The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-11-11
Echoes of the Election

man wouldn't have a chance, are
now telling me that they knew two
weeks before the election that he
was practically in.
have heard many good jokes
about the election, but here are two
that | like best.
A Democrat stopped Republican
on the street and said Whats the
matter with you Republicans We
did our part, but you let us down."
And the second one concerns a
young student from the North who
was visiting at the home of fellow
student in the South, and when he
asked his friends father whether
or not he was going to vote for Mr..
Truman, here's the answer he got;
"Suh. my great grandfather, my
grandfather and my father were all
Democrats and voted the straight
Democratic ticket, and /, Sub, am
also a Democrat and will vote the
straight Democratic ticket, but II
you No'theners don't stop doing 1t,
the country's going to helll'
n II II
One thing | like about the cleo
ton is the general reaction of those
to whom I have talked They feel,
as / do, that the Harry Truman who
conducted the campaign was the
same Harry Truman who headed the
Senate Investigation Committee
when he was a member of the Sen
ate, and / think we all agree that
was the most powerful and effective
Senate committee in many, many
years.
None of us can predict what the
81st Congress will do, but ! think
am safe in saying that if anyone
thinks they are going to push Pres
ident Truman around, they are in
for sad awakening or I'll be bad
ly disappointed. With a direct man
date from the people and under alb
solutely no obligation to any group
or groups, the President can, and /
believe will, give good account OF
himself in the four years that are
ahead of him.
None of the wounds of the cleo
ton are deep enough that they can
not be quickly healed, and do not
believe that they will leave any deep
scars.
The Republican Central Commit
tee of Washington County deserves
a great deal of credit for the fine
Job they did in carrying Washing
ton County for the Party, and II
they keep their machine together
and work as hard in the city cleo
ton as they did in the state and
national election, we should have a
Republican Mayor and Council
next spring.
| see by an article in the Balti-
more Evening Sun, written by Brad
ford Jacobs and dated November 8,
that Commissioner of Motor We
hicles w. Lee Elgin has already been
talked about as candidate for Gov
ernor in 1850. Mr.. Jacobs bases his
conjecture on the fact that Mr. Ell
Gin piled up better than $4,000 ma
iority against the Ripper Bill, which
would have ended his term OF office
Immediately instead of him contlnu-
ing until the term of his office eX-
pires on May |, 1949.
Whatever the possibilities are OF
Mr.. Elgin running for Governor IN
1850. the better than two-to-one ma
iority he won in Washington Coun-
ty (and lot of that majority came
from Hagerstown) should be very
encouraging to him should he de-
eide to run for Governor on the
Democratic ticket in the next cleo
ton, as some people say he Will.
The Board of Directors of the Ha-
gerstown Chamber of Commerce to-
gether with the Chambers COM
mittee on education, and represen-
tatives of the press and radio, were
the guests of the Washington Coun-
ty Board of Education at the lunch
con meeting at the Hagerstown High
School on Monday
The guests partook of the regular
cafeteria lunch. which was served by
the students (and let me say it was
plenty good), and after hearing brief
talks by William M. British, Super
intendent of Schools, and James E.
Solt, administrative assistant and
acting principal, they were escorted
in groups through the entire build
ing and had a first-hand view OF
the high school in action.
One of the things that interested
L 4 Il 1alr ~