The Democratic advocate., 1920-09-17
ROBINSON The LEADER
SENATOR SMITH MAKING PUBLIC CAM
PAIeA AND IS MEETING WITH sue
CEsS-cITY REPUBLICANS AGAINST
WELLER.

Ex-senator Thomas Fl. Robinson, oil
Belair, has accepted the Chairman
ship Of the Democratic State Executive
Committee, has opened his headquart-
ers, at Rennert's and hereafter will
have full charge of the campaign III
Maryland.
Mr. Robinson is one of the abIest
and most capable men in the State,
aid what is Of equally great Import
ance, he is the personification OF ac-
tiyity and industry The very men
ton of his name I'm connection with
the real management of the contest
inrpired confidence and hope in the
minds of everybody interested in the
success OF the Democratic ticket, IN
the City and State and the york will
now ego on in such a manner as to
insure In the general opinion decid-
ed victory here, not only for Cox and
Roosevelt, but for Senator Smith and
4 majority Of the Democratic eandi-
,lates for the House of Representa-
tiyes
Senator Robinson is especially well
qualified, in other respects, to manage
: campaign at the present time. He
has a very large acquaintance not
only throughout the Counties, but he
is also a friend of many years stand
ing Of the City leaders of both fac
tions, and he is particularly we'll liked
by certain of the influential City lead
ers, whose active assistance he will
no doubt receive to much greater
extent than any other public man
available for the Chairman He was
the spokesman for the member
the Maryland delegation at the San
Francisco Convention, and aided ma
terially in gaining the Presidential
nomination for Cox and Roosevelt.
and was one Of the original support
erss of the Ohio Governor. There is
no doubt but that the Democratic
campaign will move forward with
great force and vigor and that the =
which has been apparent, will
disappear.
Senator Smith is campaigning this
week on the Eastern Shore. Mr.. We'll
Ter, his Republican opponent, is maxi
ing a mysterious, dark lantern sort
of campaign in the sIums aud
among the negroes. for he barely APP
pears in the day time, and is seldom
seen by really reputable white people.
either in Baltimore or elsewhere. No
one admitted to his presence except
those who know the mystic passwords,
and his campaign up to the present
time, has been largely devoted to con-
ference with negro preachers and
back alley leaders, in the black belt
in Baltimore. In fact the whole Re-
publican campaign here has been OF
the gum shoe, dark lantern variety.
The real, old time Republicans, such
men as Ex-Governor Go1dsborough,
Ex-Congressman Thomas Parran, Mr..
William Warburton and men of the
class who have giving tone and char
acter to the Republican party in years
past, are not in favor with Mr. Weller
as his satellites, and are apparently
taking no part in the campaign. They
are gentlemen, and not gum shoe
dark lantern, and have no part and
parcel in the present Republican re-
gone.
Senator Smith, on the other hand,
is making an open and thoroughly
public campaign He is not ashamed
of his long and honorable nublic rec
ord in his home State, and among his
home people. His life from his birth
to, the present time, is known to the
people OF Maryland, and he has held
in turn offices from the lowest to the
highest, and no one has ever question
ed his personal honesty and integrity
in anything that he has ever done.
either public or private. He has been
loyal and unswerving Democrat of the
old regular style, and has never been
in politics for profit-no one ever ac
cuset him of taking a corrupt or dirty
dollar. His campaign is like himself
out in the open. He is placing his
personality and his record before the
people, and he has nothing to defend
or explain for he knows and his
friends know, that his personality and
his public and private record contain
nothing which requires explanation
of which he or his people need be
ashamed, and his closest friends are
more that his personality-and. pub
lie services will rank him in days to
come among the noblest and best in
the history of the State.
Governor RiEchie and his road COM
mission unlike their predecessors, are
VIGOROUSLY pushing the work entrust-
ed to them in way most to the public
In selecting this most important of
his commissions, especially the COM
mission which has charge of the ex-
nditure of the largest sum of money,
the Governor made no mistake. He
appointed men in when he had inn
plicit confidence himself, and in whom
he knew the public had confidence.
The members of the board take great
interest in the work. Messrs. Wine
hrenner and Crothers, together with
the Governor. attend all meetings and
nothing is determined exeept at the
meetings. Mr.. Mackall. chairman, is
what the head of such board should
be, a thoroughly competent and cap
able Road Engineer, and he knows
the State thoroughly from end 20 end
He is not an importation, but Mary
lander born and bred, and his skill
and success in his work are evidence
that there is no necessity to go else
where to get men to head local en-
terprises, as seems to have been the