Evening star., 1934-09-09
GOV. R|TCHI[ SURE
{. OF NOMINATION
Radcliffe Also Certain to Be
Senatorial Choice of
Democrats.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
stan Correspondent OF The Star,


the major Democratic nominations in
Maryland are concerned.
The primary election, which falls
on Wednesday, will give Gov. Albert
G. Ritchie an overwhelming number
Of instructed delegates, and these
delegates, meeting in party conven-
ton eight days later, will formally
nominate the Governor for a fifth
consecutive term. II Ritchie is sue
cessful in the general election and
completes another term he will have
been Governor Of Maryland for 19
years, almost a generation.
George L. Radcliffe, professed per-
sonal friend of President Roosevelt,
will win the Democratic nomination
for Senator.
G.. o. r. Situation Complicated.
So far as the Republican candi-
dates who are to oppose Ritchie and
Radcliffe, also to be voted for We'd
nesday, are concerned, the situation
is decidedly more complicated. There
two Offices entered in the G. o. P.
primary. All three are beating the
political bushes, and, more or less,
their own breasts, in the closing days
OF the campaign.
1t looks as though the Democrats,
in selecting the heads of their ticket,
will be playing both ends against the
middle. Gov. Ritchie, regarded as
one of the more conservative Demo-
cratic leaders, has never been re-
garded as a New Dealer. On the
other hand, Mr.. Radcliffe is ready to
be drawn and quartered. if necessary,
in support of President Roosevelt and
his program.
Three Sure of Nomination.
The primary contests for nomina-
tions to the House of Representatives
In several cases will be more closely
contested on the Democratic side. All
six of the delegation now in the
House from Maryland are Democrats
Goldsborough in the first district,
Gambril in the fifth district and Lewis
in the sixth district are all sure of
denomination, according to the re-
ports from their districts. Cole, in
the second district, is having sharp
fight with Ashmun, who is seeking
to succeed him, and there is a third
candidate, Cutino Cole has organiza- =
tion-Ritchie anization-backing,
however. Palmisano, in the third
district, has couple of opponents.
One Of them, Pohlhaus, is making
headway. it is said. And Kennedy
u;
Traub and Daley. 1t is hard fight,
but Kennedy is said to be likely to
win.
Early Opposition.
Ritchie's candidacy for the guber-
material nomination was violently op-
posed earlier in the primary cam
paign. The opposition came from
those who believed that Is years in
the Governors chair at Annapolis was
enough. 1t came, too, from those who
had their own personal ambitions
either to become Governor or to take
over from the Governor the leader
ship of the Democratic party in the
State which has been his for so many
years. At one time the senior SEN
Rtor from Maryland, Millard Tydings
clashed with the Governor over the
fifth term. Tydings, asserting that he
would be glad to support Ritchie for
Senator, trotted out George L. Rad
cliffe as candidate for the guberna-
torial nomination.
Gov. Ritchie, however, proved toe
strongly intrenched. Gradually the
opposition folded up, until today, in
stead of having three opponents in
the field against him, he has only
one. That is DR.. Charles H. Conley
Of Frederick. Radcliffe was the first
to pull in his horns. And in sc
doing he announced himself for the
Senate and received the support Of
some of Ritchie's strongest hackers
Mayor Jackson of Baltimore, who was
early in the field as a candidate fol
Governor, also finally withdrew.
Believed Unbeatable.
In the contest, narrowed now to ont
opponent the Governor is believed tx
be unbeatable. Indeed, there is doub
that his opponent, DR.. Conley, vii
carry as many as counties out oil
the % in the State Baltimore City's
six legislative districts are expected tC
register Solidly their support of the
Governor. The size of the popular vote
cast against Ritchie and for Conley
however, will be watched with extreme
interest. That is on the theory thar
It will be possible to estimate the siz,
of the anti-flfth-term opposition II
is matter in which the Republican.
will be vitally interested They art
hoping for a big Democratic DETECTION
from the Governor, when the election
takes place on November 6.
The expected victory of Gov Ritchit
in the primary is a tribute both Il
the administration, which he has giver
the State and also to the strong or.
ganiZation which he has with him The
Governor is the first man to break the
tradition that Governor of Maryland
should not succeed himself. When he
was first elected, back in 1919, RitChit
won by only l65 votes over his Repub.
lican opponent. AT that time the
State was sick Of war and the Wilson
administration. When he announced
that he would be candidate to sue.
ceed himself there was opposition. Bu
he was nominated and won the election
with a lead of about 0000. Since
then his majorities have grown much
larger.
Unpopular on Eastern Shore.
Last year Gov. Ritchie became ter.
ribly unpopular among many of tn,
residents of the Eastern Shore be.
cause he moved StrenuouSly againS
lypchers Of a colored man who hac
attacked white woman in that sec,
ton. There is still deep resentmen
against him there. But this feeling
it's declared, has lessened with tn,
passing months.
Gov. Ritchie, only a day or twt
ago, promised his supporters in tn,
Tidewater counties that if he we're re
elected, he would seek to have tn
Legislature repeal the Accent gasolin
tax levied now on work boats used b,
the oystermen and fishermen. Thi
tax is paid only by work boats, o
which there are thousands engaged II
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