Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-09

, The two Democratic candidates OF
the Commissioners ticket who We're
outdistanced 10y Messrs Jones and
Blcc were James a. Walton, Of An
napolis who for number Of years
past has been the President Of the
Board. and John w Sherbert. of the
Eighth district. According To the unof-
fetal returns, but which are now prac-
tically complete, Mr. Walton was
beaten by the scant majority of 6S
votes in the whole county, and Mr..
Shcrbert by bur %
Two Commissioners From Third
As Weems X. Duvall Democrat, and
r. Tnghman Brice Republican, are
both from the Third district and were
both elected. that district will have
two representatives in the Board
whereas the Eighth district, which had
only one nominee, Mr.. Sherbert, Will
have no district representation at all.
The Fifth district, which for the past
two years has also been without rep
resentation. will for the next two years
have on the Board c. II. Fulton Kelly.
who was elected by substantial ma
iority However. the high vote on the
Commissioners ticket was pOlled by
St George Barber of the Second dis
trict. who made a runaway race OF
it by polling 4.S32 votes, which puts
/ his total majority at we'll over 500
/ votes
! RulIman Leads Legislative Ticket
! While all five of the Democratic cam
didates for the Legislature were elect
ed. il was not until the final vote had
been tabulated that this was made Ger
tain These returns show that Mil
ton J Turner. Republican, came with
In Fl votes OF W Meade Holiday.
Democrat. the unofficial returns show
ing Mr. Holladay's total vote 10 be
4.024 and Mr. Turner's 1893. George
E. Rullman. OF Annapolis. lead this
ticket with 4.32S votes, with James f..
Baldwin. Of the Fourth district, sec
ond with 4265.
Runners Of "Cutting" Borne Out
In accounting for the defeat OF Mr..
Arnold for Sheriff. and Of Messrs.
Walton and Sherbert for Commission
or. their friends claim that an analy-
sis of the vote in the various districts
will show that their warnings about
party treachery and knitting" are sub
stantiated However, Mr.. Leyely's vic
tory is conceded on all sides TO be
mostly the result of his personal pOpu-
larity and effective campaigning, and
was in accordance with general pre-
dictions as to the outcome. However,
the friends Of Mr. Walton are pointing
especially to the Eighth district and to
parts Of the First and Second districts
as showing just how his opponents
work was gotten in against him.
In the Eighth district, for instance,
they say that if no concerted move
rnent had been made by factional DEM
ocrats there to knife him, there would
not have been the wide discrepancy be-
tween his total vote in that district,
1854. and Mr. Barbers of $50, or Mr..
Sherbert's OF SO. or Mr. Jones IRE
publicanl of 497. Likewise. in East
port Mr.. Walton was cut considerably,
so that. while he polled highly COM
plimentary vote in his home ward in
Annapolis. and in various other pre-
cincts of the county ran well up, the
= decided slump in the support given
: him in the sections mentioned and in
: some others was enough TO cause his
! defeat
Official Canvass Tomorrow
The Board of Supervisors OF Elec-
tions will meet tomorrow TO officially
canvass the entire vote of the county,
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