The Washington times., 1911-11-04
'GORMAN OUTLOOK
IN MARYLAND IS ]
BRIGHTER TODAY
Democrats Believe They
st VIII Elect Their
J Candidate.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM
1 AT MASS MEETING
4 Republicans Will Try to Offset 1t
at Baltimore Gathering
Vi Tonight.
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By ]. FRED EssARY.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 4.-Democratic
hopes have revived. Dispirited German
politicians who q week ago admitted in
private conversation that the young
!, State Senator could not be elected Gov
erhOr, today believe that he will pull
through. Republican managers are this
morning not 10 confident as they have
been heretofore. -.4 ~
And all this reversal of feeling is the
result Of last nights Democratic mass
meeting in the Lyric Theater.
This mass meeting was the most sue
cessful gathering of the whole cam
pRign, as II was the most significant
event since the primary. If 1t had been
failure 1t would have been equally as
significant. trS
Baitimoreans have way Of showing
tnsr Stss Ssslinss IS .rsr BY mass
managed here without half a dozen or
more Iiiass meetings throughout the
city II the people crowd these meet
& inss, Overflow them, them, interrupt sG the tn 9
tiops,, II is a pretty safe guess that
sentiment ID with the party In ques-
Significance OF Meeting.
That. is why last nights mass meet
ing was significant From fifteen to
twenty thousand people filled the great
hail, and when no more could enter
jamnled all the side streets leading to
the auditorium. Speaker after speaker
aroused the gatAering in the hall. while
shouting throng on the outside.
II this meeting. the first Of It's kind
to be held by either party, during the
present fight can be taken as an index
civ.
and, therefore, carry the State HI,
friends are joyously declaring today
that last nights meeting: removes ell
doubt about the outcome of the CAM
paign, and It cannot be denied that
the signs favor Gorman. a. ..
Those Republican leaders who would
tain at all today insisted that 1t was
too early, to say that the German peo-
point to the enthusiasm last night as
ai;token OF the situation. They urged
that tonight's Republican meeting at
ths same a .b bis hal viii SHOW tne Stheg
greater crowd viii he on hand and q
Rreaier volume Of enthusiasm shown.
Last night United States Senator John
Lcbe Straus, Bernard Carter. Senator
Gorrnan. Edgar Allen Poe and Albert {.
Rkchie were the speakers.
Republican Program.
Tonight the Republicans will put for
ward program quite as interesting
: Former United States Senator George L.
wilmington. congressman Thomas Par
ran, Phillips Lee GolGsborough. the cam
tlidhte. Morris A. Soper, candidate for
attorney general. and John II. Cunning Z.
ham: candidate for controller. viii
tpeak.
Both parties are today concentrating
all their energies OF the vote in Balti.
more city. 1t is admitted on all sides
Hal vSx It1h rt-ts tl,t, .,tA,
\ will elect the governor. From reports
{ which have come from the counties to
the two headquarters: that is, conf
= Dental reports. the vote outside the
Y city will probably be an even break fol-
the two candidates
I Western and Southern Maryland
these reports show, will give Colds.
borough small majority. The Eastern
/. Shore and the very populous central
section of tie State will give Gormar
1 a majority, probably one overcoming
{, the Republican lead.
4 This will leave the city to decided the
I issue. b. -