The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-04-17

out the approval of the Governor. And
Mr.. Grymes is reputedly close to DAN
iel ]. Loden, another Richie shouter.
The candidacy of Mr.. Grymes will
tend to mix things up worse in Balti-
more county. Mr.. Grymes will be
seeking support there and the Gov
errors hackers will be called upon to
help him.
Montgomery Fight
OF Statewide Interest
Citizens in every part OF the State
are interested or should be interested
in the battle that is now raging be-
tween the Democratic factions in
Montgomery county. There is an in
surrection against the reign and the
methods of Brooke Lee who has taken
command of the element now in con-
troll of the offices and is fighting madly
to hold on to what he now has.
Most remarkable of all was the
spectacle of Lee and several of his
henchmen going into the Grand Jury
room in a group and presenting their
grievances against the leaders of the
opposing Democratic factions and ask
ing for their indictment on charges of
libel. Not only did they present their
grievances but they also gave their
own advice to the Grand Jury and
then went outside and published this
advice at length in their own paper,
the Maryland News.
The result has been the indictment
of several editors of the Montgomery
Independent, the paper that has been
leading crusade against the Lee
overlordship Of the county with de-
termination to get rid for once and all
of the Silver Spring boss whose DOM
nation has produced so much discord
that the Democratic party has been
brought to the brink of disaster.
The trial of the editors is yet to
come. If they are acquitted the laugh
will be. on Lee and his henchmen. If
they should be convicted and made to
suffer penalties they will most likely
become martyrs and heroes in the
eyes of the anti-Lee people of the
county.
So far as we can learn the specta-
Gle of a group Of politicians going be-
fore Grand Jury together and pre-
senting their grievances against a
newspaper has not before been seen
in Maryland and we are told that it is
not at all likely that any Baltimore
City Judge would permit such per-
Torrance.
And on top of this the Lee con-
trolled paper, the Maryland News, has
not hesitated to publish the most sour
rilous attacks on others and on &C.
count of this there is now pending a
damage suit against the publishers
of that journal.
Coincident with what has been 60
ing on in the county seat, Mrs. Jesse
W. Nicholson has directed attention
to a law which says the members of
the Board of County Commissioners
cannot patronize themselves in a bus
mess way and she asserts that the
County Commissioners have recently
paid the sum of $4,000 or more to
the Maryland News, Of which the
County Commissioners are stockho,-
ders and directors. Mrs. Nicholson
asserts that this is violation of the
law while one taxpayer in the county
has instituted proceedings to stop the
payment of salary to one Of the Coun-
ty Commissioners on the ground that
he is not legally entitled to the sum
he has been receiving.
Meanwhile Brooke Lee has been in
Baltimore City several times recently
and is said to be trying to stick his
fingers into the naming of the local
Democratic ticket. Apparently he
hasn't sufficient trouble at home. He
can get plenty here in Baltimore with
out hunting for it.
Republicans Moving
With DeliberatiOn
The Republican leaders are making
haste slowly. Some of them hold to
the view that late selection of a
candidate would be better than an
early one. They do not expect a pri-
mary fight but do not think it neces-
sary to put man in the field early
and thus, maybe, force a primary.
The best guessers do not pick May
or Broening. And the indications are
that if he had the right sort of en-
enlargement he would have announe-
ed himself by this time. 4-e simply
sits and thinks while his appointees
boost him.
Some usually we'll informed persons
express the opinion that the Republi-
can candidate for Governor has not
yet been mentioned in the newspapers.