Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-19
GEN. MACKLIN
URGED AGAIN
Many OF Guard Favor His Reap
pointment As Adjutaut-General.
HAS RAISED ITS EFFICIENCY.
Recent Precedents in Other States for
NOn-Partisan Appointments in
Militia Not Lacking.

Governor Harrington's selection Of
the next Adjutant General of Maryland
is the main topic OF discussion in Ma
tional Guard circles. since the term Of
Cen. Charles f. Macklin is about to
expire. SAYS the Baltimore Sun.
Several officers of the First Begi-
ment have been mentioned and there
is considerable talk Of Former Adiu-
tant. General Henry NJ Warield. who
served during the administration of
the late Governor Crothers. Guards
men whose names have been brought
forward as either actiee or receptive
candidates are Major Ernest A. Rob-
bins, Jr. brigade adjutant; Major 5
Johnson Poe and Capt Thorne S. Kirk
wod, Fifth Regiment; Major Albert s.
/ Gill. Fourth Regiment. and Major J.
Harry Uilrich. Field Hospital No. l.
Lieut.. Colonel washington Bowie, OF
the Fifth Infantry. and Col. William A
Povkin a former commander of the
Fifth also have been mentioned from
time to time. Friends of Brigadier-
General Charles D. Gather, comman-
der of the First Regiment. are said to
have brought his name 10 the attention
of Governor Harrington
But despite the fact that he is Re
publican there is considerable senti-
ment in the Guard for the re-appoint-
ment OF General Macklin, who has
| served efficiently for four years and is
credited with having put the Guard on
a strong military basis. His friends
| are pointing TO the fact that there is
no politics in the military establish
ment and that the Acknowledgement
of the State is neither a social officer
nor a social secretary to the Governor.
| He is the Governors chief-of-staff, the
Governor being the commander-in-
chief of the land and naval forces
Of the State
II is pointed out that the Adjutant
General should have a technical knowl
edge of the army and navy and atten-
ton has been drawn to the fact that
| General Macklin has had considerable
training in both these branches of the
service. In addition to being a grad
nate Of the Naval Academy. he has
been connected with the Maryland Ma
aonalGuard since February II, 1901,
and when he was commissioned In
spector-General on the staff of Briga-
lier-General Lawrason Riggs.
! Governor Warie1d appointed General
Macklin commander of the Fourth In
fantry after the officers had twice
elected the late Major Franklin p
Swazey, who was rejected by a board
Of medical examiners. Mack.in was at
he head of the Fourth from 1904 until
1909, when the field officers of the
first Brigade elected him brigade
| commander Two years after Governor
Goldsborough appointed him Adiutant
, General Of the State.
While a rigid disciplinarian, Gen
| eral Macklin is popular with the rank
and file of the Guard and his admins
! tration has been successful, and a
credit to the State and the service
At least two Democratic Governors
lately have set the -precedents for the
reappointment of Republican adiutant-
| general-the Governor of Maine and
the Governor of Kansas. They were
| elected as Democrats in Republican
States, but when it came to the selec-
| ton of an acknowledgement for each
State, the new Governor realized that
! the man who had been serving in the
| position was competent. and good of
! ficer. As Adjutant-Gener of Mary
| land. General Macklin has given his
entire time to the work and has raised
the standard of the Guard in every
particular. and today an officer of the
| Maryland National Guard ranks in eff
cheney with any military officer in the
entire country.
Maryland's standing at the War De-
partment is high in fact, the State
gets anything within reason that it
wants for the militia gets all that is
coming to it. Not so very long ago
General Macklin succeeded in having
the War Department give Maryland
eighty field wagons and $50 sets of
harness for the use of the troops, all
fire of charge to the State.
The old canvas has been thrown
into the discord and new canvas sup
piled the troops. The Guard has grown
during the last four years, the new
organization, including the field hos
pital. an ambulance company, ma
chine gun company and battery of
field artillery.
One of the strong arguments advanc-
ed for the reappointment of General
Macklin is his interest in the move for
preparedness. He has been active in
the movement, and those who want TO
see him reappointed say the State is
in need of such men at the head of
the militia