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having ever been consulted.

By way of depression, we wonder
what has happened to the handbook
men. Judge ODunne gave the police
the names of the distributors of in
formation and he gave them the loca-
ton of the special telephone lines.
The bookmakers shu: down for few
days. We imagine shat if one tries
hard enough he may still find way
of losing his money on the races with
out taking it to another city. Balti-
more may be considered bit conser-
vative in some ways but it is not.
backward about bookmakers.
Great Silence Now
Envelopes The Court House
These days we do not hear much
noise emanating from the court house,
once considered Richie stronghold.
Some of the court clerks who were
shouting fourth term day by day ap-
parently have become uneasy about
their own situation and have decided
that silence is more becoming than
loud and unseemly political noises.
For no one as yet knows who is to be
among the chosen few when it comes
to making up a slate a few months
hence. The Democratic party, holding
the court house, is now in anything
but a sure thing condition and the
court clerk who makes big noise
may be marked for the political ditch
by those of greater influence. In this
connection we are told that the Rit-
chic people have it on their program
to ditch Register of Wills Downes
and Court Clerks Peasants and Clay:
poole. That's what we hear, but we
can't guarantee it. But we can say
with assurance that nobody ever
wants to be ditched.
Early Bird Out
To Capture Worm
First in the field for the next cleo
ton is J. Frank Fox, former member
of the House Of Delegates and former
candidate for Congress on the Repub-
lican ticket. Mr.. Fox wants the NOM
nation for the State Senate in the
First District and if it should be a
case of first served he is entitled to it.
But as so many Republicans think
this years election is to be an easy
thing for them there will be plenty
CT candidates in the field for every Of
flee that will be open and that will
mean nearly every State Office there
is to be had.
In the counties, too, the early birds
are stirring and some candidates for
Sheriff have already announced them
selves. In Queen Anne's county, we
hear, there has been a meeting at
which both factions of the Democ-
racy were represented and there has
been an agreement on every office to
be filled except that of sheriff. Usually
in each of the counties there are more
candidates for Sheriff than for any
other position, notwithstanding the
fact that Sheriffs sometimes are shot
at-especially in these days of moon
shining and bootleggeing.
Down in Prince Georges county,
Mrs. Virginia Peters Parkhurst, sort
of chronic candidate for something or
other, has come out again and this
time she has tagged herself onto the
fourth term candidacy of the Gov
ernor. She is, we believe, the first
woman candidate in the field this year.
Conley VS.. Baughman
Now the Report
Interesting is the report that Col.
Baughman, the Commissioner of Mo-
tor Vehicles, who was all ready to go
four years ago, is now lined up and
shouting for the fourth term project
of the Governor, while his brother-in-
law, DR.. Conley, of Frederick, is not
only demanding new deal but was
one of the speakers at the dinner
given in honor of Senator Mcintosh at
Hagerstown. I have no direct word
from the Colonel but the word I get
seems authentic. Anyway, the chief
deputy in the automobile office, Mr..
Schroeder, is a staunch fourth termer
they tell me, and as he is friend of
young Dave Winebrenner, that settles
that.
Lull in
Petition Business
This week we have heard no more
of the spontaneous petitions. No one,
so far as we can hear, has undertaken
to duplicate the work of former
Judge Walsh in Allegany. So we have
come to think that there is more
fourth term enthusiasm in Allegany
than there is in any other Maryland
county or that Mr.. Walsh is the best
qualified man in the State to get the
voters to sign on the dotted line.
We recall that four years ago there
was an effort to get up a third term
petition in Baltimore county, but Har-
rison Rider frowned on it. He ap-
parently did not consider such doings
dignifed for a Governor.