Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-01-10
Lewis Out For Lee.

ConCernlnB tne KIM OF men needed IN TN
work before the party and declares ths
Senator Lee fits every requirement As
further demonstration Mr.. Lewis review
Senator Lees work at Annapolis.
AT the coming Democratic Senatoria
primary a successor to the late Senate
Rayner is to be selected by the Democrat
OF Maryland, Mr. Lewis says.
In common with other Democrats am
of course, very much interested, and thin
the choice should be apt and fitting to tn,
national situation of the party This stu
alton is largely new one and can be bes
described only in the words of our officia
leader, the President-elect He said:
1--WE have come upon new construc
tive age, an age of reconstruction, which
calls for high gifts and men of indomitablc
purpose.
I'VE have begun to get a complet,
vision of our problems and of the policie,
that must solve them.
Many of the old formulas of our bust.
ness and of our policies have been out.
grown.
Responsible business and genuine rep
resentation Of the people in government is
our program.
1--WE are cutting away anomalies, not
institutions.
1--WE are no longer in the temper OF
attack. We are ready for remedy and ad-
justment.
I'VE have ceased to be divided into
alarmists and defenders of society and be-
gun to redivide ourselves into workable
groups
There are tories in both parties, but
there are also liberals in still greater num-
bers, and the two kinds are now rapidly
shifting themselves about and drawing
together
Parties are reforming while labels re-
main unaltered.
Whichever party proves most fit to
conceive and put through wise, progress
sive program will become the liberal party
of the nation
progressive application of democracy with
leader behind it having the power of
conviction and with a mandate from the
nation itself
1T should be expected from the close
personal and political friendship have
had with Senator Lee for nearly a genera
ton that | should be favorable to his can
didacy in this case, even were he not from
my district. But can fairly say that he
would be my choice in this juncture of
party affairs in the State and nation even
IT he were stranger only.
For has he not been, in truth and fact,
the foremost exemplar, in State legisla-
ton, of these new applications of democ-
racy, for eight years pastH If have any
understanding of the Wilson program of
Progressive Democracy Lees career in
the Senate of Maryland stands as its uni
que representation, and think it is for
tunate for the Wilson administration as
well as for the party in the State that
there is such candidate in the field.
Il am glad Senator Lee is a candidate
for the short term. 1t will begin January
next. There are many indications that
we will need in the Senate such a Demo-
Graf at the very earliest moment to repair
the loss Of Senator Rayner The fate of
the Wilson administration may be deter
mined at that very Congress, and probably
will.
Now, President-elect Wilson is soundly
in earnest in his program of constructive
democracy. The Democrats of Maryland
voted for him solidly and apparently de-
sire that he should have support to carry
out his progressive program.
in order that he be able to do this eff
fectively think most of these Democrats
will agree that men of this type-that is,
men who have proved themselves in legis-
lative work and accomplishment to be of
his progressive temperament and purpose
and typify his policies-should be selected
in the party situation in which we find
ourselves.
IN the House we shall have no trouble,
but in the Senate the case is not so as
sured, for there is no denying that there
are Democrats there some of whom are
less progressive and some of whom are
more progressive. ] take it that all will
agree that the Wilson administration is to
be Of the more progressive character. and
will agree as well that If his leadership is
not followed his administration will be @
failure and the Democratic party will bt
punished for its failure.
"President-elect Wilson has himself in
dicated in no uncertain way the type Of
Democrat he desires in the Senate.
Mote what he said to the people o.
New Jersey in support of Hughes for the
United States Senate
"'Do not elect me captain unless you
are going to give me team, and again /;
az am not candidate for a pedestal
| am not a candidate to be set upin lionel!
dignity to suffer the intolerable disappoint
ment of being left alone unable to do tn,
great things which the American peopl
will expect of me il they honor me witt
their suffrages. IL you cannot back me III
do not put me up all by myself and ther
desert me. II you believe in me make
possible for me to do something
in his speech in New York Novembe
4. he said:
1.-The one thing that will set reform for
ward in this country, my friends. is unite
government and united government doe
not consist Of President. A united 20,
eminent consists Of House of Represen
tatives, Of a President and Of somethin
that in my time the people have not ye
captured-a Senate.
In arecent carefully prepared statemer
issued at Trenton as late as December II
Governor Wilson states in specific tern
his attitude toward the progressive NOV,