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he would have los ballots on the first
ballot. Senator France, speaking for
himself and Mr.. Smith, claimed sub
stantial victory. Senator Goldsbor-
ough is quietly confident that things
will break his way.
Nice is claiming a majority in all
six legislative districts in Baltimore
City. But this is contested by Smith.
It may end up with Nice carrying four
and Smith the other two of these dis
trict's Goldsborough's initial strength
lies out in the counties. He has been
a strong dry in the past and has not
had so much support in the past in
Baltimore City. However, the wet and
dry issue has rather faded from the
picture in the campaign this year
While Senator Goldsborough has made
a comparatively brief campaign, only
five or six weeks, he has very effec-
tive manner Of campaigning. He has
been in all the counties, has shaken
hands with 10000 or more voters and
has conferred with the leaders. On
the stump he is an effective talker
although he says very little on the
floor of the Senate. In the old World
War days he was the mainstay of the
Liberty bond campaign in Maryland.
Bank Issue" Raised.
Mr.. Nice has raised the so-called
bank issue" against his two opponents
for the gubernatorial nomination, and
he promises to take this issue into the
campaign for the general election il
he is nominated. 1t is his contention
that the banks of Maryland have been
dominated politically. AS Maryland
had its share of big bank failures and
many persons were caught in the
crash, he believes the issue is decidedly
effective. He attempts to hook up
Goldsborough with the political
banks" because he was a director in
the Baltimore Trust Co., one of the
defunct banks, and to place Smith in
the same category with the Union
Trust Co., another of the banks that
closed Nice will close his campaign
with an address over the radio tomor-
row night at 7:30 o'clock, in which
he will discuss this bank issue and
the banking situation in Maryland
He is promising thorough inquiry
into the banking situation If he is
nominated and elected Governor, and
he charges that no such investigation
will be possible if Ritchie, Colds
borough or Smith becomes Governor
Nice claims majorities in II
counties outside, of Baltimore and
pluralities in several others. Among
the counties in which he claims q
majority over his two opponents are
Garrett, Allegheny, Washington
Frederick, Montgomery, Baltimore
Carroll, Hartford, Talbot, Somerset
and Anne Arundel.
+ Former Richie Opponent.
Nice was the Republican opponent
of Gov. Ritchie when the latter first
ran for Office, in 1919. At that time
Ritchie defeated Nice by a scant 165
votes. That was the year, however,
when there was great discomfort with
the Democratic administration and
the World War. H. Webster Smith
was chairman of the Baltimore Pub
lie Improvement Commission and
made good record in that office. He
has not been prominent in politics
hitherto. Goldsborough Is known
from one end of the State to the
other.
In the senatorial race, Mr.. Hill ha.
made only a two weeks campaign
He has been in all parts of the State
talking to the leaders and campaign.
ing among the members of the Amer
ican Legion. He was originally q
candidate for the gubernatorial nomi.
nation but withdrew to support Colds
borough. He was for several terms
a member of the House from a strongly
Democratic district In Baltimore, and
he might still be a member of the
House, so strongly was he intrenched
had he not decided to run for the
Senate against former Senator Weller
a number Of years ago.
Mr.. France has been at work fol
the senatorial nomination for months
and months. He sought vindicatior
at the hands of Republican voters in
Maryland because of the treatment he
was accorded at the Republican ma.
tional convention, when he was hus-
tied from the platform when he in
sisted upon addressing the convention
in opposition to the nomination OF
Herbert Hoover. He was a candidate
for the Republican nomination against
Mr.. Hoover in that year. France was
Senator during the Wilson admins
tration.
Wilbur Miller's only chance for the
senatorial nomination seems to lie in
the fact that he is hooked up with
Nice, and that Nice-if he runs ahead
of the other gubernatorial candidates
may pull him along to victory. Miller
has not been political figure.
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