Evening star., 1932-11-09
Unofficial Returns on Race
Give 3,547 Majority to
Governor.
TYDINGS AND LEWIS
ALSO ARE WINNERS
Vote in Two-thirds of Precincts in
County Indicate Passage of Con-
stitutional Amendment.
BY JACK ALLEN,
Staff Correspondent Of The Star.


ROCKVILLE. Md, November o.
Montgomery County today was once
more listed in the Democratic column
after a record vote in which that COM
munity joined in the landslide that
swept Gov Franklin Delano Roosevelt
to the presidency. Four years ago the
county went for Hoover
Complete unofficial returns on the
race between the candidates of the two
major parties give Gov Roosevelt
majority of 3,547 over the President,
while the Democratic congressional
ticket also emerged triumphant, United
States Senator Millard E. Tydings and
Representative David j. Lewis receiving
majorities of 4906 and 3,177, respec-
lively, over their Republican opponents
Tabulation of the ballot cast for the
Democratic and Republican nominees
showed that 11,804 votes were received
by Roosevelt against 8.257 by President
Hoover; 1907 by Senator Tydings
against 6,701 by State Senator Wallace
Williams, the G. o. P. candidate, and
IL ,O73 by Representative Lewis against
the 1896 drawn by his Republican ad
versary, Harold C. Smith, Rockville
attorney.
Amendment Is Passed.
Returns available on the amendment
to the State Constitution to prevent
the General Assembly from extending
the terms of Circuit Court judges who
have attained the age of 10 years
lacked 10 precincts Of being complete
this morning, but the vote cast IN the
remaining 20 precincts. showing 5,237
in favor of the amendment and only
1,106 opposed to its passage, indicated
the measure would carry without dltfl-
Guilty
Complete returns on the vote received
bv ha candidates of the Communist,
Socialist and Labor parties likewise
were unavailable this morning, but 1t
was expected that the final count would
gre tncm a total only slightly higher
than that of the preliminary tabulatlon
OF their ballots.
N the early returns Thomas received
g. votes for President, Reynolds II and
Fc-tcr II. while Toole drew 20 for the
Hose Of Representatives, TWigg l9 ana
Bradley s.
fIaa total vote cast was unoffcially |
re59-ted at 20.144. approximately 5000
m1re than the countys previous cleo
t!cl record of 15,000-odd votes polled
in 1928, when President Hoover carried
the normally Democratic community
over Al Smith.
Run Ahead of Ticket.
Senator Tydings and Representative
Lewis ran ahead Of the Democratic
ticket in Montgomery, as they did in
many other sections. While Gov.
Roosevelt carried % of the county's 80
precincts, Tydings carried rs and
gained a deadlock with Williams In an
other, and Lewis carried 26.
Roosevelt lost the second, fourth and
fifth precincts in the Bethesda district
and the fourth, sixth, seventh and
ninth precincts in Wheaton district to
President Hoover. The Presidents ma
jorities in the seven precincts were
small, however. totaling only 768 and
ranging from IL votes in Bethesda pre-
cinct No. 4 to 219 in Bethesda No. 5.
With the exception of Takoma Park,
staunch Republican stronghold, Gov.
Roosevelt carried the four leading COM
munities of the county
He triumphed by ratio of more than
2 to l in Silver Spring, composed of
the second, fifth and eighth Wheaton
for his foe. In Rockville the three
against 658 for Hoover, while in Bethes-
ua proper, made up Of Bethesda pre-
cincts l and 4. he topped Hoover with
p vote of 1858 to 1,027.
Takoma Park, formed by the fourth,
sixth and ninth Wheaton precincts,
gave Hoover 1,149 votes against 815 for
Roosevelt for a majority of 334. Smith
received majority of 1876 and Williams
a majority Of 81 in the same sector.
Loses Bethesda, No. 2.
Senator Tydings lost Bethesda pre-
cinct No. 2, regarded as a Republican
precinct, to Williams by only q votes.
The Republican nominee won Wheaton
No. by "a votes and Wheaton
No by % votes and was tied by Tyd-
ings with 347 votes apiece in Wheaton
No. 6. The remaining precincts went
10 the Democratic incumbent.
Smith carried his home precinct,
Rockville No. 8, by 85 votes over Repre-
sentative Lewis. His only other major
tiles were 70 in Bethesda No. 2, Al in
Wheaton No. 6, and 38 in Wheaton
No. g.
The election, while weighted with in
tense feeling and interest passed quietly
with no reports of disorder at any OF
the voting stations. Little interest was
displayed in the vote on the constitu-
tional amendment and many OF the
voters ignored it completely, casting
their ballots only for the presidential
and congressional candidates.