Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-13
.Tydings Sees
.67 Unit Votes
In 23Counties
Figures Muhoney al
43, but Fuils to
Predict Baltimore
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star staff Correspondent

lard E. Tydings predicts that,
"at rock bottom" he will get
81 unit votes from Maryland's
% counties in his race for the
Democratic senatorial nomina-
ton against George P. Mahoney
The most he figures his OPP
ponent can get in the counties
he said. is 40 unit votes. He
made no statements about the
AZ unit votes at stake in the
six Baltimore City Legislative
districts.
In a Statewide Maryland
primary. a candidate must get
n unit votes to win. There
are 152 unit votes in all under
Maryland's junior Electoral Col
lege system. in which each coun-
ty or city district is allotted the
same number of unit votes as
1t has total members of the State
Legislature.
Mahoney Predicts lao
Mr.. Mahoney made a much
more extravagant prediction to
a La Plata audience Saturday
night, when he said he believed
he would carry all six city dis
tricts and 20 out of % counties
That would give him unit vote
total of l40 or so.
Mr.. Mahoney did not specify
the counties he feels he will
carry in the May 7 primary, but
he made it clear. in remarks tc
a Star reporter later. that he is
expecting to lose Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties ano
either Hartford or Kent. Har-
ford is Mr.. Tydings' home county
and Kent is where the boom be-
gan which resulted in his last
minute entry in the race against
Mr.. Mahoney.
Mr.. Tydings. who served in the
Senate for "a years until his
1850 defeat by the Republican
incumbent. Senator John Mar
shall Butler, also would not spe-
city the counties he feels he car
carry in making his predictions
to group of reporters and sup
porters over a luncheon table
in Cambridge, Md, yesterday.
Expects More
He said, however, his estimate
of 81 is rock bottom" and &C.
tually. he expects to get about
half of the 43 county unit vote.
he is conservatively concedine
to his opponent.
He said Mr.. Mahoney's claims
were ridiculous"
On the Eastern Shore, for ex.
ample. Mr.. Mahoney is claiming
all nine counties. Mr.. Tydings
says he will carry seven of them
He would not say which ones
but he appears to be having the
most difficult time in Somerset
home county of State Controller
j. Willard Tawes, inc of Mr.. Ma
honey's big backers-and Dor
chester, where both dominant
Democratic political factions
have Endorsed Mr.. Mahoney.
Yet. in Dorchester yesterday
Mr.. Tydings got one of the most
encouraging receptions of his
campaign in the farm COM
munity of Hurlock. People there
turned out in droves to shake
his hand and hear him speak or
a street corner.
Invades Enemy Territory
Today he planned to invade
Mr.. Mahoney's home county OF
Baltimore, in the suburbs of this
city.
His Baltimore County cam
paign manager. j. Elmer Weis-
heit. jr., a Towson attorney, told
The Star that lone of the big
stories of this campaign is going
on out here-we're going to
carry Mahoney's own county for
Senator Tydings."
Mr.. Mahoney. a wealthy paw
ing contractor who lives on a
pretentious Worthington Valley
estate. has always carried Balti-
more County in his three previ-
Gus primary fights. Also, he
always has carried five of the
six Baltimore city districts.
Mr.. Tydings plans to spend
most Of the last two weeks of his
campaign in Baltimore City
concentrating his efforts on
winning at least three of the
city districts. That means that
for all practical purposes, he
will wind up his grinding tour
OF the counties at the end of