The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-06-04
A Letter From Senator Lee

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To THE EDITOR OF The PRINCE
GEoReE's ENQUIREH
DEAR SIR
Mayor Preston's announcement OF
his intention to support me in the
democr attic primary for the nomination
certain papers allied with Senator
Smith and my opponent Mr.. Harrington
into panic and to have led these
papers to charge that l have made a
deal with the City Of Baltimore at
the expense of the counties. Such
charge is untrue. Nothing short Of a
panic could have induced these papers
to attempt to raise so unpatriotic and
80 false an issue.
The people of this State should know
me t 90 we'll to pay any attentian to the
ch arge that Mayor Preston's support is
the result of IDEAL" with him or any
one else, changing my position as
shown by my public record. l am un-
changed in my conitions and political
objects and stand for the same things
[ have always stood for without any
modification of plan or abandonment of
principle. Such allegations as that l
will favor the "mass vote" or abandon
the county unit system" for which l
am largely respons ible, as part of our
present primary law. are not only un-
true but impossible. Moreover, the
people of this State are men of reason
and intelligence; they know that none
of the results with which my opponents
are to frighten the people of the coun-
ties could be accomplished without an
Act of the General Assembly of the
State,
l am gratified to have the support of
Mayor Preston. The Democratic and
ministration which he has given the
City of Baltimore has been approved
by the people of that City by majority
larger than ever was known in any
prior mayoralty election. Any candi-
date for the nomination for Governor
would be glad to have the support OF
man who has just been elected Mayor
Of Baltimore City by majority OF over
seventeen thousand.
There is no real conflict of interest or
of feeling between the people of Balti-
more City and the people in the various
counties. We are all Marylanders; we
are all related by ties of blood; our sons
and daughters have gone up from the
farms of the various counties to make
their homes in the City of Baltim ore'
our business interests are interlocked.
and he who would tryto raise prejudice
and i'll feeling between the Counties and
the City is doing an injuryto the Coun-
ties no less than to the City; to say
nothing of the effect which success on
such an issue might have upon the pro-
spects of the Democratic party. In re-
cent years the greater portion of the
democratic majority has come from
Baltimore City, and no real Democrat
could contemplate, without anxiety for
his party. the nomination of candidate |
who won upon campaign Of avowed
hostility to Baltimore City. That this |
unworthy attempt to stir up strife
and prejudice between the counties and
the city is studied scheme put out
from some central source, is shown by
he fact that substantially the same
statement appears in the last weeks
issue of practically all of the papers
allied with my opponents on the East
ern Shore. The evident purpose Of this
move was to try to stem the tide which
is running strongly in my favor in that
section as well as in the other portions
Of the State.
Respectfully yours,
BLAIR LEE.
Silver Spring, Md, June l, 1915.