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MARBURY OUT FOR LEE.
Wants Him In The Senate To Back
Up Wilson Policies.

Wants Him In The Senate To Back
Up Wilson Policies.
In an interview yesterday Will
liam l.. Marbury, who managed the
primary campaign for Gov. Wood
row Wilson last spring, declared
that in his opinion Senator Blair
Lee, by reason of his progressive
course in Maryland, is the progress
sive candidate par excellence for
the seat In the United States Sen
ate made vacant by the death of
Isidor Rayner.
Mr.. Marbury regards it as of
serious Importance to the people of
the State that Mr.. Lee should be
kept in public life and that it is vi
tai to the success of President-elect
Wilson's administration that it
should have the cordial support of
a majority in the United States
Senate at the beginning.
Mr.. Marbury said:
ST am for Blair Lee.
II am free to say that when there
are other good Democrats in the
field, or who may become candi-
dates. it is really painful to have
to make a choice. Yet the choice
must be made. There is no escape
from that. and my best judgment
Is, after considering the subject
from every point of view, that Sena-
tor Lee Is the man the men who
want to see the Wilson administra-
ton a success ought to support for
the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Rayner.
1T seems to me that the course
which the Democracy of Maryland
should take in this matter of
Senatorship is the same as that
which President-elect Wilson has
marked out for himself in his re-
cent speech at Trenton, in which
he said:
d" Some men have been slow to
observe, but the majority of us
have seen that the people of the
United States have taken a definite
choice. But I am for the time on
ly, and that choice is for the long
future. The people of the United
States have turned their faces in a
definite direction, and any party, ANY
man, who does not go with them in
that direction they will reject and
they ought to reject.
&c Therefore, in looking forward
to the responsibilities that I am
about to assume, I feel first, last
and all the time that I am acting
in a representative capacity. / am
hidden to interpret as well as / can
l1A - L. 4ho nennlA D.
United States and to act, so far as
my choice determines the action,
only through the fundamentally of
persons who also represent that
choice.
I have no liberty in the mat
ter. 1 have given bonds. My sacred
honor is involved, and nothing more
could be involved.
Therefore, I shall not be act
ing as party man when I pick out
progressfves and only progressfves.
I shall be acting as representative
of the people of this great country
'It does seem to me that Blair
Lee is marked out by his own re
cord as a progressive candidate par
excellence in this State.
"Congressmen David J. Lewis and
Frank o. Smith have In their recent
interviews stated the reasons so
fully that they scarcely need to be
repeated. They have pointed out
the fact that for the last 8 or 10
years Senator Lee has devoted him.
self to promoting legislation in the
interest of the public to a greater
extent than any man in this State,
with the possible exception of the
late Gov. Crothers, and by his rec
ord typifies the Wilson cause itself.
I am in a peculiar position to sus-
tain what they have so well said.
Last spring, at Gov. Wilson's re-
quest, 1 undertook the-to me
extremely difficult task of acting as
his campaign manager in the pri-
mary fight. The year before Sena-
tor Lee had made probably the most
remarkable campaign for Governor
this State has ever known. Stand
ing upon his record for progressive
measures in the State Senate, he
had appealed directly to the Demo-
cratic voters, with the result that
he was defeated by only one vote in
the State convention. In that cam
paign he carried Is out of the %
counties and showed militant fol-
lowing in practically every voting
precinct in the State
THAT he and his supporters then
represented the ideas now known In
the nation as the Wilson ideas was
demonstrated by the fact that they
fell in solidly behind Mr.. Wilson
in the primaries last spring and en-
abled him to carry the same coun-
ties that Lee carried, with a few
exceptions, and added to the Wilson
column three additional counties
which Lee had lost, but in which
he had great strength.
81 do not hesitate to say that,
with the progressive record of Mr..
Clark, his personal popularity, his
long-standing prominence in public
life and the organized forces be-
hind him, on the one hand, and the
lack Of funds for the Wilson fight
and the shortness of the campaign,
headed. as it was, by one of my in