Evening star., 1938-07-23
CANDIDATES OPEN
DR|VEFOR SENATE
G. L. TAFT and Leo Weinberg
for Maryland G. 0.P. to
War on New Deal.
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, July 23.-Galen L.
TAFT, veteran Maryland politician, and
Leo Weinberg, Frederick lawyer, today
prepared to launch their campaigns
for the Republican Senatorial nomina-
ton in Maryland. Both announced
their candidates. last night.
Mr.. TAFT, former chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee
and collector of internal revenue, as
serted he was free from factional al
liances within the party over which
he presided for nearly generation.
In announcing his candidacy, Mr..
Weinberg said he would run on q
platform against the New Deal.
The New Deal battle against Senator
Tydings, anti-New Deal Democrat
seeking reelection, was a factor, Mr..
TAFT said, which might lead voters
of the State to favor a Republican
senatorial candidate in the November
general elections.
Becomes Phrase Maker.
He did not. he said, intend to parti-
cipate in any "jostle or scramble" for
the nomination which might impair
such Republican hopes.
The stilettos gleam and the rapiers
flash in the partisan warfare between
the Capulets and the Montagues of
democracy" Mr.. TAFT. noted as a
phrase-maker, declared in his state
ment.
Little David Lewis" (Tydings op-
ponent in the Senate fight) and "the
tall Mr.. Tydings" are leading the war
fare among the Democrats, he said,
and "as the resounding blows are
struck and the welkin rings with shouts
of rage and pain, perhaps the voters
of Maryland may conclude: "A plague
on both your houses
Mr.. Weinberg said my one thought
is to accept President Roosevelt's chal-
lenge to have direct opposition to-
rather than a compromise with his
program, misnamed the New Deal"
For Overthrow of bad Deal"
Following . lengthy attack on ad-
minstration policies, Mr.. Weinberg
said MY plea is for the overthrow OF
the bad deal and for return to the
good ideal as exempliaed in the fol-
lowing:
"The restoration OF the gold stand
ard and the establishment of a stable
currency An immediate and
drastic reduction Of governmental ex-
penditures-futile and fatal is the
effort to purchase prosperity.
Maintenance of the national budget by
Federal budget annually balanced.
''The abolition of governmental con-
troll of labor and of capital, of farm
and of factory. finance and commerce
Take the Governments paralyzine
hand out of business and OF
banks. = =
"The preservation Of the inde-
pendence of the judiciary and espe.
cially of the Supreme Court.
The revival Of the original and con.
stitutional purpose of the Government
to guarantee liberty, with the reason
able restraints imposed by wise anc
sanctioned legislation. ="
The announcements from Mr.. Tai
and Mr.. Weinberg came last night a!
partisans for Senator Tydings, who
seeks denomination, prepared for
home town celebration today in Be
Air, and Representative David j
Lewis, his New Deal versus Tydings'
opponent, took to the radio to assert
Senator Tydings had made an "abou
face" in his attitude toward the Roose.
welt administration because he hae
discovered" Maryland was a "Roose
velt- democratic State" and that IN,
one who is not Roosevelt Democra
can long remain in ONCE"