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Announcement
My Friends and y oters

70 My Friends and Voters
OF Dorchester County.
am d candidate for the HepubI-
can nomination for State Senator at
The approaching primaries, sept. II,
and am using this means to 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 pTohibitiVe. IN some
cases, many OF our people who are
honest, God-fearing and laW-abIdln5
citizens, are bTrdened With obnoM-
Gus laws, one of which affects 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
4 living.
! Believing, as i do, that the RepuD-
lcan party Will control the next leg
islatiye body of Maryland, II should
secure the nomination and election
, at the hands OF my party this com
ing Nov ember, | shall be IN Il posi-
! ton 10 help III securing better law
than JnaL now in force, namely, the
: o-inch crab law, as Its enforcement
has driven people QUE OF the county,
| and away from home, TO make llV-
! ing for their families, and, in some
/ instances, whole families have lett
and moved away; this affects the
merchants and all other business IN
! tcresto in that community, and IN
directly affects every portion OF the
! county. This or any other law tina.
makes it harder for the laboring
man to make Il living is an obnoN-
! GUS law, especially in this day, when
I il costs more to live than ever be
! fore, and L stand pledged TO do my
utmost toward securing the modln-
cation and repeal Of these laws; also,
| if we must have crab anu oystei
laws, I 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 nrst
the inch crab law, affecting the
| soft and snedder crabs, or 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
| throws away this crab, and tomor-
row catches this same crab, when
] has hardened up some, and is then
called by the CraDber a buck; he can
/ sell this crab, then, but has to give
! the buyer 1 crabs like this to count
as one; in other words, if soft crab.
were PC each. he only gets one-half
IceGt for the buck, the catcher loslns
! u C. on each crab that he throws
away and catches again. This means
not only the loss on each crab, bun
| 1t means four times as much time rc-
! quired, etc.
| Also take the hard crab law. as II
affects the trot line crahber. The
! law says YOU must not have either
crab less than inches. Now tins
( seems very unreasonable, as II Is Il
! known fact that crabbers have tried
| their utmost to Gull their catch, ano
| in some way in handling the crabs
| from the net used in dipping them
| from the line. few small craD-
| crawl into the barrels of culled crabs
and sometimes find their way down
| toward the bottom of the barrel. Now
| Just ina CINE crabber out in the hor.
| burning sun. his boat tossed 10 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 II
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 gees search
| ing through the barrel after these
one OF two small crabs that have got