The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-12-16

may have ito be applied in some in
stances before certain members will see
the light. There might not be so much
trouble with the members if the outside
influences would let them alone, but
the outsiders will be breaking all pre-
cedents if they do anything of the kind.
Of course, there is going to be an
awful row over annexation. The city
delegation is going to Annapolis pre-
pared to fight for what Mayor Preston
asserts Baltimore must have if its
progress is not to be strangled. The
Baltimore county and Anne Arundel
county delegations will go there to
spike the Mayors guns in every way.
At this time it is too early to predict
what the outcome is going to be.
Prohibition is looked to to provide the
subject for the big fight The Anti
Saloon League forces have declared for
Statewide prohibition or bust. "
Some members of the General Assem-
bly, say they will have to content them
selves with local option bill, the thing
they fought for several years ago and
couldn't get and now do not want. No
one can tell how this fight will go either.
Racing, or rather race track gamb-
ling, also will have TO stand an on
slaught. Its old enemies of two years
ago are again threatening to go after
it, At least some of them are. And
another effort will be made to secure
the passage of bill providing for the
creation of a Statewide racing com
mission. Hence, there no doubt will
be plenty doing along the race legisla-
ton line
Just how much attention the Sena-
torial primary candidates will be able
to attract with all of these diverting
performances going on at Annapolis is
by no means certain. However, it
looks as if they will manage to get into
the spotlightnow and then. The Demo
cratic primary fight has started off in
promising fashion, and when Senator
Lee gets into it, as he is fully expected
to do, it ought to be worth watching.
The Congressional primaries now
promise something in the way of ex-
cItement Republican candidates are
springing up everywhere. There are
said to be five prospective ones IN the
Third district, at least three in the
Sixth and an equal number in the
First. Likewise a good deal is be-
ginning to be heard about Democratic
candidates. Eugene O'Dunnel is being
talked of as a candidate against j.
Charles Linthicum, and DR.. George
Heller is said to be anxious to displace
Charles P. Coady in the Third.
1t is expected that a number of
candidates will desire to succeed
"Davy" Lewis in the Sixth district,
and the Fifth district, now represented
by Republican, may develop a Demo-
cratic scramble. Democrats don't
stand back down there like they used to
before Frank O. Smith put the first
dent in that Republican stronghold that
has been placed in 1t for years.
The Presidential primaries may be
tame. The Republicans are talking of
an uninstructed delegation to their
national convention, and it is assumed
that President Wilson will have no
opposition. But from the Republican
standpoint there is Col. Theodore Roose-
welt to be contended with. He, though
the head of the Bull Moose, is expected
to take a hand in the Republican boat,
and if he does he will come close to
starting something.