The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-25
From our Special Correspondent.
STATE HOUSE, ANNAPOLIS.
February 24th 1904

STATE HOUSE, ANNAPOLIS,
February 24tk, 1904
Speculation and gossip over tbs
Governors appointments is the CHIEF
| occupation of the local law makers
| and what few of the more distant pol
iticians as have assembled here thus
far, after the adjournment last Fri
day. The House and Senate last
week were both flooded with bills and
by Friday the members were pretty
well tired out by the long week, the
long sessions and the remainder of the
long days spent in the committee
rooms, for the pressure on the mem.
bers of the more important commit
tees, at any rate, was heavy indeed.
The Governors appointments, how
ever. were the fruitful theme with the
gossips. Politicians, as rule, are the
only people interested in who the
Governor appoints to the various
Offices, except, of course, the men who
aspire to fill them, and except in the
case of where the Executive appoints
an obviously unfit man for the posi-
ton. The average taxpayer, not an
office seeker and not politician. does
not care who fills the places, and SO
long as he is courteously treated on
the few occasions that he comes in
contact with the officials, it matters
little one way or another to him.
whether the man be endorsed by any
one or not
But there is a broader considera-
ton than that for the Governor and
for his administration as a whole, and
for the dignity and credit of this ad-
mlnistration, good men must fill the
places; and thus far there is no gain
saying the fact that the Executive is
sending down good men. True, they
are not pleasing the politicians, and
true the applicants for the positions,
many of them at least, are grumbling
over their various appointments, for
the lightning thus far has been strik-
ing with great frequency in unsolicit-
ed spots, but the great mass of the
public is pleased with the appoint
ments thus far, and even his former
newspaper enemies have compliment
ed Governor Wartield on the names
which he has sent in, and have evinc-
ed in the most marked degree their
delight over the ignoring of Mr. Rasin.
While this is unquestionably de-
served and while the Governors
friends are glad to read this praise,
the fact remains that tits very, very
cheap, the ones doing the most of it,
doing everything in their power to
encompass his defeat, or doing moth
ing to further his chances of cleo
ton, at the critical time when this
same Mr.. Rasin was conducting a
very important part of his campaign,
which. with the work. of others, result
ed in victory. This fact makes
thoughtful men, not blinded by their
hatred of NAME. the owner of which
most OF them have meyer even seen,
a little sorry that the good Governor
does not at least recognize Mr.. Rasin.
if, indeed, he is really not going to
eventually do so.
The Governor, in .makins his selec-
tions, does not seem to have been
moved to any extent by anyone's in
fiuence, but the personel of the Police
Board for Baltimore city, in spite of
that fact, is beyond all question not
hostile to Mr.. Rasin. Both of the
democratic members, james H. Pres
ton and George r. Willis, are men of
the highest type, aslis Gen. Shyrock,
the minority member, but both have
always been friendly to Rasin but,
and here is the point with 1.-The Old
Man. this fact had nothing to do
whatever with their selection. The
only thing that he can console him
self with is the thought that although
they were friendly to him that did not
prevent their appointment.
Overy man to his own opinion, of
course, but the preponderence OF
opinion here, even among the most
conservative, seems to be that cour-
tesy might move the handsome Gov
ernor, if nothing else would, to con-
suit the one man to whom, more than
anyone else he owes the position
which he now occupies, when making
his selection1 for important party ap-
pointments.
Among the Governors closest