The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-10-12
COUNT MARYLAND
YOTEFOR HUGHES
States Republican Leaders Also
Expect to Elect Senator.

Republican leaders in MARYLAND are
confident of carrying the state for
Hughes and Fairbanks and electing DR..
Irwin France United States Senator
and three of the six Congressman.
Maryland in the last three Presi-
dental elections has been close. Taft
carried it by 900 in the popular vote
oyer Bryan in 1f08, although a moiority
of the electors were for Bryan, and in
1912, while Wilson had plurality
of 81, us over Taft in the vote on the
highest electcr, the combined vote of
Taft and Roosevelt was ll2. 745, or sew
enty'one more votes than Wilson's.
This year the Progressives, except a
few hundred or less, are for Hughes.
Former Attorney General Charles ].
Bonaparte, their leader, has set the ex-
ample, and the Progressive State Com
mittee has Endorsed the Republican
| Presidential ticket. Colonel Georee A.
Pearre, for two terms Republican Rep
| resentatIve from the 9Th District, who
supported Roosevelt four years ago,
has declared he will vote for Wilson,
but Colonel Pearre was the law partner
and close friend of Representative
David J. Lewis, of the same district.
who is now the Democratic candidate
| for United States Senator.
The vote of the few still disaffected
: t,ll bn
the old Cleveland Democrats, many of
whom are against Wilson. Then the
( Democratic state and city leaders are
taking little interest in the campaign.
The machine that controls one faction
of the Democrats in this city is so busy
fighting the City Hall clique that neither
is paying much attention to the Presi-
dental or Senatorial race.
Manv of the local Democratic leaders
are devoting their time and political
influence to endeavoring to prevent the
city from going dry" The liquor
campaign is of more vital interest to
these politicians than the election of a
President. The loss of the saloon sup
port, and especially the big campaign
fund contributed by the liquor dealers
and saIoonkeepers to the Democratic
machine at every state and city cleo
ton, would be a sledge hammer blow
to it. The liquor fight is not in any way
mixed up in the Presidential or Sena-
torial campaign, however, as, had there
been no such contest on hand, most of
these Democratic politicians would
have been just as apathetic toward
Wilson.
In the Congressional contests Repre-
sentative Jesse D. Price, Democrat,
and Robert f. Duer, Republican, again
are opponents in the lst, or Eastern
Shore, District, which has gone Repub-
lcan, and is likely to do so this time.
Two years ago, when it was assumed
that Price would win easily, he defeat
ed Duer by only 200 majority, notwith-
standing a Democratic majority in reg
istratiOn of several thousand. Duer
and his friends say and believe that
ne would have won if he had perceived
the drift toward him. He now thinks
that Price can be beaten by a hard
fight, and he is making the hardest one
he can. The Republican leaders are
ION their toes. On the other hand,
Price knows that he is up against much
more than the nominal fight of two
years ago.
For the first time in years Repre-
sentative Fred Talbot, the veteran
Democratic boss of Baltimore county,
has a real fight on his hands in the I'd
District His opponent, William H.
Lawrence, is slipping in and out of the
different sections of the district with
his campaign Ringing on the prejudices
AMI predictions Of each section. And
it happens that there are several fac
tors that make such a campaign ad-
vantageous
In the ID District, all of which is in
Baltimore city. Representative Coadv
Democrat, is in some danger of a cut
from German sympathizers, who will
hit at him to express their opposition
to the President
In the 4th District, also in Baltimore
city, there is no sign at this time that
Representative Linthicum, Democrat,
will have trouble.
The fight in the 9Th District between
+ Representative Mudd and jackson H.
Ralston, the Democratic nominee is
lively, with the odds much in favor of
Mudd.
In the 9Th State Senator Frederick
N. Zihlman, Republican, is confident of
election, as the district is almost GER
tain to go Republican, now that Con-
gresham Lewis is the Democratic can
didate for Senator