New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

1F0'.oiDle Lux WIG NcPupiicuHd III Lne
Legislature two years ago voting to
This has made the men who place the
vet and dry issue above everything
else distrustful Of Weller. Then, u
former Democratic member of the
Legislature, George d. Iverson, is run
ming independently for Senator on a
platform with just one plank, and that
wringng wet.
much more serious blow to Weller
Is the candidacy Of w. Ashbe Hawkins,
negro lawyer who boasts Harvard
sheenskin. | had heard before enter
ing Maryland that John Walter Smith
had put up sibcrally for Hawk mss
good reputation, so far as honesty is
concerned.
How many votes Hawkins will get is
problematical. The negro voter as n
rule likes to have his vote count, if not
financially, Mt least in determining the
result. The Maryland negroes feel that
they have a grievance against the Re-
publican leaders of Che state, and it
was chiefly this sentiment which gave
impetus to Hawkins's candidacy. He is
now being attacked as a Democrat and
as dupe of John Walter Smith s, so
1T is hard to tell just how much
strength he will have remaining on
Election Day. Certainly he is weaker
to-day than few weeks ago. The
swinging of the Afro-American has al
ready had q pcrceptible influence.
The grievance of the negroes is that
they thought they would get more rec
ognition from Mayor Broening. Some
Of the negroes understood that the
Mayor would appoint one of their race
School Commissioners, which he did not
do. So far as recognition for their
race is concerned, they complain,
Broening might also as well have been
a Democrat
Factionalism on Both Sides
But there is factionalism among the
Repuhlcans, as we'll as among the
Democrats: Weller, who is practically
the Republican leader in Maryland, Of
fended Governor Goldsborough When
he was a candidate for Governor him
self in 1915. Weller had been the
Roads Commissioner under Goldsbor-
ough: and had done such a good job
that he became highly popular. Colds
borough's friends wanted Goldsbor-
ough to run again, but Weller went in
and got the nomination. The feud has
been on ever since.
50 Dr. bryce Goldsbrough, down in
Dorchester County, is The president Of
Harding, Coolidge and Smith club.
A close friend of Governor Goldsbor-
ouGf said the Governor would vote for
Weller, all right, but that Smith would
be elected, for "thc people will never
elect an ingrate."
Well ler's popularity having been made
possible by his appointment by Colds
borough, the former Governors friends
think he should not have pot in
Goldsborough way. Incidentally the
disafection of the Goldsborough fac
ton was what defeated Weller for
Governor, equalizing the handicap on
the Democratic candidate, Harrington,
of the Mahon-K Kelly feud in the Demo-
cratic party.
Weller is apt to suffer more in the
however, than in the Goldsborough
clements punishment. In some of the
dry counties in the western part of the
state there are also Harding, Coolidge
and Smith clubs. A canvass of 262
women registered in the heavily Re-
publican center of Middletown, Freder-
ick County, showed that only thirteen
intended to vote for Weller, though a
big majority intended to vote for
Harding.
Women Fighting Smith
Senator Smith is being fought by
much the same group OF women in
Maryland who supported Mrs Ella
Boole in New York, except that the
Democratic women are less inclined to
cross party lines. This attack, because
he voted against the suffrage amend
ment is being led by Mrs Donald R. |
Hooker, one of the pioneers in the fight
for suffrage in Maryland. The state is
not enthusiastic about woman suffrage,
however, even yet, and most observers
seem 20 think that Smith will gain as
much as he loses on this issue.
The general trend toward Harding in
Maryland seems to be caused by much
he same elements which are causing
t all through the country, particularly
IN intense desire for change in
" Washington and dissatisfaction with
he Wilson administration. Most of the |