Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-22
DEMoCRATIC TICKET
RrDpEM TIE FIFTH DISTRICT

REDEEM THE FIFTH DISTRlCI
Two weeks from today the voters OF
the Fifth Congressional District will
be called upon to choose a man TO rep
resent them in the 66th Congress.
Not since the days when the Hon.
Barnes Compton filled the office has il
been graced with the presence of a
Democrat, except in 1912, the Hon.
Frank o. Smith was elected for one
term of two years.
Mr.. Compton held his own for many
years, carrying the district for democ-
racy with apparent ease. He was re-
elected the last time in 1892 with the
late Governor Cleveland who swept
the country for democracy and re-
deemed ii from Republican control
But since that time the people of the
Fifth have not been able to reclaim
their own.
In 1894 the office was filled by
Charles Coffin who defeated the leader.
Since then. with the one exception,
that OF Mr.. Smith, the Mudds have
been holding forth The present rep
resentative, Mr.. Sydney f. Mudd, is
still sparring for the job. The choice
therefore will be between Mr. Mudd and
State Senator Frank NJ Duvall.
This is the time when the greatest
care and consideration should be given
to the selection of our representatives.
Our country has been drawn into one
of the greatest and bloodiest wars that
the world has ever seen. No such
time ever existed before. The OPP
pressed and down-trodden peoples of
the earth are looking upon our coun-
try to lead the way for liberty and
democracy and TO break off their
shackeIs and relieve them of their dis
tress.
Our country has taken the leading
role and our President has been
chosen leader and we must elect men
to Office who will follow and support
him at all times.
II is true many good and noble Re-
publicanS have loyalty supported the
President and the administration here
tofore, but there is no telling when the
important affairs of the administration
may take partisan turn, then Demo-
cratic votes would be necessary to
support the President and the admin
istration.
The election of Senator Duvall TO
the 66th Congress will be no mistake.
as he would unquestionably support
the President.
We quote wit happroval the follow
ing from DR.. Samuel Gamers letter,
published in the letter columns of the
Capital. the 18th instant:
Senator Duvall has been promi-
nently active in our governmental
functions for several years-long
enough for us to know him from the
ground up. He has been one of the
strongest representatives we have had
in our Legislature for many years.
From the very first he has shown him
self to be a fighter who never ac-
knowledges defeat. Like John Paul
Jones, when the enemy thinks he has
whipped him, Duval comes up again
smiling, showing that he has just be-
gun to fight. l need only call atten-
ton to the splendid fight he put up
against the Annexation bill, to show
the kind of stuff he is made Of When
in 1916 the measure first came before
the Senate. he threw himself into the
battle with an energy which nothing
could withstand. and in spite of the
great odds which seemed to portend
defeat, he snatched a signal victory
from what was thought to be an in
evitable defeat That he did not sue
coed when the matter again came to
the front this year was no fault of his
own. The fates were against him from
the beginning. The Senate was al
most equally divided, there being Is
Republicans and II Democrats. The
Republican platform had endorsed the
Baltimore scheme. and our Senator
could not induce all the Democrats
to follow him. Hence his failure TO
win the second time.
in various other ways Mr. Duvall
has shown the sterling metal of which
he is made. When once he becomes
convinced of the duty he owes to the
public or to his constituents. he takes
his stand and goes in to win and he
generally does win. He is the kind of
man we should send to Washington
to support Mr.. Wilson. There never
will be any doubt as to his loyalty
either to his constituents or to the
great cause of democracy whose fate
is now in the balance There is not
a single reason why any good citizen,