Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-19
ORAT0RY AT GERMANTOWN
Montgomery County Democrats Get
Busy.
CALL THEIR CHANCES ROSY
Candidate Lewis Will Continue to
Stump County Next Week-Some
Points of View.
ecial From n STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

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GERMANTOWN, Nd, September TO-
Anybody who says that the politicians OF
Montgomery county are not warming up
for a good fight has only got to take a
ride on one of the Baltimore and Ohio
locals in the morning or evening when
they are crowded to have his mind chang
ed pretty quickly. It's the democrats
who have started things agoing. The
republicans turn will come later. The
man who is responsible for stirring
things up out here at the present mo-
ment is David J. Lewis of Cumberland.
former law partner of Representative
Pearre. former state senator, and now
Col Pearres opponent in the race for
Congress.
Senator Lewis was here last night.
The local democrats. who apparently con-
sist mostly of the Waters family and
their friends. with the assistance of some
down Rockville way. gave him one OF the
best receptions he has had since he be-
gan his stumping tour of the county, the
first of the week.
Candidate Lewis came on the even
ing train from Washington. From the
smoker. up behind the engine, all the
way back to the tail flag. people were
talking politics. The democrats UP
here are certainly hot after Col Pearre,
and most of the republicans are just
this way before. you know" AS 1 came
down on the train this morning I heard
just as much political hot air from both
sides. There's something doing. all right,
even II it is nothing but talk.
The democrats of the sixth congression-
al district say they have a candidate for
Congress this year who stands a better
chance Of winning republican votes and
turning the tables than any democrat
who has run for long time. To one who
has not been very familiar with former
democratic candidates 1t certainly looks
as If they are right
Doesn't Look the Part.
Not. even by the greatest stretch of the
Imagination, is Mr.. Lewis the sort of
candidate you could call prepossessing
In appearance. He doesn't look one little
bit like q candidate for Congress. AS I
got of the train here last evening and
saw him walking over to the village store
with Democrat Bowie Waters, knowing
that one of the two was the candidate,
Immediately picked Mr.. Waters for the
man.
Lewis would have a mighty hard time
stretching up to height of five feet, SO
1t looks. and he dresses in a rough busi-
ness suit and a somber. though different
hued waistcoat, and wears a derby hat.
He carries q little satchel aand looks for
all the world like a drummer for some
new cigar who Is having a hard time to
buck the tobacco trust.
Even when he gets up on the platform
he fails utterly to shine alongside OF
such fine looking politicians as the Hon.
Alexander Kilgour of Rockville, the Hon.
Blair Lee. state senator: the Hon. Outer
bridge Spates of Rockville and the Hons.
Bowie and Eugene Waters of this place.
All of these gentlemen were present last
night and helped to put him in the shade
on the platform.
That is. they did SO up until the time he
began to speak. All of them spoke ahead
of him. Of course. SO that he would have
chance to leave the last and the pro-
verbally best taste in the mouth. They all
did very well. too, and aroused the en-
thusasm of all tie democrats and a few
colored republicans who crowded the hall
over Waters store. When Mr.. Lewis
began to speak. however, he began to get
bigger. BY the time he had finished he
was the biggest man in the room by a
long shot.