The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1934-01-18
VINCE LAUNCHES BLAST
AGAINST RITCHIE'S POWER
Charges One-Man Political Ma
chine Has Been Built Up In
State of Maryland
FILED PAPERS FOR CHOICE
Continued on Page Three)

Asserting that he was not "too
early" in the field, and that he would
like to have had two years to make
campaign, Harry W. Nice, candidate
for the Republican gubernatorial NOM
ination, opened fire Saturday on the
Richie administration and outlined
what viii be his platform if he is
made his party's standard bearer.
Mr.. Nice, who is conceded head
start in the race for the G. 0. P. NOM
ination by many members of his par
ty, already has filed his papers of can
didacy at Annapolis. He asserted Sat
urday he is not the candidate of any
faction, and that, if nominated, he will
not "enter upon a campaign of Will
cation and mud-slinging."
Proposes Campaign Issues
Issues for the campaign, he assert
ed, must be found in the "acts of
omission and commission as written
in the record of the last fourteen
years, on which right-thinking men
and women of all parties may be
modified and regimented in an effort
to bring about completely different
order of State affairs, with new lead
ers, new ideals, new methods and a
new order of political conduct at An
napolis."
Starting his eleven-page statement
of principles under the heading of
States Rights Doctrine, Mr.. Nice as
serted that behind the bulwark of
this doctrine the Chief Executive has
erected bureaucracy, one-man po-
1itical machine, more tyrannical and
potentially dangerous to civic liberty
than has ever been attined, hoped for
or dreamed of by any potentate, gov
ernor or executive, governing a like
territory and population"
: Appoints Ten Department Heads
Vt the seventeen State depart
merits, he asserted, the heads of ten
are appointed by the Governor with
out Confirmation of the State Senate.
He listt ! them as the Departments of
Education, State Roads, Public Ser
vice, State Industrial Accident, Rae
ing, Labor, State Employment and
Conservation.
''What, then, is this State whose
rights the Governor so loudly and
persistently advocates?" continued
Mr.. Nice's statement. "He might
well answer in the words of that King
of France, whose claim to renown--
aside from his personal pulchritude
and the length of his reign-rests so
largely upon his exemplification of the
phrase 4 am the State
More Taxes Paid
"What use has the Governor made
of this insiduously acquired power?
The tax rate, it is true, has been re-
duced, but we pay more taxes. In the
fiscal year ended September so, 1920,
there was collected by city and county
collectors, under the old tax rate, $4,-
437,81092. In the fiscal year ended
September 80, 1882 (the last year for
which the figures are available), the
amount so collected under lower tax
rate was $5,791 1860, an increase of
more than thirty per cent.
"This, however, is only the begin
ing. During the same period, the total
revenue, other than from the sale of
bonds, Increased from $12,083 ,601.04
to $33,S85, 85067, or more than IT'S
per cent, and the motor vehicle reve-
nue., alone, increased during this per-
cd from $1,949, 309.67 to $11,623,623.
rs, or more than $50 per cent"
Cites Rising Expenses
But, Mr. Nice's statement added,
f'this enormous increase in revenue
has not kept pace with the increase in
expenses" In 1881, he said, the ex-
penses Of the government of the State
and Of the counties, cities, towns, vii
lagos and other divisions which have
followed it's example, exceeded the
revenue by $12,270,980.
"In the face of this serious condi-
ton of public finances" said the Re-
publican aspirant's statement, "there
has been belated attempt at econo-
my, but not through the elimination
of wasteful extravaganza in such de-
partments as Public Works (roads),
Motor Vehicles and Conservation.
"They have taken percentage of
the salaries of school teachers, police
men, flremen and other civil employ
es under the guise of voluntary con-
tributions in aid of recovery, which,
compared with failure to halt waste
by State Departments in aid of politi-
cal purposes, is not only ridiculous
and unfair, but, in the last analysis,