Evening star., 1938-09-09
BY WILL p. KENNEDY,
Star Staf1 Correspondent.


Arundel County, which contains this
capital city of the Free State of Mary
land, Is expected unless all signs fail,
to give a substantial majority to
Senator Millard E. Tydings in his
campaign for denomination, opposed
by Representative David j. Lewis,
sponsored by the President, who is
making his second bid for the United
States Senate 1t will also probably
give Mayor Howard w. Jackson of
Baltimore a smaller majority in his
four-cornered contest for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor, with
Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor
close second.
This is the conclusion reached after
canvass of the situation in An
napolis, Eastport on the other side
Of Spa Creek, Glen Burnie, David
sonvllle in the Southern section, Deal,
part Of Laurel, Jessup, Severn and
shipley.
Annapolis Pot Boiling.
Annapolis is right now a boiling
political pot. with Jackson, Tydings
and Gambrill headquarters right next
to the courthouse and facing the
State Capitol, big O'Conor banner
across the main street and Demo-
cratic Central Committee headquar-
ters just around the corner. This
latter headquarters is mainly devoted
to the candidacy of Mayor Louis N
Phlpps for State senator and has q
sound car operating. 1t is explained
emphatically-that this local head
quarters is strictly hands off in the
senatorial and governorship contests
and is working exclusively for the
State and county tickets
Iydlngs is away ahead In this
county, the canvass OF registered Dem
ocratS in all sections discloses but
Representative Lewis seems to have
made considerable gain in the last
two weeks. 1t is explained that all
Federal appointees have been work
ing for the last six months for Sena-
tor Tydings' denomination. Some few
OF them have desisted since the Presi-
dent came out in support of Rep
resentative Lewis and declared a
purge" on Senator Tydings But
the families whom they previously
persuaded to vote for Tydings have
not switched with them. So Tydings
got too much Of start, which it would
take Mr.. Lewis a month to overcome
Mr.. Lewis strength is shown near
Baltimore. especially in Brooklyn and
Curtis Bay. on the border of the
county. among the labor class.
Anne Arundel County is largely
agricultural. and the farm vote seems
to be decidedly for Tydings, especially
down through the southern part Of
the county.
II Counties Surveyed.
This completes a careful survey in
II of the % counties.
Backtracking along the Eastern
Shore from the southernmost tip at
Crisfield to Kent Island, pronounced
sentiment was found that the Presi-
dent by his visit and speeches at
Salisbury and Denton has changed
more votes in favor of Tydings than
In favor of Lewis.
"A ticket taker at the Matapeake
ferry from Kent Island to Annapo-
lis, who chats with hundreds of per-
sons from all parts of the Eastern
Shore daily, said that the opinion
generally expressed is that the Presi-
dent has hurt himself and the Demo-
cratic party and has hurt the candi-
dacy of Representative Lewis" He
said he has found sentiment strongly
in favor of Senator Tydings.
Talbot County, midway on the
Eastern Shore, is eight to one in
support of Senator 1ydings," declared
H. H. Balch, prominent lawyer Of
Easton, who is chairman of the Vet
erans' League, conducting headquar-
ters near the courthouse in Easton
This claim was supported by c. E..
Bray, veteran writer for the Star
Democrat, who said that his con-
facts all along the Eastern Shore,
and especially in Easton, make him
believe that "Tydings will get a very
large majority" He also said that
'the people generally resent the entry
Of the President in the campaign on
the Eastern Shore to urge a candi-
date so close to the C. l. O." There
are no labor organizations in Talbot
County, and the interests there are
largely agricultural.
Resent Outside Interference.
These men are quoted because they
have an unusual opportunity to gauge
the sentiment as expressed by the
voters rather than officeholders or
candidates - remembering that the
shore men will talk more frankly with
them than with any outsider who
comes in and asks them how they
are going to vote They resent outside
interference in what they regard as
their inherent and inalienable right
to vote as they please and run their
own affairs.
Easton is good contact ground, be-
cause 1t is celebrating the 150th an
niversary of its incorporation as a
town, although it was village many
years before that. Visitors from all
over the Eastern Shore are visiting
Easton as a model, self-sustaining
community" 1t has its own public
utllltleS system. Inc gas company
was bought by the town 13 years ago,
and 1t had its own electric plant
years before that. 1t claims to have
had covered sewers before Baltimore,
to have the lowest public utility rates
in the State and S125,00O cash in
bank to the credit of its utilities.
No one could be found in Easton
on two visits who would make any
claims Of Lewis strength, and there
Is no organization there working in