Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-21
|R|TCH|E'S ELECTIONS
| SEEN IN MARYLAND.
Republicans, However, Bat
tie on With Hope of Up
setting Governor.
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had gone over to Mcintosh found that
the rank and file and the ward leaders
| would not follow them. Instead OF
nominating Mcintosh, in the end they
j all came trooping back to Richie, and
Mcintosh, who had declared his candi-
dacy for the nomination, withdrew in
| favor of Richie.
| The manner in which Gov. Richie
| has benefited from the turn Of circum-
stances is one of the amazing episodes
\ of political history. He might have gone
! to the Senate of the United States in
| 1926 If he had wished to do so. He
could have had the nomination II he
| had put out his hand for 1t. Instead
| however he decided to plug ahead as
Governor of Maryland, even though IL
meant running in that year for q third
| term as chief executive of the State,
| and the nomination went to Senator
| Tydings.
RumbIings Are Heard. -
-Undeniably there is opposition on the
| part of a good many, voters to Gov
| Ritchie's being elected for a fourth
term. Some of the Democrats feel that
way about it themselves. There are the
/ enemies he has made in his own party
and there are. men who feel that they
should have neen given a chance to run
for Governor, but have been held UP by
the constantly recurring nomination Of
| Richie -e."f.- q
On the other hand, Gov. Richie has
a great personal following in the State
His supporters insist that he has given
Maryland an excellent administration
II there was cefalcation in the. case OF
the road funds, at least the Governor
took the matter in hand and cleaned up
| the mess, they say, and they deny that
| the road scandal can be made success
| fully an issue today, although the Re-
publicans have sought to make 1t one.
Gov. Richie is as widely known for
his stand against the eighteenth amend
ment as he is for his perennial holding
of the governorship. The prohibition
scarcely been proclaimed when the. Gov
ernor started demanding its repeal. The
demands made now by Gov. Roosevelt
OF New York, Dwight W. Morrow, Re-
publican candidate for the Senate in
New Jersey, and Al Smith, candidate
for President in 1928, all have followed
lines laid down by Gov. Richie in the
past.
Runs on Wet Ticket.
Ritchie has been the champion par
excellence Of State rights when it came
to deal with the liquor question. He
IS wet and as wet he is running
for Governor of Maryland on a wet
platform and with wet ticket.
ThiS wet-and-dry iSsLe is the second,
IL not the first issue in the gllberna-
torial campaign in Maryland this year.
Mayor Broening, who has been regard
ed as a wet in the past, is standing
on the Republican State platform,
which demands strict adherence to the
Constitution and the law.
The RanIlhlfcanC rarrfaG sNGarxyla ~
two years ago for dry candidate for
President, Mr.. Hoover against the wet
AL Smith. Indeed, Mr.. Hoover's lead
over Smith was surprisingly large in q
State which is reputed tp be quite wet
10000. With the Democrats taking the
wet side of. the issue again this. year,
it is not to be wondered that The Re-
pnblicans have sought to capitalize the
| dry sentiment in the State. which Is
considerable outside Of the City OF Bal
/ timore.
So all the Republican candidates are
drys this year, even including Mayor
Broening, who Is saying as little about
the subject as he can in his campaign.
There is one exception-Col. John
Philip Hill, Republican nominee for the
House in the third congressional dis
trict, located in Baltimore. Col. Hill
is the wettest Of the wet. In Demo-
cratic district he has been successfully
elected several times to the House In
the past. He was leader. of the wet
group In that body untn he sought the
Republican, nomination for the Senate
four years ago against former Senator
Weller. He lost in the primary. Two
years ago Col. Hill sought to stage q
comeback and win his cid place in the
House. He lost by exactly 800 votes to
| Representative Palmisano, Democrat
who had succeeded him in the House.
Other Races in State.
The wet-and-dry issue, therefore. is
| dominating issue in the Maryland
campaign this year, except, 1t Is true,
In the third congressional district,
where, the Republican and the Demo-
crat are both vets.
Even in the sixth district, where Rep
resentative Fred Zihlman, Republican,
and chairman of the House District
Committee, is seeking to succeed himself
| the wet and cry issue has cropped out
| hard. Former Representative David j.
| Lewis Democrat, who while he was a
member of the House voted for the
! eighteenth amendment and the Volstead
| act, is now out for light wines and beer,
| declaring that conditions under national
1 prohibition are unbeafable.
Since the Civil War the Republicans
have elected Governors of Maryland ex-
actly twice. The first was in 1895, when
Lloyd Lowndes, Republican, defeated
John ]. Hurts, Democrat, and the occa-
| sion was revolt against the rule Of
the late Senator Arthur Pue German
The second was in 1915, when Philip
Lee Goldsborough, present Senator de-
| feated Arthur German, son Of the late
| Senator, for the governorship. Colds
borough won by about $500 votes or
that occasion and there are Democrats
! who say that enough Democratic ballots
/ were thrown out because they had been
faulty marked to have overcome that
lead had those votes been counted.
See Richie Sure Winner.
In view of the political history Of the
State for the last IS or 10 years, 1t does
not appear to be in the cards thai
Richie will be defeated. Democratic
leaders insist that he will win the cleo
ton on November by an even greater
lead than he rolled up four years ago
They are very confident.
Republicans on the other hand, insist
that Broening, who three years ago de-
feated his Democratic opponent fol
mayor OF Baltimore, a strongly Demo.
! cratic city, by 1900, has good chance
to win. They are clinging to the hops
that enough Democrats who do not wish
to see Ritchie receive a fourth tern
and enough dry Democrats out IN the
State will turn to their candidate to
elect HIM.
The registration is quite large this
year, as compared to the registration In
the last "off-year" election In 1925. This
Democrats and the Republicans both
are taking satisfaction. from the large
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