Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03
MARYLAND POLITICS
Interest Centered in the Con-
greSSi0naI Primaries.
FIGHT IN Three DISTRICTS
Democrats Will Have Their Troubles
in Third and Fourth and Re-
publicans in Sixth.
Special Correspondence OF The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
BALTIMORE, Nd, July ., 1910.
General interest now centers in the
congressional primaries which will be
held throughout the six districts of the
state August so next. The only districts
in which there will be fights worth while
are the third, fourth and sixth. The
democrats will have their troubles in the
first two named and the republicans in
the last
The Third District.
in progress between State Senator
Charles P. Coady and James McQuade.
a member of the last house Of delegates
Coady is up against the opposition Of
former Sheriff Padgett, the boss of East
Baltimore, and II he fails in the primary
congressional fight it means that fms
will be written to his political career.
Therefore, Coady is putting UP the hot
test kind Of fight and his friends claim
that he will win out. McQuade, on the
other hand, is backed by the Padgett
machine, which is an integral part of the
city organization, which Is controlled by
John j. Mahon. The Indications are,
therefore, that the fight will be a hot
one, with the chances in favor of Nc
Quade. The republican candidate in this
district will be Representative John
kronmiller, now serving his first term
in the House of Representatives.
A Three-Cornered Fight.
The fourth district will be the center of
a three-cornered fight. Those in the field
are Representative john Gill and State
Senator ]. Charles Linthicum. Both are
known as straightout organization men.
and that neither will retire from the con-
test is causing the organization much
concern. From an authoritative source ii
was learned tonight that a third candi-
date will enter the field next week, and
that he will have the support of the or
ganization-not openly, but that word will
be passed down the line to support the
dark horse.
In justice to Mahon, the city demo-
cratic leader. it is only fair TO state that
he has been harassed to such an extent
over the conditions in the two city dis
tricts that he feels disposed to allow the
primaries to be fought out on the merits
of the candidates. He has stated to his
close friends that he does not favor the
selecting of candidate for any office
under the primary system now in vogue
and that he believes the duty of the or
ganization to begin when the voters shall
Select the candidate.
Mahon holds that the primary comes
under the jurisdiction of the state central
committee for Baltimore city, and the
chairman of that committee. Daniel j.
Loden, has announced that it will be "a
case of hands off until the primary fight
is settled"
In the sixth district it looks as though
Pearre will win. There are men within
the organization ranks today who claim
that there are too many candidates
against him. and that they will so split
the anti-Pearre vote that the incumbent
will win easily in the primaries. The op-
ponents OF Pearre still claim that they
have chance to win if all the candi-
dates will withdraw save one. but such a
condition in the primaries does not seem
at all likely at this writing