The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-08
(From the Observer, Baltimore.)

IOLIl LLe ODSSINS1,
The week end finds the Richie
fourth term crowd growing panicky
over the prospect of desperate pri-
mary election fight with Representa-
tive Stephen W. Gambrill as the OPP
posing candidate for Governor.
The Richie panic is shown in the
mad efforts to discourage Gambrill,
to convince him that he is about to
"wreck the party" that he would be
committing suicide to run and all that
sort of hokum which has time and
again been used by the same greedy
gang to intimidate.
For months and months it has been
known that the one man greatly
feared by the Richie gang was Gam
brill. They have feared him because
he is strong campaigner and makes
himself heard on the stump-is not a
pussyfooter.
So long as Mcintosh stayed in the
race the Richie gang did little or
nothing to get him out as they felt
confident that he could not win.
And even at that they got nervous
over the Eastern Shore. But they
were safe in. letting Mcintosh wear
himself out in a pussyfooting cam
paign in which hetook the advice of
some of his supposed friends to keep
his mouth shut.
Nobody who knows Gambrill can be
deluded with the idea that he will
keep his mouth shut-hence the near
panic of the Richie gang at the pros
pect of GambrilPs announcement of
his candidacy for the place now held
by Richie.
It is safe to say that every hour
from now until he makes his an
nouncement of his candidacy Mr..
Gambrill will be besieged by Ritchie's
henchmen in every part of the State,
and men who have gathered money
under the Richie regime that they
might not otherwise be able to gather,
to scare Gambrill off. They want to
scare him off because they have the
fear that in the primary he will sweep
Richie and his gang of benefciaries
off the political map.
Everywhere one goes in the city
there is the same talk about the stu
alton. The talk is that Gambrill is
sure to receive big vote in Balti-
more City and that it would not be
surprising to see him get majority
of the legislative districts notwith-
standing the efforts of the Richie
machine.
The fact is that some of the Richie
lieutenants are already showing signs
of weakness and the near panic that
has seized the chief Richie hackers
over the report of the Gambrill can
didacy has extended to them. This
feeling should grow rapidly after the
Gambrill announcement is made.
Many admit that the Richie house in
this city is built largely of straw and
not a great deal will be required to
demolish it. Democrat after Demo-
crat expresses himself as tired Of vot-
ing for him and the need of new
leader is more and more manifest
every day.
Apparently it was not until Thurs
day that it seeped into the Richie
head that there was real danger Of
the Gambrill candidacy. Up to that
time Richie seems to have been sur
rounded by an atmosphere of security
that did not fit in with the facts. And
the old Wet Blanket, running true to
its latter day, post-Abell form, has
been helping to give him comfort.
Even as late as Friday morning the
old Blanket was dishing out such stuff
as:
LEADERS are cold to Gambrill
BOOM"
SIT is reported in Democratic cir
cles yesterday that Representative
Stephen W. Gambrill had met with
little success in obtaining backing for
his proposed candidacy for the Guber-
material nomination.
"He called at the Office of John M.
Dennis and was informed
that Mr.. Dennis had climbed aboard
the Richie bandwagon.
LEADERS also believe that organized
opposition to the Governor is rapidly
vanishing with Howard Bruce on the
verge of making a public statement
in favor of the Governors renomina-
ton.
Howard W. Jackson assumes dis
interested attitude"
Nearly all of which statements are
simply lies, plain lies concoted for the
purpose of misleading the readers of
the old Wet Blanket which since the
Abells were Invested of control can
be made the tool of the ravenous
gang that has the State of Maryland
by the throat.