New-York tribune., 1913-11-02
Bryan, Grape Juice Advocate,
Supports Lee, Who Helped
Defeat Local Option.
is WILSON'S CANDIDATE
Republican and Democratic
Candidates for U. S. Senator
Have Visited Every Elec-
ton District in State.
INV Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


Baltimore, Nov. 1.-The sensational nght
which has been the chief feature OF the
MARYLAND campaign has been badly COM
plicated by the Anti-Saloon League. Inc
candidates for United States Senator are
Thomas Parran, Republican; Blair Lee,
Progressive Democrat, and George Wen
ington, Bull Moose leader. Lee is the
candidate OF the Wilson administration.
Though not the choice of the state Demo-
cratic organization leaders, he has ther
Endorsement and support because lie Is
President Wilson choice. Secretary
Bryan has been making tour OF the
state in his interest. making the plea
that the President needs Lee to support
his policies in the Senate. The Anil
Saloon League is making bitter hsht
against him. charging that he helped ae-
feat the local option bill in the last
Legislature In a proclamation to-day
the league says:
BRYAN, brought in by the Lee man
ayers to put the tremendous personal IN
fluence of the President and himself De-
hind Senator Blair Lee TO save him from
the consequences of having helped defeat
the local option bill last time, in defend
ing himself as a local option advocate
for advocating the election Of Lee did IT
by stating that in Nebraska he had
spoken for local option as a state issue
and advocated the election If wet can-
didate for the United States Senate
This is an admission by inference that
Lee is wet" and opposed to local option.
which was the thing which the Lee man
ayers were trying to keep in the back
ground.
Secretary Bryan comes back as fol-
lows:
Blair Lee is in sympathy with the
President or national issues and every
Democrat ought to vote for him. NO
Democrat ought to allow himself 10 be
deceived into giving paramount impor-
tance TO a local issue. 1t is scheme on
the part of Republicans to mlslead the
Democrats, in the hope Of electing Ne-
publican Senator who will try to Tie the
hands of the President and obstruct ms
policies. There are great issues at stake
lust now in national politics, and Demo
Gratis cannot afford to allow their atten-
ton TO be diverted from them.
"Blair Lee ought to have the earnest
and enthusiastic support OF all who APP
prove the Presidents administration and
desire to uphold his hands"
The injection Of the dangerous liquor
question into the campaign has caused
sensation in political circles. In addition
to Senator and State Controller, all the
members of the House of Delegates and
fifteen state Senators are TO be elected.
Lee and Parran have made a remark
able campaign, visiting every election
district in the state. Wellington, the for
mer Republican United States Senator.
who fought President Mckinley and Is
now the Bull Moose candidate, has been
unable to do much campaigning because
Of poor health.
Forecasts and estimates from every
county in the state and Baltimore City
indicate that the Democrats have the
better chance of electing their Senator
and the head Of the state ticket. Lee has
the Wilson administration back OF him
The Republicans, however, claim that
Parran will win. They build on the hope
that many OF the regular machine Demo-
Gratis will refuse to vote for Lee. There
Is no doubt about Lees unpopularlty
with the Democratic state bosses.
The Republicans have chance of elect
ing their candidate in the Sd Congress
District this city, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of George Konig
The Republican candidate, Benjamin
Woelper is more popular than Charles
Coady, his Democratic opponent, and
though the district is nominally Demo-
cratic. it has swung TO the Republican
side several times in the last ten years