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| tive participation III the politics Oh
! to-day, with no political axes 10
[ grind, friends to reward or enemies
! TO punish; not wishing or intending
| ,u ueconlc involved IN any newspaper
| controversy and with no motive
| other than that OF private cltlZeh
| who loves his home, MS county, MS
| state and his nation. the writer feels
| constrained to address to you inns
! open letter.
| In few days, at the Primary
| Election to be held on Monday
| September 18th, you will have an OPP
| portunity, by your votes, to help IN
| The nomination. OF a candidate for
| the United States Senate. On the
| Democratic side are three Candidates.
! Two of them, MI. Norris aud ny.
Bruce, judging from their puollc Ut
| terances as published in the daily
| papers of Baltimore City, OF Whtch
| Cit they are residents, appear 10 be
| imbued with the idea that the
| great majority OF the Democratic
| voters OF our State belong to OF are
| in sympathy with that element III
! Baltimore City which for years, a'
| first secretly, but now openly, nave
| been fighting, under the deceptive
slogan OF Liberty" foc the licensed
| saloon, the legalized manufacture
| and sale OF beer and wines, Sunday
| base ball, Sunday theatres and many
| ether measures so obnoxious TIC the
| Christian AID rig:it-thIi.k' people
of our county, and with that thought
| uppermost in their mines, apparent
| Nv have been vieing with each other
| in their bid for this vote. Whlle
| railroad and coal strikes are penn
| ing, threatening our people Win
| cold and hunger; while deploraole
| conditions exist between capital ana
| labor, retarding progress and stH-
| ing business; while the civilized ma
| tons of the world are groanlng ana
| almost tottering under the countless
| burdens of the recent world war;
| while unemployed millions are
| walking the streets OF our Cities
| and business men in all lines are
| carrying crushing burdens; Whlie
! real patriots and statesmen are sorely
! perplexed, and the whole world is
| out of plumb ana crying for reil7f.
| Mr.. Norris and Nj. Bruce, eppar-
| emily oblivious TO every other thing,
| are making their fight for votes al
| most exclusively upon their opposl-
| ton to the dry laws of our State ana
| Nation, differing upon this issue, II
| differing at all, only in their degree
| of wetness, each trying to nutbid the
| other for the wet vote while the Bal
| timore City Gaily papers. reviewing
| their utterances and records, pro-
! nounce them 100 or less pure
! SrI al
| lamentable condition confronting us,
but fortunately, and l hope proVl-
| dentially we are not Wltno1t
| remedy, for there is in the Demo-
| cratic primaries another candidate
! for the United States Senate, David
| ]. Lewis, of Allegany County. While
Mr.. Norris and Mr.. Bruce are going
| about the State preaching their wet
! doctrines, David Lewis, the work
| er. the man Of small body but large
! brain, the man with record OF
| great ACHIEVEMENTS almost alone and
! single handed, without money or
| political organization, but with
| clean private and political life be-
hind him, in his quiet and unassum-
| ing manner, is making his hight Tor
| votes upon constructive issues, call
| ing attention to the great prolems
that now confront our people ana
giving his views as to how to meet
| and solve them, pointing to his
political record OF accomplishment
| political
as a guarantee OF performance. THIS
little mana miners son, without
money or prestige, starting his
/ career digging coal by day and read
ing and studying by night, with his
miners lamp for light, by clean liv-
| ing and tireless energy overcoming
| obstacle after obstacle, has now be-
| come a man of national reputation
| Of how he is regarded by those
| who know him best can well be
| Judged from how his home people
| have voted for him whenever they
have had an opportunity. A citizen
| of Allegany county, Republican
| stronghold, he has been repeatedly
| elected on the Democratic ticket by
large majorities, and enjoys the
| probably unequaled distinction OF
having been elected by substantial
majorities in three successive cam
paigns for Congress, and this in
spite of the fact that the five coun-
|
usually and normally overwhelming
ly Republican.
In Congress Mr.. Lewis soon won
for himself an enviable reputation,
and has a record of accomplishment
of which he may be justly proud,
but if he had done nothing else, the
Parcel Post law alone, which he con-
ceived, framed, fought for ,and
passed, will go down in history as
one of the greatest pieces OF con-
structive legislation of the present
generation, and places the people OF
our whole nation under lasting obll-
cation to this man of action.
With the candidates and the is
sues as they are, can any Christian
or right-thinking, lawabiding man
or woman of our county, VINO
reveres it's goods name and high
ideals, hesitate for whom to vote?
Involving, as it unmistakably does,
the reputation of our homes ana
people, should not every one VINO
loves old Dorchester County, and is
proud of the accomplishments and
high ideals of its citizens, resent the
imputation that the majority Of our
people are opposed to the Constitu'
ton of our Nation. the Prohibition
Amendment and the proper obscrv-
ance of the Christian Sabbath, and
go to the polls September 18th. and
vote for David j. Lewis for United
States Senator, thereby letting the
world, and the press of Baltimore
City in particular, know that Dor
chester County still stands for law
and order, upholding the Constitu-
tions of our State and Nation, and
BATH anG hslieves in honorins and
the observance of the Christian Sab
rewarding public officials who faith
} fully, efficiently and fearlessly serve
!, itG people?
7. SANGSTON IN:iLEY.