
that mingled odor of good tobacco
smoke and musty sheep binding, which
ought always to characterize genuine.
.old-fashioned lawyers office On another
side are vine-covered mansions. with
an air of dignity belonging to the old
regime. They bear hospitality written
broad on their portals, and your instinct
tells you that biscuit-baking and
chicken-frying are not lost arts there
in. and that, 10 to 1, there are some
bottles of good, old claret laid down in
the cellars.
On another street 1 had seen far
ing sign. Democratic Headquarters"
and / hied myself there, still suspicious
that politics formed a side issue here.
My worst fears were realized. Demo-
cratic headquarters consisted of a new
ly painted and papered suite of apart
ments, with all modern conveniences,
polished floors, clean furniture, nice
tables and desks, and not a soul with
in. Now. whoever heard Of political
headquarters where you did not Stun
BILE through an atmosphere thick with
cigar smoke, fall over innumerable GUS
pidors and find only one out of three
chairs with whole seat? This did not
look ship-shape and workmanlike for
real politics. There wasn't a cigar
stump or tobacco stain on the floor
However. with letters Of introduction
to the real politicians of the. town, l
sought them out at their places of
business and between transactions got
the story of politics in Frederick coun-
ty. From all indications the county
will give a normal republican majority
which ought to be about zoo. Ham
mOnd Urner, the republican candidate
for chief judge of this. the sixth cir
cult, is expected to run ahead Of that
majority on account of his personal
popularity.
In the last state election. when he was
the unsuccessful candidate for attorney
general against Mr.. Straus, Frederick
county ran him up a majority of LOO.
The tendency Of the constitutional
amendment may cut 1t down somewhat,
but there is thought to be no doubt that
he will run ahead of the ticket.
No fractional Differences.
There are no fractional differences here
among the republicans to amount to any
thing. There are some heartburnings
over the fight for nomination of register
of wills, but the leaders think these will
have abated sufficiently by election day
TO prevent disaster to that nomination,
and, at any rate. the feeling will not
extend TO the remainder of the ticket
A heavy vote Is assured against the
DISTINGUISHING amendment. In 1905 Fred
erick county gave 1914 against the Poe
amendment to 3,643 for it. While only
9.251 votes were cast in that election
the registration was 12,01S. Nearly 1900
votes missed fire somehow, and the re-
pubicans hope to prevent repetition of
that this time.
For one thing, the democrats will not have
the aid of the Wilson ballot law in this
election. 1t did prevail in Frederick county
once, but II was two-edged sword. and
cut the democrats harder than 1t did the
republicans, so the democrats repealed it.
The white lliterates in Frederick county
outnumber the negro illiterates, being $40
of the former to III of the latter 1t
was found that the negro illiterates would
submit to instruction, while the whites
auainting themselves with the form Of
the ballots.
The republicans established schools
where the negroes were given regular
course of visual instruction, SO complete
that they could infallibly recognize the
republican candidates names by position
and by the formation of the words, by
counting down the lines and by a general
mental photograph. The elections in
Frederick are fair nowadays, and the re-
publicans have no fear of not getting
their ballots counted.
George r. Dennis the chairman of the
republican county committee, is putting
mp a lively campaign and is making ear
nest efforts to get the vote registered.
DIR. Connolly, son-in-law of the late Gen.
Victor Baughman. is the democratic
chairman and he is pushing his rival a
close second in all campaign efforts
There is no bitterness in the campaign on
either side thus far although no one can
tell what acrmony may be engendered
later by the contest over the constitutions
al amendment.
Cultivating 1.-The Brethren"
Both sides are coquetting feverishly for
the vote Of the brethren as the Dunk
ards. Mennonites and similar religious or
carnations are termed. These people are
among the solid citizens of the county,
and held in high esteem. They own many