Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-08-27
Democratic Party viii
Present United Front
Governor Richie Plans To Restore
Harmony Harmony In Party In
Baltimore Meets With Success

Inc democratic party IN Baltimore |
will go into the fight this year in bet
ter shape than has been the case for
a long period of ycars-and all this
condition Of unity and harmony is |
very largely due to the diplomats,
skill and energy Of Governor Richie. |
For weeks past the Governor has
been working out his plan to restore
harmony, and very few people reali
believed that he would meet win
Gny reasonable degree of success.
Not few men whose views are usu
ally of value, and whose knowledge
of public affairs, and the men who
were most concerned in causing the
divisions in the party ranks, where OF
value declared that the Governor lad
undertaken an impossible task-thot
the only thing to be done was to al
low the warning factions to fight it
cut in the primaries, and then use in
fluence to get them together after the
hattle-but the Governor was firm il
h. determination to prevent fig't
End his efforts met with success.
greatly to the surprise OF nearly ev-
erybody, and greatly to the dsap-
pointment of the republicans, and cs.
Tccially the two republican papers.
the News and American, who have
oAcrted themselves with frantic en-
cTgy to thwaJt the Governors plans
and prevent him from accomplishing
anything definite in the way of the
restoration of party harmony. To the
surprise of many people throughout
the state, the News and theAmerican
have thrown aside all pretensc ana
Independence in political affairs, and
are now openly favoring the repubii.
cans, and doing all in their power to
| upset the plans of the Governor and
the democratic party to accomplish
| anything in the way of improvement
in the management of the State gov
| ernment. 1t ia well that the demo-
| Gratis of the Counties should under
| stand that the News and the Ameri-
| can are now on the side of the repub-
licans, with all their force and vigor,
and that the democrats of Maryland
have nothing to expect of them eX-
| cept hostility and strenuous OPPOSE
ton. When it is understood also
| that both these able and Influential!
newspapers, are owned by a New
York republican, Mr.. Frank A! Mum
sey, the reason for their support q
the republicans, and their hostility to
the democrats will be apparent to ev-
erybody. In spite of all these efforts
to upset Governor Ritchie's plans for
harmony, he has succeeded in all he
undertook, and no doubt he will sue
coed in the accomplishment of his
plans for the betterment of the State
government.
1t is really inspiring to democrats
to see the eagerness with which the
leaders and their followers are al
ready making preparations for the
coming contest with their old-timc
opponents, the republicans. For sew
eral years past, in every campaign,
the greatest amount of work to be
done consisted in Strengthening out
troubles within the party. With al
large majority of the voters allied in
principle with their party, the demo
rats were usually so broken up into
factions, that all sorts Of schemes
had to be devised to pull the ticket |
through on election day-and then
very often the success met with was
only partial in its character, and not
g few deserving candidates went down |
to defeat, in punishment for the sins
of those whose jealousies had caused |
the party divisions. The County dem, |
ccrats might all be together and
working in harmony both for their |
local and the general ticket. But the |
time and energy spent was often |
wasted, because of condition of af-
fairs in the City. This year the con
dition is entirely different. Through
the diplomatic skill and sagacity of
the Governor, the party here is in
such a shape that before election day
il will probably be like a real love
feast, where each worker and voter
will be trying to out do the others in
votes for the candidates
and where the triumph on election
'ay will be celebrated with joy by all.
Here and there disappointed cand'-
late if found, who looks sour and
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