The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-12
BY LYLE c. WILSON liited Press Stan Correspondent ]

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 Baltimore, Sept. l2 - (UP.j = preSident Roosevelt's political pres- tigA, damaged by South Carolina Democrats and soon to Do tested in Georgia and New York, Is on trial today in Maryland's primary in which conservative Democrat is opposed by c new dealer endorsed directly by tho president.
 Simultaneously, Maine's voters, in an carly general election, were de- termining whether the States ofii. cialdom and its three.man dele- gation to the house of representa- tiyOS was to remain Republican. Democratic victories in Maine today prac ticaliy would underwrite an- other Democratic landslide in No- vember.
 Spotlight on Maryland
 But the days political spotlight was on Maryland. President Roose. welt was backing Representative David J. Lewis, c 6o.year-old liberal leader, to win the senate nomination from the incumbent, Senator Mil- lard E. Tydings, 48.year.old vet. eran of the World War A. E. P. who served two terms in the house before going to the senate in ie27
 Senate campaign investigators In Washington ignored tradition to meet on the sabbath in judgment Of last minute Maryland charges and counter charges. Chairman Morris sheppard, D., Texas, announced that the committee had found that M. Hampton Magruder, Baltimore col- lector of internal revnue, had vio- lated "the spirit" of the civil service act by telling some of his employees that he was for Lewis. Other new charges from both sides were found to be unsubstantiated.
 Last Minute Bid
 Some observers believed MT, Roosevelt had made last minute bid for Lewis votes with a PWA order to give two big Maryland bridge projects right of way" He visited a proposed Chesapeake Bay bridge site last week in a campaign tourney among southern and eastern Maryland communities.
 Critics of the New Deal also read week end political importance into the announcement of Q $53 00,000 two-year road building program for Georgia, where @ primary in which the presidents prestige also is in- yolved, is scheduled for Wednesday.
 Tydings is conservative. If vot- ing against IT and for only seven of 24 typical new deal bills war rants that designation. He is claSsed by MT. Roosevelt among the "reac- tionaries" who are to be driven from party leadership in the New Dears Educational program preparatory to the l940 presidential campaign.
 Closing his campaign last night in a statewide radio address, Lewis acknowledged that he was older than his opponent in years, but said that Tydings was older in ideas.
 Tydings followed him on the air with a pledge to seek, if relected, the amendment of the Wagner La- |bor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. He charged that the new 0eal SOuBub tO OuSG IllIu Ue" cause he refused to support either oi Hast years major administration bills ko reorganize the supreme court and the executive branch of government.
 Lewis assailed Tydings for oppos- ing approximately three fourths of the major Roosevelt bills and Tyd- Lngs countered that Maryland did hot want a rubber stamp" in con- eress.
 Their sharp and angry contest tops this weeks crowded political bill because Mir. Roosevelt and the New Deal were the issue. Less than fortnight ago South Carolina voters, confronted with substantially khe same issue. ignored Mfr. Roose- Velt's leadership. They renominated Senator Ellison, D., (Cotton Ed ssaith, whose opposition to new deal policies was as emphatic. if not, as frequent. as Tydings,
 Eight states Have Battles
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