Trend in Baltimore

The off-year Republican voting trend continued. After 16 years as Mayor of Baltimore, ruddy, cherubic Howard Wilkinson Jackson, 65, last week found himself out of a job. Democrat Jackson, who had kept a profitable insurance business on the side, was soundly trounced (20,000 votes) by Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 42, fireman's son, lawyer, spellbinder. All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon. Democrats, who have lost the mayoralty only twice before since 1900, blamed the defeat on 1) the accumulated enmities which pile up on any longtime officeholder, 2) the preponderance of women voters, 3) the apathy of Negro Democrats.

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