Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-08-28
PRIMARIES TOMORROW
Great Interest in County Fights In
Beth Parties And Big Vote
Is Expected
LEE MEETING TONIGHT
NJ onigOmery County Mans Friends 10
Gather For Speeches Off
cials Here Today

After warm campaign. wherein
there has been stiff fight for control
of the Republican county organiza-
tion, as we'll as for the whole State
and county tickets in the Democratic
ranks, the voters of both parties will
settle their differences at the polls to-
morrow.
In Annapolis and in every precinct
of the rural districts of the county.
the polls will be- opened at s O'Clock
tomorrow morning and the voting will
continue until o'clock at night. when
the polling places close.
That the full vote of both the par
ties will be cast and the poll will be
heavy seems assured. The greatest
interest is taken in Anne Arundel.
as we'll as throughout the other coun-
ties of the State and in Baltimore
city, in the fight between State Sena-
tors Arthur p. German and Blair Lee.
for the Democratic gubernatoriaI
nomination.
Senator Lees lieutenants and mana
gers are claiming the nomination for
their man and 60 as far as to say that
they will name him the party stand
ard-bearer without the aid of Balti-
more city. But this claim is laughed
at by the German forces who-some
of them-say the Howard county man
will have 100 votes on the first ballot
in the State convention.
With'the local organization back of
them, the German forces claim Anne
Arundel along with other counties of
the State, while on the other hand the
Lee sympathizers will not say that they
positively are going to carry the five
votes from this county, but they make
the claim that they are going to come
pretty close to doing so.
Next to the State situation in the
Democratic party the greatest in
terest centers about the senatorial
fight, wherein Mr.. Joseph H. Bells,
backed by the County Central Com
mittee, and with the whole organiza-
tion working for him, is practically
conceded the winner of the Demo-
cratic nomination over his opponents,
Messrs. A. Theodore Brady, James
w. Owens and William C. Crane.
There is also a fight for the honor
of the Democratic nomination to the
House of Delegates. Four men will
be named and there are six after the
position-Messrs. Gordon II. Claude
and John Beall being the anti-organi-
cation candidates, while the County
Central Committee has endorsed
Messrs. Frank l.. Hancock, J. N.
Stewart, Benjamin Watkins, Jr., and
Joseph M. Wilkerson.
A stiff fight for the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners is also being waged
in the Democratic party, the greatest
interest in which centers about the
fight between Elmer E. Parkinson and
j. A. Walton, both of Annapolis.
Mr.. Walton has been endorsed by the
organization and seems to have the
best show for the place. Both have
done a great deal of campaigning and
their contest is being watched with
inerest.
The position of Mr. Hancock, one
of the candidates for the House of
Delegates, has been made embarrass-
ing to him and his friends through the
failure of Governor Crotherrs to name
a successor to him in the Board of Su-
pervisors of Election. Mr.. Hancock
resigned the supervisorship some time
ago and his resignation was accepted
by the Governor, who, however, has
refrained from naming his successor.
In statement issued on Saturday,
Mr.. Hancock placed all of the blame
for his present position on Governor
Crothers, and that this is where it
should properly rest is the claim of
all of Mr.. Hancock's friends.
The fight in the Republican party is
solely for the membership on the coun-
ty Central Committee, and the delega-
tion from this county to the State con-
vention of the party.
In the Democratic fight the con-
test has been warm, but there seems
little room to expect that whichever
side wins in the primaries, it will
have the support in the general cam
paign against the opposing party.