The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-07-28
FACE IMMINENT DEFEAT
Or UNITE ON A CANDIDATE
Personal Ambition OF Candidate Must
Be Subordnated. Says Baltimore
American.


the Sixth District" the Baltimore
American of Sunday says:
If the Republicans in the Sixth con-
gressional district want to win the next
election, they will have to get together.
The course they are now pursuing is
almost suicidal, as it must inevitably
result IN the election of a Democrat,
when a Republican should have walk
over AS has already been stated in
the editorial columns Of the American,
this IS no time for personal pickering.
There IS altogether too much at stake.
1t may be that the complexion of the
House will depend upon the choice of
the district and the loss of this one vote
result in Democratic control Of the pop
ular branch Of Congress.
Should this come to pass and the adj
mlnlstration be prevented from carry
ing out its beneticent policies, the re-
sponslbility must rest where it properly
belongs-On the candidate who by the
tactics they are now pursuing are pre-
venting Republican success. A pri-
mary election holly contested, in which
the various aspirants refrain from
mudsllnglng and conduct their re-
spectlve campaigns without rejecting
on the personal integrity or fitness Of
their opponents, but by presenting
their own claims for recognition is
often beneficial, for it arouses the
voters and creates an interest it is fire.
quently difficult to awaken, but when
lnJudlclous or improper methods are
employed 1t has the opposite effect
Loyal Republicans will at all times
subordinate personal ambition to party
success. When he finds that his candi-
dacy is likely to disrupt his party, an
asplrant should not hesitate to step
aside and in announcing the fact make
plain to the voters that he is ready to
support any candidate upon whom all
can unite. Such an exhibition of unset
tishness would undoubtedly appeal to
the masses and be remembered by
them when he again SHES his castor
into the political arena. They will
neither forget nor forgive him, how
ever, who is guilty of a dog-in-the-
manger policy.
No excuse can be offered for the loss
of district that is overwhelmingly Re
publican and which under normal con-
dltions may be expected to poll the full
party vote. Unlike the First and Fifth,
where Republicans are hampered bv
the odious Wilson law, the voters in the
Sixth have no difficulty in marking
their ballots properly. Here the Dem
ocrats enjoy no advantage over their
opponents. The ballot is easily marked
and fairly counted, and the winner may
depend upon all that is coming to HIM.
There has been no change in the voting
proposition since 1906, and yet the Re
publican malOrlties in some Of the cOun-
ties in the district have materially de-
creased. A drop from 1900 to less
than 600 is, to say the least, significant
and one of which the Republican man
agement should take cognizance. If
the change was wholly due to an oppo-
sition to national policies then of course
the candidate who is the representative
OF these policies should not be held re-
sponsible; if, on the other hand, local
conditions, resulting from fractional bit
terness, caused the slump, then the
remedy is at hand A candidate wholly
unobJectionable should be nominated
and all rancorous talk cease.
a give and take policy would do the
business. Let all who are interested in
the success Of the Republican party
meet on common ground and agree to
support a representative party man
upon whom all can unite. Then let the
various county organizations recon-
mend his nomination and his success in
the primaries will be followed by a
sweeping victory in November.
1t is understood that overtnras will
be made this week bv nromInent Re-
publicans in the district The idea is
10 have ali the corntv Leaders oct ,' TO- -
gether. talk over the situation and S,1g-
@est a candidate who can c '|I-
United sunnort If tbey srn encc ,,,e,st'Ili