The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-06-26
POLITICS IN REVIEW
(From The Observer, Baltimore)
By the Man In The Street

(From The Observer, Baltimore)
Now a new move is the effort of
the Richie machine crowd to save the
Richie scalp.
The Governor, utilized annually as
q sort of advertisement for the Wet
Blankets workboat races, invited ex-
Mayor Jackson, William Curran, Phil
ip B. Perlman and Charles E. Bichy,
all recently more or less active in in
surgency, to be his guests on the State
steamer McLane at the races Satur-
day. Mr.. Perlman says he told the
Governor he was too busy to go but
the invitation was accepted by the
others for Friday. However, Thurs
day night, Mr.. Jackson received word
Of the critical illness of his father at
Perryville and went there to see him.
Then Mr.. Bichy found himself too
busy to go and this left Curran as the
man to do the surrendering, if any is
to be done.
News of the Governors move to
save himself from political annihila-
ton was held back until the last min
ute and then promulgated through the
court organ, the Wet Blanket. In
that journal of the fourth term and all
its peculiar works it was stated that
the rafting of swords within the good
old Democratic party was to be stop
ped within forty-eight hours and in
fact that the aforesaid swords hereto
fore rafting so loudly, were to be
sheathed. There was to be "thirty-
six hour conference" on party affairs
and the substance of the Wet Blan-
ket's information was that the Gov
ernor and the insurgents were to agree
on local ticket.
All of which would be very nice if it
suited the voters of Baltimore City
and Maryland at large. Some may
like to see the Governor and his late
bitter opponent dickering and trading
for the offices in the ward room of the
State Steamer McLane. If they all
could finally get together and swear
allegiance to each other what would
It amount to? Jackson and Bichy
cannot deliver their friends to Rit-
chic if they try. Curran can deliver
some of his but not all. And Mr..
Perlman, smart chap, is not a leader
with a following to swap but polit-
ical counsellor of the late John P. Poe
type. He is excellent at drafting res
olutions and seeing that things are
done in proper order. He has not a
ward to deliver to the Governor who
treated him so shabbily at the demand
of the Arundel crowd in the first of
the three Richie administrations.
And Jackson? Doesn't he know
that Richie hates him bitterly while
Stimulating friendship as few except
Richie can simulate for a purpose?
And doesn't Bichy know that he is
not any better liked by Richie than is
jackson and has he forgotten how the
Governor backed up those who threw
him out of the City Committee chair
nanship just prior to the last conven-
ing of the Legislature?
And Curran? Can't he see through
Richie even though the latter fooled
him in 1927? Does he think himself
smarter at scheming than is the Gov
ernor? Didn't Richie succeed in his
scheme to ditch Curran in the last
municipal election? Did Richie shed
any tears when Curran went down to
defeat?
Well, this time the Richie scheme
to capture Jackson, Bichy and PERL
man seems to have gone awry and the
Statewide propaganda put forth thru
the docile Wet Blanket has gone for
naught. Whether some other plan of
the Governor to parade his prospec-
tive political "captives" in public
place will succeed is a question. The
Richie plan was to get the leaders
to confer with him in public place
for propaganda purposes. He sought
to have them call upon him at the Bel
vedere hotel early this week but they
declined. Then he sought to have Mr..
Perlman deliver some sort of peace
making speech at the meeting Of the
State Central Committee on Wednes-
day. Mr.. Perlman didn't do it. He
sought to have Mr.. Jackson get up on
his hind legs and hand out some of
the hokum that Mcintosh handed out.
jackson didn't fall for it. Nobody fell
except Mcintosh.
But after all, the big news is that
the Governor at last recognizes that he
is in bad political situation. He has
received word that the -Bichy
people want nothing from him in the
way of the makeup of the local tick
ct. He has been informed that he can
go ahead and make up his own ticket
and the opposition will take it, leave
it or fight it.
The whole Richie scheme is work.
ing badly. On Sunday the Richie peo-
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