Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05
PRESTON OR A REPUBLICAN
Prefers Defeat to Four Years More
of Mayor Mahool
POLITICIANS ARE IN LINE
Men Who Know How to Count the
Votes Backing Sonny" Mahon
and His Candidate.
ia, co,respcpacpce Of Tho sta..
BALTIMORE, Md. March 4,

BALTIMORE, Md. March (, 1911.
The democratic party is facing the BIT
tcreSt primary campaign in its history.
The fight this time is the machine against
the anti-machino forces. sonny Mahon'
the organization leader, has come out fiat
sooted for James H. Preston and Frank
Brown IS leading the anti-organizaflon
forces In behalf of Mayor Mahool. AT
the present time the Mahool adherents
are on the aggressive and are hurting
lot shot into Mahon, his liutenants and
the candidate, Preston.
Brown and Nahool arc being backed by
tlIo morning and evening editors or the
sun. for years the great democratic po-
litfcal power in Maryland, and Mahon ana
Preston arc being flaycd numerically by
both papers. The tight, although just a
week old, has aroused tho bittercst ami
lnosiees among the rank and filo or the
rarity and its effect IS bound TO be telt
az the polls in the general election
\ peculiar feature of tho contest Is
that a. number of city hall employees VINO
have openly declared for Mahool IN the
press are known 10 he hard AT WORK IN
The interest OF the Mahon machine in
their respective wards. The mayor Is
not cogniZant of this condition of affairs
and is proceeding in the organization or
his forces on the bs sis that every employ C
of the city hall will be loyal to him.
Boss Mahon Confident.
With sufficient number of his workers
within the ranks of the Mshool boomers
Mahon seems serenely confident of the re-
Suit next month. He is i'll receipt daily
of reports of the proceedings Of Mahool
and his advisers in every ward I'm the
t,<i do -hJ a
mayor Is watched carefully by trusted
,Heutenants. The democratic boss Is plen-
titully supplied with funds and tinds lit
Ale or no trouble in weaving from Mahool
the little precinct leaders who are in the
game solely for what there is in 1t.
With the Mahon machine are the crafty
old politicians who know how to corral
votes and carry them to the polls. With
him are such men as Frank Kelly, the
sTnan who carries west and northwest Bal
timore in his vest pocket: former Sheriff
Padgett, the ''big chief of the east Bal
-timore democracy; Danny" Loden. the
little king of the west end; Lewis and
Llewellyn, the twin bosses of northeast
Baltimore: king Biz Garland of the
wharf front democracy: George Konig,
boss Of the first ward, and hundreds of
others who WELD great influence among
the voters In their respective sections of
the city.
Lined up with Mahool against this
crowd of crafty political workers, Frank
Brown stands alone as the real politician
OF the mayors campaign. It Is true that
who will work night and day for him, but
among these there are few indeed who
know the winning tricks of the game.
Want All or Nothing.
The Mahon machine is playing a des-
peTate game Of politics this year. The
leaders Of the organization do not hest
tate TO say that I'm the coming fight re-
publican success is preferable to four
years more Of Mahool. The machine
leaders want offices for the hepchmen
.who make party success possible, and
they have decided that unless good old
ring ticket can be placed In power In the
city hall again they might as well have
a republican mayor, because, they argue,
the machine could not fare worse at the
hands Of a republican than 1t does under
the present incumbent of the rnayoralty
chair
The ring is, therefore, playing for
sweepstakes at the coming city election.
and If Mahool should by any chance win
out IN the primary 10 is pretty safe to
assert that he will feel the effects Of the
machine knife in the general election.
From a source close to the machine 1t
was learned today that the ring leaders
votes in the primary, while they estimate
that the vote for Preston will go over
10000.
Republican Prospects Bright.
Former Mayor Z. Clay Timanus will
early next week make formal announce
ment OF his candidacy for the republican
nomination for the mayoralty. This an
nouncement will come in response to a
petition signed by over go Of the most
prominent business men In Baltimore.
who have requested that Mr.. T1manus
enter the primaries for the nomination.
There will be two republicans in the
primaries, IiInanUs and Charles IL.
sTcrsch, but, unlike the situation in the
.dezrocratic party, there Is no animos ty
Ia the fight and the loser will cheerfully
get down to work for party success.
The prevailing impression in this city
today IL that the republicans have more
than an even chance of winning In the
coming election. Impartial observers do
not hesitate TO state that the democratic
party will be rent in twain when the
primary ends. and that there Is no great
political general to get them all together
for the general election. As one l. ader
said today: The republicans haven't
go as many offices as they use to hold
in Baltimore, but they're on mighty good
terms with the whirlgig of time"
70 And that about sizes up the situation
today.
BUYS FIVE BARGES.