Evening star., 1932-10-28
Hoover 1923 Victory After
Enthusiasm for Smith Ar
gued by Leaders.
2O8,522 OUT OF 311,903
REGISTER AS DEMOCRATS
Habit of Registering Democratic
and Voting Republican Shown
by Records of Past.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BALTIMORE, Md, october 27.-Re-
publican leaders here declare Mary
land battle ground"
The Democrats, on the other hand,
say, Its a landslide for Roosevelt
here, with the probabilities of a Dem
ocratic plurality running as high as
10000"
Drink ard the depression are the two
big issues in this campaign as the Bal
timore Democrats look at it. In their
view these issues are made to order
for Roosevelt and Garner; indeed. for
the entire Democratic ticket. Certain
" on the surface the Democrats seem
to have all the best of the contest
here. The registration for the city,
now complete. stands, Democratic,
2O8 522: Republican. 103, ,381; decline to
state, 18,417. Furthermore, the sixth
congressional district, the old Repub-
hcan stronghold of Maryland, where
the G. o. P. registration used TO run
$4,000 ahead of that of the Democrats,
it is reported here. this year has
Democratic registration running 2,8O0
ahead of the Republican.
And that tells the story said
prominent Democratic leader today. 1t
must be admitted that 1t looks as
though it might However, it Will be
remembered that the Democrats are
today claiming California, although
that State has a Republican registra-
ton outnumbering that of the Demo-
cratic party by 100000.
Habit Favors q. o. P.
1t is notorious that voters in this
State have a habit of registering DEM
ocratic and then voting Republican in
national elections. Hur dreds of busi-
ness men do so. probably thousands.
And in 1928 the Democrats in Baltl-
more far exceeded the Republicans in
registration, yet on election day what
happened? President Hoover carried
this supposedly strongly Democratic
city with a vote Of $4,000 to l26,OOO
for AL Smith.
Illustrative of the fact that Balti-
moreans have this habit of registering
Democratic and voting Republican In
presidential races were the following
conversations at headquarters OF the
League N Independent Women Voters
for Hoover on a prominent corner IN
the downtown section of the city.
Please" said one woman visitor,
give me some Hoover buttons"
A second later she was pinning a
button on her coat and she said. snlil-
, ingly: I'm good Democrat. but al
ways vote for Mr.. Hoover" Some DEM
ocrats today might question her state
ment that she was really "a good DEM
ocrat." However. 1t happens that she
is registered Democrat. Your corre-
spondent mentioned to one Of the work
ers at these headquarters of the inde-
pendent women favoring Hoover the
large percentage of Democratic regis
trations in Baltimore
oh" said this woman worker, those
figures don't mean thing. I'm reg
istered Democrat myself"
Another one of the women working
in these headquarters, when asked how
the farmers would vote in this election
said that I'VE own farm outside of
Baltimore and the five men working
there all say they are going to vote
for Hoover"
Hold to Hoover Slogan.
An eight page publication, newspaper
size, labelled Plain Talk for Thinking
People" and published by the Hoover
Business Mems League. carries the slo-
gar5a--h huge type Hold on to Hoover" ="
At the head list of some of the
most important business rien and flnan-
| cial men in the city sponsoring this
publication is Daniel Willard. president
! of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. And
others in the group urging the voters
to hold on to Hoover" are Herbert A.
Wagner. president of the Consolidated
Gas. Electric Light g. Power Co.; Fran
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