Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-09-25

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tween the lines. evidently unfavorable to
to the candidacy OF the Democratic nominee
for Congress in this district, Is copied from
the Washington Star:
GERMANTOWN, Nd, September, TO-
| ANYBODY who says that the politicians Of
| Montgomery county are not warming up
| for good fight has only got to take ride
on one of the Baltimore and Ohio locals In
the morning or evening when they are
crowded to have his mind changed pretty
| quickly. II is the Democrats who have
started things agoing. The Republican,
| turn will come later. The man who Is re-
sponsible for stirring things up out here at
| the present moment is David j. Lewis, OF
| Cumberland, former law partner OF Repre-.
tentative Pearre, q former State Senator and
now Col. Pearre's opponent In the race for
Congress.
The Democrats of the sixth congressional
| district say they have candidate Tor Con-
gress this year who stands better chance
Of winning Republican votes and turning
the tables than any democrat VINO mas run
| for long time. To one who has not been
yery familiar with former Democratic can
didates it certainly looks as II they are right.
Not even by the greatest stretch OF the
| IMAGINATION, is Mr.. Lewis the sort OF can
| didate you could call prepossessing In ap-
pearance. He doesn't look one little bit
| like candidate for Congress. AS got OIL
| the train here last evening and saw him
walking over TO the village store with Dem.
ocrat Bowie Waters, knowing that one OF
the two was the candidate,l Immediately
picked Mr.. Waters for the man.
Lewis would have mighty hard time
stretching up to height OF ave feet, so II
looks, and he dresses In q rough business
suit and q somber, though differentiated
| waIstcoat, and wears derby hat. He car.
| ries little sAtchel and looks for all the
world like drummer for some new cigar
who is having q hard time to buck the to-
bacco trust.
Even when he gets up on the platform he
| falls utterly to shine alongside OF such tne
looking politicians as the Hon. Alexander
Kigour of Rockville, the Hon. Blair Lee,
State Senator; the Hon. Outerbridge Spates
of Rockville and the Hons. Bowie and Eu-
gene Waters Of this place. All OF these
gentlemen were present last night and help
ed to put him In the shade on the plauorm.
That IL. they did so up until the time he
began to speak. ALI Of them spoke ahead
of him. of course, 90 that he would have
A chance to leave the last and the proverb.
jallv best taste In the mouth. They all did
very we'll. too, and aroused the enthusiasm
of all the Democrats and few colored Re-
publicans who crowded the hall over Wat
era 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 long shot.
It's the way he has OF talking that does
it, all right. He says privately that he can't
argue before Jury unless he knows there
are three or four people on 1t that have
to be convinced by having arguments liter.
allv pounded into them, and that he can't
talk at all we'll at political meeting unless
he believes there are some Republicans
within hearing. Perhaps 1t Is this sort OF
speecbmaking that got him into his most
noticeable orStorical habit. He shakes his
head like terrier with an old shoe, and
slaps his hands together as II he would
break them off at the wrists. he throws MS
words at you with all his sturdy little might
and bites them off viciously. Somehow,
too, he makes you believe that he Is, at least
In part, right in what he says.
There is one man in public life to-day TO
whom he bears a remarkably close resem.
blanca In figure and manner and In what
he has to say, and that Is Republican, too
at least, he calls himself one. 1t Is Sena-
tor La Toilette, of Wisconsin. Both are
small. very small; both have the vicious,
snappy way OF talking, and both manage to
be convincing. Also, both are good scrap
pers off as well as on the platform.
Mr.. Lewis father was miner at $40 q
month not 90 very long ago. The son, also,
knows what 1t is 10 work In the mines OF
Alleqany county. That Is the reason he
got elected to the State Senate few years
ago In Republican county. The miners
like him for what he was and foT what he Is.
He is called q good lawyer now, and 1t Ia
because he studied hard at night when
very young man.
Two principal arguments are being made
use of by Mr.. Lewis In his Montgomery
county tour. The first is that Col. Pearre
ought not TO be allowed to monopolize the
office OF representative from the sixth dis
trict. He starts out bis speeches by reading
A list of the representatives from the dis.
trict since the civil war, showing that most
of them served two and four years, and
none longer than six.
snow, there's Col. Pearre," he declares
"asking Tor two years more after he has al.
ready been In Congress ten years"
Then he turns to the ladies, who are near
ly always part Of the political audiences
out here, and says:
"What chance, l ask you, has son OF
yours to get high office In the service Of
the people of this county II men like Col.
Pearre are around? ?"
And every good Democrat, and one or
/ TWO hepuDlChub INV auu tuoHt uou 'h0h
heads approvlngly.
Mr.. Lewis other argument centers around
that bank deposit guarantee business OF
BRYAN. After telling all about 1t, he takes
up Mr.. Taft's opposition thereto, and then
tells a story. He's good story-teller, too,
by the way. Told 'em about Irishmen,
Dutchmen and Scotchmen and what not last
night, and did the initiating very creditably,
indeed. or course, this helps.
Mr.. Taft, he says, takes the position that
lot of good banks will have to suffer Tor
bad ones, II such law Is enacted. That
reminds him
"Once there was q man" he says, who
went out one night and had too good time.
To speak plainly, he got several seas over.
When he came 10 his front door, after o
very perilous journey, the keyhole Just
wouldn't stay 10 front Of the key. lie did
manage to get inside somehow, though, and
then the hall floor persisted In rocking all
around and occasionally coming up and
smacking him in more than friendly man
ner on the forehead.
"After Q bit he managed to get started on
, his Way M stairs. The fourth step hit him
10 the face and knocked him all the way to
the bottom. The next time the middle step
did it. and then, on the third try 1t was the
ton step. Picking himself up at the bottom,
| verv sore and hurt 10 mind, he stumbled
over to the post and chung desperately, at
the same time casting eyes, wet with sym
pathetic tears, all around him.
, "tO Lord he prayed, have mercy on the
. Door souls at sea on such night as this. "
, rs all in the point Of view and the state
of mind you're In, he says, and that's what
ia the matter with Mr.. Taft. Didn't he ever
near that in any insurance business those
who win got money from those who lose.
Mr.. Lewis says he's going TO carry Mont
eomery county and Allegany county, for
sure. and will have q close fight In Freder'
ick and Washington, with good chance 70
carry them. He even thinks he will push
n the Republicans in Garrett.