The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-08-22
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST p, 1918
CONTEST FOR CHAIRMANSHR OF
DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE OF CARROLL
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Under the direct primary law, mem
hars of the State Central Committee
and of the County Central Committees
are elected directly by the people.
The State Central Committee for Car
roll county is composed OF three men
elected by vote of the whole county
For each of the IA election districts Oh
Carroll county there is committee,
called the County Central COMMITTEE
for that district, consisting OF three
nersons for each district except west
minister. which has five, and the COM
mittees of the IA districts OF the coun-
tv compose the County Central COM
mittee. It is the custom for the chair
man of the State Central Committee
of the county to be chairman also OF
the County Central Committee.
Wherever a. contest arises in dis
trict, the respective candidates for
County Central Committee for. that
district are voted for by the qualified
Democratic voters of that district only,
at the regular primary election, which
this year will be held September 8
next. The County Central Committees
are the governing bodies in local al
fairs concerning the party and the
State Central Committee the govern
ing body of the party in State affairs,
and acts for the County as unit.
Under the old order of politics, be-
fore the enactment of the direct prl-
mary law, a small group OF men
standing together in each dlstrlct
could control the party affairs and
make such nominations as they pleas
ed. A new order of politics has come
into existence with the direct primary
law. a condition so new that many of
our people have not become familiar
with it and hardly fully realize that
for the first time in the history OF this
government the people have the OPP
portunity to select their own local and
county committees, the voters or each
district to select their County Central
Committee and the voters of the whole
county to select the three members OF
the State Central Committee, which
applies to the voters Of each party.
Under the direct primary law also are
selected candidates for the other
county offices which this year are
Sheriff, House of Delegates, County
Commissioner, County Treasurer and
Delegates to the State Convention.
The present Chairman of the State
Central Committee, Hon. 4. Herbert
Shriver, having declined reelection
on account of impaired health, con-
test has arisen for that position be-
tween rival claimants for the honor.
The aspirants themselves and their
sometimes over-zealous friends should
bear we'll in mind that the success OF
the Democratic party at the coming
November election is much to be pre-
ferred above any mere partisan claims
advanced by the rtva1 candidates
prior to the September 8th primaries.
Bitter, personal feeling in the primar-
les acts like boomerang at the gen
eral election. A certain lack of the
best elements of Leadership is sug-
gested by the willingness of candi-
date to permit the injection Of the
personal element into primary cam
paign.
Let the Democratic voters Of Car
roll county decide the contest, and
after they have spoken, it will then
behoove every man, who has taken a
part in the contest on either side, to
support the nominees of the party and
the State Central Committee and the
County Central Committees to be
chosen at the primary election Sep
TENDER Sth next.