Baltimore's Portent

Democrats took Baltimore away from the G. O. P. last week. In a tepid municipal election, Democrat Howard Wilkinson Jackson was chosen Mayor by a record-breaking majority of 63,000 votes, which sent Republican Nominee William Albrecht back to bookbinding. Mr. Jackson served as the city's chief executive from 1923 to 1927, was called the "best Mayor Baltimore ever had" by four-time Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie. A farm boy who went to Baltimore and built up a large insurance business, Mayor-elect Jackson, now 54, is a genial, handshaking politician who asks every stranger his first name and calls him by that thereafter. As a municipal administrator, he believes in inviting industrial experts to help run city affairs.

The present Mayor of Baltimore, Republican William Frederick Broening, no candidate for reelection, carried his city by 20,000 votes in 1927. Herbert Hoover won it the next year by 10,000. Last week's huge Democratic turnover made Democratic national headquarters in Washington dizzy with delight. Executive Chairman Shouse pronounced it a major '"trend" which, coupled with the Chicago election last month, foreshadowed Republican defeat in 1932. More pleased than anybody was Governor Ritchie who saw in Jackson's victory important assistance for his own presidential candidacy.

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