The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-12
VOTING HEAVY
IN MARYLAND
ELECTION
Showers Fail to Keep Crowds
From BaIIoting Booths;
Workers Active

Voting booths in nearby Mary.
land were almost swamped early
today by an unprecedented num-
Der of voters.
Heavy showers about noon
caused the number to diminish,
however, and it was expected vot-
ing would continue light until
Government employees returned to
the suburbs late in the afternoon.
In Bethesda, $50 ballots were
cast in the first three hours, set.
ting new record.
Democrats Lead
The HyattSville vote started off
heavily with Democrats outnum-
bering Republicans two to one. In
the twenty-first district Democrats
were voting four to one, but the
total number casting ballots was
light.
In Hagerstown, Md, the early
vote was unusually active but it
was believed due to the great
number of candidates. Returns
will be late from that area.
Another record was set for
Anne Arundel county where the
vote was the heaviest cast for
many years.
Marlboro voters were tardy in
reaching the polls. Shortly before
noon only 81 had cast their bal
lots of whom 81 were Republicans.
In Meadows only 83 of a possible
700 had voted by noon.
Many Workers Out
Factions in both parties in
Prince Georges, with the fighting
edge of prize fighters developed in
bitter preprimary series Of
rallies, had large corps of workers
taking voters to the polls. Mont
gomery, on the other hand, went
about it's voting Serenely, with an
exceptionally short ballot for each
party.
The bitterness of the cam
paign in the Hyattsville area
last night had quoted. after the
death of j. Enos Ray, who has no
successor in public estimation
where he has dominated for so
many years. Major E. Brooke
Lee, of Silver Spring, who has
said he is out of politics, still has
a large following to approve the
selections of his former lieuten-
ants.
Montgomery Republicans, said
to favor Senator GoldSborough
for governor and Frederick Zihls
man, former Silver Spring resi-
dent, for the House of Representa-
tives from the sixth district, faced
the following ballot:
For Governor: Phillips Lee
Goldsborough, Harry w. Nice and
H. Webster Smith. For Senator:
Joseph I. France, John Phillip
Hill and C. Wilbur Miller. For
Comptroller: Frederick P. Adkins
and w. Newton Jackson. For the
House: Zihlman and William A.
Gunter.
Montgomery Democrats had an
even shorter ballot, choosing be-
tween Gov. Albert C. Richie and
Charles H. Conley for governor,
and William M. Maloy and George
L. Radcliffe for the United States
Senate.
Prince Georges Democrats had
to choose not only the candidates
for the State offices but also, in a
ballot containing % names, candi-
dates for county offices.
G. o. P. Vote on Forty
Republicans made choices from
a ballot containing 40 names.
Except for those seeking State
offices (of which the only change
is an uncontested candidacy for
Congress from the fifth district,
there were six candidates for
county commissioner: Robert A.
Bennett, John Bowie, William A.
Duvall, Elroy Gasch, j. Bryant
Morrison and Herbert Rawlings.
For States attorney: George Bur
roughs and J. Frank Parran. For
sheriff: j. Bernard Beall and
Joseph v. Wyvill, jr.