DEMOCRATIC PARTY

While Governor Tawes won an impressive victory in 1962,
the State Democratic Party was divided during his second
term by the bitter presidential primary campaign of 1964
and the fierce factional battle in the 1966 gubernatorial pri-
mary. As the head of the Party in Maryland the Governor
was in the middle of these conflicts. He vigorously supported
Senator Brewsler in his sacrificial role as a presidential pri-
mary candidate opposing Governor George Wallace of Ala-
bama. In 1966 the Governor supported his Attorney General
Thomas Finan in a hard fought campaign for the Governor-
ship. When Finan lost, the Governor as a loyal Democrat
gave his formal support to the winner, George Mahoney.
Governor Tawes was proud of the record of the Party in
achieving a forward looking state program during his two
terms. He frequently quoted Adlai Stevenson's statement
that "the test of a political party — the final acid test" is the
way it governs. He regarded his unstinting service to the
Democratic Party as a privilege and enjoyed Party gatherings
and campaigns.

ADDRESS, TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION, DELAWARE
FEDERATION OF DEMOCRATIC CLUBS

DOVER, DELAWARE

April 6, 1963

Mr. Chairman, Governor Carvel, fellow Democrats:

It was most thoughtful and most kind of you to ask me to come
here as a guest at this Tenth Annual Convention of the Delaware
Federation of Democratic Clubs. It is always a delight to me to come
to Dover, and I am particularly pleased to have this opportunity to
mingle in fellowship with my good Democratic friends of this great
state.

We have had to invent a word, Delmarva, to describe the strong
bonds of kinship and friendship which link together the people who
live on this peninsula which lies between the Chesapeake and Dela-
ware Bays — bonds of mutual geographic, economic, cultural and
historic interests. Eastern Shoremen are essentially Eastern Shore-
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