Evening star., 1938-09-12
LEWIS SEEKS REST
AFTER LONG FIGHT
Closes Arduous Campaign in
BaItimore-'VaIedictory'
Has PesSimistiC Note.
By JAMES E. CHINN,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

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CUMBERLAND, Md, Sept. H.
Back home after 10 weeks of inten-
sive campaigning, Representative Da-
vid ]. Lewis rested in the peaceful
solitude of his Allegany Mountain
nome today while the Democrats OF
Maryland trekked to the polls to de-
termine whether his political life Is
to be placed under the guillotine.
Little Davey." 50 years old, visibly
showed the results of the strain Of
his epic fight to unseat Senator Mil
lard E. Tydings in the sizzling-hot
senatorial race-a fight that forced
him to travel more than 1000 miles
back and forth across the State since
June %.
How Mr.. Lewis stood the physical
punishment of his long and active
campaign is regarded amazingly by all
those who have been close to him in
the last few weeks. Much younger
men--newspaper reporters, for in
stance, who travelled with him-re-
porters who have been hardened in
the life of irregularity, found it diff
cult to keep apace of the 5-foot, 60
year-old member of Congress whom
President Roosevelt has urged the peo-
pie of Maryland to send to the Senate
in place of the man who now occupies
the No. position on his purge" list
He'll Rest for a Time.
Primarily, Little Davey" came home
to vote. But he admitted he will do
little resting" before returning to
Washington, either to move out of
Room 387 in the old House Office
Building or to transfer his books,
official papers and files into the Senate
Office Building if Senator Tydings
. moves out in response to the mandate
today of the Democratic voters Of
Maryland.
Mr.. Lewis closed his campaign in
Baltimore last night with two radio
broadcasts, one that lasted nearly a
half hour over WFBR, and the other
a spirited l5-minute attack on his
opponent over WBAL. A third speech
by Mr.. Lewis was broadcast by WTBO
in Hagerstown at o'clock, but that
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made two hours earlier over WFBR.
In what Representative Lewis de-
scribed as his "valedictory' to the
people Of Maryland in connection with
the campaign, of course. he sounded a
note of pessimism over the outcome of
the primary race as it might affect
him.
1T may be that the hopes of my
friends are to be disappointed in this
great contest" he said. 1T may be
the will of the people of Maryland
that not David Lewis should occupy
that seat in the United States Senate
So be it, if that be their will.
Grateful for Many Honors.
Il should like to say this, however
to my fellow Marylanders. Whatever
the result, I shall be grateful to the
last moment of my life.
Il came into Maryland poor and
uncompromising boy. Like mother,
she received me with most affection
ate arms. She has bestowed honors
upon me of such chara cter that they
have given me satisfactions which I
would not exchange for the wealth of
the Rockefellers or the diadems Of
kings"
Mr.. Tydings referred tonight to
the American Federation of Labor,
the great farm organizations and their
opposition to the reorganization bill
What he neglected to tell you, how
ever, was that the American Fedora
ton Of Labor is not supporting him
in this primary campaign. What he
further neglected to tell you was that
the great farm organizations are not
supporting him. They are support
ing me.
Mr.. Tydings- also said that great
truths never die I hope that will
prove true in this campaign. Great
truths cannot die, and the great truth
Of this campaign is that man cannot
run as Democrat and vote as a Re-
publican"
Apparently determined to offset the
reports he's too old" to be of service
in the Senate, Mr. Lewis, in his first
broadcast declared:
Mr.. Tydings has told you I am an
old man and I suppose that am. I
am 50 years old. l have been mar
ried to Maryland lady almost long
enough now to celebrate golden
wedding. When look back on it
however it does not seem many many
years ago that we we're married But
although it is an inescapable fact of
life that I am old, am proud of
my age. I am proud Of the fact that
have the health to carry on and
still carry on.
Representative Lewis first radio
speech came a half hour ahead of
Senator Tydings' over the same sta
tion. In fact, the broadcast time
would have made it necessary for
Representative Lewis to leave the
studios of WFBR at the moment his
opponent arrived. But the two majo
rivals for the senatorial nomination
have avoided one another through
out the campaign. And for this rea-
son, WFBR arranged a special re
mote control" pickup in Senator
Iydings' headquarters in the Lord
Baltimore Hotel to preclude any "em-
barrassment" that might have resulted
from an almost inevitable meeting
Of the two candidates in the studios.
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