The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-23
THE PASSING SHOW
BY the Man In The Street


begin to wonder who paid for it. Was
it paid for? Or did the radio people
grab it as a valuable feature and send
it out free? How do the broadcast.
ing companies do these things Do
they give the Governor this free pub
licity or does somebody have to pay
for it? We never did understand this
radio business. All we know is that
the radio next door turns on soon
after nightfall and runs until it wears
itself out.
But the Concord banquet incident
shows that one must be careful with
the radio. It did Governor Richie
dirt at Houston when it revealed His
Excellsncy starting a debate when
there was nothing before the house
to debate and it lost AL Smith many
votes because of his East Side lingo.
Some of those who have been dis
cussing the Murray speech say it is
only another proof that the breaks
are going against the Governor and
that the god of luck has forsaken
him. And those who are not sup
porting His Excellency assert that the
banquet had a reaction very unfav-
orable to the fourth term project be-
cause so many people object to having
non-factional club used for a fac
tional candidacy.
Tydings Entitled
To More Publicity
We mustn't get away from the Con-
cord Clubs part in the fourth term
movement without referring to the
remarks of Senator Tydings. It ap-
pears that he, too, got himself in bad
with church people by the tone of his
remarks and it seems that he might
have done better by discussing An
drew jackson or Thomas jefferson.
Certainly the Tydings speech was no
help to the Governor and since the
banquet some of the latter's friends
have been saying that Tydings was
nominated by Frank A. Furst and
not by Mr.. Richie and so the latter
should not be held responsible. Be that
as it may, it is apparent that if the
election of 1926 had to be held over
again the Senator from Hartford
would not do so well. Mr.. Weller
would get more votes.
Is LOden Striving
To Become Boss?
The staging of the Concord Club
dinner as a bid for fourth term sup
port by Loden is assumed by many to
be evidence that the West Baltimore
politician, in retirement for several
years, is trying to stage come back
and pay off some old scores. The
Governor has been smoozing Loden
for some time and not so many moons
back he attempted to get a clerical
job in the court house for one of Lo-
denis friends in West Baltimore, but
failed owing to the objections Of Grim
inal Court Clerk Gross.
Not so far back it was assumed
that Loden and Billy Curran were get
ting very close together, but not so
now. Curran sees how the Concord
Club dinner was staged with the anti
Richie people barred from speaking
and seated in the background. I hear
that considerable feeling was aroused
over the seating arrangements as well
as over the shutting out of the Pres
ident of the State Senate from the list
of speakers. And, as I take it, the
whole procedure will cost Richie
votes in the primary (if he runs) and
in the general election if he is nomi-
mated. And it doesn't seem that he
will have many to spare.
Ennis to the Fore
As Richie Leader
The effort to get the more or less
Independent Twenty-seventh Ward or
ganized for the benefit of the Gov
ernor brought Election Supervisor
Robert B. Ennis, right hand man of
Frank A. Furst, into the light. Mr..
Ennis has long been very close-polit-
ically-to Billy Curran and frequently
visited the Curran law Office in the
Calvert building. Weeks ago it was
reported that Ennis having little po-
litically of his own, woulds stick to Cur
ran, but now, according to the dali
les, he is organizing Richie clubs.
The meeting this week to organize
the movement in the Twenty-seventh
Ward, which comprises the nothern
annex, was held at the Twenty-sev-
enth Ward Democratic Club on Park
Heights Avenue in which Coney Is
land Whitley is a dominant factor. Mr..
Whitley, it will be remembered, was
one of those mentioned in Judge
O'Dunne's recent anti-handbook pro-
ceedings as one of those engaged in
the distribution of racing information
to the books, with headquarters on
North Eutaw street. He is a friend of
.