The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-09-19
(From The Observer

Preparations are going forward to
make it possible for Governor Richie
to make his talked-of trip around the
world, the start to be as soon after
the second Wednesday in January,
1881, as convenient. Those who are
cooperating in the Governors tenta-
tive plan are doing what they can to
release him from his present office so
that he may take an indefinite vaca-
ton.
In the last few days there has been
good bit of laughing about that
round the-world trip. 1t had been kept
pretty we'll under cover until Harri-
son Rider let it out when pressed by a
reporter. He said that before accept
ing the appointment as State Com
missioner of Insurance he had been
told by State Senator Dan Chambers
that the Governor would not run for
fourth term but intended to take a
trip around the world.
When asked about it the Governor
gave the impression that the trip
around the world was a new thing to
him but | hear that it wasn't so new
as the Governor professed it to be.
In fact, | hear that there are Sena-
tors other than Chambers who were
told about it by the Governor, so
Rider was well within the limit when
he told Of the assurance he had been
given of the proposed post regal eX-
petition.
Of course, the friends of His Males
ty can make good explanation now
that the Zeppelin has completed its
globe girding flight, as the journalists
call it. Only twenty-one days are re-
quired to make the trip in the Zeppe-
lin and that is not as long as a Demo-
cratic convention sometimes sits when
the Tammany cohorts are in the
ascendancy.
Thus a Governor might take a trip
around the world and not have to be
away from Annapolis very long
either. And there's not much going
on at Annapolis anyway when the
Legislature is not in session.
Richie Men Raising
Ingratitude Cry
The Iast-ditch Richie people are
doing a bit Of talking as an offset to
the break made by the Baltimore
County organization Democrats in in
dorsing State Senator Mcintosh as
the Richie successor. One song they
sing is that Richie is getting
stronger every day. Another is that
no one can be found to enter a pri-
mary election fight against him. But
the latest is that all those Richie
appointees who are not in favor Of
keeping the present Governor in Office
indefinitely are traitors and ingrates.
But the shortest and most effective
reply | have heard to this particular
plant, is that a man must go into
court with clean hands and that of all
men in Maryland politics today Rit-
chic should be the last to complain Of
| ingratitude From the beginning Of
his political career his ingratitude has
been coupled with his inordinate sell
fshness and this all who are
acquainted with him very we'll know,
He gives little cakes to others in the
hope they will help him to keep the
big cake for life.
Governor Made Effort
To Silence Rider
A report is going around that day
or two before the meeting of Balti-
more County Republicans at the Rid
er home to indorse Mcintosh the Gov
ernor sent for Mr.. Rider and urged
him to stop the movement. Mr.. Rider,
am told, explained that he was not
the whole show in Baltimore County,
that the meeting had been arranged
and that he saw no reason for trying
to stop it.
Of course, it is the Richie game to
try to tie, hand and foot, every man
he appoints to office and it is through
his appointing power that he has
built up a State machine. Yet such
machines do not always last. For
instance, there was the late Governor
Crothers. He had the second term
idea in his head the biggest way and
to further his plan he named a num-
br of county political bosses to i'm
portant State offices. But when he
announced himself a candidate for a
second term he found they would not
support him but lined up with Cor
man, the machine candidate, or Lee,
the anti-machine candidate. SO he
quickly withdrew.
Crothers did not have the patron
age at his command that Richie has
had nor did he have in his hands the
expenditure of practically every dol
lar of the State income through a
one-man budget. Had Crothers had
this money power he could have done
more although it is doubtful that he
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