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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-31
Candidates Are Urged To Get Their Winning
Votes By Saturday Night Can Be Win
Or Lose During This Special Club Offer
MANY Subscriptions Sold Due To
Biggest Drop In Vote Value.
Only Few Hours Left.
RESULTS TO DATE FINE
Awards Offered Total More
Than ST, 10000 Which Few
Candidates Stop To
Realize

The result of the Worcester Demo-
crat "Cash Offer" Campaign for cir
culation last week was most crafty
ing. More new subscriptions were sold
last week than any previous period
OF the campaign. With few excep-
tons each candidate went lover the
top" in great style, and with colors
flying, turned in more than they pre-
dicted they would at the beginning.of
the week.
AS final call goes out for the
end of the extra votes on $50 clubs,
members of the "Cash Offer" Cam
paign are combing their territory in
an effort to obtain all possible SUBJ
scriptions. Wednesday subscription
report exceeded that of last Wednes-
day Saturday evening promises to
see all records broken in regard to
the number of subscriptions turned in.
so far in the campaign. In fact sew
eral of the members already have a
nice business to report Saturday, and
those who have not will do we'll to
take heed and get busy on that last
minute rush for the big credits.
Big Vote Offer
Beginning Monday, July 27 and end
ing Saturday, August 1, 255,OOO extra
votes will be given on each and every
$50 club of both old and new sub
scriptions turned in. This is the last
extra vote offer that will be made
for clubs of subscriptions and the
candidate who is ahead at the end of
this last extra vote offer on clubs
will more than likely have a better
side of the vote argument at the end
of the campaign.
Many More Changes Take Place
Candidates who have been slightly
down on the list of standing are climb
ing steadily to the top. This is APP
parently making the ones who had
few more votes to their credit realize
that the margins of leadership are
very narrow and it's anybody's race
for the two biggest cash awards.
Big Subscriptions Count Most
The big subscriptions count the
fastest. Two 10-year subscriptions
turned in before Saturday night earn
$4,000 votes. Five Of these ten-year
subscriptions would pile up 1882, 500
votes for any club members. Votes
pile up rapidly during this last extra
vote offer on $50 clubs, and your
chance to turn in subscriptions on
this offer ends Saturday evening.
Keep in mind that the voting power
of subscriptions is now higher than it
will be after Saturday. 1t is to your
interest to get in every possible sub
scription before Saturday evening
because that is the end of the big
votes.
To come out victorious in this race
is the aim of every ''livewire" candi-
date, and from the activity the friends
OF the contestants are showing it ap-
pears that there is intense rivalry on
every hand. Each candidate has his
or her circle of friends boosting for
their favorite-and their "favorites"
are up in arms in earnest, pitching in
with enthusiasm and energy, trying to
put their favorite "across the wire
first"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-31
Candidates Struggle For First Place AS
Last "Club Offer" Expires

Folks this a great sporting watch the candi-
dates forge ahead and help candidate to forward
Really another take
the lead The hard-orkng and
Go to candidates! The big for the effort
and the effort should be especially since have good
County newspaper sell.
Friends of the candidates dig for them Get into the fun
yourself Let's again. It's fight Who will weaken?
Who will strive victory?
More all of YOU every candidates
the 100000 to the finish Saturday bring candidates
who down the list the Many taking
place the candidates standing during the final week
club"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-31
BIRDS ELECTROCUTED
BY BOLT ON A FARM

Lightning struck tree last Tues
Gay on what is known as the Colmore
Byrd farm, and, so it is reported, $50
dead birds were seen afterwards
strewn on the ground below
Electric storms have been coming
very frequently this season, and have
been of unusual severity, altho' there
have not been many cases of damage.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-31

Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Dixon this week were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm
Hoover and Mrs. w. A. Smith and
son, John, all of Sharpsburg, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-31

Little Miss Mary Lee Moore has
been the guest of her uncle and aunt,
Capt. and Mrs. Thomas Moore, of
Ocean City.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-31
WHAT $50 CLUBS" MEAN TO YOU

Each $3.50 subscription the
before Saturday night
after Saturday $3.50 subscription will The
of the big awards this campaign will big results this
By all means make this week your biggest and best.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-31

NAME
Miss Marjorie Godfrey
Mrs. Alice Tull.
Miss G. Eleanor Cullen !.
Mrs. Sadie Vessels.
Miss Lolita r. Smith.
Mrs. Dalton Fleming.
John w. Wooten.
Mrs. Paul Cowger
Mrs. George S. Bunting.
Miss Lillian Mears
Miss Ada Bullen
Miss Ester Andrews. :.
Miss Irene Fox.
Mrs, Ernest Howard
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-31
IMPORTANT. DATE

Saturday, August l, the last the clubs.
subscription
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-31

List of Candidates in The Worcester Democrat Cash Offer
Campaign Accepted for Publication
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
POWe1' in Balance

eff one-quarter of l per
cent of all the corporations in
the United States, as they
have and do, control one-half
of all corporate wealth and fix
prices on many Of the most
essential things in our daily
living, then, as to the most
vital things in life, the means
and standard of living, con-
centration of economic power
is already established and, if
continued, concentration of
governmental power to meet
the situation will inevitably
follow.
will we long, as a peo-
pie, be able to maintain a
situation under a Constitu-
ton which declares you may
not fix prices on the farm
or in the home because Of
State lines but private cor
porats interests may fix
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29

to all who still live by help
Of the Government, to the
farmer wrestling with his
debts and taxes in the shadow
Of a threatened diminishing
market, to independent bust
ness everywhere, to men and
women all over the land, in
business or in the professions,
anxious to know how long they
can carry the ever-increasing
burdens of Government, city,
State and national-to all
these, debates over eonstitu-
tional government and the in
tegrity of the courts may seem
strangely remote from their
personal problems.
mo intelligent and effec-
tive presentation Of the prob
lens Of maintaining our free
institutions can be presented
in this campaign or in my
opinion, at any time, unac-
companied by an effective
proposal which will relieve
the citizen Of his personal
problems.
"In the modern world social
and economic problems are in
extricably intertwined with all
questions of Government. If it
was ever true in the world
and it has always been true
that economic and political
freedom 60 hand in hand, it is
true now. If we are not pre-
pared as a party to strike down
monopoly and price-fixing, and
all monopolistic practices, to
take this action in order that
men may enjoy economic free
dom, that purchasing power
may be restored to the masses,
the answer to the farmer
hunting for market and labor
hunting for a job, if we are not
prepared to deal with this issue,
which means bread and cloth
ing and opportunity to mil
lions, we will get nowhere with
the discussion of political lib
erty, or of constitutional gov
eminent as a campaign issue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
Warning in Slump

"The Federal Government
can not send an agent within
the State to interfere, either
for veal or woe, with the daily
affairs of the people, and upon
such principle alone can a Fed
eral Union endure. But we
can not long maintain a gov
eminent with 48 States for pur-
poses of government and an
empire for purposes of ex-
ploitation. If we are to re-
possess the confidence of the
people of this country, we must
advise them in no uncertain
terms what we are going to do
about it, and do it.
"This depression was some
thing more than an economic
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
No Part in League

I'VE want no part in any
foreign wars. We want to
devote the energy and patri-
otism of our people to our
own problems at home. I am
particular to stress this mat
ter since we are advised that
the League is to be remod-
eled with a view Of inducing
the United States to become
a member. No League, no
legal department Of the
League, euphoniously called
the Court, no subtle shadowy
deception under the name Of
peace, calculated to involve
us in foreign matters, can be
anything but detrimental and
even dangerous to the Ameri-
can people.
Undoubtedly, import ant
questions relating to Govern
ment and the integrity of oul
Constitution will be debated
before the voters during the
coming campaign. There are
those who seem to feel that
these questions will be a de-
termining factor in the com
ing election. I hope that any.
thing I may say upon this
will not leave an i'm
preston with you that I dc
not fully appreciate the i'm
portance of all questions which
relate to the preservation OF
constitutional government il
all its integrity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
Policy Is Vital

I'm spite of all the propa-
ganda manufactured at home
or abroad, in spite Of all the
sophistry of learne dor
rather, I should say, educated
men, the policy enunciated
in these words is as applica-
BILE to world conditions and
as vital to the peace and hap
piness of the American peo-
pie at the present hour as
when the policy was an
nounced. The Republican
party has trifled q long time
with the question Of surren.
dering our traditional foreign
policy and all to its utter
discredit. It has had neither
the courage to wholly reject
nor to wholly defend this
policy-invaluable to the wei
fare Of the American people
and indispensable to the per-
petuity of American institu-
tions.
"It was the boast Of Roman
epicures that they could at one
and the same time and in the
same vessel roast half the pig
and boil the other half. How
palatable was the dish we do
not know. But the meal which
our political epicures have
dished up for the American
people on this vital question
of our foreign policy, half in
ternational and half American,
is a mess. 1t is to be hoped
that the position of the party
will no longer be left in doubt
and that all schemes, with
plausible pretense
presented, designed to draw us
into foreign controversies and
foreign wars, will be put at
rest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29

prices throughout the en-
tire country regardless OF
State lines?
II mention these things, not
to carry forward a discussion
which might be supported by
a multitude of facts equally
applicable, but to indicate my
belief that underlying any and
all questions touching the pres
ervation of constitutional de-
mocracy are the economic
problems which are now un-
dermining democracy.
when the National Recov-
cry Act, now held unconstitu-
tional, was proposed, it was
supported almost by the en-
tire nation, by 80 per cent of
the press, by an overwhelming
majority of Congress, by the
Executive. 1t is believed now
that, had this law become per-
manent, it would have wrought
fundamental changes in our
form of Government. Only five
men stood in the way of its
permanent adoption. Behind
this measure at the time-and
which alone made it possible
was business chaos, hunger
and threatened starvation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
Robbed by Greed

Something had to be
done. How near we were to
a most fundamental change
in our whole constitutional
structure! / And why were we
so near-because of eco
nomic and financial condi-
tions that had become in
tolerable? What brought
about these conditions? It
was an economic and finan-
cial setup that reduced one
half of our people to the
ragged edge of want. Ten
years had gone by since the
war.
"Our national income was
over eighty billion. Neither
drought nor famine had Wis
tied our people. Yet, some.
thing was basically wrong,
Monopolistic greed had robbed
millions of a decent living or
even an opportunity to make
a decent living.
con my desk is a letter
from an independent oil com
pany which says: 'The Stand.
ard Oil and four other com,
panies are out to secure the
monopoly of the worlds oil
production. They have it now
in the United States. We who
are known as independents are
permitted now to follow the
oil business with the grace OF
the Standard Oil Company and
its associates.
'These oil companies, or
some of them, have been ex-
tremely active in this pre-
convention campaign. Their
representatives will sit in
the convention. Some of US
shall be interested to know
where they throw their in
fluence! =,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29

breakdown. It was also a warn
ing-a warning that an eco
nomic set-up which leaves one
half the nation in the midst
of vast plenty with the bare
necessities of life, is compatible
neither with sound economics
nor free government.
What is the party going
to do about it? Will it, un-
der the malign influence Of
organization politics, backed
by corporate and monopolis-
tic interests, disregard this
question or seek to circum-
vent straight and effective
action? Or, will it meet it
in the open?
1.-THE high place in the coun-
sells of the party which cor
porate and monopolistic inter-
ests have long occupied is
known to all the world. At
one time these influences we're
challenged by a great Repub-
lican leader. They have again
been able, however, to bring
about a condition where t h e
supreme party problem is this !:
Can, and will, the party drive
these forces from its counsels,
disregard their satellites, and
break their grip upon its poll
cies and it's deeds9
''The party has paid dearly
for the demoralizing pres
ence of these influences. At
the beginning Of this great
campaign it is enjoying less
power in national affairs
than at any time in its his
tory. In the name of the
people and in the name of
the party, the time is ripe
for an accounting and a dis
solution of the partnership.
I'm 1856, in a speech in Chi
cago, Abraham Lincoln de-
clared: Our Government rests
on public opinion. Whoever
can change public opinion on
any subject, can change the
Government We can all con-
tribute our part, however small,
to forming public opinion. At
the time this declaration was
made, the slave power was in
control of the Government from
the bootblack on the steps of
the Capitol to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Eight years later public opin-
ion had changed the whole sit
uation and the same slave
power was on the brink of ruin.
There was a time when the
Republican party was the most
aggressive, progressive politi-
cal organization in the history
of party politics.
But the insidious, deaden-
ing coils of monopolistic and
corporate interests drained
away its energy, its courage,
hindering and embarrassing
every effort within the party
to meet the pressing prob
lens of social justice until to-
day it is fighting for its very
life.
"Public opinion can. and will,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
Above Party Test

"They have heard much de-
bate. They will hear more.
They have had many sad years
in which to reflect on all mat
tiers pertaining to their inter-
ests-to them this election is
something more than a mere
party contest, and they consti-
tute a tribunal from which
there is no appeal.
"There are some whose con-
ception Of party loyalty will
probably cause them to doubt
my sincerity when I say: I
want to see the cause of the
Republican party placed be-
fore this tribunal in way best
calculated to win its approval.
I may be in error as to the best
way, but I hope to give ample
proof that I believe in that
way. No one familiar with the
situation, as indicated by the
poll books in the different
States, can doubt the party has
reached a crisis in its history
where 'flattery and falsehood
can no longer deceive and sim
plicity itself can no longer mis-
Lead
''In speaking Of the position
Of the party with reference to
public questions, as I do in the
following remarks, it is not my
view that its position can be
determined, or even fully de-
fined, by the platform alone.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
AL Eye Candidate

TN this campaign, extra
ordinary as it undoubtedly
will be in all its phases, the
candidates of the respective
parties will be the plat
forms. We shall find, in my
opinion, the people will &C
cept no other. It is undoubt-
eddy right and proper and
according to old custom to
make platforms. But these
platforms have no high
standing at the present time
in the minds of the Amer
lean people.
CATER all is said and done
in this respect, the position of
the party and the possibili-
ties of success will be deter
mined by the candidates. The
old school of military leaders
conceded that Napoleon was
winning all the battles, but
insisted he was violating all
the established rules of mill
tary science in doing so. The
tactics of the winner of vic
tories were born of his own
fertile and restless brain as he
Unanswered in sight of the
enemy. As seldom before, this
campaign will be a campaign
of candidates and the atti.
tude of the party on public
questions can only be fully
known when both platform
and candidates are f fully
known and understood.
sowing to the situation in
Europe, I feel justified in say
ing something about our for
eign policy. This country
needs peace, above all things.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
Lincoln Quoted

"No one need tell me that
this great wrong may not be
made to bend to the public
will. A great political party,
united and determined, can d.
rect the public will to con-
summate victory.
"The preconvention Repub-
lican campaign may, or may
not, have determined the
strength of the respective can
dates for the presidency. So
far as l am individually con-
cerned, that is, and has been
at all times, a secondary prop,
osition. But it has revealed be,
yond doubt that millions OF
men and women who have here,
tofore believed in, and sup.
ported, the party have regis
tered their votes elsewhere
and, at this time, propose to
cast them elsewhere.
"The combined vote, or
showing, of all the candi-
dates discloses but a rem
nant of that strength, which
the party has in previous
campaigns displayed. The
voters will tell you, and they
do tell you, wherever you
60 throughout the country,
to an extent as depressing
as it is alarming, that they
no longer accept, or believe
in, the political views or the
economic theories of the
dominating influences Of the
party.
"The registration books, even
in hitherto Republican strong
holds, confirm these private
statements. The supreme ques-
ton is: How to repossess their
confidence and to secure their
support?
can effort is being made to
convince t he people that to
vote for the Republican party
does not mean we are going
back. But that depends! II
the men who have dominated
the party in recent years and
who are seeking to dominate
it still continue to control the
party, it is a challenge to the
common sense of the voters of
the country to tell them we
are not going back in case we
are given power. We will 60
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29

''If the Republican party can
find no way to control the
economic power which these
companies exert upon every
person in the land, regardless
of State lines, shall we hope
to make effective with the vot-
ers our argument that State
rights under the Constitution
must be maintainedf These
oil companies are now, as pri-
vate corporations, exerting a
power over the private citizen
in the respective States which
the Constitution has declared
the Government does not pos
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
High Court Cited

"The Supreme Court has de.
clared the Federal Government
has no power to control pro-
duction nor any way to affect
farm prices on the farm. That,
it is declared, is a matter with
which the States alone may
deal. But five corporations, in
no wise hindered by Sta e
lines, may, and do, control pro-
duction and affect farm prices
by fixing prices on the imple-
ments without which produc-
ton cannot go forward. What
the Government may not do af-
Tentatively, or negatively, may
not do for want of power, pri-
vate corporations are permit
ted to do regardless of State
lines or State rights.
There are no State lines
and no State rights and no
private rights apparently as
against the practices and ex-
ploitation Of combines and
monopolies. AS to them, this
is one vast consolidated en-
pire, the richest prey that
human greed ever seized
upon. They sweep across
State lines, defy State SOW
ereignty, and undermine and
destroy the prosperity Of the
citizen upon which the whole
State rests. They shut the
door Of opportunity to mil
lions and fix the prices that
every housewife in the State
must pay to maintain the
family.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
BORAH DEMANDS u S. POWER TO END MOI
SOCIAL JUSTICE BASIS
OF CONSTITUTION
Senator William E. Borah, in his speech over
nationwide radio hookup last night, attacked reae
tionary Republicans and said in part:

Ladies and Gentlemen: No
extensive contact with the vot-
ers of this country is neces-
sary to convince one that the
bitter experience t hrou g h
which the American electorate
has passed in recent years has
left it's deep impress upon their
hearts and minds.
Zone reaches this conclusion
even from a limited opportu-
nifty to see them and to hear
them and from the deluge of
mail coming to ones desk. l
feel that this is one contest in
which that which, t h e voter
thinks he will record by his
ballot.
''There are always some who
will be controlled by mere par
tisan feelings, some by the sim
lister influence of political ma
chimes, but when jobs and
homes and farms are in the
balance, we may anticipate
with what sincerity of purpose
this high duty of the citizen
will be discharged.
THE people are not al
ways right, but it is a COM
forting fact to those who
pin their faith to constitu-
tional government, after de-
bate and time for reflec-
ton, as American history
amply proves, that, in their
final judgment, they are sell
dom wrong.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29
Social Aims First

"That sub ject is one to
which I all too readily recur
when it is up for consideration.
I have expressed myself so
often upon this phase of cur
rent happenings that even my
severest critics understand,
and sometimes concede, the
correctness of my view. But
we ought not to forget, in
deed, we will not be permitted
to forget, in this campaign
that to the destitute share
cropper Of the South, to the
.jobless millions in the. North,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-29

it needs peace Without peace,
we can not hope to adjust our
domestic affairs. The nearest
approach to a practical guar
antee of peace for the people
of this country is to remain
wholly .aloof from any and all
foreign controversies or politi-
cal commitments. No wiser
words ever fell from human
lips touching this subject than
from those of Thomas Jeffer-
son - Peace, commerce and
honest friendship with all ma
tions, entangling alliances with
nome