Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
LETTER TO EDITOR

TO the Edffof OF the Evening capital:
Last week saw more county people
in Baltimore than have been here at
any one time for several months. They
were here in attendance of the several
conventions which were held in con-
nection with the annual meeting of the
Southern Commercial congress, which
brought to town all the members of
President Wilson's cabinet; ex-presi-
dent Taft, the mayor of New York, and
the mayors of many other cities, to-
gether with large crowd of disting-
uished men from all sections of the
country. And among them were most
of the prominent politicians and bust
ness men from every county in Mary
land
OF course the Marylanders from the
counties talked politics with their
brethren of Baltimore, and of course
there were possible candidates for the
nomination for governor in both par
ties, and of course all these gentle
men had friends who were ready and
willing to speak well of them, and to
argue as to their fitness for the COVER
norship, and any other official posi-
ton to which they might aspire. Sena-
tor Orlando Harrison of Worcester
county was on hand. Mr. Harrison is
the largest orchardist and one of the
largest fruit growers and farmers in
the country, for his agricultural and
horticultural interests extend to other
states beside Maryland, took promi-
nent part in all the meetings. especially
those which pertained to his own par
ticular lines of business, and he had
many friends, present, who were only
too ready and willing to add force to
his already thriving boom for the
democratic nomination for the COVER
ship. And strange as it may appear to
some, most of the men who were urg-
ing on Mr.. Harrisons candidacy were
very prominent democrats and farmers
from the western section of the state,
all ready to take off their coats for the
senator from Worcester, notwithstand-
ing the fact that he is one of the real
and most influential leaders of the
party on the Eastern Shore.
The most prominent and enthusiastic
of Mr. Harrison's hackers was the
veteran democratic leader from Wash
ington county. Mr. E. p Cohill: like
Mr.. Harrison large and prosperous
orchardist and farmer, a most success
full business man. and the unanimously
elected president of the leading state
organization of those who are interest
ed in his line of business. In fact, Mr..
Cohill expressed himself most en-
phatically in favor of Mr.. Harrison's
nomination to succeed Governor Har-
rington, and said he was ready to use
his influence to the utmost to aid his
friend in the attainment of his laud-
able and praiseworthy ambition. Mr..
Cohill said that he favored Mr.. Harri-
son because he knew him, from his
many years of close personal and bust
ness friendship, to be in every way
suited for the place, that he was a
farmer and business man whose train
ing amply qualified him for the duties
of the chief Office of the state and
that above all else, his wide and thor
ough knowledge of the public affairs of
Maryland made him the best equipped
man who had been mentioned in con-
nection with the honor, to administer
the government during the exacting
and important years of reconstruction
following the great war
The Crisfield Times of last week
brings out a new candidate for the
democratic nomination for the COVER
norship in the person of Mr.. Samuel
X. Dennis. at present United States
district attorney for Maryland. Mr.
Dennis came from the Eastern Shore
a few years ago and has made a sue
cess as a lawyer here He is a young
man of ability and his filled acceptably
several important public positions,
among which was that of secretary to
Senator John Walter Smith during his
administration as governor.
The search for candidate to make
the fight for the nomination against
Mayor Preston is still going on with
out any sign of success at the pres
ent time Mr. William Cabell Bruce is
said to be willing. but those who are