The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-04-11

agement Of the roads department;
J near steals have been pushed through
the Legislature with few opposing
votes; the Sunday movie bill has been
killed despite the backing of Speaker
Lee who has become city man in the
city and county man in the county;
nothing was done to the prosperous
race track business; a new tick and
chigger boulevard is to be built in
Southern Maryland at cost of $780,
900; the upper Eastern Shore is to
have a 100000 special highway to
reach Delaware; Garrett countians
are to have road to lead them to
West Virginia; some hundreds of
thousands of dollars are to be spent
to build a road to Brooke Lees land
Development; Senator Eugene Jones
killed two of Brooke Lees pet politi-
cal schemes by which he was to get
more men on the payroll as police
men and census takers; and big pile
of bills has been dumped into the Gov
ernor's office where he can pick and
choose willy nilly just because his
men in the Legislature let it work
out that way.
Grand Jury Resumes
State Roads Scandal
This week the Baltimore City
grand jury resumed its delving into
the State roads scandal and caused
surprise by calling some of the Gov
ernor's investigators, including the
two chairmen, Messrs. Michigan and
Beck. have doubts that much infor-
nation will be obtained in that way,
for to date it has been shown that
neither of the chairman was able to
find out much. They couldn't even find
out where the war material went.
Possibly before the thing is over
some impertinent member of the
grand jury may so far forget himself
as to suggest calling the real chief
witness-the Governor of the State
even though this procedure would
shock some of the hero worshippers
in this neck of the woods.
The Governor would be able to tell
the jury why it was that he was 10th
to let the public know about the roads
stealings and why it was that it took
him nearly a year to GUST Chairman
Mackall He might also explain why
it was that he removed the Roads
Commission from any supervision of
the State Purchasing Bureau and why
he had the money removed from the
State Treasury in large hunks and
turned over to the Roads Commission
where there were no competent men
to watch it.
There is hardly a doubt that the
Governor could, if he would, give
more information about the working
of the Roads Commission than any
other man in Maryland except Mr..
veal anything about the real workings
of the Roads Commission was due, no
doubt, to the fact that he was not
asked any vital questions to fix the
responsibility was his reticence
due to the advice of the eminent law
yer who attended him as his coach?
Of course, do not know how much
any Grand Jury can find out but the
records of the so-called Investigations
conducted by the Governor and his
henchmen will show that little delv-
ing was done. And most peculiar of
all was the gingerly way the investi-
gators approached the war material.
What makes it all the more important
to find out where it went.
Governor Struggles On
With Fourth Term Scheme
The flood of bills laid before the
Governor by the Legislature in its
last hour has not caused him to abate
in the smallest degree his struggle
for fourth term nomination. On the
contrary he is just as busy at it as he
could be had he nothing else to do.
He has his henchmen going here
and there trying to arouse sentiment
in his behalf. They say; "Who have
you got that's any better? The roads
business wasn't his fault. He trusted
too much to others. Same thing hap
pens in banks and all business inst
buttons. Besides that, what's one-half
of one per cent? Haven't we the best
and most cheaply built roads in the
United States? You don't want Broen-
ing for Governor, now, do you? Of
course not. Then why not get in line
for Richie again? He wants vindica-
ton. And he's the only one that can
beat the Republicans"
They say nothing at all about ro-
tation in office nor about that section
in the constitution which would have
halted the robbing of the State Roads
Commission not later than 1924. They
say nothing about keeping the same
group in office indefinitely. They make
no defense or explanation of the roads