Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-03
BATTLE LINES DRAWN !,
. FOR PRIMARY CONTEST
AMONG DEMOCRATS
Senator Duvall Announces Lining
Up With Gels For
Senate
"PROGRESSIVES" SLATE

+ With less than week intervening
/ between now and the Primary Election
/ (Monday neXt, the keenest interest is
being manifested in the closing de-
velopments of the campaign. Chief
among these is the final closing of the
door of hope TO any negotiations for
compromise or harmony for the die
seems to have been cast and the battle
I lines definitely drawn
When Senator Frank NJ. Duvall
withdrew from the Senatorial race last
week there was some degree of doubt
expressed in political circles as to
whether he would fall in line with
that element of the so-called PRO
gressives" who are supporting John
II. Gels for the Senate. or whether he
would support Major Riley's candidacy.
All doubt on this point has been set
at rest by Senator Duvall's published
announcement of his withdrawal which
he has just issued and in which he
definitely states that he is supporting
Mr.. Gels
Another Of the latest developments
is the final and revised slate of candi-
dates as 20. K."d by some OF the
Progressive" faction who have been
holding conferences recently and who
attempted slate-making at their meet
ing held on the last day for candidates
to enter the lists. They undertook TO
make up ticket at that time in spite
of the advice of some of their col
leagues against this procedure, and
the attempt created considerable dis
affection in their ranks. 1T was not
known whether any further steps
would be taken along this line but as
a result of some more conferences yes
terday, this element among the PRO
gressives" came out with their finally
revised slate for publication and gen.
eral distribution. The list is prac-
tically the same as that first tentative
ly agreed on by them and published
falthough several of those who partici-
pated in the conferences as well as
some of those on the ticket itself, are
known to have stated that they would
not support the ticket in its entirety.
II has also been made plain recently
by the general run of the voters, that
their selection of nominees will be
made by themselves direct from the
official list OF all the candidates, and
much adverse criticism is being ex-
pressed among all elements in regard
to the eleventh hour attempt at slate
making which is generally considered
as not only crude but unfair to both
the candidates on the favored" list as
well as those not on it, In fact, it
seems to be taken for granted that
the handicap will operate more strong
ly against the former OH the theory
that many of the voters will probably
show their resentment at this unlocked
for exhibition of dictated ticket-making
by turning to other candidates, where
as il left untrammeled they would have
gone the other way
1t is also generally recognized that
large number of the candidates on
the slate are the choice of a great
many of the so-caIled Organization"
Democrats and of unaffiliated Demo-
Gratis in general
Therefore. the prediction that seems to
be the soundest of all those now being
made is that on the Democratic ticket
that will be nominated on Monday
next will be found the names Of those
who are selected on their own merits
whether on one slate or the other, and,
moreover, selected in spite of any
slate-making and not because of 1t.