The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-08-12
A Correspondent of a Baltimore Pa
per Asks Some Pertinent Questions
Pertaining to the Identity of Gov
ernOr Ritchie'S BOOSTERS

| TeItdlllng 10 the lueHtlty Vi UON-
ernor Ritchie's Boosters.
The Observer, published in Balti-
more, in its issue of recent date, con-
tanned an article asking some peril
nent questions and desiring first-hand
information concerning the boosters
of Governor Richie. This article is
reproduced in The Republican by re-
quest, being as follows:
To the Editor of The Observer:
AS Marylander who has just re-
turned to the State after some months
in New York City, l am wondering if
you could give me little information
concerning Governor Albert C. Richie
whose activities you must have OBJ
served
There We're sent to me during the
winter, for example, a number OF
handsomely printed pamphlets.
hold some of them in my hand. One
of them is called "The New South and
the Faith Which is its Heritage
Address of Governor Albert c.. Rit-
chic of Maryland Before Joint Ses-
sion of the Senate and House of Dele
gates of Virginia. A second is en-
titled, "The Greed of Democracy, In
dividual Liberty and State Response
bility"-Address of Governor Albert
c. Richie of Maryland at the Jackson
Day Dinner of the Iroquois Club, Chi
cago. Nowhere on these pamphlets
is there indication of the source from
which they emanate They are printed
at 'The Capitol Gazette Press" An
napolis, Maryland, but one seeks in
vain for information as to who paid
the printing bill and who circulated
these pamphlets. Here is another en-
titled John Observation-Disclosures OF
Governor Albert C. Richie of Mary
land at the Dinner of the Lawyers
Club, New York City. 1t is printed
by ''The Twentieth Century Printing
Company, Baltimore, Maryland. But
again, no information is given as to
who paid the printing bill
| recall receiving ais othe report OF
a dinner given Governor Albert c.
Richie by citizens of Maryland II
was an interesting booklet A lot OF
excellent and opulent gentlemen eu-
logiZed the chief executive of their
State. The cookies of ones heart tin
giles at the loyalty and brotherly af-
lection and the esteem which suffused
the pamphlet recording this dinner
Reading it in New York City in mod
ern America, 1926, it seemed, how
ever, peculiarly anachronistic The
dinner reminded one of something II
the past. One could not visualize the
one million actual citizens of Mary
land rendering this dinner to the Gov
ernor of Maryland. One did not Wis
ualize the thousands of Maryland
farmers digging the soil, the tens OF
thousands of Marylanders of all types
using the roads and kept in order by
Colonel Baughman's not-too-polite
guardians of the highways. No, one
rather visualized a setting of 15C
years ago in some English colony
where the powerful governing class
rendered banquet to some Governor
appointed by the British Crown. One
could not believe that the citizens OF
| Maryland were voicing their esteem
but that group of gentlemen who
arrogate to themselves identity with
this large citizenry had given the
dinner
Possibly you observed this phe
nomenon and can inform me as to the
degree in which the eulogies express
ed really express the sentiments Of
the one million people who live in the
State of Maryland.
| noticed in New York the closing
by the prohibition enforcement off
Gals of a night club in the Tenderloir
District called "The Club Richie"
also noted in your columns during the
winter statement to the effect that
IN the Bowery section of New York
City saloon had been called "The
Albert C. Richie Cafe"
Am l to understand that these
places Of entertainment and amuse
ment in New York City were actually
named after the Governor of Mary.
land, and if so, who financed these
places? Who sought to profit by max
ing known in the metropolis the name
of the Governor of Maryland?
There are forty-eight American
States and to the editors of the news.
papers in New York City the Govern
ors of most of them have always beer
rather unimportant. Certainly not il
the history of the State of Maryland
has any Governor been given such un-
ceasing publicity in large numbers OF
] the New York papers. Yet, during
my months in New York City | rarely
picked up any of the New York pa.
pers without seeing the picture OF
Governor Albert C. Richie of Mary
land or some reference to him. TIC
those who know the journalistic world
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