Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-22
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|MahOneY Slate
Gets BACKING
|0fCOaIitiOn
Young Democrats Set
To Install Officers
At Convention Today
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star stan Correspondent

OCEAN CITY, Md. Sept. a.
A Baltimore City Eastern Shore
coalition planned today to install
a slate Of Mahoney-tinged ON
GERS to rule the Young Demo-
cratic Club Of Maryland for the
coming year.
Heading the coalitions ticket,
which should have little trouble
getting accepted by the Young
Democratic convention today. is
Elroy Boyer to succeed David j.
Preller Of Baltimore City as
president.
Mr.. Boyer is a Chestertown
attorney, who ran George p.
Mahoney's unsuccessful primary
campaign for the senatorial NOM
Iination against former Senator
Willard E. Tydings last spring.
Slated for the Young Demo-
cratic National Committee posts
on the coalition ticket are Ed
ward j. McNeal, member of the
House of Delegates from Balti-
more City's,3d district, and Mrs,
Lois Klaus Of Baltimore County.
Both were Mahoney supporters
in last springs primaries.
Keynote by Fallon
Representative George Fallon,
dean of Maryland's delegation in
the House of Representatives,
gave the keynote address as the
Maryland Young Democrats
Opened their convention here
yesterday afternoon.
In it he warned that "the Re-
publican candidate and the Re-
publican Party are beginning to
realize that the people of Mary
land are no longer satisfied"
Desperate efforts will be
made, backed by the expenditure
of large sums of money, in an
effort to lull the people into a
sense of security so as to retain
control" he said.
"The backward looking policies
of the Republican, Party must be
Ishelved. Every time cross the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge, 1 can't
help but recall the attitude of
the Republicans as expressed in
their party platform of 1916.
They viewed the Bay Bridge as
a problem beyond solution in the
immediate future and advocated
an increase in the Chesapeake
Bay ferry service.
Lane Praised
1T was a great Democrat,
former Gov. William Preston
Lane, who removed the doubts.
The time has come again for the
Democratic Party to move in"
Mr.. Fallon, who represents the
4th district, lying entirely with
in Baltimore City, said the
Stevenson efauver ticket is a
natural for the people of Mary
land"
/ He said the senatorial NOM
Iinee, Mr.. Mahoney, "is one Of
the most popular men of Mary
land and his strength as a vote
lgetter is legend"
! Mr.. Fallon predicted that Mr.
Mahoney will make IAN active
and useful Senator" and added
that he is qualified to repre-
sent his State in the upper
branch in Congress according to
the best and highest standards. -
Then Mr.. Fallon went on to
praise the Democratic candidates
for Congress.
Fete Candidate Tonight
Tonight the Young Democrats
plan to fete some of these candi-
dates, including Mr.. Mahoney
and the Democratic congressional
aspirants. Mr.. Mahoney is sched-
uled to speak at banquet, al
though the man billed as the
main speaker is Representative
E. Edmundson Of Oklahoma.
If the coalition is successful
today in putting over its ticket
lit will be a reflection of Mr.
Mahoney's strength within the
party Statewide. His main
strength now appears to be or
the Eastern Shore, where he is
supported by State Controller j
IMillard Tawes, long a Demo-
cratic keypin in that region, ano
in Baltimore City. where all but
the minority factions loyal tc
Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro are
now lined up behind Mr.. Ma
honey.
The Shore, in fact. was credited
with delivering the key vote fol
Mr.. Mahoney over in its fight fol
the senatorial nomination against
Mrs. Willard E. Tydings in the
Democratic State Central Com
Imittee last month.