New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-04
Every Ward Except One
i'm Baltimore Carried bv
General; City Gives Him
1906; Johnson, 4,97l
Carries Nineteen
Counties Out of q
Total Vote, Wood l3, 1872;
Johnson 1924; Liquor
Issue Is Sharply Fought

BALTIMORE, May 3.-Returns
received up to 11:30 o'clock tonight
from to-day's Presidential prefer
ence primary in Maryland showed
that Major General Leonard Wood
had carried nineteen out of the
twenty-three counties and Baltimore
city, giving him an ample majority
of the delegates to the state conven-
ton, who in turn will elect sixteen
delegates to the Republican National
Convention.
General Woods majority on the
mass vote was 6,60S, the totals be-
ing: Wood, 1872; Johnson, 1924.
According to the returns, Wood
will have III Of the 129 votes to the
state convention which will select
sixteen delegates to the Chicago con-
ventlon. All of these will be in
structed to vote for him as long as
they "conscientiously believe" he has
chance of being nominated, in ac-
cordance with the state primary cleo
tion law.
Democratic Contest Local
There were practically no candidates
entered in the Democratic primaries,
but 1t was a fight between rival fac
tons in Baltimore City, headed re
spectively by John J. Malone and
Frank Kelly, for control of the city
district delegates TO the state CON
vention. which will send an instructed
delegation to San Francisco.
Although H. w. Robertson ard
Samuel c. Appleby, declared wet Dem
ocratlc candidates in the first and sec
ono district respectively, polled a fair
sized vote, I. A. Goldborough in the
hrst and Representative Benson. incunn-
oent, appear to have won out, althouph
Appieby received more than 500 ma
Jorlty in the two Baltimore city wards
IN the I'd District. He also ran strong
IN the manufacturing and mill sections
OF Baltimore County, but the countv
as a whole. gives Benson about COO
majority. Robertson polled a big vote
in several of the eastern shore co,In-
ties.
The vote was light not more than a.
per cent of the Baltimore city regis
tered vote being cast. General apathy
prevailed among the Republicans ont
side organization circles. As usual in
Maryland primaries. hundreds of bust
ness men and working men, too. would
not give the time to cast their vote
Prohibition a Factor
The wet and dry issue figured promi
nently not only in several Congress
sional districts in which wet Democrats
contested for the nomination but in
the vote for Presidential candidates.
senator Johnson, the returns showed,
had stirred the Republicans very little
One explanation of this was the pub
iiclty given his stand in favor of pro
The vote regarded as his
naturally is, as rule, wet vote. and
when 1T learned that he had not stood
for the vets they were disposed to
slight him in the voting.
Election workers reported that MANY
OF the voters were asking for the wet
ballot, and the inquiry came from Re
publicans and Democrats alike. MANY
urged to vote declined to do so, de-
ciarlng the recent State General AS
sembly had failed to do anything ON
the liquor question, and they would
now do nothing for the politicians
however, one set Of delegates con
tinued to promise, for with a list
headed by August Gerecht, the former
police magistrate in the eastern dis
trict, was card stating that vote
for this list insured a delegation to
the San Francisco convention thar
would support only wet Presidential
candidate. This was stamped as com
ing from the headquarters of Gov
wouldn't vote