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Announcement
70 My Friends and ' oters

To My Friends and voters
OF Dorchester county:
| am a candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for State Senator at
the approaching primaries, Sept. II,
and am using this means 70 let eN-
eryone 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 prohibitiye. In some
cases, many OF our people who are
honest, God-fearing and laW-abld1nS
citizens, are b1rdened with obnoM-
Gus laws, one of which affects the
crab industry. l know something
about this, for my near relatives ana
friends are in this business, and some
have had to leave it entirely to make
Il living.
Believing, as | do, that the RepuD-
lican party will control the next leg
islative body of Maryland, If should
secure the nomination and election
at the hands Of my party this com
ing November, / shall be IN posi-
ton 30 help in securing a 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 llY-
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 it harder for the laborlng
man to make living is an ObnOM-
Gus law, especially in this day, when
ii 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,
if we must have crab ana oystel
laws, l know that the laborer,s in
terest must first be considered.
1t seems to me that the Crap law
passed by the Legislature OF 1917
was not consistent. We take up first
the 3 inch crab law, affecting the
soft and snedder crabs, peeier
crab, as called by the crabber; the
law says you cannot have any III
your possession less than three in
ches. The crabber says today he
throws away this crab, and tomor-
row catches this same crab, when
has hardened up some, and IS then
called by the crabber d buck; he can
sell this crab, then, but has to give
the buyer crabs like this TO count
as one; in other words, if soft crabs-
were &c. each, he only gets one-half
cent for the buck, the catcher lOsins
12c. on each crab that he throws
away and catches again. This means
not only the loss on each crab, Dul
1t means four times as much time re-
quired, etc.
Also take the hard crab law, as it
affects the trot line crabber. The
law says you must not have either
crab less than inches. Now TINS
seems very unreasonable, as it is a
known fact that crabbers have tried
their utmost to Gull their catch, anu
in some way in handling the crabs
from the net used in dipping them
from the line, a few small craD-
crawl into the barrels of culled crabs
and sometimes find their way down
toward the bottom of the barrel. Now
Just imagine a Crabber out in the ho,.
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 u
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