Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-18
YEA, VERIFY, THIS
LECISLATURE'SO ODD
{. S,y, The Baltimore News In
throwing Up The Sponge
For Annexation
GOODNESS STICKS OUT"
D., Iob, Apparently Have Baneful In
e.,oes on Attitude Of the Righte-
Gus. Says The Great Balti-
more Daily Organ


r..s.otrv All least one Baltimore
..-. daily paper is beginning to see
W.. '' te,dwrIting on the wall anent an
ton ss witness the following
,.-8s IN the baltimore News against
ts present legislature:
In a class all It's own.
That Will have TO be the verdict IN
a.ropislature OF 1918 if its history is
.rsr written The chances are 1t
..,.r will be- The historian will have
.., much regard for the price of white
i'm annexation for instance. Just
..... urmgnt il is beaten to fraz-
- Annexation wouldn't have had a
81, more chance than the proverbial
.-erbaI if a vote on it had been
,,ss0 last week. II has passed the
g7use. So the remarks of its fate ap-
-,y only TO the Senate, where 1t is
rsrdlpg Hope in it's success always
has rested ON the promise Of Republi-
an support, a promise explicitly
made bv the Republican party in its
r,rty platform. The News has re-
iraIped from saying just how many
Psgublican Senators are missing from
As lineup for annexation. 1t has re-
,-aIned because it believed that the
greater number Of them would get
back into line.
Two things are counted on to get
them hack into line One is the pres
sBee of William p. Jackson in An
rlpolis He has been elected State
Treasurer and ne is expected to take
over the duties of the job this week.
Nr Jackson is a persuader. The
other thing that Will help to straighten
oat the situation is the appearance in
ho Senate of the Gubernatorial
Green Bag"
That Green Bag always is the oc-
rasion of much trouble.
Now. on annexation. The Senate as
body is decidedly "prayerful." All
tho Senator's can't speak. The words
can't be goteen together just right.
speak make the old-time camp-meet-
ag rally look like 80 cents. The Gov
gnor also is a "prayerful" man.
Hence the "ue that binds us"
SO "prayerful" Senator can be
baught-no. indeed. If any disreputa-
be lobbyist were to offer the devout
Senator a price for his vote the good
man probably would faint on the spot,
The Emergency Hospital at Annapolis
would get him,
But q Job is different--a job paying
fair salary and requiring little work.
The Governor. too, is a good man.
The Governor expresses his great ad-
uiuton for the Senator-for all Sen
a'ors of the holier-t -than-thou kind.
They are the salvation of the land.
The Governor regrets that the laws
ate such that he can't have more of
'ae Senator's sort about him as part
O., his official family. For the laws
make little provision for minority ap-
9ointmcu,s, and the good Senator be-
Ag a Republican is at a disadvantage.
Stiu there are n few jobs for mi
.ority m,mbers-jobs for them or, if
Ney prefer. for their friends or rela-
IONS Amy claims they may have to
make will certainly be seriously, per-
.sls prayerlully. considered
Certainly the Governor is a good
man The Republican Senator is con-
"aeed. He hears a rumble of dis
s''a among the Democratic friends.
may OF course. be true that the
GOVERNOR doesn't meet every situa-
-'a that arises in the way he is ex-
t.,,ed TO meet it, but what of that
"e Is q gooj man, and after all that
Tue thlng-a good man, a prayer
tli man
And then the delicacy of the Gov
@aoT AZ that little talk he made no
.~,-aAd-out promise of a job. That
~,-'a have been highly improper
he Governor did. however. make his
-'eaoons clear a Job is waiting for
' good Senator just as soon as the
.-''aFrassments Of the situation are
removed
AL about the State House the good
Ss-a'0r catches the whisper of the
s.'eTa0rs dissatisfaction with an
@-1@.el Why is he dissatisfied with
-y annexation bill? The Senator as
."lf1ehcan is committed to annex
b.. through his party's pledges
~, @'eT all parties must suffer il
b.- b-s''ea1e is offended. If thy right
-- 0@end thee. hack it off.
s-~- 80 ,alS Is what has happened tC