Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-07-21

leaders of various opinions and fac
tions in such a harmonious move for
a happy and reunited Democratic
family. never preach against a
primary for it is an old Democratic
principle that every man is entitled
to register his preference by right of
suffrage and the ballot box and we
certainly will be given such privil-
eye this year by the splendid array
of talent that we have for state and
federal executives and representatives
such as that very able executive
Mayor Howard w. Jackson of Balti-
more, that brilliant orator Attorney
General, Herbert O'Conor, the popu-
lar State Senator Lansdale Sasscer of
Prince Georges, the old wheel horse
of the Eastern Shore Bill Gordy, and
several others, for Governor; and a
choice between two splendid gentle
men and Democrats though of differ
ent schools of thought, Senator Mil
lard E. Tydings, and Congressman
David ]. Lewis, for the United States
Senate, but when it comes to our
local ticket in which we should be
very vitality interested = are we not
running the danger gauntlet Of the
railroad train that enters the block
when the red signal is up. Did we not
have a county wide congress to which
all Democrats that came, and there
were over 500 representative workers
from all sections of the county, were
welcomed with open arms and invited
to place in nomination any one whom
they thought for the good of the
party or individually wanted to run;
and were there not present at that
meeting several gentlemen for whom
l have the highest personal regard
and respect, that participated in that
meEting and agreed to abide at least
by the candidates of the local ticket
so chosen or later put on for the har-
monious strengthening of Democra-
cy's front line trenches, and who
have since, not through any ulterio
motive of course, but possibly
through an unfortunate misunder-
standing among the leaders of that
group, to the delight of the opposi-
ton party, and undoubtedly egged on
and abetted by at least the trunk or
tail of the elephant, with a very
definitely and damnable Interior mo-
tive to breed discord in the ranks of
Montgomery County's Democracy
Can l not prevail upon you gentle
men, no matter what your state and
federal choices or differences may be-
for we all on both sides want and
must unite against the common
enemy after the primary of Septem-
Der 18th, to select three from among
your number to meet the Chairman
of the reorganized Democracy of
Montgomery County and two others
of his selection in the endeavor of
harmony and an amicable settlement
on at least local ticket.
When such resourceful men and
political analists as John Oxley, John
Culver, DIR. Perry, Bill Aud, Lacy
Shaw, Clay Plummer, Robert Peter
and Peyton Whalen, to say nothing of
that able and brilliant lawyer, Miss
Vivian Simpson, can get together and
bury their differences for the sake of
party harmony and a truly reorgan-
lied and .revitalized County Democ-
racy, who am or we to say that they
are wrong for they represent the es-
sence of leadership from all sides and
angles of our party.
What more able men before a jury
have you ever heard in the Rockville
Court Room than Stedman Prescott,
Tom Dawson, Albert Bouic, Judge
Edw. Peter, Maurice Talbot and John
Garrett? What more competent chair
man of party ever weathered such a
storm than "Nippy" Prescott? Who,
ever represented his party as State
Senator at Annapolis with greater
victory over his opponents, or more
astute handling of politically hos
tile Governor than Stedman Prescott I?
To all of these the answer is none,
and such man endorsed by the ma
jority of the members of the bar of