Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-28
SAY MOOSE TICKET
IS IAN ILLEGAL ONE.
Maryland Republicans Seek to
Keep Candidates Off Of
fetal Ballot.
FORMER T. R. ADHERENTS
LEAD IN THE MOVEMENT
Declare Both State Primary Law and
Party Constitution Were
Violated.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

DALI lmoNL, Mo. september 70. 1919.
There will be three tickets in the
field at the November election--demo-
cratic, republican and progressive
provided former bull moosers do not
succeed in having the progressive
ticket wiped off the ballot. Already a
movement is under way to inyalidate
the nominations made by the progress
i've party at it's convention last Tues
day.
Robert Burton. former leader of the
progressive party, has made an appeal
to republican Chairman Hanna to call
meeting of republican lawyers to
frame a brief to the secretary of state
and the board Of election supervisors
demanding that the names of tho pro-
gressive candidates be refused a place
on the official ballot The charge is
advanced that the nominations made by
the convention were the result of "a
preconceived scheme and trick on their
part to allow direct primary nomina-
tions to go by default, that their
convention just held might fill what
they chose to call vacancies in their
ticket"
Burton in his letter to Chairman
Hanna urges that the matter be taken
up at once so that 1.-The progressive
party will have every opportunity to
appeal to the courts to say whether or
not their view of this case is legal or
illegal" David NJ. Newbold. jr., for
merly counsel to the progressive party,
but now back in the republican fold,
not only violated the state primary
election law. but also the terms of
it's own party constitution.
Law Violated, He Says.
In a carefully prepared opinion New
bold says:
If there is one fundamental, all-per
vasive doctrine of the progressive party
1t is that all candidates must be nomi-
mated by the people. 1t was the viola
ton of this principle by the republican
party at Chicago that gave birth to
the progressive party and detached
millions of republicans from their party
allegiance. In making it's nominations
as 1t did, by convention, the progressive
party not only violated by wholesale
the primary election law of this state,
but also the express terms of it's own
party constitution. The state primary
law provides in the most sweeping and
comprehensive terms for the nominal
ton of all candidates for public office
by the people In lawful primary cleo
ton, and forbids the boards of super
visors of elections to print on the Of
fetal ballots the name of any candidate
who shall not be SO nominated.
In the constitution OIL the progressive
party article contains this clear and
luneuuivocal declaration: NO nomina ton
shall ever be made by a convention of
the progressive party of Maryland for
any elective office unless the laws in
force at that time make 1t impossible to
nominate for such Office by means of
primary election Reports OF the conven-
ton indicate that the nominations were
made by state central committees so en-
powered by the convention but 1t is not
ff<v, NIL
delegate powers which it never possessed
Terms Motive Obscure.
I'm the teeth of these provisions of
statute law and party law. impelled by
some obscure motive. the progressive
leaders determined to dispense with pri
maries, and one of the counsel of the pro-
gressive party by ingenious sap
ping and mining found loophole which
he thinks enables his party to violate
the spirit IL not the very letter Of our
primary laws. Section 16Ok of this law
permits vacancies for nominations to be
filled as party rules and regulations may
provide, but even a casual reader would
infer that the vacancies therein referred
to are accidental vacancies and not those
brought about by design. To admit other
wise would be in effect TO wipe out pri-
mary law from the statute books.
"A possible legal complication is in
volved in the nominations made by the
progressive convention The law says
such vacancies are to be filled as the
rules and regulations of the governing
party may provide, but as the progressive
party constitution expressly denies to it's
convention any power to make nomina-
tons, the candidates nominated last Tues
day must look elsewhere than in the
statute law of Maryland and the consti-
tuition of their own party for the validity
of their titles. Perhaps the eminent and
distinguished citizens now controlling the
destiny Of the progressive party and
viewing the question from their Olympian
heights of politics pure and undefled can
show their candidates how to break while
not breaking.
Democrats Seek Harmony.
The democratic party managers are
hard at work endeavoring to heal the sore
spots engendered during the primary,
and hope to present united front at the
November elections. Disquieting rumors
are about. though. One report is to the
effect that the machine" intends to
"cut" McNulty, the democratic candidate
for sheriff, who defeated the organization
candidate in the primaries. The organi-
zation could support Louis d. Greene.
who is in the race as an independent
standing of the machine" 1t is said.
however that the ring will throw its
votes to the republican candidate, AL
brecht, and thus cover it's hand in
bringing about the defeat OF McNulty.
They could pull this stunt handily. as the
incumbent and the preceding sheriff were
republicans.
The most startling rumor Of the week
and one that has caused the Lee adher
ents some concern is to the effect that
Tom Parran will get some good sup
port from the machine III the short-term
senatorship fight. 1t is stated that the
organization democracy prefers Parran
rather than Lee, as the bigwigs fear the
power that will come to Lee and his fol-
lowers consequently upon the election Of
the Montgomery man to seat in the up
per house OF Congress. The Lee people
are recalling the charge made by Repre-
sentative Smith of the fifth district that
the state democracy chairman had aided
Parran in his fight last year against
Smith. The machine leaders deny that
any such scheme is contemplated, but