The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26

Nothing much was done at the meet
ing of the Democratic State Central
Committee on Wednesday. The resig-
nation of Howard Bruce as the Mary
land member of the National Commit
tee was there to be taken up but it
was not as much as mentioned. Mr..
Bruce was there moving around from
pillar to post and from post to pillar,
smiling his most engaging smile. To
the stranger he appeared to be the
candidate but he said nothing in that
direction. He was not moving around
with the Governor-he seemed to be
padding his own canoe and, of course,
most persons there well knew that he
would like to have the Governorship.
The Governor, as might have been
expected, took advantage of the OPP
portunity to make a speech and after
that came Senator Mcintosh with re-
marks that had no fit place in the as
semblage, indorsing Ritchies for a
fourth term. It showed just how far
down the Democratic party in Mary
land has fallen when the meeting of
the Central Committee called to ar
range for a primary is made the stage
to advertise the candidacy of one man.
Good political manners-if anywhere
laid aside for the day and it was made
one-man show even though there
were present many who, if they ex-
,, pressed their sentiments, would have
spoken boldly against the fourth term
proposition.
The Governor gave out the samelin
of blather that he has been giving to
William I. Norris and that was to the
fact that if elected he would not feel
obligated to reappoint all the old job
holders but would Judge every DEM
ocrat on the basis, of performance,
meaning, we suppose, that he would
follow the policy he adopted in regard
to the State Roads Commission and
that was to increase the salary of the
Chairman for zeal in the campaign.
The great majority of those on hand
were place holders of one sort or an
other, ex-place holders and applicants
for places under the State administra-
ton. There are always enough of
these in Baltimore to make up a siza-
BILE crowd.
There was not in the whole COM
mittee man or woman with the
nerve to make a real motion or offer
resolution for the good of the party.
Evidently each one feared the Richie
boot. Which was so very different
from the Democratic party of the old
days when the gravest of faults were
at least perfumed with some moral
courage.
Republicans Popped
By BrOening's Success
The Republicans and especially
those of City Hall persuasion are
much popped up by the success of the
Mayor in backing certain State lead
ers into corner and disposing of their
opposition of the Broening nonina-
ton for Governor.
| Opponents of the Mayor have now
had plenty of time to bring out an
other candidate but they have not
done so. Nor have they seemed to
be breaking their backs trying to do
so.
When National Committeeman W.
P. Jackson Endorsed Broening that left
Senator Goldsborough as high as he
is dry. Lowndes was already with
Broening and as for ex-senator Weller
he seems to have remained in the
background after indorsing the idea
of Sixth District candidate.
So the Broening hackers have gone
right ahead and the first thing they
did was to bring into camp David A.
Robb of Allegany, who had been
threatening to run in the primary as
candidate for Governor and more es-
pecially as candidate against Mayor
Broening. How Mr.. Robb was cap
tured remains more or less a secret but
it is reported that he was told that his
so-called friends had been using him
as a stalking horse and never had any
intention of giving him the nomina-
ton. And this may have been true.
What the Anti-Saloon League lead
ers think about the Robb business we
do not yet know. Superintendent
Crabbe has been out of the city and is
said to have had no hand in the Robb
decision to become a candidate for
Attorney General. Only week or
so before that report came from Cum
berland, Mr.. Robb's home town, that
he would spurn the offer of the At
torney Generalship.
He changed his mind when the May
or's emissaries got hold of him and it
is understood that the effective one
of these was Assistant City Solicitor
Simon Sobeloff, on whom the Mayor
is coming to rely to considerable ex-
tent in matters political.