The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-07-15

The People To Name Candidates
throughout State.
CONGRESSIONAL AspIRANTs.

ASA1eiNS ~ OoHSACSSlOHdl nominees tHG
following extracts are taken, bearing on
the First and Second districts:
For the first time in the history Of
Maryland the nominations for Congress
this year will be made by direct vote. and
this, too, by both parties. AS conse-
quence, the nominations will be later than
usual, and the campaign correspondingly
short. Joint primaries will be held
throughout the State on August go, and
the man who receives the highest total of
his party in each Congressional district
will be declared the nominee without the
formality of convention. The direct
primaries will be held in accordance with
the Lee primary election law enacted by
the last Legislature, and which has been
held by Attorney General Straus to apply
to Congressional contests.
In the FIRST district, which is composed
of the nine counties on the Eastern Shore,
the Democrats will renominate Congress
man ]. Harry Covington Of Talbot county
without contest. Mr.. Covington was
elected two years ago over William H.
Jackson, the millionaire lumberman OF
Wicomico county, and by party usage is /
entitled to renomination.
In this district the Republicans are very
much at sea as to candidate Mr.. lack
son, known to his political friends as
Uncle Bill, has wearied Of the political
game with its large expenditures and
small returns, and has declared that he
will not again be tempted from his count
ing-room to brave the uncertainties of
political contests. His son, William P.
Jackson, who represents Maryland on the
Republican National Committee, could
have the nomination if he wanted it, but
he doesn't want it. Up in Cecil there is
Frank E. Williams, editor of the Cecil
Wing and his party's candidate for Comp
troller a year ago. Mr.. Williams thinks
he would like to make the race for Com
gress against Mr.. Covington, but an
obstacle in his path is Henry M McCul-
Tough, fellow-townsmen. Mr.. McCul-
lough has served term in the Senate and
stands well with his party. He is said to
want to run for Congress that is, if the
nomination is coming to Cecil county he
thinks he ought to have it. At least he
thinks he is more entitled to THAN is Mr..
Williams, so that the rivalry between the
two will almost certainly keep the nomi-
nation from going to Cecil county. Mos
of the counties in the First district have<
no candidates for the Republican nomina-
ton, SO that it will be no surprise if the
Republicans again run A. Lincoln Dry
den, of Cris6eld. Mr.. Dryden. who not
SO long ago served term as Uniied
States Sub Treasurer at Baltimore and is
now Collector of Customs at Crisfeld. in
Somerset county, ran for Congress in
1894, but was defeated. He is said to be
willing to make the race again.
The Second Congressional district IS
the bailiwick of the redoubtable and hard
to-defeat Joshua Frederick Cockey Tai
bott, Democrat, and for quite some time
Representative in the popular branch of
the National Legislature. The district
comprises Baltimore county, normally
strongly Democratic: Hartford county,
generally Democratic; Carroll county,
generally close in national elections, and
two wards in Baltimore city. 1t has been
a long time since the Republicans have
had this district and for the last three
campaigns they have run Robert Garrett,
who has as often been licked to stand
still.
Mr.. Talbot will have no opposition for
the nomination-he has beaten the opposi-
ton in his party SO often that pretty much
everybody is afraid to. tackle him. He
isn't expected to retire till he gets good
and ready, and he will hardly get ready
as long as he has life and health.
The Republicans here, just as they are
in the First district. are casting about for
candidate. 1t was thought that Edward
M. Allen of Hartford county would be
willing to make the contest. but he has
said plainly that he will not, and that
settled it so far as he is concerned. VIM.
B. Baker of the same county. ex-Congress-
man and ex-senator, has been mentioned
as strong man owing to his personal
popularity, but he is advanced in years
and his health would hardly stand the
strain of such contest as would have to
be made against '.Marse Fred" Mr.
Garrett has indicated that he does not
want to run again, having been convinced
by three unsuccessful campaigns that he
cannot be elected-certainly not over Tai
bott. Mr.. Garrett, who is liberal con-
tributor to campaigns funds. has express
ed himself as willing to get behind and do
all he can for the party's candidate, and
il is probable that he will have good deal
Of say in naming man. Asa Bird Gard