The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-10-07
What Is He After.

t1m0re city. Inc GOVernOr DeAnS
informed that things were moi
working properly with its Police,
or Detective Force, undertook to
aamonlsn It and the means he en-
ployed were strong and vigorous.
He even went to the extent OF
threatening to call out the militia
and shoot up the City Hall, Cap
tain Weigle, Of Company Fl, in
Westminster, receiving a telegram
ON Monday night notifying him to
hold himself in readiness for i'm
mediate service. If Baltimore city
has reached condition that makes
military force necessary to admin
lister its affairs, 1t is really disgrace
full and a reflection on the rest OF
the State. If it is not of such low
character, a grave injustice has
been done it BY the Chief Execu-
tive Of the State of Maryland.
Living in the country We are
not familiar with local conditions
i'm our chief city. Of course we
know, as every one else should,
that individual members of the de-
tective and police force are crook
ed, but the means employed
by Governor Crothers to cor
rect it's evils have been small
and in strict accord with the char
acter of petty politician. That
our views, however, are not those
of a single individual, appears
from the following statement of
former Carroll countian and ex-
Governor of the State Of Mary
land. ''
In an interview reported In The
News. former Governor Frank
Brown said:
Il can imagine justice Of the peace
or some other small official taking
such an attitude as the Governor
has taken i'm this case, but / cannot
imagine what drove MIN to it / sup
pose as long as cities exist liquor
laws will be violated. do not know
whether cocaine will always be sold,
but it is bound to be sold once and
while.
But here the Governor of the
State, simply because a few subordi-
nate officers in the Police Department
disobey the laws, and because
bunch or laWbreakers and negroes
give ridiculous testimony, such as the
sale OF cocaine i'm enormous quanti-
ties in absurdly short periods of time,
goes ahead and repudiates respectable
and reputable men whom he himself
has appointed, and sends 1T out broad
cast to the country that Baltimore is
a crime-ridden, cocaine consuming,
vicious blot On the man.
There is not a man in Maryland
OF any Standing that has any Sympathy
for This pICCe lure-not a single one
II sGoU1d be stopped, and stopped at
once, and Governor Crothers should
20 back to his country town"
NJ. : anA brown Is not littlt
MAI tlv-.cr mentally or physically
Is w, VIC nave known him all
our 4-,ls, appreciate. Coming
from one who Is familiar with local
cOnulVIUns III Baltimore and neces-
-sarI-y 4nOWs what IS going On bet
ter ,Aan we do, his statement is
'CIlC-v--4 w great weight.
l'4>-nh brown, who has his sins to
answer Tor as well as others, would
not do little thing or say any
tning that would unjustly work IN
jury u another. We are surpris-
ed, however, at the fact that he
can not Imagigne what drove him
Gov. CrOthers) to it. He, with
the assistance of Walter Abel,
nominated the present Governor
as we'll as Attorney General Isaac
Lobe Straus; hence he ought to
scent early the real source of all
this turmoil. Our Hebrew legal
adviser 10 State affairs, IS not only
me Or the brainiest men in the
country, but is also one of the most
ambitious that ever lived in the
State :cf Maryland. He desires to
be either the next Governor, Or to
succeed Senator Rayner. 1t is i'm
possible at present to say what the
next twelve months will disclose,
but the State Of Maryland has
nothing to lose il the success Of
either. rA'r h MN
But it is hard that an old State
such a. Maryland, should be held
I'D to the rest Of the world as q
place where laWlessness prevails
and threat of calling out armed
force Il necessary To preserve
peace and quietude IT was not
necessary, but either of his own
voiltion or acting under bad advice
our governor did that which 40
disinterested person deemed g.
quisite; he has of course injured
Baltimore City and the rest of the
State, To an extent which cannot
now be- fully appreciated. This
d., however, matter simply of dol