The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-22
Why Not Senator
GoldsbOrOugh for Governor?

GOldsbOrOugh for Governor!
The more we look at the situation
in the Republican party the better
Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough
seems to fit into the picture as the
Republican candidate for Governor.
Of course, there would be protest
on the basis of his having good Of
flee and that his election would nee
essitate his giving up his seat at
Washington, but a serious situation
in Maryland demands serious rem
edy.
If Mr.. Goldsborough would take
the place he need not have primary
fight and his election, should Richie
be the Democratic nominee, would be
as certain as anything political can
be in Maryland.
Having had the experience Mr..
Goldsborough would know just what
to do at Annapolis in order to fix up
the State government and put it just
where it should be. And on the stump
he would have the nerve to point out
the failures of the present administra-
ton as we'll as the dangers of its al
liances.
Candidates a-PIenty
In Second District
Evidently thinking that this is to
be a Democratic year the candidates
for Congress on the Democratic tick
ct in the Second district grow numer-
, Gus. Billy Cole, Herbert Grymes and
Yewell Dillehunt are in with Dan
Chambers and John Centrum looking
on. The last mentioned is the newest
and it may be that he will take a
chance in a crowd. He lives in the
city end of the dictrict as do all the
others except Cole but the members
of his family have long been identi-
fled with Baltimore county.
Mr.. Centrum served as member
of the Appeal Tax Court and for his
appointment to that place had the
backing of the late John J. Mahon.
Our guess is that Harrison Rider, who
was a friend of Mahon, will not back
Centrum. Somehow the two don't
gee.
Young Cole Setting Up
New Political Shop
In Baltimore county it is reported
that young VIM. P. Cole, former Con-
gresham, in addition to running for
nomination again, is undertaking to
set up political shop for himself with
the idea that he can upset Harrison
Rider.
Cole is and has been training with
the Governor while Rider has been
plain spoken enough to let everybody
know that he thinks the Richie bust
ness is being run into the ground. So
the Governor wants some one on
whom he can depend in Baltimore
county. The late father Of the ex-
Congressman, VIM. P. Cole, the elder,
was quite political leader in his day
and would probably have been Fred
Talbot's successor in the county lea
dership of the Democratic party had
he lived.
Some of Mr.. Riders friends think
he made mistake when he accepted
appointment as State Insurance Com
missioner at the hands of Governor
Richie. He did not need the place
and at that time was president of the
Board of County Commissioners, a
place welding great influence. If the
Richie people can take Rider down a
peg it will be big thing for them in
Baltimore county.
Brooke Lee Gets
Very Hard Bump
According to the reports we get
from Rockville the Governors chief
political lieutenant, Brooke Lee, has
received a hard jolt at the hands of
the Circuit Court in the shape of a
ruling that the action of Lee and his
supporters in going before the Grand
Jury in a group and demanding the
indictment of the editors of the Mont
gomery Independent was outside the
law. There must have been great re-
joicing among the anti-Lee Democrats
over there who for quite while have
been making q most strenuous fight
to break the Lee held on the county
government.
The contest was going along just as
fractional political fights usually do
when Lee made matters worse by go
ing into the newspaper business and
effecting consultations with other
papers. This meant that the Lee OBJ
ject was to get the cream of the pub
lie advertising for the county at his
own rate and thus force the taxpayers
to support his enterprise whether they
liked it or not. The natural result
was the establishing of new paper
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