The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-09-07

10 TIE Editor Of The Republican
The following editorial from The
Baltimore News Of Wednesday morn
ing covers Senator Frances Senator
ial activities so succinctly that | beg
space in the columns of your paper
for its reproduction. 1t must be re-
membered, too, that the Baltimore
News, from which the above article
was taken, is the leading Republican
daily newspaper of Maryland, and the
writer therefore was wholly quail
fed for expressing the views therein
contained. The News article follows
PROTEST g..
There remains six days for the Re
publicans Of this State to grasp the
significance Of the Senatorial pri-
mary situation to their party and &c
themselves.
In the Senate itself Senator France
has been harmless. He has never, to
our knowledge, been able to influence
in support Of his various policies
more than a corporal's guard of his
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jority, the minority or as SUPER
minority of one, as he will. His vote is
important not because it draws any
other votes with it but only where one
vote one way or the other maychange
the legislative result.
Senator France, we think, is him
self transcendentaIist. He is
menace only because when he out
lines his vague impracticable phil
osophies practical minded men take
them and apply them to practical
facts. He may not consider himself
radical. But the radicals regard
him, even more than La Toilette, as
their champion. They are not in
terested in any immeasurably slow
and steady social revolution. He
talks of one. They find hope and
comfort in his utterances, and then
interpret them as justjfying and in-
wiling direct action, concrete and
swift class warfare against the gen
eral welfare of the country.
William P. Jackson says Senator
France should be renominated be
cause he can poll the largest vote in
the general election.
Mr.. Jackson does not analyze the
sources from which that anticipated
vote would come. But everybody
knows what they are. The proposal
amounts to nothing more or less than
that to keep Federal patronage in
Mr.. JackSon's hands the Republican
party shall choose a Senatorial candi-
date who can appeal to the socialistic
riff-raff of the State, the embittered,
the least assimilated of the foreign
element.
The independent Democratic vote
will not turn to Senator France: the
non-affiliated vote will not turn to
him; the Independent Republican vote
is heavily against him. The party
has stood for something in the past.
A strong minority party, it has won
its victories by taking advantage Of
resentment against the blunders or
worse of Democratic politicians.
Therein its hope continues to lie, and
instead of sticking to its hope Mr.
jackson would have it turn away
from the friendly support and SYM
pathy of strong independents and
trust for success to the vote of un-
reasoning discomfort.
They say the vote in next Tuesdays
primaries is going to be light. If
there be not enough in such a pro
gram as Mr.. Jackson advances to
bring Republicans who respect their
party to the polls in protesting
swarms, the Republican party is in
bad way indeed.
But, Mr.. Editor, the writer of the
above did not go far enough.
He fails utterly in that he did not
give Mr.. Frances attitude upon the
repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
and of the Volstead Act, to both of
which proposed measures Mr.. France
has not only committed himself but
has in the public press and from the
stump, if | am rightfully informed,
pledged himself should he be returned
to the United States Senate as a rep
resentative of the sovereign state of
Maryland.
1t was influence and the work of
the whiskey crowd in Baltimore six
years ago that placed in the Senate
Mr. France, and it is the whiskey
crowd and their influence, not alone
in Baltimore but in the counties as
well, who are now doing everything
possible to return him to that posi-
ton for another term of six years
where he will likely stand alone on
all measures looking to the BETTER
ment of the general public as has
been his attitude within the past year
when the world was watching to see
what the Senate would do with the
measure confirming the Disarmament
Conference proceedings and Mr..
France, to the everlasting shame Of
all true Marylanders voted against
it and other measures having as their
basis the welfare not only of this
country but of the world as well.
Mr.. France, in face of his record
on the above, now has the audacity
to come before the people of Gar
rett county and ask them to vote for
him so that he may vote for the re-
opening of saloons not only in Oak
land but in every hamlet and cross
roads in Garrett county. when IL re