As Maryland Goes

Month ago the Baltimore Sunpapers began taking a Presidential straw vote in Maryland. Ballots were mailed to the 771,000 registered voters in the State and no one else. Interest in the outcome arose chiefly from the fact that Maryland has voted for the winner in every Presidential election since 1892. Last week the Sunpapers, having mailed all their ballots, reported over 30% returned. The vote:

Roosevelt: 104,912

Landon: 61,239

Unpleasant news was this to the Sunpapers which, although Democratic, have openly proclaimed their opposition to the President* (TIME, Sept. 21). On the basis of these returns, Maryland will not only vote for Roosevelt but do what few States are expected to do: give him a bigger majority (1%) than in 1932.

* Although Missouri, like Maryland, is considered by most observers likely to go Democratic, last week Joseph Pulitzer's old paper, the liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which supported Wilson in 1916, Cox in 1920, Davis in 1924, Smith in 1928 and Roosevelt in 1932, announced that in 1936 it will oppose the re-election of Roosevelt. Reason: It opposes a government "with vast and centralized authority over the economic life of the nation."

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