Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-21
Smashing Gubernatorial Pre-
cedents Would Advance
Presidential Prospects.
REPUBLICANS DISPUTE
ANALYSIS OF SITUATION
See Broening Aided by Objection
to Long Reign-House Seats
Are at Stake.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
stan Correspondent Of The Star

BALTIMORE, Md, october 21.-Gov.
Albert c. Richie of Maryland is at
present engaged in meeting not the
third-term issue which has disturbed
presidential candidates in the past, but
the fourth-term issue. Apparently he
is meeting it successfully. The indi-
cations are that he will be reelected
Governor and that when the Democrats
| hold their next national convention
Gov. Richie will be In strategic posi-
ton to make bid for the presidential
nomination.
Gov. Richie his friends insist, is not
making this campaign as q presidential
candidate. He Is running merely for
Governor of the great State of Maryland.
II he wins he viii have smashed all
kinds of records relating to ofhcehold1ng
as chief executive Of Maryland or any
other State. In Maryland it was an
unwritten law from the earliest days
of the State that no Governor should
be reelected.
One or two tried for reelection, but
did not succeed. Richie, however, has
already been elected three times and
at the conclusion Of his present term
Another 4-year term would keep him
in the Governors chair for q total OF Is.
Long Tenure Opposed.
william Broening, Republican mayor
Of Baltimore and the @. o. P. candidate
for the Office Of Governor against Richie,
does not believe that any man should
be given perpetual control Of the State
| government. He and his friends are
declaring that the reelection Of Richie
would be tantamount to making him
hereditary ruler of the State, Q kind Of
one-man dynasty in political once
Mr.. Broening Is seeking to wean the
voters of Maryland away from the
Richie habit. But 1t Is habit that
seemingly has grown on them. For
when Gov Richie was first elected,
back In 1919, he won over Henry Nice.
Republican, by only 1856 votes. During
his first. term, Gov. Richie began the
reorganization Of the state government,
and did such q thorough Job and APP
parently such . successful job that he
was re-elected BY 10000 plurality.
Right there he smashed the second
term tradition which had decreed that
no Governor of Maryland should be
reelected. The Democrats insisted that
he should stand for reelection. The
third time he was elected his lead over
his opponent was $1,000.
A year or two ago Maryland was
rocked by the so-called road scandal,
with officials of the State Highway
Commission involved. It was found that
| $25O,000 Ct the State funds had been
Incorporated. Despite the fact that
Gov. Richie took firm hold Of the mess
and that several Of the men involved
are now serving terms in the peniten-
tiary, while the work Of the highway
commission is proceeding more success
fully than ever, 1t looked as Il the
scandal might sink Gov. Richie politt-
cally.
Began Seeking Candidate.
Furthermore, the suggestion that q
Governor of Maryland should be elected
for a fourth consecutive term was re-
garded as in the realm of mythical.
So strong had become the conviction
of some of the Democratic leaders that
Richie could not be a candidate for
a fourth term that they set about pick
ing his successor. They settled on
David G. Mcintosh, State Senator and
president of the State Senate.
Gov. Ritchie'S enemieS-and every
governor makes enemies in his own
party-were prepared to follow McIn-
tosh. Some of them began to attack
Gov. Richie. There their foot slipped.
Gov. Richie and his friends might have
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