Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-11-04
HEAVY VOTE EXPECTED
IN TODAY'S ELECTION
Fine Weather Prevailed for
Battle of Ballots.
BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT.
But Indications Point To Democratic
Sweep-Riih Large Msioritiss
for State Candidates.

Favored by fine conditions Of weath-
er, and with the leaders and their
lieutensnts, in both parties, actively
at work in every section, indications
pointed to heavy vote being polled
throughout Anne Arundel county in
today's election.
The polling houses opened as usual
at o'clock, and Will close at
O'Clock In all foul wards Of the city,
the voting was quite brisk during the
forenoon, and reports from several
sections of the county were t. the
effect that the iural voters were out
! early, despite the fact that the wealth
er afforded splendid opportunity for
a good lick Of work in the fields.
At l o'clock considerably more.than
| one-third of the registered vote Of the
city had been polled. Weather and
everything else combined to bring
out a heavy vote. Government en-
ployees of the Naval Academy were
not compelled to sacrifice part Of
their nconday dinner hour in order to
cast their ballots, for, in accordance
with instructions sent down from
| Washington yesterday all hands were
allowed ample time to vote without
| any deduction from their pay for
the amount of time consumed there
by.
In the First ward, where the
registered vote is All, close to 200
votes had been cast, while in the
Second ward, al the same hour,
nearly 800 voters, or about one. half,
had cast their ballots. The regis
tered vote of this ward is 622.
! tht Third and Fourth wards. where
the majority of the negro vote is cen
tered, the number of votes cast was
/ proportionately ss great as in the
l two lower wards.
The opening of the polls found the
workers of both parties laying claims
| to success, though there was greater
confidence among the Democrats than
/ the Republicans. The Democrats
claimed a clean sweep throughput the
| county with substantial majoTities
| 70. all candidates. In fact, inoica-
tions poiuced to such sweep, for the
&c ported plan of many Progressive
] Democrats to swing their support to
/ the Republican candidates seemed to
nave iizZled out TO a large extent. At
/ sny rate, Democratic leaders were
not a bit worried over the outcome.
| While Republican hopes were not
as high, yet the G. o p. leaders feel
confident that they will elect at least
part Of their ticket. 1t is under
stood they count principally on elect
ing Benjamin f. Pumphrey for Sheriff
over John E. Potee. the Democratic
candidate, probably one or two mem
bers Of the House of Delegates. and
| a couple of members to the Board of
/ County Commissioners. DR.. Louis
b. Henkel, the G. o. p candidate for
State Senator and his friends, also
were hopefu of the outcome, but the
opinion was freely expressed among
Democrats that Henkle would be de-
feated by his opponent, Benjamin
Watkins, Jr., by large margin. The
friends of William E. Cecil also held
out hope that he wound beat DR.. A. n.
Perrie in the run for county treas
urer.
That State Senator Blair Lee, Dem
ocratic candidate for United States
seuatorship, and the other State can
didates, Messrs. Emerson c. Harriug-
ton and Caleb c. Magruder, for State
Comptroller and Clerk of the Court
Of Appeals, respectively, will carry
the county by large majorities, is
practically conceded eve n by the Re-
publicans. Mr.. Parran's chances are
| regarded as slim; likewise his run
ning mates on the Republican State
ticket. 1t is understood, in fact, that
the Republicans are centering their
greatest efforts on the local candi-
dates. That they will get some little
support from the disgrunted Demo
Gratis, is conceded in view Of the fact
that four men who were allied with
that faction Of ,the Democracy in the
recent bitter primary campaign,
joined the fusion movement, and
are candidates on the Republican
ticket. These are Chenowith, for
the House of Delegates; Ce Gil. for
treasurer, and Cheston Hall and
Thomas E. Collinson, for County
Commissioners. But just how much
support the Republicans will get
from this source is q question.
There is no doubt that the iIlit-
crate white and colored voters baC
a hard time ma king the ticket
owing to its general makeup and
the large number Of names it con,
tained There were four sets Of
State candidates, viz: Democratic,
Republican, Prohibition and Bull
Moose, while all four parties, save
the Bull Moose, had full county tick
cts. And then there were the siz
: Constitutional Amendments to be
! voted. The ballot was a real blanket
affair.
10 actual size il was three-fourth,
! as large as 3 newspaper page. The
: eandidates' names were arranged il
, alphabetical order, but without party
, designation, and the general arrange
( ment, ss far as the groups SeTe con
, cerned, was discretionary with Ii,
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