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Announcement
NV Friends and Voters

To NV Friends and Voters
of Dorchester County:
| am candidate for the Republl-
can nomination for State Senator at
the approaching primaries, Sept. H.
and am using this means to let eF-
ervone know my position on some
very serious matters which affect the
interests of the public in this day of
high prices, when the necessities OF
life are almost prohibitive. In some
cases, many OF our people who are
honest, God-fearing and laW-abld1nS
citizens, are bUrdened with obnoXl-
Gus laws, one of which aHects the
crab industry. | know something
about this, for my near relatives ana
friends are in this business, and some
have had TO leave it entirely to make
d living.
Believing, as | do, that the Repuo-
lican party will control the next leg
islative body of Maryland, If l should
secure the nomination and election
at the hands of my party TINS COM
ing November, l shall be III posi-
ton to help in securing better law
than that now in force, namely, the
5-inch crab law, as its enforcement
has driven people out OF the county,
and away from home, TO make Nv
ing for their families, and, in some
instances, whole families have lett
and moved away; this affects the
merchants and all other business In
terests in that community, and in
directly affects every portion OF the
county This or any other law tina.
makes ii harder for the laborlng
man to make living is an obn0Xl-
Gus law, especially in this day, when
il costs more to live than ever be-
fore, and | stand pledged TO do my
utmost toward securing the modln-
cation and repeal of these laws; also,
il we must have crab ana oyster
laws, [ know that the laborer's In
tereSt must first be considered.
1t seems TO me that the CRAB law
passed by the Legislature OF 1917
was not consistent. We take up first
the 3 inch crab law, affecting the
soft and shredder crabs, peeier
crab, as called by the crabber; the
law says you cannot have any in
your possession less than three in
ches. The crabber says today he
I
row catches this same crab, which
has hardened up some, and is then
called by the crabber buck; he can
sell this crab, then, but has TO give
| the buyer 4 crabs like this to count
as one; in other words, il soft crabS
We're &c each, he only gets one-half
cent for the buck, the catcher losins
| lac. on each crab that he throws
3 taI, hi n n
! not only the loss on each crab, Blu,
/ 1t means four times as much time rc-
quired, etc.
Also take the hard crab law, as 1t
affects the trot line crabber. The
! law says you must not have either
crab less than inches. Now ms
seems very unreasonable, as 1t Is Il
! known fact that crabbers have tried
/ their utmost to Gull their catch, ana
in some way in handling the crabs
( from the net used in dipping them
/ from the line, a few small crap.
/ crawl into the barrels of culled crabs
and sometimes find their way dow n
! toward the bottom Of the barrel. Now
I Just ina CINE a crabber out in the nov.
/ burning sun, his boat tossed to and
! fro, trying to find this small crab
/ which has, without any intent upon
| his part, gotten down into his bar
rel of crabs Also imagine what ~
means when crabs are biting and
swapping, to go over barrel after bar
rel, with lines still baited. and the
crabs eating up the expensive bait,
while the poor crabber goes search
ing through the barrel after these
one or two small crabs that have got