Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-10-03
W. ERNEST OFFUTT.
Campaign Starts enthusiastically
with Notification OF Candidates.

With Notification OF Candidates.
Unity and enthusiasm marked the real
beginning of the Democratic State cam
paign Tuesday when Blair Lee. Emerson
C. Harrington and Caleb c. Magruder were
formally notified at the Rennert, Baltimore,
of their nominations for United States
Senator. Comptroller and Clerk of the Court
of Appeals, respectively, and when def
mite plans were adopted for a stirring can
vass that would embrace every part of
the State and continue until the eve of the
election.
General Vandiver presided. Upon the
stage were Senator Lee. Comptroller Har-
rington, Mr.. Magruder. former State Sem
atOr John Hubner, of Baltimore county ;
Senator Price, Robert H. Carr, Mayor Pres
ton, John B. Gray. of Calvert county; Gen.
Lloyd L. Jackson, former State Senator
Charles W. Michael, of Hartford county, and
Humphrey D. Wolfe, of Howard county.
Mr.. Hubner was introduced at once by
General Vandiver to notify Senator Lee of
his nomination for United States Senator.
He warmly praised Senator Lees record in
the Maryland Legislature and said it was
an earnest of the service which he would
give in the highest legislative body in the
land
"Your nomination, Senator Lee, by the
Democratic party" he continued, has been
applauded by the people and the press /;
and we look forward to your triumphant
election and the time when you will take
your place in the Senate and hold up the
hands of the Federal Administration in
the great work it is doing for the people of
this country.
Democrats all over this broad land are
looking to Maryland to elect Democratic
Senator They want to augment the slen-
der majority which our party has in the
upper branch of Congress | feel that we
can say to you, sir, and to members of our
party in every locality, that you will be
elected in November by an ld-time Demo-
cratic majority"
Senator Lee was greeted with a burst of
hearty applause that continued for some
time when he arose to deliver his accept
ance. He was in unusually good FORM His
speech, in part, follows:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Com
mittee:
This notification has a new significance,
for it marks Democratic nomination for
IL e.. Al,
first time in this State under the general
Primary Election law and also that under
the Seventeenth Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States, the people
of the State are for the first time to fill the
Office by their votes at the general election
in November.
81 thank you for your action and kindly
assurance as the agents and representa-
tives on this occasion of the Democratic
voters as expressed in the Democratic
convention, and wish to convey to them
through you profound sense of gratitude
and of obligation for the great honor which
they have bestowed.
THE Democratic platform adopted by
the State convention expressly pledges the
candidate for the United States Senate, if
elected. to uphold the hands of President
Wilson and to cooperate in expeditiously
redeeming the platform promises of the
party. This plank is in response to the
Presidents direct appeal to the people of
the whole country for support in carrying
out the national platform and to which
appeal the people are responding with such
impressive unanimity as to place the
Democratic party to-day in the way of
usefulness to the country, long of time and
fruitful of good. even greater than its
memorable services Of the past
Faithfully and patiently our party has
stood through the long years as the party
of the people, and its national platforms
submitted from term to term, have been
the expression by the popular party of the
aspirations and hopes of the people of this
country. Long derided by its opponents
as incapable of constructive work or united
action, IL is pressing forward without di-
vision to the fulfllment of its platform
pledges, gaining strength and confidence
as il proceeds.
Having passed through years of sharp
discussion and internal division on party
measures and public questions, our party
has now reached that unity of thought and
action which argues well both for the wis
dom Of its policies and its capacity to put
them into successful operation.
Recent successes in the national Demo-
cratic program have driven our opponents
to make the charge that the party is domi-
mated by one man in the vain hope that
individual pride or jealousy might prevent
united action. The Democratic party is,
indeed. dominated. but the dominion is
that of one purpose. the fulfllment of its
pledges for the relief of the people II is
guided in all its branches, President, Cabi-
net. House and Senate. by one thought
that Of faithful service to our common
country.
Here in the State Of Maryland. where
the three leading political parties have
presented their most recent platforms for
public consideration. our party presents
the most genuinely progressive and at the
same time the most conservative of them |