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Announcement
O NV Friends and Voters

of Dorchester County:
| am a candidate Tor the Repubn-
can nomination for State Senator at
the approaching primaries. Sept. H.
and am using this means TO let eV-
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 prOhibitlve. In some
cases, many OF our people who are
honest. God-fearing and law-abldinS
citizens, are bnfdened with obnoX-
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
a living.
Believing, as | do, that the Repuo-
lican party will control the next leg
islative body of Maryland, II | should
secure the nomination and election
al the hands of my party this com
ing November, l shall be N posi-
ton to help i'll 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 lIv-
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 l1w tina,
makes it harder for the boring
man to make a living is g 5noAl-
low llI in his q w hen
ii costs more to live than be
tore, and l stand pledged to Sny
utmost toward securing the
cation and repeal of these laws, !,
ii We must have crab anu on
laws, | know that the laborer's
terest must first = considered.
1t seems u NE LAT me CitsU I'd"
passed by the Legislature of 1917
was not consistent. We take up hrst
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 ID
your possession less than three in
ches. The crabber says today he
throws away this crab, and tomor-
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 crabs like this to count
as one; in other words, If soft crabs
were &c. each, he only gets one-halt
cent for the buck, the catcher losing
hc. on each crab that he throws
away and catches again. This means
not only the loss on each crab, Dun
it means four times as much time re-
Qulred, etc.
Also take the hard crab law, as il
affects the trot line crabber. The
law says you must not have either
crab less than 5 inches. Now this
seems very unreasonable, as II is q
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 crap.
crawl into the barrels OF cuiled crabs
and sometimes find their way down
toward the bottom of the barrel. Now
Just imagine crabber out in the ho,
burning sun, his boat tossed TO and
fro, trying to find this small crat
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 anC
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
into it.
1t seems an impossibility that any
crabber can escape this law.
l again pledge my people OF this
county, both crabberS and oyster
men, to stand for legislation that will
make the burden lighter TO make q
living instead &C harder, as it now
is on them, Ill trying to obey these
laws. | appeal to all III general that
We stand solidly and use cur every
means that legislation may be had
III the near future to correct some OF
the evils not only in the Underwater
section of our beautiful country, but
evils that exist over our country III
general.
EDWARD S. PHILLIPS.
ADV. 8-z9-tf. Bar