Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-05-20
MaryIand's 16 Votes Pledged To
Richie.

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Maryland formally placed Gov. Albert C.
Richie before the Nation Thursday of
last week as candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination when his
party, in State convention. pledged to him
it's sixteen votes in the national conveD-
ton.
The State delegates. gathering from all
parts of Maryland. bound the nominating
votes to its four-time Governor in riotous,
unanimous reclamation, and then rocked
the Baltimore theater with cheers as the
executive pledged his full efforts to 1.-THE
assured Democratic victory in November =
Gov. Ritchie's name was placed before
the convention by Richard F. Cleveland
son of the late President Grover Cleveland,
in speech in which he called the executive
THE leader to guide the Nation out of the
morass into which the Republican maIad-
ministration has plunged it,"
His nomination." Mr.. Cleveland said
twill be followed by his election as Presi-
dent of the United States and in him the
country will have an administrator and
leader equipped and ready to perform the
great task" BIS
Eugene Beer. chairman of the conven-
ton. loosed vitriolic attack on the pre-
sent administration, assailing "its waste
fulness and extravagance which has led it
into the greatest deficit it has ever known =
The convention picked As delegates to
cast the States vote at the Chicago meet
ing. to be headed by Gov. Richie himself
and National Committeeman Howard Bruce,
reelected to the committee along with
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Menafee, and renomi-
mated Senator Willard E. Tydines to succeed
himself
The delegates named E. Brooke Lee to
represent Maryland on the Democratic
platform committee which will meet at
Chicago four days before the opening of
the national convention.
Heretofore. in recent years, Maryland
has sent thirty-two delegates to the ma
tlonal convention with the st ate's sixteen
votes. but to meet the demands of those
who wished to 60 to the national meeting
this year, and to accommodate these lead
ers who wished to be represented, it was
decided tosend forty six to this convention.
1t was pointed out that the number of dele
Gates who will represent the State would
make no difference. as the delegation was
put under obligation to vote as unit on
all matters at Chicago by a resolution
adopted at the outset Of the session.
The delegates at large chosen were
governor Richie. Senator Tydines, Howard
Bruce. Mayor Jackson. j. Enos Ray, Mrs.
David c. Winebrener. Mrs. C. Baker Clot-
worthy. Miss Lavinia Enele.
District deleeates-Dr Hugh H. Young
Dr. Dean Lewis, Ambrose j. Kennedy,
K. Howard Bland. Gilbert A. Daley, Rich
ard Folsom Cleveland, Robert A. SindaIl,
Omer F. Hershey. August F. Klecka, Philip
b. Perlman. Clarence W. Miles, Charles H.
Knapp. William Curran. George SelImyer,
Leonard Weinberg. Benz H. McKindless,
David Stiefel, William l. Norris, Robert H.
Carr. S. Scott Beck. William S. Gordy, Jr.,
Herbert R. O'Conor. John H. Bouse, John
M Dennis, David G. Mcintosh, Brie-Gen
M. A. Reckord, Frank S. Revell, T. Howard
Duckett. Wallace Quinn, j. Owen Knots,
Mrs. Charles E. Roach. E. Brooke Lee, A.
j. Cummings. William C.. Walsh, W. Pres
ton Lane, Jr.. Asa 7. Matthews.
The electors named we're:
At large-Frank A. Furst and Emerson
c. Harrington.
First Congressional dstrict-James F.
Evans.
Second district-Steuart S. Janney.
Third district-John c. Menche.
Fourth district-C T. Williams.
Fifth district-Dr. John W. Leitch,
Sixth district-Oliver H. Bruce, Jr.
State Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer acted
as chairman of the resolutions committee,
which drafted also a formal resolution
empowering the State Central Committee
to name an auxiliary campaign committee
for the presidential election.