The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-11
Time TO STAET A WILSON,
LEWIS AND PRICE CLUB

Democrats in The County Should
Make Preparations For Organized
Work In Behalf of Candidates.
With the election less than mon
tn, members Of ali political par
ties are now beginning to look
around to see what the condition OF
their fences is. Democrats in Mary
land have no reason to feel other
wise than encouraged; reports from
every section indicate that President
Wilson will sweep the State, that he
Will not only poll the full party vote,
but that many Republicans, as we'll,
will vote for him. The election OF
David j. Lewis to the United States
Senate is conceded by almost every
well informed politician in the State.
That Congressman Jesse ID. Price
will carry the First Congressional
District by a very much larger ma
Jorlty than two years ago seems also
to be the general impression OF those
who are familiar with political con-
ditionS in the First District.
President Wilson has kept this
country out of war, and the masses
of the people, without regard to po-
lltlcal atfiliatiOn, are deeply apprecia-
tive of this fact; fathers and moth
ers, whose sons would have to do
the fighting, thank God for Wilson;
married men, who would have to
leave their wives and families, thank
God for Wilson,; while young men,
who have no love for war, and no
desire to be the targets for enemy
bullets, and who prefer to continue
in their regular occupations, also
thank God for Wilson. There is no
neck of land, no portion OF this
country from which prayers do not
ascend to the Almighty every night,
thanking Him that this country has
been kept out OF the great maelstorm
that has broken across the Atlantic,
and it is simply ridiculous to think
that with one breath the great Amer
lean public will thank the Almighty
for the preservation of peace, and in
the next vote against the one man
who has been instrumental in main
tanning the peaceful relations of the
country.
The opponents of the reelection of
President Wilson are composed of a
number of elements that do not US
ually harmonize. Undoubtedly more
responsible for the nomination of
Mr.. Hughes than any other single
person is former President Roose
welt, who is thoroughly Objectionable
to the German-American element;
that Mr.. Roosevelt's opinion will
have great weight with Mr.. Hughes,
should he be elected, no one is fool
ish enough to deny. Many of the
friends of the Allies think that Mr..
Wilson should have espoused their
cause, and as result of this Situa-
tion the friends of the Germans and
the friends of the French and Eng
lish are both supporting Mr.. Hughes.
However, according to Mr.. HUI
ghes' own personal statement, he
would not have handled the situation
as President Wilson has. and in
these statements he has accused the
President of being impotent, weak,
vacillating, lacking in backbone,
lacking in courage in the handling of
the submarine issue, which can be
taken to mean nothing else than that,
had he, Mr.. Hughes, been President,
he would have gone to war with Ger
many. Mr.. Wilson has maintained
peace, Mr.. Hughes says he would
have acted differently. From a po-
litical point of view, Mr.. Hughes is
the candidate of the "Old Guard OF
the Republican party, the same
crowd concerning whom Col. Roose-
welt showed by his actions four
years ago that he preferred a Demo
cratic administration to the continu-
ance of their control of the Republi
can party.
The same crowd is now in control
of the Republican party that was in
control of it in 1910, when a Demo
cratic Congress was elected; this was
before the Progressive party was
formed. The same crowd that two
years later turned down Roosevelt,
Johnson, Cummins, LaFollette, Bev
eridge, Hadley, and every other man
identified with the fo- ward looking
movement in the Republican party,
and who, in the election of that year,
were only able to carry four States
in the entire country. The same
things that Col. Roosevelt said about
them then are true now, otherwise,
Col Roosevelt deliberately maligned
them.
of meetings, such as the special cor
respondents of one of the Baltimore
papers is sending to his paper, it is
generally acknowledged that the
France campaign has proven a fiZ-
zle so far. When the candidate was
in Easton last week there were, ac-
cording to credible statements, not
fifty people to meet him; the same
of tho situation in Cam
bridge Thursday night; in fact, the
accounts of these meetings are being
bolstered UP as were the accounts of
the France primary meetings, when
the crowds in the France meetings
were multiplied by the hundreds and
those in the Goldsborough meetings
were minimized in the same degree.
The people of the State are not go
ing to turn down a man like "Davy''
Lewis, who has done something for
them, for Dr. France, who while he
has possessed the means and the op-
portunity, so far as is known, has
never lifted his hands in behalf OF
the people of the State.
While Congressman Price had
many enemies in tn elast campaign
and came very near being defeated
his narrow majority was the resull
of over confidence, lack of work, tax
ing too much for granted, but il
this campaign nothing is going tc
be overlooked, the campaign will be
and is being, carefully conducted ,anC
not even the worst enemy of the Con
gresham can claim otherwise thar
that he has made an excellent recorC
during the time he has represented
this district and that on his RECORD
, he is entitled to a reelection.
There is one detail that is lackins
to the campaign in Dorchester coun
ty; we need Wilson, Lewis anC
Price Clubs; there should be clul
in every election district in the coun
ty; there should be rivalry among
the people of each district as tt
which one can get up the largeS