The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-11-09

Water-nOC even peer. InoSe present
seemed to be bent on serious business
that of undertaking to dethrone a
dictator. 1t was no time for merry
making.
The Bel Air Aegis has an editorial
calling attention to the fact that few
of the States judges have offered to
accept reduction in salary to meet
the needs in these days of overbur-
dened taxpayers. And in so doing the
Aegis seeks to focus attention on the
action of the Governor in reducing his
own salary of $4,000 by fifteen per
cent, or $675.
The Aegis evidently forgets the real
official income of His Excellency.
When he went into Office one of his
first acts was to increase the mansion
allowance from $4,000 a year to
$4,000. And on top of that are
various other allowances so that the
pay of the Governor has actually been
about $4,000 a year. So what does
the $675 amount to when compared
with the fat pickings the Governor
has been having these many years?
True, many think the judges very
well paid in comparison with what
most of them were able to earn before
they reached the bench, but not one
gets $4,000 a year. And there are
judges on the bench, we are sure, who
would not have made of the Governor
ship the sad mess Richie has man.
aged to concoct.
There is speculation a-plenty about
the further distribution of the Federal
offices in Maryland. A rumor that
Senator Tydings would back William
I. Norris for city postmaster and Ber-
nard j. Flynn for U. S. Attorney sets
the tongues to wagging more rapidly.
What many are asking is how far
the national administration will go in
rewarding the Maryland hackers of
the Stop-Roosevelt movement of last
year. Maryland did nothing for
Roosevelt but Richie did manage to
collect a considerable fund to be used
in the effort to head off the New
Yorker. No account of the eXpendi
ture of this political fund has ever
been made public and we do not think
that anyone would dare to state how
the cash was used. This fund, it ap
pears, was outside the law although
legal.
We suggest that before any more
Maryland appointments are made the
proposed appointees should be re-
quired to state how much money (if
any, they contributed to the Stop
Roosevelt fund raised in Maryland.
Such a procedure might bring sur
prising information to National Chair
man Farley.
AS for the original Roosevelt men
in Maryland, they have been left in
the cold. And out in the cold they
may we'll expect to stay. Such is poll
tics.
The Somerset lynching investiga-
ton goes on and on like the babbling
brook but there will not be suf-
fcient babbling of witnesses to
bring about the conviction of any
one for taking hand in the speeding
up of justice, too often leaden-heeled.
An investigation is in keeping with
the Richie method of making a great
display of trying to lock the door
after the horse has been stolen.
The Governor, as might be expected,
will continue to blame Judge Duer.
The Judge, if he made mistake in
this case, relied too much on the
Governors highly-uniformed State po-
lice. Judge Duer did not name the
| policemen. This force was under the
Governors control just as much as
is a rabbit warden or county road
supervisor in the enlarged party ma
chine over which His Excellency pre-
sides.
But the greatest farce of all was
the announcement of commission by
the Governor to see what can be done
to speed up criminal procedure. A
reform, indeed, to be started by Rit-
chic after Richie has been Attorney
General four years and Governor for
nearly fourteen years!
Could anything be more ridiculous :?
Can official clownery go much far
Their?
The sober citizen will do we'll to
take note of what Dr. Conley said in
his address on Wednesday evening.
Without any effort at oratory he told
of the conditions confronting the peo-
pie of this State, of the burden of
taxation that has been heaped upon
them for more than a decade, and of
the brazen attitude of those now in
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