The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-03-13
POLITICS IN REVIEW
By the Man In The Street

would be available as compromise
candidate. And recently some one
mentioned John X. Shaw, now serving
as the minority member of the State
Roads Commission.
Democratic Dinner
No Great Disturbance
The dinner given at the Southern
Hotel on Tuesday evening by the en-
battled Democracy of the northeastern
annex was concluded without any per-
ceptable loss of political blood. The
affair was apparently staged by the
elements friendly to the fourth term
pretensions of His Majesty but sup
porters of Senator Mcintosh were al
so invited to help pay the bill. Thus
it was that three hundred or more per-
sons were gathered around the tables
some in rather belligerent mood.
It appears that Brooke Lee was
brought in from Montgomery county
as a sort of bodyguard for the Gov
ernor, the Montgomery county states
man being relied upon to say some
thing the Governor might not care to
say-in an emergency. So it was put
down on the program that former
Mayor Jackson would be asked to
speak in advance of Lee so that the
latter, if the occasion seemed to de-
mand it, could reply in his rather
rough manner. But there was no oc-
casion for a reply, as Mr.. Jackson
said nothing at which offense could
be taken by the fourth termers even
though one exhuberant member of the
tribe did yell out a Richie boost dur
ing the course of the Jackson remarks
only to be squelched by the ready re-
ply of the speaker.
Senator Tydings was put at the
head of the speaking and for reasons
of his own consumed about three
quarters of an hour, sending the Re
publican party to the rear but saying
nothing about his own peculiar wob-
bling on certain items of the tariff
bill. He did not even go so far as to
tell his hearers that some of the Gov
ernor'S most ardent supporters had
appealed to him successfully to cast
his vote for high tariff on certain
items in which some Maryland Demo-
Gratis were interested.
The dinner did not prove or disprove
anything. 1t brought nothing visible
to the fourth term cause and it caused
no opening ruction. But it was not
exclusively fourth term affair as
was the Concord Club dinner of few
weeks back when the Richie people
were given the stage to the exclusion
of all others.
A few days back, we hear, there
was dinner given by the Yellow taxi
cab people Gust what for we do not
know and we are told that the Gov
ernor was there and ex-Mayor Jack
son was there and number of more
or less political people were also there,
among them Charlie Bichy, and the
latter was seated right alongside His
Majesty, the Governor.
This caused comment because it is
we'll known that if there is one Demo-
crat who is opposed to the fourth
term idea it is this very same Mr..
Bichy and it is further we'll known
that from time to time the emissaries
of His Majesty have called upon Mr..
Bichy and presented lengthy argu-
ments in the effort to make him see
what they evidently believe to be the
error of his political ways.
Possibly Mr.. Bichy was placed
alongside His Majesty at this taxicab
dinner so as to give His Majesty
good opportunity to whisper his sweet
political nothings into the insurgent
ear of Mr.. Bichy. But perhaps this
is not so. Possibly it just happened
that way as things occasionally do.
Anyway, we take the liberty to re-
port that Mr.. Bichy was not converted
by the seductive smile of His Majesty
and that Mr.. Jackson, who was no
ticed listening to some whispered re-
marks of Richie emissary, is still
outside the fourth term trenches.
Rotary Club Hears
Political Speech
While those who are invited to adj
dress the Rotary Club are not sup
posed to deliver political or partisan
addresses or to boost their own candi-