The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-07-25


though have not been told the reas-
ons why. In fact little has been said
about it and l learned of it only
through accident.
But everybody knows that Delegate
! Daniel Joseph was very active in the
! last Legislature in cooperating with
the Jackson element in the House
and that he was very annoying to
| Speaker Brooke Lee and other men,
bers of the ruling group. l wonder
whether it was on account of her
brother that Miss Joseph was made
more or less uncomfortable in her
State position-so uncomfortable that
she thought it best to resign.
These are interesting times. Dan
Carroll has been shunted out of the
State Auditors department. He I'M
covered the biggest governmental
scandal in the States history. And if
anybody else now dares to uncover
anything, why
Easing Up in Sporting Section
There appears to have been an cas-
ing up by the police in that section of
the Western district most frequented
by what is known as the sporting
element and many are the inquiries
as to the reason why.
The district is in charge of Capt.
Cooney and some time back he was
placing a heavy hand on the book
makers and other sports who have
made their headquarters in that sec
ton for many years. Some places
had been closed for a long time and
as a consequence there was deep
gloom accompanied by maledictions
on the State administration, which
controls the police department.
Now things have been eased up and
the boys are happier. Eutaw Street
| is once more the Eutaw Street of old
and peace seems to prevail. Of course
there may be bookmaker here and
there who has not been molested but
the section is said to be no longer
tight.
Naturally some of the wise ones
suspect that the fourth term project
may have something to do with the
change in conditions. 1t seems t. be
difficult for an administration to be
heavy handed when a fight for re-
election is in progress.
Meanwhile reports come to me that
some of the towns bookmakers have
recently been refusing to pay the
winners. Such refusal usually brings
complaint to the police. So we shall
see what we shall see even though in
the northwestern section of the city
the police have been rounding up men
engaged in peddling the new policy
game based on the figures of the u.
S. Treasury balance
Michigan Committee Renews Activity
The Michigan committee named by
the Governor to make report or two
on the State Roads scandal has, l am
told, recently renewed its activities
and it appears that a new effort is
being made to find out what became
of the war material given the State
by the Federal government. In the
hearing Of argument on a demurrer
in the suit of former State Auditor
Milbourne against The Baltimore
Post Judge Samuel K. Dennis was re-
ported to have made remarks about
the failure to trace all this property
and it is fair supposition that this
had an effect on the Michigan COM
mittee. There is still some curiosity
as to what the committee is doing
even though there seems to be a feel
ing that the committees final report
cannot affect the public greatly, the
majority of citizens having made up
their minds to make a change in the
State administration next year.
bud ROe's Paper Suddenly Goes Dry
The drys and particularly the
women drys of Queen Anne's county
are somewhat mystifed by the sudden
activity of the Centerville Observer,
owned by State Senator Dudley G.
Roe, in undertaking to clean up the
moonshiners and bootleggers who
have been infesting that section.
In the campaign of last Fall as is
pointed out by the drys, they were
severly critivized by Senator Roe's
paper for giving their support to the
dry candidates. They got no sympa-
thy from the Senator's paper altho
Mr.. Roe has been considered a per-
sonal dry. Now the Roe paper is
crusading against the vets in great
shape and published a list of stills de-
stroyed and arrests made while some
vets write letters of protest.
A reader in Queen Anne's writes to
suggest that it will indeed be heart
rending when a show down of the slot
machines in Queen Anne's comes
about. A hint, as l understand it,
that the slot machine men have been
reaping harvest in the Roe BALI
wick. The slot machines, l will ex-
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