The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-01-30
The Passing Show
By the Man in The Street

Wonder what the old Wet Blanket
would be shouting now if Governor
Nice was in control of the Police De-
partment.
The Frederick New Citizen, which
for years served as sort of court
gazette for the now interrupted Rit-
chic State administration, devotes two
double columns of big type to recalling
the fact that it's great leader has been
out of Office for year and amounting
him with vast quantities of the smooth
est verbal lubricant.
1t is all too apparent that The Citi-
zen, (which evidently includes David
C. Winebrenner, Third), wants to see
Mr.. Richie back in Annapolis in 1889,
occupying the big house which now I'M
der reconstruction at the hands of
Governor Nice, is supervised day by
day by the sanctifed Wet Blankets,
father and son.
The Citizen would make out a great
case for the retired Governor. There
is, it appears, no limit to his great
ness, politically or socially. AS he
moves from banquet to banquet, from
one public assembly to another, ming
ling with the people he so dearly loves,
The Citizen hears great waves of
thunderous applause. There is en-
thusiasm for the Maryland martyr of
1884 such as his most devoted serfs
could not have expected. The roars
of acclaim lift the rafters. The hand
clappers clap until their clappers are
blistered. The voters of Maryland are
realizing that they made a great mis-
take in 1884. They will gixe evidence
of it, if permitted, in 1888. Of course,
it is probable that all of those Balti-
moreans who have been applauding
Mr.. Richie, in Baltimore, were men,
bers of the group that gave him more
than 10000 majority in Baltimore
City. Of course, they would vote for
him again.
The Citizen plainly has a hope,
however. 1t tells US that if Mr.. Richie
becomes weary of retirement all had
better watch out. And as for US we
more than suspect that he is already
very tired and that is the reason he
goes to so many gatherings, and is a
particular reason why he asked Police
Commissioner Gather for permission
to appear before and address the city
policemen who were bemedalized on
the last day of the year.
In this connection it may be worth
mentioning that one of the local re-
porters who is known to have an almost
worshipful regard for his former ex-
cellency, recently produced a signed
article in which he gave his own ver-
sion of Mr.. Ritchie's moving around
from gathering to gathering. Accord
ing to this writer (who evidently called
upon his leader before taking his trus-
ty typewriter in handy the ex-Gov-
ernor has nothing particular or politi-
cal in mind. He goes here and he goes
there where Democrats are gathered
merely because he likes them. 1t is so
simple, so childlike that it seems
shocking that the fact needs to be
put in print.
Still it appears that his former Ex-
cellency's liking for people does not ex-
tend in every direction else he would
have bought a ticket for the Andrew
Jackson Day National Democratic ban
quet in Washington the other evening.
We are told that he did not get spe-
cial invitation but what of that? Big
Democrats should be welcome wher-
ever other big Democrats gather. Did
the Ex-Governor stay away because he
leans toward the gentlemen President
Roosevelt so severely lambasted in his
report on the state of the Union?
And that recalls Howard Bruce,
Maryland's Democratic National Com
mitteeman. He was at the meeting of
the National Committee in Washington
which followed the Jackson Day ban
quet. According to one of the reporters
he walked out of the room when a
resolution praising the Roosevelt adj
ministration was presented. He did not
vote on it. And when the members of
the committee went to the White House
to call on the President Mr.. Bruce was
too pressed for time. He did not go.
Possibly he had had talk with the
former Governor, to whom he has so
long been devoted.
Senator Tydings rose in politics with
the aid of the soldier vote. When the
soldiers bonus bill comes up Senator
Tydings is the lone absentee. No COM
ment is necessary. l
Gossips never tire and one of the
latest products is a report that Mayor
Jackson and Ex-Governor Richie have
been making political love to each other
and that tho oTastioy, ur;1l soor h.