Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
Richie CHARGES
| DODG|NG TO C. DIP.
Governor, Opening Campaign,
Invites Foes to State Dry
Law Stand.
epecIsl pIspaleh . The SCR.

epecisl Dispatch TO The star
HAGERSTOWN, Md, September 10
Charging that Maryland Republicans
are attempting to dodge the major
issues in the impending elections, Gov.
Albert c. Ritchie, Howard w. jackson,
David J. Lewis, candidate for the House
of Representatives from the sixth Mary
land district, and other speakers, opened
the Democratic campaign last night at
q dinner here.
The tenor of the majority of the
speeches indicated that the Democrats
will attempt to put the Republicans on
the defensive and keep them there
Gov. Ritchie, for three terms Gov
ernor of Maryland who is running to
succeed himself, scored the Repub-
licans Tor their silence on the subject
OF prohibition.
Asks Stand of G. o. p.
He said that prohibition has been in
force for long time and that the
Republican candidates should have de-
Veloped definite ideas on the liquor
question and incorporated them in a
platform.
Mr.. Lewis accused his opponent, Rep
resentative Frederick NJ Zihlman with
political hypocrisy. He said Mr.. Zihl-
man drinks wet and votes dry.
Declaring that he, personally, was a
teetotaler, Lewis read from the record
of q congressional hearing the testi-
mony of Representative Zihlman where
in Zihlman admitted he drank.
Mr.. jackson, who supported State
Senator David G. Mcintosh, jr., for the
Rubernatorial nomination, made a plea
for party unity. He pledged his support
to Gov. Ritchie and the entire Demo-
cratic ticket.
Query to Broening.
The Governor. referring to the silence
of the Republican candidates on major
issues and to a reported statement by
Mayor Broening that if he were to be
elected he would make Maryland "a
really free State" asked: Would he
have our State free not only to enact
such laws as our people want, but also
to refuse to have such laws as they 40
not want?"
with Mayor Broening as Governor
and David A. Robb as attorney general,
how free would the people OF Baltimore
be from the injustices and the conse-
ouences of a State VolStead act supple
mented by State Jones act?"
After reviewing the effect State
enforcement act would have on the Po-
lice Department of Baltimore City, as he
sees 1t, the Governor revived the charge
that GaIen L. TAFT made in this city
several weeks ago with reference TO
Gov. Ritchies attitude toward the tariff
question.
TT was said that more than four
years ago I expressed at a peach-grow-
ers' convention in Berlin, Md, some
views on the tariff with which they
found fault. I do not recall it, but
whatever was in it was not considered
by The Republicans important enough to
use in the 1926 campaign, or If 1t was
used certainly the result was not very
satisfactory to them.
States Tariff Position.
what the Governor has to do with
the Federal tariff I am somewhat at a
loss to know, but If my views on the
subject are of any Importance I do
not mind saying this: 1 do not approve
Of tariff wall which cannot conceiv-
ably do anything except injure, if 1t
does not destroy our foreign trade at a
time when an excess of production has
brought about the worst conditions of
unemployment the country has ever
seen and where there is an obvious ne
cessity of increasing our export trade
instead OF destroying IL, IN OTQer ILlaL
the surplus in the country may be
taken up.
Nor do I approve of a tariff waH
which invites reprisals and retaliations
from other nations with which we
trade and whose friendship and good
will We ought to have and which, fur
thermore, is causing a rapidly increas-
ing migration of American industries
abroad.
Refers to Farm Angle.
II do not approve of a tariff bill
which, while it promises the farmer
equality with industry, as a matter Of
fact increases the cost of pretty nearly
everything the farmer buys at the same
time that the prices of his principal
cash crops are the lowest in years"
With regard to the possibility that
&he fourth term issue might be raised
in the Republican campaign, the Gov
ernor pointed to the adoption of the
constitution of Maryland in 1864 elm
mating any prohibition Of the Governor
of the State succeeding himself. The
present constitution, adopted in 1867,
be added, makes the same provision.