Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-03
GO. P. IN MARYLAND
MUCH ENCOURAGED
Alarmed Democrats Striving Hard to
Check the Admittedly Adverse
Political Trend.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md. October .
The presidential campaign got fully
with the republicans campaigning
with greater confidence than ever and
the democrats, alarmed, making
heroic efforts to organize to check the
admitted republican trend. The sue
cess which marked the mass meeting
addressed by Harding last Monday at
the 9Th Regiment Armory, which was
attended by 10000 enthusiastic men
and women-an the building would
hold-did not tend to a1lay the already
serious concern of the democratic
forces, and the period between the
Harding meeting and the democratic
rally at the Lyric last night, ad-
dressed by Senator Underwood, was
one of feverish activity for the party
state leaders.
The special democratic campaign
committee. organized with Thomas IL.
Robinson as chairman when fac
tional trouble clogged the wheels of
the regular machinery, has made
some progress in getting the, Mahon
and Kelly democrats of Baltimore
city to work for the general good of
the party. but up to this time there
has been nothing approaching con-
certed action
counties this week showed that the
woman voters of the rural districts
of the state are as alive to their
new obligation as their sisters in the
city. In counties where there had
been organization work the registra-
ton officials were kept busy. in some
cases being unable to enroll all who
applied.
The Heclkling Incident.
The fiat declaration by Senator
Harding at the armory meeting here
that he would not lead the country
into the league of nations, and the
frank statement that he had no spe-
cific substitute to offer at this time.
brought a chorus of criticism from
Senator Smith, who assailed the re-
publican standard bearers stand Bit
ter1y in an address at Hyattsville
Tuesday night.
The protest over the arrest of Ed
ward A. Ryan, the Worcester and
ing brought the statement of atti-
tude from Senator Harding, was met
by John J. Hanson, master of cere-
monies, with the statement that the
attorneys arrest was not ordered. He
asserts that Ryan appeard to be will
temper of the crowd, and that the
policemen in the case were asked to
escort him safely out. John r. Rig
giles of Prince Georges county. indie
pendent labor candidate for Congress
in the fifth district, declares he also
was escorted out of the meeting after
attempting to quiz Senator Harding
Riggles. however. was not arrested.
If Ryan was the victim of unfair
treatment it was not in any way
through the fault Of Senator Harding,
who invited him to the platform. 1t
is apparent that in hustling Riggles
out the police were merely following
the cue given in the handling of
Ryan.
Independent Candidates.
Two independent candidates entered
the senatorial fight formally this week.
Papers were filed with Secretary of
State Perlmann by George D. Iverson,
Baltimore democrat, and w. Ashby
Hawkins. colored. Mr.. Iverson. who
led the Baltimore city vets in the
legislature, is a democrat. and is ex-
pected to cut into the vote of Senator
Smith, who is rated as a dry. On
the other hand, Hawkins is leading a
revolt of doubtful proportions by
Baltimore negroes against the repub-
licans. Hawkins admits that he has