The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-12-05
THE PASSING SHOW
By the Man In The Street

keep on helping him to the same job
for life. All things come to an end
some time.
/ Campaign Fund
For The Governor
! Some of those who take a practical
view of things political have been sug-
costing that the Governor might have
difficulty in raising a liberal campaign
fund for the primary but those who
talk that way have hardly taken stock
of the Governors retinue. Not count
ing the doubtful ones, there are now
with the Governor, Brooke Lee, Rob
ert B. Ennis, Frank R. Kent, Charles
H. Knapp and John NJ. ReQuardt.
Each one of this group is well stocked
with this worlds goods and should be
able to chip in handsomely. Certainly
they should be able to provide the
100000 that will be needed to finance
a Statewide fight, as all of them are
NSNOOSu ~ Inc bONGIIlOI' Anu IHGy
can get their due rewards after the
Governor becomes President of the
United States. And there are not so
many in this group that the President
would not be able to-give recognition
to all
One could be made Collector of
Customs, one could be named Post
master, one might be sent abroad as
an ambassador and one could be put
in the Cabinet. AS for Brooke Lee,
he would by that time be ready to
become a United States Senator, a
place very convenient to him as he
could sell real estate in the mornings
and attend sessions of the Senate in
the afternoon, while editing his news
paper at night.
Talk of Conference
Is Still Heard.
Many Democrats think that the end
of the present battle will be a confer
ence in which an agreement will be
reached to name a candidate without
a primary election contest. Brooke
Lee, acting as the Governors handy
man, opposes a conference and wants
the Governor to stay in willy nilly.
Lee wants candidate who in the
event of election will do the most for
Lee and his projects. Naturally.
Lee can hardly think that confer
ence would pick Richie to run again.
If the party as a whole wanted Rit-
chic there would be no need for a
conference to find out.
A conference might sidetrack Sen
ator Mcintosh and find an entirely
new candidate. Frequently mentioned
is Representative Stephen w. Gam
brill, who has not been figured as a
member of the Richie camp. Many
regret that Judge Samuel K. Dennis
will not run. He seems to fit into
the picture better than any other man.
But he doesn't want it and that set
ties it.
Now and then somebody hints that
the Governor wants Emory L. Cob
lentz-which many doubt, Richie
seeming always to be in favor of
himself. And Mr.. Coblentz, picked
by Richie, might be handicapped by
his backing. One never can tell.
Candidates For
Attorney General
Democratic candidates for Attor-
ney-General are by no means scarce
at this time. Gossip says Robert R.
Carman has ambitions in that direc-
ton; some say States Attorney o.
Conor thinks the place is due him
and then some say the Governor
wants ex-Judge Walsh on the ticket
for that place while Allegany has an
other aspiraRt in the person of Saul
Praeger, who ran for the State Sen
ate in 1926 and was shuffled out of it
by some of the Democratic factional-
lists. And almost any day one can
hear a new name for that particular
place, some thinking that even if the
Governor is finally nominated and
goes down in the wreck the Attorney
Generalship may be saved Maybe
so.