Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-09
MARYLAND AGAIN
APPEARS SAFE
FOR DEMOCRATS
By DAVID TAvDw-~%
(Lcased Wire Service in The Journal.)
Downright 1920)

BALTIMORE. Md, Oct. mo
body's Maryland as yet. Somebody
with a talent for cartooning might
portray both Harding and Cox sing
ing the historic hymn of this state.
but neither one can confidently say
my Maryland" Republicans I'M
doubtedly had it up to ten days ago,
but things are looking better for
Governor Cox. It's nip and tuck.
Since Maryland is normally a DEM
ocratic state and clings to the pre-
JUDGES which have kept the solid
south from voting the Republican
ticket. there's an especially sniff
canoe in the fact that the race is
even. 1t means that the Republican
tide has invaded Maryland.
The Democrats are desperately try
ing to stem the tide and turn it in
the other direction. Confidence that
they will do so and win the state
for Governor Cox is at the moment
| based entirely on the efficiency of
the Democratic organization in the
city of Baltimore, where the battle
ground is this year. 1t seems to be
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Baltimore will not go heavily for
either candidate, and that the real
majority will be furnished in this
city.
| Normally Democratic
TIL state went for Bryan as
Taft and even Parker carried it in
I1-04 against Roosevelt. When the
en- re east was swept by Hughes,
! Maryland stood firm for Wilson with
the unprecedented majority OF
twenty thousand. 1t would take a
political earthquake to shift the
state to the Republican ticket. The
Republicans think the resentment
: against the Wilson administration is
sufficiently - strong TO produce just
such an uphcaval,. but while inroads
unquestiona bly, have been made. the
Democrats have been aroused by the
prospect of losing the state.
Again and again when things have
seemed hopeless the Democratic
leaders have managed to capture the
state in the last few weeks of the
campaign. They are starting out to
do the same thing now.
The desire for cnange of ad-
ministration and the consistent op-
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as the Baltimore News to the
League of Nations have Lad their
effect on the situation. On the other
hand. the Baltimore Sun. which has
remained friendly to the league
throughout. has managed also to re-
tain for Wilson. relatively spe king.
more friends in Maryland than sup
porting newspapers have been able
to keep in other states.
| Cox's Friends Get Busy
Also many of the prominent indie
pendents or Republicans who es-
poused the League Of Nations before
it became a political issue have come
out openly for Governor Cox as a
greater friend of the league than
Harding. Principal among these are
DR.. William Fl. WEIGH. of Johns Hop
kins, who is revered as one of the
dore Marburg, who was Taft's min
lister to Belgium and cannot be sus-
pected Of excessive championship of
| things Democratic.
The sort of campaign the Repub-
licans have been making was calcu-
lated to win the state. They quietly
nurscd along the anti-administration
sentiment and did not stir up party
feeling. But the registration figures
| N the first Of the seven days show
ing the extraordinary situation Of a
Republican majority even though
slight, acted as an alarm clock for
. the Democrats.
They promptly got busy and it is
their activity which makes many an
| observer think that after all the
state will go Democratic by a reduced
majority over fo"r years ago I'VE
growth of Republication cannot be
discounted, 1or GuEe.l.or I;.~c...9
Democrat. who made his campaign
almost entirely on national issues
two years ago, won by only few
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