The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-09
THE PASSING SHOW
By the Man in the Street

Az Tie LII. OOHley ulllIleF OH last
Wednesday evening the name of Gov
ernor Richie was mentioned by only
one speaker except the casual mention
by William Curran. That was when
the diners were rising from the ia
bles to go home. And William J.
Grove of Lime Kiln, Frederick Coun-
ty, was the unannounced orator.
He wasn't on the program at all
but he didn't mind that. He got right
up in the meeting and asked to be
heard and heard he was. Mr.. Grove
eulogized DR.. Conley as Democratic
candidate for Governor and bowled
out that Governor Richie had "been
there long enough" And with this
sentiment the crowd evidently agreed
for there was great approval. Mr..
Grove is more plain spoken than some
others.
True it was that Mr.. Curran said
about the same thing in another way
when he referred to the same people
being at the public trough for years
and years. And it is Richie who has
kept them at the trough along with
himself as chief beneficiary. The
diners knew that, too.
The sponsors for the dinner thought
they had done great deal when they
got Mr.. Curran to speak and say what
he did at what might well be called
non-union Democratic gathering. Mr..
Curran was cautious. He didn't want
to get "too far out in front" He
thought the people should set the pace
and that the Democratic leaders (real
or so-called) would have to follow.
Four years ago Mr.. Curran was one
of the cautious. He didn't want to be
looked upon as a Democratic "scab."
The we'll informed know just how that
is-and so Curran did not indorse the
candidate in whose honor the dinner
was given by Baltimore Democrats
who think Qike Mr.. Grove) that Rit-
chic has been there long enough.
DR.. Conley was concise in what he
said and convinced his hearers of his
earnestness. He declared himself in
the race to stay and that sounded all
right. Nobody cares for cutters in
politics nor for that matter in any
thing else.
Accompanying the candidate was
his wife and several children-all
evidently political as well as social
assets.
The old Blanket published rather
peculiar account of the dinner. 1t
singled out certain names from the
list of diners, apparently seeking to
make the affair one gotten up by
followers of the late Senator John
Walter Smith. And the same old
Blanket, for what purpose we cannot
see, said that about half the diners
were women. This was not true. One
fourth would have been liberal esti-
mate but then, one can always see,
the ex-luminary has designs of its
own in publishing accounts of political
matters.
That same Wednesday night Isaac
Lobe Straus, former Attorney Cen
eral, went out to Larry Lockwood's
club on the edge of town and delivered
what is described by hearers as the
best speech of all his life. He threw
caution out of the window and went
right after not only the Richie ad-
ministration but after the Governor
himself and placed responsibility
where it has always belonged. He
called a spade a spade and suggested
the impeachment of His Excellency,
suggestion that has been made before
at Annapolis
The former Attorney General was
on fire. He was eloquent beyond meas
ure and brought his audience to
high pitch of enthusiasm. He was
not machine gun but Big Bertha
of politics. But the old Wet
Blanket? 1t gave Mr.. Straus a few
lines on an inside page gingerly.
We know what it was about. The
Blanket, we understand, is still pretty
we'll Ritchiefed from press room to
brainery. But that is not all. A few
years back Mr.. Straus dared to rep
resent Mrs. Donald Hooker in libel
suit against the publishers of the
Great Journal and won the verdict.
Since that he gets little space in that
journal. He is apparently on the
black list, like the one James Gordon
Bennett the elder had for Phineas T.
Barnum, Snowman, many years ago.
There was desire to put the ad
dress of Mr.. Straus on the radio but
it could not be done as there was not
sufficient time in which to string the
wires, so we are told. Perhaps Mr..
Straus will soon again unloose his
thunder bolts and with radio service.
If so, he will be circumventing the
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