The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-08
POLITICS IN REVIEW
By the Man In The Street

III announcer. ne CANNOT larry sing Two
different tunes. And Mr.. Gambrili
has never been close enough to the
Richie administration to be blamed
for any of the things that went
wrong. He had no part in the Rit-
chic log rolling road bill and other
purely political place grabbing meas
Iures of the last Legislature, nor had
he ever been one of those favorites
frequently fed at the table of the Ex-
ecutive Mansion. The Governor has
seemingly never cared for him-ex-
cept when Richie wanted help in an
election.
Republicans Continue to
Wait and Wait
Backers of Mayor Broening appear
much disappointed over his refusal to
announce himself candidate for Gov
ernor. The Mayor is not given to
rushing in. He did not rush into the
nomination for Mayor three years ago.
On the contrary, he looked it over for
long time. He wants to be sure he
has the approval of the political pow
ers that be. It is not like him to run
amuck in his party. He is not that
sort of Republican.
The belief grows that Senator
Goldsborough will not warm up to
him. The latter is said to feel that
the Mayor is not so strong as he was
three years ago and that better vote
getter can be had.
And then many Republicans say
there is no use of putting up a wet
, to oppose a wet Democrat, it being
conceded that the Democratic nominee
will be more or less soaked. It is ar
gued that dry candidate will bring
to the polls many thousands of per-
sons who have been remaining at
home since 1920.
Ex-senator Robb of Allegany, was
in the city again this week but re-
vealed nothing of his plans. He limited
that there might be primary fight
a hint we understand based on the
possibility of the Broening candidacy.
Yet few Republicans expect a pri-
mary fight in the party. They will be
content to watch the Democrats.
The State leaders continue to coun-
sci delay in selecting a candidate. Ma
tional Committeeman VIM. P. Jack
son sticks to Senator Goldsborough,
and Chairman TAFT is never far away.
Friends of the Mayor seem to think
that Mr.. Jackson owes Broening a
great deal for help given in the cleo
ton of a State Central Committee
in 1928, but that is a matter of the
past. Senator Goldsborough has a
voice in the distribution of Federal
offices and the Mayor has none. That
makes big difference.
Political Pot
Begins to Steam
Early in the week, somehow, the
local reporters began to scent some
thing in the wind indicating that their
prophecies of Richie getting the NOM
ination for a fourth term without
contest were all wrong. Ever since
the withdrawal of Senator Mcintosh
the idea that there would be no other
candidate to contest with Richie had
been sedulously cultivated and some
reporters swallowed this stuff with
such eagerness that they failed to
look in other directions.
It is not strange that the younger
reporters have become affected by
the Richie propaganda machine which
has been built up through ten years
of effort and which labors ceaselessly.
The idea put forth was that every
body was afraid of Richie, that this
prospective candidate was hog-tied
this way and the other one was hob
bled that way until Richie had be-
come supreme in his field like king
or an emperor.
Nearly all of the reporters who
knew Richie before he became Gov
ernor have passed out of the picture.
Some are dead, some are in other oc-
equations, and some have been shunt-
ed into newspaper jobs where they can
do no appreciable harm to the would
be fourth termer.
Still, it seems strange that it took
so many days for the seeping through
of the fact that a new slate was be-
ing fixed up despite the efforts of the
Governor and his henchmen to stop
it. So different from years ago when
such a movement would have been
mentioned in the newspapers within
twenty-four hours. But in the old
days we did not have the comic strips
to amuse us and we needed more
about the doings of the statesmen
from day to day.