Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-09-06
SENATOR LEES LETTER
TO COUNTY DEMOCRATS
Experimentation of Progressive
Committeeman and Delegates.
OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE.
Says He is Deeply interested in Type
Of Men Who Win Frame Platform
for Fall Campaign.

Further setting forth his interest
in the Democratic primary election
in the State at large, and particularly
in Anne Arundel county, the Demo-
cratic voters of Annapolis and the
county re ceived yesterday the follow
ing letter from State Senator Blair
Lee, the unopposed Democratic can
didate for the short-term United
States senatorship, in which he urges
the nomination of the Progressive
Democratic candidates for State Cen
tral Committeeman and delegates to
the State Conventions:
1.-THE primary election OIL Septem-
ber 8 is of the greatest Importance
to the Democrats of Maryland. We
now have State-wids legalized pri-
mary under which the State Central
Committee and delegates to the State
Convention are elected by direct
vote. The delegates to the State
Convention adopt the platform upon
which the candidates of our party are
to make the fight at the gene raj
election. These delegates also elect
the chairman of the State Central
Committee, who is charged with the
general conduct of the campaign.
Democrats should not be pro-
scribed or excluded from substantial
recognition. who have heretofore
differed as to candidates or party pol
iciss. There is room in the party for
all and chance for glory enough for
all, Ebut as the Democratic candi-
dates for the United States Senate,
selected without opposition, ard as
Progressive Democrat, am deeply
interested in the type of men who
are to make the platform upon which
the Demo cratic candidates are to run
this fall and conduct the campaign,
and | ;. therefore, feel entirely at lib
erty to address you upon this State
wide proposition of national import
ance.
1.-THE ID smocratic voters can con-
troll the manageme Mt as we'll as name
the candidates of the Democratic
party, and il is advisable that sufii-
cient changes be made at this time to
impress upon the management the
fact that the voters are in control,
and that the management must rep
resent the whole party and represent
it fairly under all circumstances.
"The proper function of the State
Central Committee as the managing
body of the party is to confine its en-
ergies TO promoting the success. of
the party as whole, as distinguished
from using its social position and in-
fluence in naming candidates in the
primaries and promoting the interests
of any faction within the party. If
this view is sound, it becomes our
plain and imperative duty &c elect
such such men to these positions as
will give full effect thereto.
"In Anne Arundel county see the
following gentlemen have announced
the mise Ives: John Dep. Douw. c.
H. Fulton Kelley and Roderick o.
Shipley as candidates Tor the State
Central Committee and Charles l..
Tate, Charles h. Winterson, Rudolph
e Owens, John Pitcher and Nor gan
o. Parlett as delegates to the State
Convention.
81 am satisfied the election OF the Sc
gentlemen would we'll serve the in
terests of the party in the State at
this important juncture. hope every
Democrat will go to the polls on Sep
tember and register by his vote his
convictions on this important mat
ter of party control in the State for
the next two years.