The Republican., 1938-08-25
VOTERS URGED TO REPEL
RAID AT The BALLOT BOX
Senator Tydings Challenges
Right of Roosevelt To Invade
Maryland In Attempt at
purge"

sovereignty Oh CuS OGdC6 was
challenged Sunday night by Sem
ator Tydings, Democratic candi-
date to succeed himself in the
United States Senate.
Marked for political death by
the White House, the Senator
took the air over a Statewide
network and, in reply to the Pres
ident's demand for his removal
from the Senate, called upon Mary
1anders to stand fast to their tradi-
tions and repel the invasion Of the
ballot box.
Government Fighting Him
His fight for denomination, the Sen
.ator said, is not one against can
didate but one in which the whole
weight of the Federal Government is
pitted against him at the direction of
the President and his advisers.
"This," he said, "is your fight, fell
low Marylanders, as well as mine"
AS for himself, the Senator con-
tinued, he can lose the office to his
New Deal opponent, Representative
David ]. Lewis, but with this loss goes
the loss of the right of Marylanders
to select their own representatives, the
surrender of State sovereignty and the
destruction of traditions.
Demands Answer
He demanded of Representative
Lewis that he state whether he had
sought "this invasion of Maryland by
high officials of the Government" and
in so doing had completely reversed
himself"
In June, the Senator recalled, Mr..
Lewis asserted that he intended to
make the campaign on principles with
out outside assistance.
"But now," he continued, "the same
Mr.. Lewis who denounced and denied
that he would not accept outside help
last June, now begs and pleads for out
side help"
Refers To NOn-Residents
And in so doing, the Senator said,
his opponent calls upon Federal pow
ers in Washington to compel the peo-
pie of Maryland to select a Senator
who will represent not the people OF
Maryland but the Federal non-resl-
dents who are to make his election
certain if they can"
If elected, said the Senator, Mr.
Lewis will owe his allegiance to this
group of non Marylanders and not to
the people who elected him.
The President and his advisers, he
continued, have not only marked him
for political death but they also have
tried to determine whom the people
of Maryland shall elect,
Twits "Cry For Help"
care you," the Senator asked his OPP
ponent, unable to maintain your posi-
ton without the support of the most
powerful man in the world?" And
again he asked Mr.. Lewis whether he
has "thrown all his high-soundlng
phrases overheard" and begun to
"pray, welcome and cry for help from
Washington
The way the New Deal is attempt
ing to seat Mr.. Lewis, the Senator re-
minded his opponent, "is not the way
Charles Carroll of CarrOllton, Rever-
dy Johnson, Samuel Smith, lsador
Raynor or Arthur P. German fought
their way into the United States Sen
ate"
Fought Own Battles
These Maryland statesmen, said
Senator Tydings, "were men who
could stand up alone for Maryland,
who asked nothing more than the
privilege of standing face to face
with their opponents and battling 1t
out on even terms"
But the Lewis campaign, he con-
tinued. has been marked by the ap-
pearance Of a new word in Mary
land politics-"purge." And, he said,
"it is a word foreign to our ears Ill
our dealings with each other" word
''we are accustomed to read only IN
connection with wholesale assassina-
tions in foreign countries
Hits Campaign OF Coercion"
The Lewis campaign, as directed
from Washington, the Senator assert
ed, is one of force and coercion, aimed
not only at those holding high Off
cial posts in the Federal Government
and demanding their right to vote as
they please, but at the intimidation OF
thousands of workers in the lower
brackets who enjoy suffrage in Mary
land.
He emphasized further that the
purge was being directed by non
Marylanders, who neither reside, pay
taxes nor have the privilege of ballot
ing in the election.
"I believe the day will come the
Senator asserted, "when President
Roosevelt will realize that neither he,
NOR anv other executive. Federal or