The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-08-26
WELLINGTON ON
LEWIS CANDIDACY

Former Senator George L. Yelling
ton. who is President of the Citizens
National Bank, The German Savings
Bank. as we'll as head of several of the
leading industrial and manufacturing
organizations and enterprises of Cum
berland. bases his opposition to the
election of David j. Lewis to the
United States Senate more on busi-
ness than on political grounds. He
says that Mr.. Lewis election would be
decided blow to the conservative
business views of Maryland. and have
far reaching effect in favor of ex-
treme radicalism in all forms of Nat
ional legislation. His opinions as a
business man on this subject are de-
cided and emphatic. He said:
My opposition to the election of
MIR. Lewis to the Senate is based ra-
ther on business reasons than on poll
tics in the partisan sense. / know
him very well. and know his views on
these subjects,-indeed his record,
ever since he entered public life, and
even before he was sent to the State
Senate has been open and hostile to
all the conservative ideas which have
always ruled in business affairs in
Maryland. He has always been an
extreme radical and his ideas on all
public questions have been largely
socialistic. and openly so at that"
"He favors the Naturalization or
public ownership of all public utili-
ties, not merely the public control or
supervision of such things, but the
public ownership and management of
them. In fact he goes as far in his
views as many of the extreme social
lists, and to all practical intents and
purposes is Socialist rather than a
Democrat or Republican,
His alliances for years were all
radical, and there is no doubt but at
bottom they are so at the present
time. He has in turn tried all the
political parties and finally ended in
the Democratic party, where he has
been able to entrench himself owing
to the fact that he could bring to his
aid certain elements of the people, the
extreme radical elements. which have
enabled him to maintain his hold up to
the present time. In other words, he
has been able to use the Democratic
party to attain his ends after he had
failed elsewhere"
He is able and skillful and an adept
at political manipulation. and is all
the more dangerous on that account.
| should look upon his election to the
Senate for six years as a menace to
conservative Legislation. especially to
Conservative, non-partisan business
legislation, and it is such legislation
that the country needs at the present
II ne and in the immediate future. He
co1lc not be conservative or act in a
conservative manner on any great
public question under any circum-
stances even if he tried, for radicalism
Is instilled in him, and will govern
him in al things"
AS a business man, as a banker,
and manufacturer, | should oppose Mr..
Lewis no matter what party he had
back of his candidacy, and desire to
warn the business men and the busi-
ness interests of Maryland the danger
they will incur should they send him
to the United States Senate. His cleo
tion would violate all the conservative
traditions of the State-for Maryland
Senators, no matter what their party
affiliation may have been, have al
ways been noted for their conservative
actions in regard to all matters affect
ing the business interests of the coun-
try. To elect Mr.. Lewis would break
an unvarying record of more than a
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