Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-13
Tydings Sees
81 Unit Votes
In 3Counties
Figures Mohoney at
43, but Fails to
Predict Baltimore
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star Stan Correspondent

Star Stan Correspondent
BALTIMORE. April l3.-Mil-
lard E. Tydings predicts that,
"at rock bottom" he will get
67 unit votes from Maryland's
% counties in his race for the
Democratic senatorial nominal
ton against George P. Mahoney.
The most he figures his OPP
ponent can get in the counties,
he said. is 43 unit votes. He
made no statements about the
~ 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 l52 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
it has total members of the State
Legislature.
MahOney Predicts lao
Mr.. Mahoney made 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 a unit vote
total Of lao 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 to
a Star reporter later. that he is
expecting to lose Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties and
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 can
carry in making his predictions
to a group Of reporters and sup
porters over a luncheon table
in Cambridge. Nd, 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 votes
he is conservatively conceding
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
OF Hurlock. People there
turned out in droves to shake
his hand and hear him speak on
a street corner.
His impromptu speech covered
all the main points he
has made in previous campaign
addresses.
Speaks for Farmers
He called for a strong national
defense to keep the peace. SYM
pathized with the farmer for
being left out Of the prosperity
most OF the rest Of the economy
seems to be enjoying, urged a
program OF sending our food
to needy counties
abroad and pledged tight.
OF Government ex-
penditures to keep "burdensome
taxes" as low as possible.
When one member OF his
audience asked. How about vet
erans?" Mr.. Tydings said he
believes the Government should
give pensions to World War /
veterans OF over IS, lust as it
has the veterans OF every other
previous war since the Ameri-
can Revolution
Mr.. Tydings shook hundreds
Df hands in the Dorchester COM
Of Cambridge. Hurlock
Secretary. East New Market,
Rhodesdale. Ell Dorado, Gales
town and Vienna.
InvadeS Enemy Territory
Today he planned TO invade
Mr.. Mahoney's home county OF
Baltimore, in the suburbs OF this
,ity.
His Baltimore County cam
)algn manager. j. Elmer Weis-
1eit. jr., a ToWson attorney. told
The Star that "one OF the big
stories Of this campaign is going
On out here-we're going to
larry Mahoney's own county for
Senator Tydings."
Mr.. Mahoney, a wealthy paw
ng contractor who lives on
Worthington Valley
state, has always carried Balti-
more County in his three previ-
BUS primary fights. Also, he
always has carried FIVE OF the
Xix Baltimore city districts.
Mr. Tydings plans to spend
most OF the last two weeks OF his
campaign in Baltimore CITY