The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-04-20
PARTY Leaders INCLINE
TOWARDS HARMONY
Tired of Petty Jealousies Which
Have Threatened Party Success III
The State.

Hotel Rennert, Baltimore, Md,
April 2O.-While the interest in the
great battle in France is the really
absorbing matter of discussion, the
politicians and others interested in
State politics, many of whom gather
here from day to day from all sec
tions of the State, find occasion to
devote a short time each day to
discussion of current and future po-
litical affairs. Most Marylanders
are born politicians. some good poll
ticians, a few of them wise pollu-
clans, many of them very Indifferent
politicians, but nearly all, Repubh-
cans and Democrats. are politicians
to a greater or less degree, and
therefore interested in all that per
tains to the present and future pc
litical affairs of the State, and are
ready to discuss candidates and pros
pective candidates, and all else that
pertains to the affairs of their re
spective parties in both State and
National affairs.
As noted in last weeks letter,
signs are apparent on all sides OF a
more harmonious condition OF al
fairs in the Democratic party in the
near future than for the past sew
eral years. The leaders of both the
city and State elements seem to be
ready to hold out olive branches OF
peace to each other, and the acrlmony
and venom evident in all their refer
ences to each. other for the past
eight or ten years is becoming less
and less apparent as the days grow
longer; and leaders who six months
ago would have seorned the sugges-
ton that there could be any har-
mony without abject surrender on
one side or the other are now taking
the opposite view, and are lntlma1ns
very strongly that there is really no
great obstacle to unity of action, and
that it will be consummate folly for
the Democratic leaders to stand in
the way of real party unity in order
to satisfy any real or imaginary per-
sonal grievances which may have a
basis in what has been done in the
past. When both the city ana
State crowds, as they are called, are
ready to forgive and forget the past;
when the leaders realize, as they
seem to be doing, that the good OF
the whole party should be their first
del atfon,. harmony anti Unity or
Hon will be possible, and there is
ery indication that such a fortu-
state of affairs will soon be
light about. With over forty
busand Democratic majority, ac-
riding to the last registration, there
can be no sensible excuse for such
division of sentiment as viii enable
the Republicans to elect any State
officer, or to have any appreciable
in the next General Assem-
bly,. The experience of the last six
years has been especially forceful in
warning the leaders of the danger OF
foolish and selfish personal jealous
les and divisions. The object les
son of Republican administration
for four years, and divided Gen
eral Assembly last winter in State
which is overwhelmingly Democratic
seem to have brought about a rea-
Hzing sense of the absurd folly OF
allowing personal or merely local
troubles to rend a party so that such
a state of affairs could exist. And
the indications are that political
wisdom will resume her sway in the
minds of the Democratic leaders,
and that the game in the future will
be played so that such a situation
will not face the voters of the domi
nant party again. Contests for
nomination will, of course, take
place in the future as in the past;
leaders will take sides as they have
always done, but the rivalry will be
friendly, and when the primaries are
over the party leaders should do
their part Gas they have not done in
the past) and work together in uni
ty and harmony for success. When
the pettiness and absurdity of the