The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-11-04
WHY SHOULD WARNER BE
ELECTEDP

ion of the Montgomery county press, on
the candidacy of the Hon Brainard II.
Warner, Jr., OF that county, for Con-
gresslonal honors. We quote from the
Rockville Sentinel the following editor
ial of October 18th:
AS t he Congressional election APP |
proaches it is well for our people to turn |
from the spectacular exhibitions in New |
York and elsewhere and study the stu
alton at home. The issues of the cam
paign, it is true, national in their scope
and affect every section of the country,
but it is also true that every section has
its own peculiar interests, and the intel
ligent sentiment of each section is ent Ii
tied to have its vote in the halls of Con-
gress to the end that public questions
may be emit tied with reference to the
common rights of the whole people and
not with special favor to anv part of the
nation nor to any class of the population.
While in the common parlance OF pol
itics the Sixth District of Maryland is
normally Republican, there is no ques-
ton that the party utilization of the white
voters is strongly Democratic and that
ifthe burden and the menace of the
negro could only be removed the pol
icies of the present and preceding admin
| istrations would find here, as elsewhere
south of the Mason and Dixon's line,
an unmistakable condemnation.
The trend of public sentiment is at
| this time against the Republican party,
and the opportunity is presented TO the
people of this district to send Demo
crat to Congress. Altogether apart
from the tactional troubles of the Repub-
hcans, which are matters for them to
deal with, what real claim has Brainard
II. Warner, Jr, upon the people of the
district? AT no one time has he lived
year continuously in the State or dis
trict which he seeks to represent; has
never owned a foot af ground in it, or
paid cent af taxes to support the local
or State government; has never been
identified with its business interests or
contributed 70 the promotion of its trade;
has never turned its sod or mingled
with its people except as a solicitor of
political favors which he does not de-
serve and which he has given no evil
dence that he can wear with credit to his
constituents. To all intents and pur-
poses Mr.. Warner is nonresident of
Maryland. using a technical domCle for
the qualification of political ambitions
which his father will direct to further
schemes that are hostile to the interests
of our people.
Furthermore. Mr. Warner is untried
in the field of Federal politics and is
entirely without the training needed to
fit one TO deal with the great questions
that are now pressing for solution. In a
blind sort OF way he has endorsed all
that has been done during the Taft ad
ministration, including the Payne-Aldrich
Tariff Bill under which the burden of
life has been made heavier and for the
man who earns his bread by the sweat
Of his brow; but he has failed to show
that he possesses the rudimentary ele-
ments of craftsmanship or that he knows
the A-B-C of politics.
Certainly, this great district, intelli-
gent, progressive and enterprlsing, has
no desire to be represented by man
who has no identity with its interests,
no grasp of its needs, no influence to
promote its welfare. All this would be
true if it were settled beyond perad-
venture that the next Congress will be
Republican. 1t is doubly fortified when
every prospect points to a sweeping
Democratic victory, in which event he
would be the mereSt cipher.
1t seems to us that no appeal could
be stronger than the plain statement of
the case to induce our people to make a
special effort to elect Mr.. Lewis to
Congress. If the voters are dissatisfied
with the prevailing conditions, they pos
sess the only means by which the evils
may be suppressed and better order of
things brought about. The law of the
land has made the people the masters of
the situation. Ifthey are Indifferent po-
lttical matters are sure to go wrong.
If they are alert, active, determined to
have the right, it will prevail. In view
of all that they have suffered from the
Republican party, and of the outlook for
relief through Democratic victory, it
were little short of treason to fail to
perform the duties of citizenship. why
should Warner be elected" is ques-
ton for which but few Republicans could
give substantial reason, and from which
a multitude OF Republicans shrink Let
it not be said that the disaster which
turks in his election is due to Dem
ocratic indifference to the public veal.