Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-10-08
Lee Urges Calm
Voting In Coming
General Election
Tells Frederick Gathering
That Victory Hinges Upon
Effort On Home Front

Speaking before a large gath
ering of Frederick County Demo-
Gratis at the Court, House in Fred
erick last Saturday afternoon, It.
Col. E. Brooke Lee urged his list
eners to display wisdom and
clear-headed voting" in the No
vember elections, in which ne will
be a candidate for Congressman
from the Sixth Maryland District.
Warning that 1--WE can still lose
this war;" he declared that the
worldwide conflict placed upon
every community and every citizen
of the nation the obligation to do
their full duty with their minds,
hearts and bodies in order that we
may achieve victory.
"Today we are assembled to con-
slider the political obligations of
citizens on the home front and,
more specifically, in Frederick
County and Western Maryland, +"
Col. Lee continued, SIT is because
of the challenge and the danger of
the year that / have offered as a
candidate for the Congress of the
United States, because 1 believe
that every American must offer to
serve where best fitted in our gen.
eral cause. l believe that my train
ing and experience are more valu-
able as member of the House of
Representatives than anywhere
else.
"In support Of the survival of
the general American safety, it
seems the course of wisdom to
elect Democrats to the House of
Representatives on the Bird of No
vember. For the next two years the
President of the United States,
who is also the Commander in
Chief of the American Army and
Navy, will be Democrat. For the
next two years the majority of the
United States Senate will be Dem
ocrats.
"While there is no question that
the sons and brothers of Republi-
cans and Democrats, rich and poor,
residents of the farm and the city,
factory and Office workers, the COL
lege graduates and the grammer
school graduate are all rendering
full and complete service on every
fighting front, and are all render
ing at least equivalent service in
every activity in support of the
war on every home front, the fact
still remains that in the Congress
of the United States majority of
the Republican minority in both
the House of Representatives and
in the United States Senate has
voted, talked and followed for
years past both a partly blind and
an extremely dangerous course
which, had it prevailed, would have
greatly increased our present i'm
mense danger and might even pos
sibly have lost our entire American
freedom to the Nazis and the
Japanese. These Republican men,
bers of the House and Senate are
the most important and effective
group in the Nation who have
counted upon the safety of isola-
tionism, the strength of the bull
wark of the two oceans, and the
illusion that the people Of North
America could continue to live in a
world of other continets enslaved
by the Nazis and the Japanese.
"This position by the Republi-
cans in the Congress placed upon
the Democratic National Admin
istration the obligation first to out
vote them in the Congress and then
to appeal past them and over their
proests to the people of America in
order to arm, b prepare and to de-
fend everything that is American.
This certainly delayed and made
more difficult the preparation and
the arming for defense"
"This indicates that for some
years there has been something
of partisan or a political or
binding nature that grips the
hearts and the minds and even the
ability to see of the members of
the minority party after they be-