The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-04-27
THE PASSING SHOW
By the Man in the Street
(From the Baltimore Observer)

(trom the Baltimore Observer)
Now that the wise beginning to prognosti-
cate about the Federal appointments for Maryland the
real Roosevelt supporters must be getting red in the
face to mentioned as probabilities some of the men
who had to be almost kicked into taking part in the
campaign. We recall for instance, that at State Dem
ocratc headquarters there any great enthu
sasm for Roosevelt and it is a matter of common
knowledge that the Roosevelt-Garner League had to
take hand to distribute Roosevelt literature that the
Ritchie machine people failed to utilize.
Every we'll posted Democrat knows about the deep
gloom that prevailed at Democratic State headquarters
election night the story going around that George L.
Radcliffe, the campaign committee chairman, being
about the only one who seemed to get real kick
of the returns while Governor Richie all but wept-
and not for joy, either.
But that is the way it goes in politics. The machine
label is the big thing to have.
One of the worst performances have seen in long
time was the effort of the morning Blanket to obtain
picture of j. Monroe Holland on his release from the
city Jail the other night That paper seemed to be
greatly incensed that Holland able to leave the
Jail in an automobile and that the press photographers
did not even get snap. Of course, we'll thinking press
photographers hate this of stuff but bread is
bread and jobs no longer lying around loose.
Holland was not convicted of violating any banking
law as many think but bumped up against the bank
ruptcy law of Uncle Sam. There is no reason so far
that he should be pursued and perse-
cuted by newspapers and the public we think, is
more and more inclined to resent newspaper ndecency
There is why newspaper cannot be decent
and it will be decent when operated by decent people
is newspaper ndecency that builds up radio patron
age.
Some of the younger members of the Baltimore bar
not satisfied with the way things have been going lately
have been making inquiry to the pay be given by
the State to Stuart S. Janney, who has been named
special counsel to the State Bank Commissioner Gossip
has it that the stipend has been set $4,000 year but
where the money is to come from do not know.
According to reports reaching these quarters Mr..
Janney has not seen fit to reply in writing to any
inquiries this subject Instead he has requested his
inerrogators to consult him the telephone. But
the dissenting lawyers want to make record of it
and we wish them no harm in their endeavors
1t long time coming out but at last the tax
payers learn that hidden away in the folds of of
Brooke Lees road bills provision for eighty men
who to weigh foreign trucks invading Maryland,
and seeing that the correct tax is paid. These to
be the Cossacks. The Governor under attack of
Senate Abandoned the plan to increase the State police
force but here have the same thing again under
These fellows to be named by the State
Roads Commission just as that body names right-of-
way procurers and such, picking of course the right
men each time
Of these eighty to that the State
gets more revenue-it is always that when the pow
ersthatbe pad the payroll these days but they will be
Ritchie-Brooke Lee henchmen just the the
rghtofway agents named since the Legislative session
of 1881 without any particular authority.
And under the Richie Brooke Lee bill the county
roads to be taken overthe State is mend them
in the most approved fashion and the State machine
under Richie and Brooke Lee will do the hiring
1t is great scheme-Ritchie Brooke Lee Cossacks
weighing the trucks with power to make arrests and
the itcheBrooke Lee henchmen hiring the chaps who
scrape the mud out OF the bitches along
Swampoode way.
Then there is the innocent Walter H. Buck factotum
may call it. Mr. Buck protests that the lads who
weigh the trucks should be under the protection
of the merit system law 1t is also read that
Mr., Buck (who is old enough to know better) still
thinks that Maryland has merit system law. Mr.
Buck seems not to have been impressed at all by the
fact that under what he calls the INERT system" law
it easily possible for duly elected State official
to steal the States money, get himself put vacation
by his bondsmen and later to get himself appointed
to responsible money-handng position in an import
ant department of the State government after being
pushed through the "mert system" office.
Maryland has merit system such. What it has
is State Employment Commissioner and to the best
of knowledge and belief the persons who
would have been given appointments without any law
at all still get them in pretty much the old way.