The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-08-18
Foreign Advertising Representa- tive
THE AMERICANA PRESS ASSOCIATION
THE CONGRESSIONAL FIGHT
WET AND DRY ISSUE.


The Anti-Saloon League owns nc
stock in the wet newspapers of Bal
timore City. The American Issue is
not responsible for the wet attitude
of those who control them. The
Anti-Saloon League can not be held
responsible for the encouragement
given to the lawless element by the
wet press. There were people who
thought when Prohibition was
adopted that the fight would be
over. They did not reckon on the
lawlessness of the liquor gang, nor
did they count on the fact that the
advocates of booze would go the
limits they are now going. Simply
because the lawless gang insist on
coming back is a challenge to the
decent citizenship of the state to
stand up and fight to protect the
laws they have and to strengthen
any weak places. In the various
congressional districts the wet and
dry lines are pretty closely drawn.
On the Eastern Shore Mr.. T. Alan
Goldsborough, who voted to uphold
the Constitution of the United
States, is marked for slaughter by
the advocates of liquor While
some claim that liquor should not
be the controlling factor, certainly
there is no one in Mr.. Goldsbor-
ough's party who would say that for
zone termer" he has not made
good along all lines unless his
prejudice for booze makes him take
the opposite stand. Mr.. Goldsbor-
ough, by all presidents, should be
renominated without a primary
fight. He is being opposed by Col.
A. W. Sisk, who objects to the word
wet" being applied to him, but
nevertheless takes a stand in favor
of the repeal of the law enforcement
act. The other candidate, A. M.
Jackson, does not seem to feel the
sting of the term "wet" as does Col.
Sisk. Both of these gentlemen take
a stand against the law enforcement
bill and stand that can only aid
the lawless liquor traffic.
In the Second District, Millard
Tydings, now State senator from
Hartford county, early announced his
candidacy and has finally found him
self in the position where it is going
to be difficult for him to tell botn
sides that he is with them. A fav-
orite expression of Mr.. Tydings now
is 'sthe vets say am dry and the
drys say / am wet" To dry people
Mr.. Tydings tries to find a loophole
in his 100 per cent wet record
whereby he can say to those who
favor law enforcement that he is
with them.
George D. Iverson, who is largely
responsible for the Anti-Prohibition
Association, is also a wet running in
this district. We believe the rank
and file of the reaI vets prefer Iver-
son to the so-called silk stocking
bunch who pushed him aside to or
ganize show Of their own.
The other candidate in the Second
District is Mr.. Frank H. Zouck, a
business man of Baltimore county.
Mr.. Zouck is known to most of the
people Of the state as the man re-
sponsible for our good roads. He
is high class citizen, one that
stands right on every proposition
that should be a test of a. real up
standing Congressman. The busi-
ness men want man in Congress
who has made success of his own
business affairs. They want sober
man in Congress; they want man
there who will be an honor to the
state of Maryland. OF the three
mentioned above, we can scarcely
see how anyone will have much diff
ficulty in deciding in favor of Mr..
Zouck in preference to either of the
other two.
Mr.. A. A. Blakeney, the present
Congressman, is high grade man
and who has made a success of his
own business and whose high char
"StCi 0Au AOpueatiOH dIC GUARANTEES
of saftey along any line.
In the Sixth District, Congressman
Zihlman will be candidate for re-
election without opposition in the
Republican primaries. 1t WOULD
seem to be futile for anyone to at
tempt to defeat Mr.. Zihlman. 1t
would also seem reckless to try to
beat him at the polls with the kind
OF timber that is now in the field
Mr.. Mish, who was showed under so
beautifully two years ago is again
in the field. Mish says he does
not want hypocrite in Congress.
We do not understand what he
means but we do know that Mr..
Mish gave for his excuse at the last /