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SUPPLEMENT 1975-1976 13
time in 1923, at the height of the debate over Prohibition, Congress-
man William D. Upshaw of Georgia, a fierce dry, denounced Maryland
as a traitor to the Union because it had refused to pass a State en-
forcement act. Mr. Owens thereupon wrote a mock-serious editorial
entitled "The Maryland Free State," arguing that Maryland should
really secede from the Union and go it alone. The irony in this edi-
torial was somewhat finely spun, and on second thought Mr. Owens
decided not to print it, but the idea stuck in his mind, and in a little
while he began to use it in other editorials. The nickname caught on
quickly, and the term "Free State" is heard almost as frequently as
"Old Line State." See Frank R. Kent and others, The Sunpapers of
Baltimore (New York, 1937), p. 309.

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