The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-01-08
FOR DELEGATES TO THE BIG
C. o. P. CONVENTION, CHICAGO

| FUR DELEGAIES ~ TIE BIG
G. o. P. CONVENTION, CHICAGO
National Game to Loom Large in Both
| Republican and Democratic Primaries
During the year just beginning
politics will be transformed from the
state to the national stage after Gov
error Richie shall have made his az
pointments in February. Dmocracic
politicians are greatly interested in
these appointments. A United States
Senator to succeed John Walter Smith
and six congressman will be elected in
November. 1t may be the last cleo
ton at which Maryland will be entitled
to six members of the lower house at
Washington, or, even if the represen-
tation is not reduced, there may be
recastig of the boundaries of the Dis
tricts. The census to be taken this
month and the ratio of representation
in the house to be established by that
body will be apt to bring about vital
changes in the state delegation at the
National capital. 1t will also bring
changes in 1922 in the representation
of those counties in the Maryland
House of Delegates whose membership
is not fixed by the constitution.
The campaign for the national po
litical honors to be awarded this year
has begun already. 1t is confined to
the Republicans, who are not united
on a candidate for the United States
Senate. United States Senator John
Walter Smith has no opposition to
date for Democratic denomination.
All of the incumbent Maryland mem
bers of the House of Representatives
Republicans and Democrats, will seek
denominations.
The first political bout will culmi-
nate in May, when joint primaries will
be held. At this primary Republican
and Democratic candidates for United
States Senate will be nominated Each
party will also nominate its candi-
dates for the House of Representative
in the several districts. At the same
primary there will be elected from the
city and from each county delegates
to the state conventions of the two
parties. In addition to ratifying the
nominations of candidates for the SEN
ate chosen at the primary, each con-
vention will elect sixteen delegates to
each of the two national conventions
and adopt platforms. Each conven-
ton will also nominate eight candi-
dates as presidential electors.
Former Senator William P. Jackson.
o. E. Weller and other Republican
leaders, have united in declaring in
favor of sending uninstructed dele
gates to the Chicago convention. Thus
far none of the several Republican
candidates suggested for nomination
for president has made any Roadway
in Maryland The Republican mind is
absolutely open, seeking to find the
candidate who will not only win, but
who will also measure up to condi-
lions now affecting the country and
likely to continue in a more or less
aggravating form for several years.
The Democrats in Maryland are as
much at sea as are the Republicans on
presidential preferences. Senator Os-
car W. Underwood, of Alabama, seems
to have the greatest number of BOOM
ers. If Maryland Democrats were gift
ed with the faculty of seeing beyond
their own noses they would clamor for
the nomination of Governor Coolidge,
of Massachusetts, man who has DEM
onstrated that he stands for law and
order and who has the courage to back
up his stand. If the Republicans do
not nominate him the greatest chance
that ever befell the Democratic party
gill be knocking at the door of that
party. 1t is true that he is a Repub-
lean in name and in party utilization,
but he is democratic. No burning issue
separates the Republican and Demo-
craft; parties today.
If 'ie Democrats swallowed Horace
Greeley for President in 1872 they
ought nc: to make long faces at G :,
crnor Coolidge IN 1920