The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-29
Mr.. SEABROOK ROASTED
REPUBLICAN, nUPLlClTY EXPOSED BY
SYKESVILLE HERALD.

the dry" forces in Carroll county have
been urging the election OF Hon. John
Walter Smith and Albert A. Blakeney,
and advising Democrats to cut Car
vlIIe u. Benson.
An effort to get all "dry'' Republi-
cans to vote the straight ticket and
Democrats to cut theirs is being made
and the movement has been forcibIy
demonstrated by the Rev. w. L. Sea-
brook a supposed leader of the dry
forces, but a partisan Republican, who
has written to Maj. Hall of the Sykes
vile Herald The Major has been adj
vocating voting for Senator Smith
and condenmnlng him for his actions
and urging the support by the dry
forces of Mr.. Weller The comment
aof the Major upon this most remark
able display of mental acrobatfcs by
Rev. Seabrook is trenchant and is as
follows
We are panied that Mr.. Seabrook,
a minister of Christ, should have writ
ten such letter. We are sorry that as
a lawyer he should take such a posi-
ton as he has taken with respect to the
immunity of Carroll county from Fed
eral statutes. Amy ordinary lawyer
can tell Mr.. Seabrook that a State law
and Federal law can not both be
supreme that whenever or wherever
thet clash, the State law goes down
before the other. In the same way,
whenever the Constitution OF the
United States comes in conflict with
a State Constitution, the former is
supreme. We would recommend that
Mr.. SeabroOk read Story on the Con-
stitufion, or refresh his recollection
with the Masterpieces of Daniel
Webster However, we credit him
with better knowledge of the funda-
mentals of law, than to assume that
he speaks as a lawyer in the conten-
ton he holds up, that no matter what
"a wet Congress might do, no matter
what kind of law it might enact, no
matter if the manufacture and sale
of beer and wine is authorized, that
Carroll county would still be exenlpS
from the saloon, because it is in anti
saloon territory by vote of her peo-
pie!
No, Mr.. Seabrook does not speak as
the astute lawyer in setting up this
wholly untenable proposition. He
speaks, rather, as the astute politician
He has been in charge of Republican
Headquarters in Westminster. He is
a Republican officeholder. He is doing
the bidding Of the party managers in
this county, in putting out the fore
going propaganda. 1t is not Uncle
Mort who is trying to deceive the
people. 1t is Mr.. Seabrook. He knows
the declarations he has made in this
letter will fool some of the voters,
even if it does make him appear utterly
ridiculous before thoughtful men. He
knows, better than most people, that
if Congress amends the Volstead Act
so as to permit the manufacture and
sale of beer and wine, as non-intoxi-
eating beverage, which is the proposi-
ton to which the whiskey candidates
are committed, including Mr. Weller,
that the stuff COULD AND WOULD BE
SOLD in Carroll county as well as in
every other county, and that there is
no law, State or otherwise, to prevent
it. He knows, too, that the alcoholic
content of the beer it is proposed to
bring back, is practically the same as
was contained in the beer sold over
the bars of Carroll county before the
saloon was voted outI He knows that
this very beer made men drunken then
| and he knows that it Will make men
drunken again. He knows that under
the proposed change in the law, that
the boy or girl could go to a place
where it is sold and buy a bottle OF
it with the same freedom that he OF
she can go now and buy bottle OF
/ ginger pop. He knows that if beer
comes back under the pending propo-
sition, that instead of having Al oper
bars in Carroll county, as we had be
4 fore we closed these hell holes, we
would have Al dozen or more of them
/ Now permit me to remind Mr.. Sea
brook of another thing. The State o.
/ MARYLAND refused to cooperate with
the general government i'll enforcing
the Volstead Act The State Legisla
ture even wanted to make it a crime
for any civil officer anywhere, to Civ,
aid to Federal officials in the enforce
ment of that Act A bill to that effec
was actually introduced in the Legis
lature, with the sanction of the we
Governor. 1t didn't pass because Mr.
Gambrill warned its sponsor.
that they were walking the
border line of sedition and treason
So in the absence of any State law TO
the enforcement Of prohibition in Car
roll county, and as there are no Fed