The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-08-25
Friday, August Is, 1911
BLAIR LEE WOULD BE ELECTED
GOVERNOR BY AN OLD-TIME
DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY.

BLAIR LEE WOOLD be ELEC L Eli
GOVERNOR BY AN OLD-TIME
DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY.
The following was an editorial
Of the Baltimore Sun of August
23rd:
If Blair Lee should be nomin.
ated by the Democrats of Mary
land next Tuesday, the rising Of
tomorrow's sun is hardly more
certain than that he will be oul
next Governor. There is not g
politician, Republican or Demo
crat, who doubts it. His nomi.
nation would be followed by 9
Republican campaign of the most
perfunctory character. There
would be no fight on him at al
among regular or independent
Democrats. He would be elect.
ed by such figures as have beer
unknown and unhoped for since
1895. His election would be &C.
copied in Maryland and through.
out the country as triumph fol
progressive Democracy anC
would Immediately put this State
in the forefront of the great
movement which is expected te
reach a climax next year in the
election of a Democratic Presi.
dent.
The nomination of Senator
Arthur P. German would be fol-
lowed by a hot fight, the result of
which would be doubtful. While
there is no question as to Mr..
Germans personal honesty. a
large section Of the Democratic
public is opposed to him on the
ground that he is a machine man
and a reactionary, and for that
very reason was favored by Boss
4ahon and accepted by Senator
Smith. They object to the things
IN German that Mahon likes and
they object to Mahon. They are
alarmed at the growing power of
the city ring and offended at the
audacity with which it is reaching
out for everything in sight. They
are concerned at the spread
among the good people of the
deadly disease of submissiveness.
They fear Mahon Police Board
Mahon Liquor License Board,
an era OF lottery policy, race track
gambling and protected crime
generally, accompanied by a help.
less attitude on the part of the
public and What are you going
to do about it?" attitude on the
part OF the bosses. Already we
see Mahon and his lieutenants
openly making our judges anc
states Attorney. Which is not
the worst of it. We permit it.
There is scarcely a ripple of pro.
test. Where is the spirit of fit.
teen or twenty years ago that in
the like situation would have stir.
req tins q old town to its debths?
All this The SUN deeply feels.
II shares the anxieties Of that por.
ton OF the Democratic public
which has nothing in common
with the organization" We
should be gratifed at the nomina.
ton OF Senator Lee and work tc
roll up the biggest possible Demo.
cratic majority. But if Senate,
German shall receive a majority
vote in the primary, we certainly
could not see our wav clear tc
giving The Suns support to a
Republican candidate in no wise
the superior of Mr.. German and
having behind him an organiza-
ton fully as Objectionable. The
election of the Democratic candi-
date would still mean that Mary
land was a Democratic State that
could be depended on to give her
support to the national ticket next
year. Besides, on anything like
even terms and in conditions any-
thing like normal, Maryland
should choose a Democratic State
administration.
Moreover, we think it proper to
say at this time that while we ad-
wise the nomination of Lee, in
case of the nomination and cleo
ton of German THE SUN will be
fully prepared to see him upset
the logic of his own record and
backing. There is something
about the office of Governor that
sobers and broadens a man after
he assures its responsibilities.
Those who opposed Governor
Crothers four years ago were all
right on their logic, but the bad
things they predicted on the
strength of his record as a Cecil
county politician was mainly the
things that didn't happen. Cover
Warfeld made his Gubernatorial
record square with the best that
there was in his political past.
We do not mean to impeach the
soundness of judging a mans
future by his past. 1t would be
foolish to do otherwise. But if
Senator German should be elect
ed Governor, we are going to hope
for an excellent and creditable
administration, and he will have
the aid of THE SUN in every effort
to give Maryland good govern
ment.
In the meantime, all Democrats
who want to make victory a sure
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