The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-12-02
DEMOCRATS FIND LITTLE
"SALVE" IN STUDY OF VOTE
Had Ivers0n and Hawkins Retired 1t
Would Not Have Saved John Walter

Would Not Have Saved John Walter
The Board of State Canvassers hav-
ing duly met and organized last We'd
nesday, the official returns emanat-
ing from the cosmic upheaval of No
vember have been certified in the
prescribed manner and have become
matter of record. Present at the
meeting of the Board were: John NJ.
Dennis, State Treasurer; E. Brooke
Lee, State Comptroller: Philip B.
Perlman, Secretary of State; Alex
ander Armstrong, Attorney General,
and Caleb c. Magruder, Clerk of the
Court of Appeals. The Board organ
lied with Mr.. Dennis as president and
with Mr.. Perlman as secretary.
Ut will be noted that in the above
list of notables the habitual prefix
Honorable, universally employed
wherever statesmen are mentioned, is
omitted. This is done merely to save
wearisome repetition and without in
tention to slight either the conven-
tons or the eminent gentlemen in
question, who are in no more need
of such prefix than Newcastle is of
Goals, than the lily is of painting, or
than refined gold is of gilding)
The Presidential elector on the DEM
ocratic ticket who received the great
est number of votes was William In
gle. The vote for Mr.. Ingle was $780,
626. On the Republican side Mr. Carey
received the greatest number of votes,
his total being 236,117. The difference
between Mr.. Ingle's vote and Mr. Ca
reys vote is thus 55,491, which repre-
sents the plurality in Maryland of
Harding and Coolidge over Cox and
Roosevelt, Stonebraker, the eighth
elector on the Republican side, re-
ceived 229,111 votes, so that between
the votes cast for the "highest" Re-
publican elector and those cast for the
"lowest" there was a difference of
7006-enough to have caused once
more a division of Maryland's eight
votes in the Electoral College had the
Presidential election been anything
like so close as the Gubernatorial cleo
ton last year.
Of the remaining three parties with
Presidential tickets in the field the So
cialists polled the biggest vote. The
Socialist elector who received the
greatest number of votes was Kyles,
with 1876; for the Labor party Long
was the high elector with 1178 votes,
and Mcnamara, with 1916 votes, held
the initial position among the Presi-
Dental electors of the Third Party
In the Senatorial race, in which it
will be recalled there were six entries,
the official results are as follows:
Smith Democratic .... 1863, 200
Weller Republican, .... 1S4,999
Lang (Labor) ........ 1869
Toole (Socialist) ....... $3.50
lverson independently .... 21,345
Hawkins independently 49,. 6,538
Mr.. Weller's plurality over Senator
Smith is consequently 1879. Had Mr.
Iverson not entered the race and had
all Mr.. VERSIONS votes been cast for
Senator Smith-a most unlikely sup
position-the senior Senator from Ma
ryland would have been reelected. But
even assuming this much, if Hawkins
had stayed out of the conflict and all
the Hawkins vote had gone to Weller
an extremely likely supposition-
Senator Smith would still have been
beaten by a margin of nearly 1000
votes. Thus even hypothetical history
does not give much comfort to the
friends of Senator Smith, whose real
consolation must come from the re-
markable showing he made in the face
of landslide and of hostility and
lukewarmness on the part of organi-
cation workers in the city.
In the Sixth District the Congress
sional result was as follows:
Mish (Democrat) ........ 25,992
Zihlman Republican, ..... 35 1854
Twigg (Socialist) ........... 1879
That the electorate is not much in
the mood for increasing the salaries
of public servants may be gathered
by the decisiveness of the vote by
which the two amendments to the
State Constitution were defeated. One
amendment was to increase the pay of
members of the General Assembly.
The vote was: For, 76,363; against
1862.
The other amendment was to in
crease the pay of clerks of the courts
in Baltimore city. The result: For,
58,081; against, 127,638. Evidently the
populace is even less sympathetic
with the plight of the clerks than it
is with the indulgence of the Legis-
lators.
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Mr.. Weller is again in our midst,
having returned from his sojourn in
Florida. Mr.. Weller entered Balti-
more as quietly as he departed
thence, and the sole interview apropos
of his return seems to have come
from Mrs. Weller and was non-politi-
acl. 1t is safe to say, however, that
Mr.. Weller is not idle since his return.
He has one problem which in itself
calls for some reflection and finesse.
1t is the problem of patronage, that
paradox which is at once one of the
penalties and one of the fruits of VIC
tory. Baltimore Evening News.
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