The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-07-08
LEE SMITH FEUD IS
GLAZING Up BRIGHTLY
Hammer-And 'ongs Fight Is Started
Among Some County Papers.

With the primaries more than two
months off, the Democratic papers in
some counties are already going at it
hammer and tongs. and by all tokens
this summer Will witness the liveliest
scrap seen for manv years in the
politics of Maryland. Here and there
cautious voice is raised for peace,
but the long-smouldering feud between
the Lee people and the John Walter
Smith following IS blazing brightly.
Departing, as it says, from it's past
rule, and for the first time since Prof.
John d. Worthington has edited it, the
Belair Aegis openly and in detail sets
out the unwisdom of nominating"
Sena or Lee. It used to like him, but
finds he is weli-off financially; is a
friend OF 'Cy" Cummings, whose stand
on oyster culture in 1914 was unpeas.
ing; wanted Lee followers placed in
Federal positions in Maryland, and the
like. The Belar Democrat, on the
other hand, is supporting Lee with
might and main, and the two papers
are weekly dealing in personal ameni-
ties.
Down in Talbot similar newspaper
war has broken out between the Easton
Star Democrat and the Easton Ledger.
The latter says its Dover street con-
temporary has finally boiled down its
two reasons for advocating the nomi-
nation of Emerson c. Harrington. 4"
One is that Harrington was poor boy
and wants the job; the other that Sena-
tor Lee already has a job as United
States Senator.
A new argument for Harrington is
advanced by the Crislield Times. which
calls him the farmers friend" being
himself "a product of the farm. who
understands the needs of those sturdy
toilers who reap their livelihood from
tilling the soil" The Somerset Demo-
cratic vote is about equally divided be-
tween oystermen and farmers.
Showing the slippery ground on which
candidate stands is an incident re-
ported from Rock Hall. where Har-
rington made plea to the Kent OYSTER
men to support him as their chosen ad-
vocate and defender. One of his hear
ers 'heckIed" him about the "oyster
raise" as they call the rule Command
er Tom" Howard of the oyster navy
has been strictly enforcing and which
requires "heaping full half bushel"
instead of an "even full, ;" as in the old
law. eff you are going to talk ! shall
stop, said the candidate.
Whatever may be the truth as to this
incident. campaign happening that
befell Senator Lee in Talbot illustrates
the suavity and promptness of that
candidate TO take advantages of &C.
currences inseparable from going to
to the people" On trip through Tai
bot the Senator and his local aids reach
ed Trappe, where they found the vii
layers gathered around the gasoline
torch and platform OF a medicine seller,
who lost no time in yielding his plat
form and audience TO the Senator. Says
the Republican Easton Gazettee:
Senator Lee paid courtIy compliment
to the medicine man who had so grace
fully stepped down and out. He did
not say he wished that Emerson C.
Harrington would follow that gentle
mans example. but he did hint broadly
that while the NJ. NJ had offered the
Trappites panacea for all physical
failings, he himself was there for the
purpose of urging upon them the claims
of the only genuine Blair Lee palliative
for all political pains.
Harrington is losing no time in getting
over the rural parts of the State. In
Calvert he spoke to the County To.
bacco Growers Association at Prince
Fredericktown. Tobacco raisers are a
strong element of the voting population
Of lower Southern MARYLAND but in Mr..
Harrington's boyhood days on the Dor
set farm the weed was not grown on
the Eastern Shore But if ne could not
talk to the Calvert people about to-
bacco, ne did make some timely re-
marks along the line of organization,
and took occasion to refer to the enor-
nous appropriations of the last Legis-
lature, with which other expenditures,
would occasion q deficit in the State
Treasury by the first of October of
1000 coo.