Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-10-21
Mr.. Warmers Candidacy.
ROBERT B. PETER,
Chairman.

Mr.. Editor The time has come wheT
Maryland Republicans of the Sixth Congress
siOnal District must consider the question
of what they will do in the congressional
election to be held in November. The Re-
publican candidates have assembled to-
gether and attempted to formulate d
platform and in that platform have placed
themselves among the stand-patters and
while silent as to Cannonism, one reading
their platform can come to but the con-
clusion that these representatives are in
favor of the return of Cannon as Gar of
the House of Representatives Of course,
the platform is indefinite enough to permit
any one of the candidates to repudiate
this and make a straightforward and hon
est statement as to where he stands on
this issue. This has not been done by the
Republican candidate in the Sixth Con
eressiOnal District. He, therefore, must
stand for the tariff as it is and for Cannon
as he is, and if that is so, why should a
Republican in this Sixth District, having
at heart the interest of his party. support
him? The tariff which is so highly CON-
mended by the congressional candidate is
a tariff that makes the rich man richer
and the poor man poorer, and the candi-
date cannot in one breath commend and
endorse President Taft, who said that this
tariff bill was the best ever. and in the
same breath be in hearty sympathy with
the great moral awakening inspired by the
leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. who,
speaking of Senator Beveridge having
voted against this tariff. says:
Senator BeVeridee did not split from
his party he merely stood by the bulk OF
il, because the real party consists of the
mass of the people. The mass Of the
people wished to see done what he did.
And before the next presidential election
comes around, the platform will be fairly
and sauarely the platform on which Sena-
tor Beveridge stands.
So this is what Theodore Roosevelt. the
greatest living Republican, thinks OF the
tariff bill that is so highly commended by
our congressional candidate. What is there
then in this platform that warrants Re
publicans in supporting 1t
IL is against facts and Republicans are
blindly asked TO adopt this platform and
support a man who must know the tarlii
bill is wrong, because in the very platform
in which he cOmmends and endorses this
tariff, he also cOmmends the tariff COM
mission, which was the compromise the
progressive Republicans wrought from the
tand-patters on the tariff question.
Why should the people Of this district
turn the clock back and support stand
patter, when at heart every Republican IN
this district, unless he has an axe to grind
is a progressive Republican?
Again, what is there in the candidate
himself that should call for the support OF
a progressive and true Republican of Mary
land Is be progressive He says not in
| his platform. Has he ever done anything
/ for the Republican party in this State
| Nothing. Has he lived among our people
and been one of u.s. The answer is no.
A mere sojourner to obtain the franchise
| living in Washington most Of the time
owning no property in this State. having
no ties of blood or hardly friendship in the
district, nominated by one man in pri'
mary that was very questionable, why
should Republicans in this district consider
themselves bound to support this candidate
merely because he calls himself Repub
Tcan? Would il not be better for the Re
publican party 10 turn its back on thii
non-proeressive candidate, this man wht
is not one Of us, and, by defeating him
clear the party Of him and make our Re
publican party in the Sixth Congressional
district a party Of the people Of that dis
trict? This question answers itself ant
should be answered by the voters Of thi
district on election day, and this maj
should not be made the most prominen
Republican in the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict. -,
That he will lord il over other Republi
cans is no question, as shown by his actiol
AT Rockville, when q committee. that wa
willing 10 try to be friendly 70 him, wa