Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
STYLES FOR M|LADy is BRIGHT FOR TAFT
Capital Shops Show Worlds Maryland Situation Expected
Best Designs. to Give State to President.
CHALLENGE IN APPEAL DEMOCRATS BADLY SPLIT
Epochs Worlds History Sore Heads Over Speaker
Represented in Whim of Day. Defeat Not Yet in Line
LIMITATIONS REMOVED R00SEvELTs STRENGTH WAVES
Becomng-Furs to
in
Maryland Situation Expected
to Give State to President.
DEMOCRATS BADLY SPLIT
Sore Heads" Over Speaker Clark's
Defeat Not Yet in Line.
ROOsEvELT's STRENGTH WAVES
Third Termer Losing Ground and
Registration Figures Blow to
Bull Moose Leaders.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

| Dull MOOSE Leaders.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
| BALTIMORE. Md. October 49, 1912.
! The political situation in Maryland to-
day is most complex. On past perform
ances the democrats ought to have a
walk-over for the national ticket, but
even the party leaders admit that they
| are at sea to the result Novem-
Der ). and many of them are in a
most pessimistic frame of mind. 1t is
now admitted on all sides that President
| Taft is gaining strength daily, and the
leaders of the republican party confident
! ly assert that the state will give its
electoral vote to the republican candi-
date. The registration figures came as
blow to the progressives. and showed
plainly that the bull moose strength is
not anywhere near what is being claimed
| by the leaders of the third party. II is
very evident now, even to the progressive
| leaders, that the real battle for Mary
lands electoral vote will be between Taft
and Wilson, with the chances greatly In
| favor of the republican candidate.
| 1t is well known that the conservative
democrats who bolted Bryan in his two
campaigns will not support wilson at
Taft. Then, too, the business element
men who take their politics straight and
vote the democratic ticket in city ana
state elections-is lining up behind the
President, because they do not want to
| See business conditions upset. They re-
gard Wilson as an able man. but they
assert that he is an unknown quantRy
as far as the administration of the at
fairs of the nation is concerned and
they do not propose to take any chances
at this stage of the game The demo-
cratic mana gers here admit that Taft
will benefit by heavy detection among
business men who have for years trained
with the regular party organization.
1t is also admitted that Roosevelt will
draw a good percentage of the progress
i've democratic vote. which Will still fur-
Their cut down the normal democratic
ajority in the state. In a nutshell. Tart
will poll the full strength of the reg
ular republicans plus the conservative
democrats; Roosevelt will benefit by hun
dreds of progressive democratic votes.
and Wilson will poll just that vote which
always supports. the democratic candi-
date under any and all conditions
Democrats Show Alarm.
Mayor Preston. who has just returned
from New York, where he was in con-
ference with National Chairman Nc
Combs, realizes that Roosevelt is going
to draw heavily from the democratic
ranks, and says that it is up to the party
leaders and workers to get busy if they
hope to land Maryland in the democratic
column next month. 1t cannot be denied
that the rank and file of the democratic
party is in an apathetic condition. and
the leaders thus far have made no effort
to inject ginger into the campaign. The
Wilson campaign has been the most list
less ever conducted in Maryland and in
Baltimore practically nothing has been
done to arouse enthusiasm or to get the
ward workers and heelers of the organi-
zation into their political working togs.
There have been little ward meetings
here and there. but the real thing in
campaigning to (which the b'hoys have
been accustomed is conspicuous by Its
absence in this milk-and-water campaign
for Wilson and Marshall.
The original Wilson men are just as apa-
thetic as the regulars and do not appear
to care rap whether the state goes dem
ocratic or republican. 1t is really re-
markable political situation for Mary
land. where in the past campaigns have
been hot and sizzling and every inch of
ground contested up to the closing of the
polls. The truth of the whole matter Is
that the "sore spots resulting from the
defeat of Speaker Clark have not been
healed. and those admirers of the Mis-
sourian who stuck by him TO the end are
not going to exert themselves to help
elect Wilson. As ward executive put
il to The Star correspondent today:
with Clark as the candidate Maryland
would have gone democratic by the heavi-
est majority in recent years, but Wilson
is not popular in this city or state, and
We lust cannot get the vote out for him.
1t would not surprise me at all to see
Baltimore give good majority for Taft.
and as -altimore goes, you know, so
goes the state. Personally. | think the
zig : up. and that are due for licking
November =.
The executive quoted is a straight. out
and-out ring politician who has always
fought to the last ditch and never be-
fore admitted that defeat for the demo-
cratic ticket was even possible.
Republicans Are Active.
The regular republican organization,
city and state, is waging vigorous and
aggressive campaign. and the reports
coming in to City Chairman Hanson and
State Chairman Hanna are all encourag
ing In this city the outlook for repub-
lican success in very bright. The negro
vote. which was tower of strength to
the prosressives liz the primary fight last
May, has steadily drifted back into the
republican fold. and. the leaders assert
that the bull moose leaders had counted
heavily upon the colored vote. The lead
ers confident of republican success
in southern Maryland and on the eastern
shore. Reports from western Maryland
are to the effect that the republicans are
daily gaining recruits from the ranks of
the progressives, and they predict an even
split on election day. The western sec
ton OF the state was the hope of the
Roosevelt men, when they backed the
colonel in his third party fight and the
steady weakening of their ranks in that
section has caused them many an I'M
pleasant quarter of an hour.
Gov. Goldsborough has decided to get
into the thick of the fight and will make
/ stamping tour of the principal cities
and towns of the state. This decision on
the part of the governor has aroused the
bull moose leaders TO action. and they
have decided 10 put their big guns on his
trail. Accordingly, the progressive execu-
/ tive committee has announced that
Charles j. Bonaparte. George r. Gather
Joseph r. Baldwin, Edward G. Darlington
and Charles r. Schrim shall follow in the
wake OF the governor and set forth the
| propaganda of the progressive party
The bull moose leaders are very much
| down in the mouth as the result of re-
ports which are coming i'm from dav to
day telling OF the OBJECTIONS in various
parts of the state. They are beginning to
realize that the average republican finds
/ ii mighty hard to part from the old party
mornings and tie up with third party
which, IL IL admitted, has not "A ghost of n
| show to carry Maryland at the coming
election. The Roosevelt leaders however
, are keeping stiff upper lip and profess to
see an overwhelming victory ahead. 1t is
| significant that not a leader will wager
! any real money that Roosevelt will not
! run third when the votes are counted in
/ this state. They know full well that the
battle is between Taft and Wilson apd