Evening star., 1944-11-05
DeweyChanees
Appear Bright
In Maryland T
EIeventh-Hour Trend
Credited; Tydines
Due to Win Easily
(This is the final article in a.
series of eight In a prediction
surrey throughout Maryland.)
BY WILL p. KENNEDY,
Star Staff Correspondent,

".
Thomas E. Dewey has an excellent
chance to win Maryland's eight elec-
toral votes Tuesday. 1t has been a
close fight, with Democratic leaders
insisting that the State will remain
in the Roosevelt column-but the
trend is with Gov. Dewey. His rally
in Baltimore Thursday, and other
11th-hour influences are believed to
have put him over. but the soldier
vote is an inponderable
Senator Tydings will lead the
Democratic ticket, and should carry
nearly every county.
Republican State Senate Leader
Wilmer Fell Davis of fredericksburg
is expected to be elected to Con-
gress from the nine Eastern Shore
counties. as successor to Repre-
sentative Ward. defeated in the
primary by Dudley G. Roe, Sudlers-
vile.
Baldwin Hard Pressed.
Representative Baldwin, I'd Dis
trict, Democrat, is hard pressed by
the Republican contestant, Wilfred
T. McQuaid, and Campaign Manager
w. Preston Lane, jr., has conceded
that the three counties of this dis
trict, which includes part of Balti-
more, will go Republican. With a
strong Dewey trend, Mr.. McQuaid
will win.
Representative D'Alesandro, DEM
ocrat, undoubtedly will be re-
elected in the third district.
In the fourth district Represent
atve Ellison, Republican, also has
a nip-and-tuck contest with
George H. Fallon, who has con-
solidated Democratic support and
is likely to win. Mr.. Ellison. how
ever, has had a better record for
New Deal support than any Demo-
crat from Maryland
Representative Sasscer, Democrat,
is sure winner in the fifth district,
although the Southern Maryland
counties will 60 to Dewey. His op-
ponent is C. Maurice Weidemeyer,
an Army private attached to the
Quartermaster's Office, Camp Lee,
Va, who has practiced law in Wash
ington.
Representative Beau. Frostburg,
Republican, has a runaway for
reelection against Representative
Daniel F. McMullen, Democratic
nominee, Cumberland, newcomer
in politics.
Maryland Is Pivotal State
Maryland has been in the big five
class of pivotal States-with New
York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
and Connecticut-counted on to
swing the election. Maryland is
listed as one of the border States
surely for Gov. Dewey by the Ma
tional Democrats for Dewey Com
mittee. 1t has been a presidential
weather vane since 1888
Gov. Dewey probably will carry II
of Maryland's % counties, and will
cut Baltimore city's big Democratic
vote, usually depended on to Offset
the counties. Antifourth-term cru
saders. even estimate that he may
carry the city, A Catholic protest
vote against Communist infiltration
and the Political Action Committee
is forecast. Many veteran Demo-
Gratis will vote against their party's
candidate; thousands of other Dem
ocrats will refrain from voting for
the presidential nominee; thousands
of union labor votes will demon
strate that the whole labor vote
cant be delivered, and thousands of
CIO workers will vote in protest
against the Political Action Com
mittee levy. Italians in Allegany
County and Baltimore city and
farmers organizations are bitter at
the administration.
Roosevelt Banks on Tydings.
Maryland offers strange spec
tacle. Six years ago President
Roosevelt used the prestige OF his
Office to try to purge" Senator
Tydings-and today the Presidents
strongest hope in Maryland is to
ride along on the Tydings sweep.
AS matter of fact he has been a
severe handicap to Senator Tydings.
who has lost many independent
votes he formerly received as q
New Deal opponent.
In 1910 Mr.. Roosevelt beat Wen
dell Willkie in Maryland by 1902
votes. OF the Roosevelt majority,
87,351 was in Baltimore city and
q ,661 in the counties. Mr.. Willkie
carried five of the % counties
Carroll, Charles, Garrett, Hartford
and Talbot. Mr.. Roosevelt's 1910
margin represented a considerable
cut from his 1886 majority of 1885,.
lit.
Then, in 1912, the Republicans
won two seats in Congress and six
months later Theodore r. Nickel
din, Republican, was elected Mayor
of Baltimore.
Galen l.. TAFT, veteran COP cam.
paign manager, says:
Dewey will carry the counties
overwhelmingly and probably Balti.
more city with a substantial ma.
jority'