Evening star., 1952-05-07
Sdsscer Awaits
Official Canvass
Of Primary Vote;
Delays Decision on
Asking Recount in
Loss to Mohoney

Representative Sasscer will waiI
for results of the official canvass
OF Maryland's primary vote, which
begins at noon tomorrow, before
deciding whether to ask for a re-
count in his loss Of the Democratic
Senatorial nomination to George
p. Mahoney.
Unofficial returns from all but
eight Of 1,401 precincts in Mon
days balloting today showed:
Mahoney. 137,403.
SasScer. 1925.
But Maryland Senators are
nominated by unit votes in State
conventions - each county and
Baltimore legislative district hav-
ing as many units as it has men,
bers in the General Assembly
When candidate carries a county
or district. he gets all of that
county'S convention votes. Only
II are needed to win the nomina-
ton. In unit votes, the score
stood:
Mahoney, 81.
SaSScer, 68.
Consequently, Mr.. Mahoney has
seven more than he needs. Mr..
SaSscer would need nine units,
irrespective of the popular votes.
II Mr.. Mahoney lost eight and
Mr.. Sasscer picked up eight units,
they would be tied and then the
popular vote would determine the
winner.
After meeting with top party
leaders at his Baltimore head
quarters yesterday, Mr.. Sasscer
said, I'm view Of the extremely
close vote on the unofficial returns
in certain counties. am going to
wait until the official canvass is
made before issuing a statement. "
Z. Vote Close in Three Counties.
4, In three of the counties, the
popular vote difference was less
than 100. Mr.. Mahoney carried
Dorchester by 81 votes. Garrett by
90 and Caroline by A. Their unit
vote strength at the convention
IS: Dorchester, S; Jarrett, 4, and
Caroline, 8. OF these three, Mr.
SasScer would have to carry Dor
chester and Garrett to change the
results.
Results Of the official canvass
will not be known until tomorrow
night or Friday, depending upon
the speed Of local election officials
Should the results go against
Mr.. Mahoney-and it is not likely
--it would not be a new experience
for him. Two years ago he won
the popular votes in a guberna-
torial primary against former Gov.
Lane. But he failed to win nom
ination for lack of sufficient unit
VOTES. ....
II Mr.. Mahoney asked for a re-
count but then withdrew the re-
Quest.
There was no question of Rep
resentative Beall's winning the
Senatorial nomination. He car
ried Baltimore'S six legislative
districts and Is Of the % coun-
ties to garner a safe 100 unit
votes. His closest competitor,
H. Grady Gore Of Montgomery
County, got the other 80.
Y 3 Fail to. Win Units.
The three other G. o. P. con-
tenders who failed to capture any
units are Royden A. Blunt, in
ventor Of the square glass milk
bottle. Of Baltimore; Mayor Her
man L. Mills Of Hagerstown and
Thomas Hankinson, Baltimore.
With all but five precincts heard
from. the results Of the popular
vote for the two leaders were:
Beall, 53,393.
Gore. 32,157.
Mr.. Gore, a former Democrat.
carried Prince Georges, st. Marys
and Anne Arundel Counties in the
washington area, plus four others.
~ PeddicOrd Won't Quit.
Meanwhile. Stephen B. Peddi-
cord hasn't given up.
The perennial Office seeker, q
poor third in the race for Demo-
cratic nomination to the Senate,
announced he'll be in the race in
November.
Mr.. Peddicord said he'd been
s.'urged by Democratic and Repub-
lican voters" to launch a write-in
campaign for himself in the Sen
ate general election. He an
nounced he would. He got 8,0O5
votes Monday.