The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08
DEMOCRATS IN HARMONY
Good State Ticket HAS Been Selected
VIII Be Elected Inn November.

Good State Ticket HAS Been Selected
Will Be Elected i'm November.
The Democratic State ticket for
this falls election, as finally agreed
upon Wednesday by party leaders of
all faction in attendance upon the
meeting of the State Central Com
mittee at the Rennert, is as follows:
For ,GoverneEa Albert c. Ritchie, of
Baltimore city .-.
For Comptroller, Major Brooke Lee,
of Montgomery county.
For Attorney-General, Thomas J..
Heating, Of Queen Anne's county.
| For Clerk of the Court of Appeals,
Caleb c. Magruder, of Prince
Georges county.
There will be no opposition to any
of these candidates. For the first
, time since the Direct Primary act was
passed, the Democrats will not have
a primary fight for nominations to
State offices.
Acknowledgement Ritchie, whose
nomination for Governor has been a
fOregOne conclusion for several weeks,
filed his papers with the Secretary
of State some time ago, and Mr.. Ma
SL uuCI LIDS LIEU. 4ddJOT Lee anu II.
Keating, who now holds the office of
State Insurance Commissioner, will
file either today or tomorrow. The
lists close tomorrow.
The ticket is a harmony ticket, and
is the ticket which the party people
at the Rennert wanted and which
they believed could be elected. The
Lee forces are recognized by the
fofo 81,
ination of Major Lee. And Mr.. Keat-
ing, the nominee for Attorney-Gener-
al, has not always been an organiza-
ton man, having supported Senator
Lee for the nomination for Governor
in 1911, while Mr.. Ritchie is not re-
garded as one of the State peoples
stalwarts, although he has been with
them i'm late fights. The truth is that
the ticket is less State organization
affair than any nominated in years.
And because it is a party ticket,
rather than factional ticket, the
party leaders, believed that there
would be- more harmony in this
campaign than in any in years, and
that, despite the plain fact that a
hard fight is ahead, the election will
go to the Democrats. They plan to
begin fighting today and to continue
fighting until November
Not only is there harmony as to
the State ticket, but the result of
yesterdays conferences between
leaders of the different factions re-
suited in an agreement that brought
to head the efforts at harmony in
Baltimore city which have been under
way for days. So far as Mahon and
Kelly and the organized factions are
concerned, there is to be harmony
in the nomination of the city ticket.
The division Of the city ticket was
practically settled yesterday, ex-
cept as to candidates for Clerks OF
Circuit Court No. 2 and the Superior
Court, States Attorney and Sheriff.
The gathering of the leaders and
=! workers was the largest which has
attended a meeting of the State Cen
tral Committee in years. Leaders OF
every faction and from every section
, were on hand. Senator Smith, Dis
trict Attorney Dennis, former State
Treasurer Dennis, State Chairman
Wade and Governor Harrington, OF
the State forces, were about the. hotel
for hours. John Mahon and Frank
Kelly, of the opposing city factions
also were on hand.
When all of the politicians from all
sections of the State got together in
the Rennert lobby it soon became
apparent that the harmony movement
had real substance to it. Senator
Smith, head of the State organiza-
tion, and John Mahon, head of the
city organization, who have been at
loggerheads for several years, with
bitter feeling prevailing at times, had
conference in Senator Smith s
; room, which both reported to have
been highly satisfactory
A while after this pleasant con-
ference between the State and city
leaders, John Mahon and his rival for
city dominance, Frank Kelly, the
lieutenant of Senator Smith, met for
the first time since they split in the
Lee-Harrington fight in 1915. The
meeting was pleasant and interesting