Evening star., 1935-12-03
FIGHT DUE
IN SIXTH DISTRICT
G. O. P. ParIey Tomorrow as
Eight Candidates Loom
for Maryland Seat.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

BY WILL p. KENNEDY.
With eight candidates-either an
nounced or prospective-for the Re-
publican nomination for Congress for
the seat held for IL years by the late
Representative Frederick N. zihlman,
former chairman of the House District
Committee, the campaign in the sixth
Maryland district is getting an early
start and should prove especially in
teresting.
This old disrrict-a constitutional
district when Maryland entered the
Union, a Whig district before the Civil
Warts one of the outstanding dis
tricts which the Republican Congress
sional Committee rather confidently
expects to bring back into the Repub-
lican column And the Republicans
have excellent material from which to
select their candidate among the
names already mentioned-three State
Senators, a president Of the Board
County Commissioners, county treas
urer, former circuit judge, former
mayor of HagerStown and the Rock
willie attorney who put up hard fight
for the seat in 1892 They are all
seasoned campaigners and veteran
workers for the late Representative
Zihlman. They are:
Senator Ernest w. Miller, Hagers-
town; Senator Robert Kimble, Cum
beland; Senator Harry w. LIE Gore
lie Gore; Charles Stewart, Frostburg,
president of the Board of County
Commissioners; Perry A. Nicklin,
Cumberland, county treasurer; Albert
A. Doub, Cumberland, former judge
of the fourth judicial circuit; DR.. I. M
Wertz. Hagerstown, former mayor;
Harold B. Smith, Rockville, who ran
In 1882.
Conference Tomorrow.
Interesting developments regarding
this contest for the nomination for
Congress are expected from a con-
ference tomorrow night in HagerS-
town of the Republican State Central
Committee for the five counties COM
prising the sixth congressional dis
trict: Montgomery, Frederick, Wash
ington, Allegheny and Garrett. Mont
gomery County will be represented by
Walter w. Dawson, chairman; Mrs.
Clara Holmes, DR.. c. c. Galloway,
Wilton T Allen, Willard Harvey and
Preston L. Snyder. The Washington
County Committee will entertain at
dinner preceding the conference
All of the eight mentioned above
have been urged by friends to make a
contest for the nomination, and are
admittedly at the service of their
friends and the voters-in other
words, they are in receptive mood
and awaiting the call, meanwhile
they have their ears to the ground
politically
The present member of the House
from that district is Representative
David j. Lewis, Democrat, of Cum
berland, the smallest man in stature
in the House, but nationally and
internationally recognized as a prac-
tical economist, sometimes called by
his colleagues our little big man. "
He is now serving his second stretch
in the House, both preceding and sue
ceeding Mr.. Zihlman. Lewis was first
elected in 1910 and served until 1916.
Then he defeated Zihlman in 1880
and was reelected in 1882 and 1894.
He was defeated for the United States
Senate in 1916. He was appointed to
the United States Tariff Commission
in 1917 by President Wilson and served
until 1925. There is no indication of
any rival candidate in the Democratic
primary.
Lewis Not Worried.
Mr.. Lewis is not worried about any
prospects that he may be defeated
in the coming campaign. He says
that the people of the district have
been very kind to him and he has
no reason to anticipate any change of
attitude. He has been a consistent
supporter of the present administra-
tion and says that the most success
full single feature of the N. r. A.
was the mining code, which lifted the
coal miners In Allegheny and Garrett
Counties from a condition of semi
destitution and the operators from
bankruptcy" He feels that he speaks
with authority regarding coal mining,
since he worked in the mines from
the age of until he was %, and
while working in a coal mine learned
to read in a Sunday school and then
studied law under Benjamin A. Rich
mond and Latin under Rev. John w.
Mott of Mount Savage.
Neither is the Democratic Congress
sional Committee worried that this
seat may be wreSted back by the Re-
publicans. Representative Patrick H.
Drewry, chairman of the Congressional
Committee, when interviewed at his
Office in Petersburg, Va, said: "As far
as 7 have learned from our political
scouts in the sixth Maryland district.
there is no ground for any fear that
our able friend Lewis may not be re-
elected. The people of that district
have Jared unusually well under the
present administration, and they know
from more than 10 years Of service
in Congress that they are ably repre-
sented by Congressman Lewis"
District Is Historical.
mo disinterested person, competent
to Judge, could doubt the high value
of the N. R. A. to the bituminous coal
industry" said Mr.. Lewis, and he
added - heres something else that
the thoughtful people ought not to
forget! Roosevelt's biggest achieve
ment has been to prevent the issuance
Of printing press money, which has
brought the greatest economic disaster
in other countries"