Evening star., 1928-11-04
z|HLMAN VICTORY
SEEN IN MARYLAND
Sixth District Representative
Seems Stronger Than Lewis.
s.. Hoover Trend Gains.
Note--Thts is the concluding article
of series discussing the political sttu-
1tior in nearby MdruIdud aud virginia.
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.
staff Correspondent of The Star.

bI DONALD n. ShAAOs
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, November g.
Unless a political upheaval, of which
there are now no signs, occurs through
out the sixth congressional district of
Maryland, Representative Frederick N
Zihlman, Republican, of this city, and
chairman of the House committee ON
the District of Columbia. will be re-
elected Tuesday. This is the conclu-
sion reached by the correspondent of
The Star after personal investigation
of conditions In this western tier of
counties and in Montgomery County,
adjacent to Washington.
It happens also to be the privately
expressed opinion of several responsible
Democratic leaders in this section and
the public claim of the Republican
organization leaders, who are more con-
f1dent than usual that they are right
in their prediction this year.
This is the home city of Mr. zihlman
and of his Democratic opponent, David
j. Lewis, formerly a member of the
House and one-time member of the
tariff board. Democratic leaders here
told The Star that in recent years Mr.
Lewis has lost political and personal
contact with a large portion of the
people of the sixth district. He is re-
garded as good campaigner, however,
and since last Spring has been ex-
tren1ely active.
It is admitted even by Lewis oppo-
nents that he has had considerable
success in his campaigning, but many
Democratic leaders in this section agree
with the Republicans that he has not
succeeded to a sufficient degree to give
him a majority of the votes which will
be cast Tuesday.
Montgomery County Conditions.
Political leaders here do not profess
to know much about conditions in
Montgomery County. This writer, how
ever, has just completed a survey there,
the result of which was published in
The Star Saturday, in dispatch from
Rockville. Indications are that Mont
strongest Democratic county in the dis
trict, may give a majority in this elec-
tion to Mr.. Zihlman.
Therefore, if this diagnosis is correct,
Mr.. zihlman's reelection is virtually
certainty-at least as certain as any,
thing can be in this remarkable cam
paign, in which the race for Congress
here, as elsewhere, is mixed up and
dWarfed' in Importance by the bitter
ness of the contest between adherents
of Smith and Hoover for the presidency.
The Democrats in this section of the
district who still hope for Mr.. Lewis
election-and not all of them dO-.base
their hope not alone upon his oVn
personnel efforts which hare been i'm
defatigable. but also upon the fact that
he is running upon the same ticket with
Smith for President. If Smith should
happen to sweep Maryland, including
this western industrial section, by big
majority, they believe Lewis will be
carried along to victory and regain the
seat he once ceased trying to hold when
he made an unsuccessful attempt to
be reelected United States Senator
from Maryland.
But every one in this section of Mary
land with whom The Star correspondent
talked confessed that he or she was
baffled by the new factors that have
arisen in the presidential campaign and
unable to forecast the result with any
degree of accuracy, so far as the State
as whole is concerned. The religious
issue is cutting the biggest figure in the
presidential campaign in this section,
with the liquor question playing a
secondary but important part in sway
ing voters.
Hoover Majority Seen.
The consensus in Cumberland is that
Western Maryland will roll up COM
Portable majority for Hoover, but what
| the rest of the State, especially Balti-
more City, will do has politicians of
both parties guessing.
There is less interest in this western
section in the senatorial race between
Senator Bruce, Democrat, and Phillips
Lee Goldsborough, Republican, than in
the presidential or zihlman-Lewis con-
tests. Goldsborough is expected to get
a majority of the votes.
Although Mr.. Lewis was once in close
touch with the people of the district,
Mr.. Zihllnan has now taken his place
in this respect as we'll as his seat in
the House. Democrats in this section
and in Montgomery County told The
star that Mr.. Zihlman regards himself
as the representative of all the people
of the district and will do a favor for
Democrat. or member of any other
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