The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-10-30

In this letter to Vice-President
Marshall, published in Fridays
SUN, President Wilson says:
am sure that your colleagu-
es In the Senate realize that
my recent letter to Mr.. Under
wood was spoken as much in
their praise as in praise of the
members of the House, for we
all stand together as a single
team, and my satisfaction in
cooperating with the members
of the Senate has been no less
keen than in cooperating with
the members of the House.
In his letter to Mr.. Underwood
Mr.. Wilson, after reciting the
record of accomplishment at this
session, virtually appealed to the
people of the country for the re-
turn OF a Democratic majority
to the next Congress at the cleo
lions to be held in November.
What he said to Mr.. Underwood
applied in the nature of the case
quite as much to the upper as to
the lower house. but in order
that there may be no misunder-
standing as to his position, the
President now expressly applies
his words of Endorsement to the
Democratic members of the Sen
ate who have stood faithfully by
the party program. The logic Of
the situation is one and indivisi-
BILE. If a Democratic majority
IN the House is essential to the
work OF constructive legislation
still before the party, and to the
unhampered and unembarrassed
continuation Of the PRESIDENT
domestic and foreign policies, a
majority in the Senate is not less
essential, and a failure to main
tain a majority there might be
fraught with disastrous conse-
quences to the country. The real
and great issue before the people
is whether Mr.. Wilson's course
and general attitude in public
affairs shall be approved, and
that issue is as much involved in
the election of the thirty Sena-
tors who are to be chosen as in
the election of members of the
House of Representatives. For
that reason, as we'll as because
OF his own record in this Con-
gross, we have no hesitation in
earnestly accommodating the
Democratic voters of the State
to return Senator John Walter
Smith to the Senate, as we'll as a
solid Democratic delegation to
the lower branch of Congress.
Whatever, differences of opin-
Ion there may have been among
Democrats as to Senator Smith S
position with regard to tariff and
other questions before the be-
ginning of this Administration,
there can be none as to his course
since Mr.. Wilson's nomination
and election. He may have pre-
ferred, and indeed did prefer,
another man as the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency,
but after the party had decided,
he fell into line, with his custom
airy loyalty, and since Mr.. Will
sons Inauguration no member of
the Senate has supported him
and all his policies more I'M
swervingly than Senator Smit
We would have been glad if
Senator Smith had been an origi-
nal Wilson man, and if he had
always taken the advanced party
view of the tariff and of other
progressive measures. But the
important point now is, not how
he voted four or five years ago,
but how he has been voting dur
ing the last eighteen months.
And the record of those eighteen
months answers the question in
which voters are now interested,
and gives assurance that he can
be depended upon to stand by
the man who represents in the
eyes of the American people the
highest ideals of Democracy and
patriotism.
We want a solid Democracy
delegation from Maryland this
fall-one Senator like John Wal
ter Smith, and six members of
the House of Representatives.
And to that end we trust all
Democratic voters of Maryland
will pull together, with the
knowledge that in doing this they
will be pulling with President
Wilson. Baltimore Sun.