Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-09-09
ORGANIZATION TICKET
MAKES CLEAN SWEEP
DR.. Wells and Friends Successful
in Yesterdays Primary.
ANDERSON'S STRONG RUN.
Progressive Candidate for Senate
PoIled Two Thirds as Many Votes
as President Wilson.

the ciRnCeeH precincts OF yesterday 8
primary election in Anne Arundel
county are still incomplete, they will
not change the early morning fore
cast of results.
The organization forces. led by
DR.. George Wells, Clerk of the Cir
cult Court, and chairman of the Gen.
tral Committee, OF the county, made
clean sweep, all of the candidates
Of the organization ticket winning
over the Progressive Democrats,
whose fight for control made the
local campaign the bitterest in he
history of the county.
While defeated the result is not
without much glory to the efforts of
the Progressives. The returns will
show that Bruner r. Anderson, their
candidate for State Senator, polled
over 1000 votes. or more than one
third VI the total vote that was poll
ed up for President Wilson in the
general election last fall President
Wilson's total vote in the county
was 3,049, and the majority over his
Republican candidate was about 500.
The Progressives are greatly en-
couraged over the showing made, and
the leaders, who were in the city to-
day stated that the fight will not be
slackened, and expressed confidence
over success in the campaign two
years hence. There was a similar
fight within the Republican ranks
yesterday and the anti-machine force
gained control of the party machin-
cry, with virtual slaughter of Capt.
John X. GLADDEN., of Annapolis, the
chairman, AMI his colleagues of the
county central committee.
Incomplete returns also show that
Dr.. Louis B. Henkel, of Annapolis, is
nominated for the State Senate over
Lawrence Bailliere, of Annapolis.
Benjamin f. Pumphrey, for Sheriff,
also Ji the anti-machine forces, has
probably been nominated over James
II. Fowler, of the organization.
There was not as much splitting Of
tickets as had betn expected. This
was due in the main to the fact that
both the regular and Progressive
Democrats were we'll organized, and
their workers in the several precincts
of the county made good use of the
marked ballot opportunity. Hun
dreds If voters accepted these in pref
erence of taking chance of making
a mistake by securing a ballot from
the Judge after entering the polling
house. This situation was particu-
larly true as regards Annapolis. As
the candidates on the rival tickets
ran close together for the most pant.
The campaign of the organization
Democrats was more strongly financed
according to reports, today. Several
Progressives asserted that as much
as $25 and $50 was paid for votes in
some sections Of the county. The
liquor question undoubtedly figured
prominently in the result,tco. A few
weeks ago several hundred circulars
were sent into the county urging the
voters 10 "stay off" the Progre ssive
candidates, as they were unfavorable
to their cause. These circulars, ii is
said, were distributed broadcast
among the liquor element, and had a
telli lg effect.
The Progrs ssives carried five of
the eighteen precincts, as the four
missing ones. are conceded to the or
ganization. Messrs, Anderson and
Watkins, the rival candidates for
Senator, led their respective tickets.
Watkins has a majority of 228, and
this will be increased to SOC or more
when the four missing precincts are
heard from. The returns lacking are
from the second and third precincts
of the Second district; the first pre-
cinct of the Third district, and the
second precinct Of the Eighth dis
trict.
While Anderson led the Progress
sive ticket throughout the county, so
did Watkins lead the organization
candidates. Mr.. Anderson carried
the Fourth. his home district, by the
handsome majority Of 100. and all the
ether Progressive candidates led
their opponents there. Likewise,
John E. Potee, organisation candidate
for Sheriff, polled heavy vote in
his home district, the Fifth. His
total vote in the district is 661,
against $50 for Parkinson, Progress
sive.
Here in the city the organization,
reaIizi ag the stiff fight it had on its
hands, buckled down to work in
manner that has not marked pri-
mary campaign in the city for years.
The working force in each ward was
doubled, in fact trebled fhe guns
were trained principally upon the
defeat CT City Aide rman Elm er E.
Parkinson, who lives il the First
ward. That ward was made the real
battle ground Of the fight, as might
have been expected.
Even the members of the police
force. it is said, were put to work,
in addition TO the other runners, just
so the defeat Mr. Parkinson, in his
home bailiwick, was accomplished.
The result was that the Alderman lost
the ward by IL votes In the pri-
mary of two years ago, for county
commissioner, be carried the ward
against the organization by a sub
stantial margin. The First ward