Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-08-22
Mr.. BRLDYS RECORD
What He Really Did For The
Baltimore-Annapolis BOuIe-
ward Measure
WROTE LETTER TO SELF
Communication PurpOrting To Present
Pen To Retiring Senator Not
Written By Committee

Who conceived the idea Of giving
Annapolis q boulevard connection with
Baltimore and the part played in the
accomplishment of this excellent
scheme by Mr. A. =. Brady's legisla-
tive activities was injected into the
Democratic Senatorial nomination
fight by Mr.. Brady's communication
published in The Capital on Saturday.
1t formed a vortex of discussion
about which Immediately centered
much interest. Mr.. Brady's publica-
tion of letter signed by DR.. George
Wells and the other members of the
Democratic Central Committee ap-
parently clinched that gentleman's S
claims on every single bit of the
credit for the now rapidly approaching
completion of this important link in
the chain of Maryland good roads.
However, according to gentlemen
who know the facts of the case the
letter to Mr.. Brady "signed" by the
State Central Committee wherein the
retiring Senator from Anne Arundel
is thanked for his efforts in behalf of
the boulevard bill was never written
by DR.. Wells and his colleagues. The
necessity for or the composition of
such a communication had never been
dreamed of by these gentlemen, who
out of the goodness of their hearts,
signed it when the already prepared
and neatly typewriter copy was
brought to them by Mr.. Brady him
self. He had procured and carried
with him to the Central Committee
the pen which the letter of "apprecia-
ton" purported to present" to him
that he might have the bill signed
with it, as a mark of the qualification
of the gentlemen who so materially
aided in his nomination and election.
Those who tell this much of the
history of the road bill and Mr..
Brady's claims to the right to re-
nomination and election on this and
his other legislative accomplishments
go further. They say-and this is
vouched for by the gentlemen most in
timately concerned-that after Cover
nor Crothers had conceived the plan,
drafted the bill and had it engrossed,
Mr.. Brady went to DIR. George Wells
and asked the aid of the Anne Arun-
del County Central Committee chair
man to get the bill and the credit for
introducing it turned over to him.
Through DR.. Wells intercession,
Governor Crothers placed the bill
which embodied his ideas and had
been planned and drafted under his
supervision, in the hands of Mr..
Brady, and the measure was offered
in the name of the then Senator from
Anne Arundel county.
Senator j. Charles Linthicum, of
Baltimore, who was personally inter-
ested in such measure through his
holdings in ''Linthicum Heights" and
similar real estate development
schemes along the proposed route and
| other members who were in sympathy
with Governor Crothers' good roads
plans, backed the Governor in the
Annapolis boulevard idea
and contributed their aid in making
the legislative route of the bill as
smooth as the engineers and workmen
are now making the roadbed of the
proposed highway.
Mr.. Brady "helped" in this, but
the credit for the road goes to Cover
nor Crothers, and those who asked
him to let Mr.. Brady father the mea-
sure