Evening star., 1936-10-18
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.


wide margin of difference between which
the voters may choose-the striking
antitheses in candidates-is strikingly
illustrated in the rival candidates for
Congress in the sixth Maryland district.
Representative David j. Lewis, who is
just completing his second six-year
tenure of Office, runs true to the simple
annals of the poor. He is 67-at the age
Of went to work in a coal mine and was
employed there until he was %. While
working in the mine he learned to read
in Sunday school. studied law under
Benjamin A. Richmond. Esq. and Latin
under the Rev. John w. Mott of Mount
Savage, Md. After practicing law for
10 years he went to the State Legislature.
In 1911 he came to Congress for his first
stretch of six years. Then he tried for
the United States Senate and was de-
feated. President Wilson appointed him
to the United States Tariff Commission
where he served eight years. 1t is far
cry from mine boy to membership in the
Academy of Sciences and the Society for
Psychical Research in England-but Lewis
achieved the span. He has always been
of retiring. studious disposition-but
forceful speaker.
Now comes State Senator Harry w.
lie Gore. with the Republican nomina-
tion, battling Lewis for the seat in Con-
gress. He is 40 and never knew want-in
fact, has always been quite well to do He
is associated with his brother in the lime
and stone business founded by their
father Is years ago. In his school days
at Mercersburg Academy and during his
college years at Yale he was a star
athlete. Although he made his own way
by operating an eating establishment
and conducting tutoring school. he won
fame on the gridiron and base ball
diamond. He was chosen all-America
fullback and rated by Walter Camp the
best open-feld runner and forward
pasSer of his day. His scholastic standing
was high and his class voted him the
member who had done most for Yale"
At the outbreak of the World War he
was one of ten recommended by the
president of Yale for commissions in the
Marine Corps. He Immediately volun-
teered and served overseas for two years
and was acclaimed for gallantry with the
famous I'd Division. In 1880 he entered
politics and was elected to the House
of Delegates, leading the ticket-four
years later he was elected to the State
Senate.
Both Lewis and lie Gore are natives of
their diStrict-Lewis of Allegany County
and LIE Gore of Frederick County. Lewis
is vigorous campaign orator, backed by
fund of knowledge; LIE Gore has an
unusually good mind and has been a
careful student, but he lacks platform
aggressiveness. Both know first hand
from boyhood the problems of labor
Lewis in the coal mines and lie Gore on
the farm and in the lime quarry-Le Gore
knows also the problems of the industrial
employer.
One of the interesting congressional
candidates. Is that of Mrs. Agnes C..
Reavey, 46, mother of seven children,
with a service record of % years in the
Springfield, Mass, schools. who with the
support of 72 chapters of the National
Union for Social Justice won the Demo-
cratic nomination in a field OF eight
for the seat vacated by Judge William
j. Granfield. Now the School Board
insists that she either resign or request
leave of absence to do her campaigning
and she replies that she cannot afford to
do so and must support her family. Her
husband is a stationary engineer, most
of the time during the last nine years
out of employment. She made spirited
campaign, addressing many large au-
diences, free of any personalities, win
ming over the seven men by 1,0lO.
Mrs. Reavey wears a bright winning
smile and has gracious personality. She
has drafted a code of campaign rules
which she says will not interfere in any
way with the conduct of her bread
winning job She is graduate OF the
State Teachers College, and when Al
years of age, the mother Of her seven
children and teaching in the public
schools, found time to earn law degree.
She has held many offices in teachers
clubs and other educational organiza-
tions Her eldest daughter. aged 22, Is
a school teacher, the second is in coll
lege, the third in hospital laboratory
studying. The eldest boy has just gradu-
ated from high school and two other
children are in high school. The baby
of the family is in the third grade.
Having been a candidate OF ths
Coughlinites, she was asked if she is
prepared to support the Roosevelt New
Deal now that she surprisedly won the
Democratic nomination, and replied: u
have to support the Reaveys first"