Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27
Has Good Chance to Win Con-
greSsionaI Election.
PLAYS CLEAN POLITICS
Keeps Personalities Out Of Fight and
Is Steadily Gaining.
IS OPPOSED BY D. ]. LEWIS
Present Representative From Sixth
Maryland. District Is Also
Fighting Hard.
Special From STAFF Correspondent.

Special From a staff Correspondent.
CUMBERLAND. Md. October. %
Politics. without the slightest trace of
personality. will win the congressional
fight in this. the sixth Maryland district,
as far as Charles d. Wagaman. republic
. can candidate for the House of Repre-
sentatives, is concerned. While his demo-
. cratic opponent, Representative Lewis, is
|. swinging round the circle with person
atty as his largest asset, Mr.. Wagaman
is playing politics: and even his cam
paign managers and the county chair
men all through the district admit that
Mr. Wagaman has a ticklish course to
follow. Mr.. Wagaman is not making his
personality a part of the fight. He and
the rest of the republicans are doing
their utmost to realign the district so
that it will return to its normal state,
which is republican. AS for predictions,
1t would be a rash man who makes one
either way, for both sides claim victory,
and the internal condition of the voting
machine here is complicated.
However, republicans assume that Mr..
Wasaman is going to carry this county
and that it will be a big majority over
Lewis. AS told in the previous dispatch
from here. Lewis is favorite son in AL
legany county; but this county, by all
rules and regulations would be republic
can if personality did not enter the con-
test Lewis does not claim the county
by the same majority he had before.
The last vote here gave a democratic
majority The figures were about 1900
for Lewis and $500 for Warner.
However,. say the republicans, ''only
a part of our party voted at that cleo
ton. They stayed at home This year
they are going TO vote, as it is presi-
Dental year
DisagTeements in the Party.
If they did stay at home it was be-
cause of the disagreements in the re-
publican party in this district at that
time The ;ttitude of the Pearre repub-
leans and other brands of political dis
orders may have had something to do
with the situation. At any rate, the
county republicanism here today seems to
he humming along quietly with little dis
sension. and if all goes according to the
rules and regulations Mr.. Wagaman will
get a tidy majority here. Lewis people
know that and combat personality
against politics. Every one knows that
many republicans here will vote for
Lewis because he lives here. and in
Washington county every one knows that
many democrats will vote for Wagaman.
The attitude of this particular section
toward the men at the top of the ticket
IS peculiar and may have an effect all
down the line, particularly in regard to
Lewis This hill country democracy is
not at all wild about Woodrow Wilson
For proof ask the democratic county
chairman, and IL there is a spark of en-
thusasm in his answer. it has been put
there since. The Star correspondent,
= talked with him yesterday There Is
something lacking. There Is none of the
spontaneity about the support of the
man that one would expect The demo-
gpf
prsbabiy in great numbers, but there is
evidence of a leaning toward Taft among
some of the democratic miners. The rea-
is that in all mountain regions
there is feeling against restraint, and
these people believe that Wilson will be
bossed by the highbrows-" That express
sion is borrowed from a miner. They be-
lieve the radical element in the demo-
cratic party will be in full swing, and
they don't like it. and there are some
democrats here who put David j. Lewis
in the extremely radical class.
Presents Strange Situation.
Few OF the miners are crazy wild about
President Taft. either; but the strong re-
publican element along Georges creek.
where the best miners are. will stick to
the ticket. Then comes a strange situa-
ton. The third termer has a large and
noisy following, and all OF them
support the republican candidate for Con-
gress. but will vote for Roosevelt You
can't convince them THAT Roosevelt is
no, republican. The republican regu-
lars cannot kick these chaps out of the
party. They are the kind who stick a
bull moose pin on their coats because
they believe Roosevelt is the real thing.
To tell the truth. the party here doesn' I
seem to be anxious to kick them out. The
republicans want their votes for Waga-
man.
Because of the conservative feeling in
the democratic ranks, the republicans are
doing all they can TO help along the i'm
preston in some quarters that Repre-
sentative Lewis is radical. and to point
out that he will line himself up with the
radical end OF the party if victorious at
the polls. AS an instance. they are say
ing Lewis is a dreamer. that he is hot
air merchant" another borrowed express
sion from miner: that his parcels post
scheme is a collection of scattered ideas
made into eiectioneering form. and thai
he is a man of the Roosevelt type
All of which is being done in the quiet
est way. There is no torch light cam
paigning around here The parties are
trying to mare believe they are each
asleep, SO TO fool the other fellow
: Lewis is on the stump good part OF
the time, but Wagaman is not speaking
lie cannot afford to. and the county
chairman and others all through this dis
trict are perfectly frank when they say
Wagaman is in bad way for one spe.
'Adi reason ne uecidreu Tor nOOSeVeU
before the Chicago convention. believing
that Roosevelt would be the regular re-
publican nominee. When Taft was nomi
mated Wagaman refused to make com
ment, and has since kept out of the ma
tional question. lie Is simply a regular
republican, out and out. and would be
foolish in this district to begin to argue
about Taft and Roosevelt But some OF
the voters want to know just how n.
stands. That fact is worrying his man
ayers Il. G.