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Catonsville, which is to be called the Spring Grove State Hospital, and $175,000 for new build- 

 ings at the Springfield State Hospital at Sykesville. To cover these appropriations for state 

 hospitals the 1912 legislature authorised a loan of $800,000, in addition to a loan of $600,000 

 authorised in 1910. A state miners' hospital is to be established at Frostburg. For main- 

 tenance $125,000 was appropriated for the Maryland Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Sabillas- 

 ville (1908). 



History. In Baltimore there was. an exciting contest at the primary and regular 

 elections in 1911. In the former (April 4) John Barry Mahool (b. 1870; mayor since 

 1907), a Democrat not entirely satisfactory to the "machine," was defeated for re- 

 nomination by James Harry Preston (b. 1860; speaker, house of delegates, 1894) by 

 9,000 out of 50,000 votes cast; and the Republican " reform "candidate, Charles H. 

 Torsch, was beaten by the nominee of the regular organisation, E. Clay Timanus 

 (about 17,000 to 4,600 votes). Preston was elected by a small plurality. The first 

 state primary (August 26) under the new law nominated for governor Arthur Pue Gorman 

 (a son of the late Senator Gorman), whose supposed relations with Democratic boss 

 rule in Baltimore worked against him in the campaign, and Phillips Lee Goldsborough, 

 Republican, who was elected (November 7, 1911) by a plurality of 3,000 (106,392 

 votes to 103,395 f r Gorman) and who succeeded Austin L. Crothers 1 (b. 1860; Demo- 

 crat) in January for a four-year term. All the other state officers and a large majority 

 of the state legislature were Democrats. Goldsborough came out for Roosevelt early 

 in the year, and Roosevelt carried the presidential preference primary (by 29,000 votes 

 to 26,000 for Taft). Speaker Champ Clark was the Democratic choice for presidential 

 candidate. The Democratic National Convention was held in Baltimore. The Pro- 

 gressive party nominated a full ticket for Congress but none was elected, the Democrats 

 carrying the 6 districts including the sth, the only one which sent a Republican to the 

 62nd Congress. The state legislature (to be elected in 1913) in 1914 will choose a 

 successor to Isidor Rayner 2 (1850-1912), United States senator from 1905 to his death, 

 November 25, 1912; ad interim the governor appointed (November .29) a Republican, 

 William Purnell Jackson (b. 1868). Woodrow Wilson received the electoral vote of 

 the state, with 112,674 votes to 57,786 for Roosevelt, 54,956 for Taft, and 3,996 for 

 Debs (2,323 in 1908). Taft ran third in Baltimore, but second (with nearly 60% more 

 votes than Roosevelt) in the counties. 



In St. Mary's county a campaign for higher liquor licence, led by the Roman Catho- 

 lic clergy, was unsuccessful, 857 to 611 votes (August 3, 1912). 



In Baltimore at the primary election of August 29, 1911 there were palpable frauds: 

 in the Sth precinct of the 23rd ward no votes were returned for Thomas F. McNulty, 

 who had opposed the party organisation candidate for sheriff and who secured affida- 

 vits from who had voted for him in the precinct. On September 22nd, a grand jury 

 presented indictments against six election officials of the precinct; and on December 

 29th, it indicted the officials of 38 other precincts in which Independent Democratic 

 candidates seemed to have been defrauded. One judge (Republican) of the Sth 

 precinct of the 23rd ward was acquitted (June 10 1912); three others were found guilty 

 and sentenced to imprisonment and fine (August 22nd), but their cases were carried 

 to the state court of appeals. 



A new charter submitted to the legislature by the Baltimore Committee of Fifty 

 was not passed. In April-July 1912 there was a stevedores' strike in Baltimore, in which 

 employees of the Baltimore Copper Smelting and Refining Company joined (May 15), 

 ending with a victory for the strikers. The stevedores received an advance of 2 % cents 



1 Crothers studied law at the University of Maryland, was admitted to the bar in 1 880, 

 was state senator in 1897-1901, judge of the 2nd Circuit in 1906 and governor 1908-12. He 

 died May 25, 1912. 



2 Rayner was of Bavarian ancestry, was educated at the University of Virginia, was state 

 senator in 1886-87, representative in Congress 1887-89 and in 1891-95, and state attor- 

 ney-general in 1899-1903. He was counsel to W. S. Schley in the Santiago investigation 

 (1901). In state politics he opposed the Gorman machine but secured a Democratic nomina- 

 tion to the Senate; and in the United States Senate he worked for arbitration, for the abroga- 

 tion of the treaty with Russia, for tariff reform, and against monopolies, arid was a caustic 

 critic of Roosevelt and one of the ablest debaters on the floor. 



