The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-07-27
HON. JOHN w. GARRETT HAS
FILED HIS NOMINATION PAPER
Former European Diplomat Is Now
In Race Against Senator France

John W. Garrett, general secretary
of the Washington Armament Con-
ference, and for twenty years
member of the diplomatic service, has
filed his papers for nomination to the
United States Senate from Maryland.
Mr.. Garrett descends from one of the
oldest and most famous families of
Maryland, and by birth and training
is representative of the best tradi-
lions of that State. He will, if nom
mated and elected, make a worthy
successor to Reverdy johnson and W.
Pinckney White, whose eloluence,
eminent public service and shining
character the people of Maryland
have never ceased to revere. Latest
announcements Indicate that Mr..
Garrett is the choice of the Republi-
can party leaders in the State, and
particularly that he has been ten
dered the hearty support of former
Governor Phillips Lee Goldsborough
for the election campaign.
Mr.. Garrett measures to the stand
ard of the ideal candidate. He is first
of all man of large and far-reach-
ing business affairs conferred in Bal
timore. He is banker and fnancier
by inheritance and practical exper-
fence. He was specially educated for
the United States diplomatic service
and served with distinction as secre-
tary of embassy in the principal capt.
tails of Europe and was Minister to
Venezuela. When President Harding
and Secretary Hughes sought capa-
BILE man, who could speak the Euro
pean languages, for secretary to the
Armament Conference Mr.. Garrett
was their choice and his administra-
ton of that difficult position for sew
eral months, added greatly to his for
mer celebrity as manager of large
and complicated affairs of govern
ment. Mr.. Garrett has all the quail
fcations, personal and through ex-
perience, of senator and statesman.
1t is superfuous, in Maryland, to
speak at length of the grandson of
the man who did most to develop the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as a
unit in the transportation lines of the
nation. Like that progenitor whose
name he bears, it is quite impossible
to conceal him in the details of any
official position. and the present Mr..
Garrett has been during his active
public life quite as much in the firing
line of endeavor that is talked about
and printed about as his grandfather
was. The point is that where Mary.
land is concerned nobody could repre-
sent it better in the Senate than the
man who has led Marylanders all his
life, and whose progenitors did the
same thing before him.
Mr.. Garrett is by nature home
loving scholarly man, whose inclina-
tons might lead him to a life of
leisure and quiet, but his sense of
public service is such that he is ever
ready to hear the call of duty to
State or nation and obey. He is man
of great intellectual and moral force
and a most capable executive in what
ever position he may be called to fill.
Moreover, he is of that reflective and
analytic turn of mind which makes
good legislator, Though Mr.. Gar
rett enters the race for the nomina-
ton as senator against the present
incumbent of the seat, it is regarded
in Washington among politicians and
newspaper men that his success at
the primaries in September is as
sured.