The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-02-17
THEY AGREE In THEOMi
But NOT IN PRACHd
Major Brown Replies 10 Paul ~
chester And Thinks PauPs
mary Election Views Are Corrd
But Thinks Elections in BaItinf4
City do Not Vindicate The. CIai5
OF The City People.

But Thinks Elections in Baltinf4
! City do Not Vindicate The. CiA55
OF The City People.
! A1r. Editor:
| have read with much iTiHT
and great satisfaction the 41ste1s
! tie of Paul, the apostle OF the Hak
! land Democracy, and heartily Hgl$
! with his views in regard to
| structive and discouraging effeeEso
/ the direct primary law. ThisaI
which seems TO be perfectly fak6
! its face, has, in fact, proven to&B&
| blight on the body polite ana H
! and still does deter and discoNf4g
| the best fitted and best qualifieaaHa e
| ment OF our citizens from contesa
| for the management of our pntHi,
| affairs, due to the contentions &nt
. WrangIings and the excessive expS Il
! Ses growing cut Of two elections Aal
lowing close upon each other, betkr,
| the disappointm ants and bitterngs,
and jealousies that are always In
gendered can be healed; theref3e
| the leaders and managers of paTt.
affairs are forced to take UP af1d& e
behind candidates that do not sci
| the offices, but who have to be Hsr
suaded and urged to allow tleil
names to be used simply to fIlEnI
the ticket, and in many cases khs
candidates, knowing themselves tha
they do not possess the best quaHf
cations nor measure up to the staEtd
ards that they have themselves Set
especially as legislators, becomeSm
different and careless Of their dwT
election.
His advice, or suggestion, to hold
a convention Of representative fn6
forward-looking Democrats. ffon
each district Of the county, to mike
up a ticket and urge its supporH il
wise and good as far as it goes, bul
this is not exactly what iss needeN In
Dorchester county at this time, fol
We may as well use the plain worG
and say that our troubles grow Aui
of the fact that there exists in BOZ
chester county today many diffefen1
and conflicting elements and FAC
tions,'due to real or imaginary gtiev-
ances, disappointments and desire
for leadership that has causedHfhe
voters to become Indifferent and list
less and has caused a kind of Rir
Van Wrinkle sleep" to come owe Hthe
electorate, which always spells aeatI
to any political party.
What we need today is not |sIaI
to guide us, but immediate and$ 4l
monious action in what may be g -!
- -sss--.s Il: So sss..s sse5s . 3
posed of representative Defn6cat
from every district in the county, ol
men of all factions, elements and
creeds, and, laying aside all past diff
ferences and dissatisfactions, .anC
forgetting the past, join in a harm on
Gus and patriotic determination tt
maintain the principles and suprem
acy of the Democratic party in oul
county and State, and agree upon {
ticket composed of the very bestfmer
of the party, regardless of all exist
ing or past differences, and to pledgt
themselves to get behind such tic
ket and elect it, and then let a con
vention be called to ratify and, i'm
prove such a ticket, should 1t. bt
deemed necessary.
Paul did not touch on this phase
of the situation in his last epistle
but this is indeed the paramount is
sue OF the hour. In his fortietf
epistle, published in the Daily Ban
ner some two or three weeks ago
he did not seem to be in a getftoge
ther mood, for he severely criticized
Governor Harrington and the leader:
of the so-called State Organization
for presuming to take an interest II
the Baltimore city mayoraity contest
intimating that Greater Baltimore
has become political holy ground, ant
that no man must dare to question
the right of the city organization
which is composed of Mr.. Mahdn ant
Mayor Preston, to control the politi
cal affairs of the city, and, in fact, thu
whole State.
Paul is maa of large experience
great learning and acknowledged
ability, and his epistles should re
ceive respectful and due conSidera
ton, but Paul, Paul! the meleniun
has not come yet, and these attack
will hardly persuade what remains o
the old guard to lay down when
red-hot political scrap is on. especial
ly when the fate of the party ma,
depend on the result of the fight. Il
more recent epistle he goes afte
Weller, Tate and Jackson, and othe
Republican State leaders, AMID in
forms us that Mr.. Frank FuHst ha
ousted all the Harrington adHerent
out of the mayoralty fight AMID sen
them over the Rhine, and has iplace
Mr.. Knapp in charge Of the William
mayoralty campaign, but it seem
that he cannot publish an iepistl
without taking a stab at Harrington
who has already received MORE stab
from this sourte than were found L
Caesars mantle, but he stil4 lives
and has never found it necessary t
wear a gas mask.
Galen Tate may frighten Genera
Lowndes back into the trenches an
prevent him from going over the tor
j.