The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-10-20
MANY PERSONS GREET NICE
AND CANDIDATES ON TOUR
All-Day Trip Through County
Ends Saturday Night With
Mass Meeting In Oakland
CROWD is ENTHUSIASTIC

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Governor Harry w. Nice, charging
his Democratic gubernatorial oppo-
nent, Herbert R. O'Conor, is lifting
campaign promises from the Repub-
lican platform and the Governors dec
larations, challenged him at the Re-
publican rally in Oakland last Satur-
day evening to answer where he stood
on the subject of capital and labor and
where he stood on President Roose-
velt's New Deal.
The Governor, apparently deter
mined to force the battle as he sees it
in the campaign said:
promises made in the campaign
for the Democratic nomination, which
cost him and his supporters $4,000,
are repetitions of facts already estab-
lished by my administration.
Cites Teachers Pay
"Let me demonstrate how he has
resorted to the Republican achieve
ments during the past four years as
well as to the Republican platform to
impress the people that he now is in
dulging in promises which already
have been put into effect.
"For instance, his statement of
yesterday that he will ask for more
pay for school teachers. Certainly he
must know that the cuts formerly
made in their pay by his party have
been fully restored by my administra-
ton through my placing of these res
torations in my bi-annual budget.
Schools Free OF Politics
"He knows, and, if he doesn't know,
he should ask the State School Board
for information that under my adj
ministration the School Board has
functioned with greater degree of
efficiency than it has ever before been
permitted, due entirely to the fact
that it has been freed of political in
fuence.
''No man has a right to place a
political and benighted hand on the
public school system of this State.
Hint To Ghost Writers"
Really, Mr.. O'Conor, if l may be
permitted the impertinence, I suggest
that your ghost writers seek sources
of information other than the Re-
publican platform and my public dec
larations. If 1 may continue my prob
ably unwelcome suggestion, clearer
discussion of your conflicting and al
together irreconcilable fiscal programs
of 1897 and 1888 would be in better
taste.
Surely among those who so liber-
ally contributed to your $4,000 pri-
mary campaign there can be found
brilliancy of intellect that will guide
you away from Inconsistencies, repe-
tition of what 1 said months ago and
the lifting bodily out of the Repub-
lican platform statements now attrib-
uted to you as being original.
Brings In New Deal
81 would like to ask you, Mr.. O'Con-
or, why, during 1887, you were most
eloquent and altogether fulsome in
praise of President Roosevelt and the
New Deal? Then you proclaimed
the Presidents virtues and the merits
of the New Deal from the house tops
in language strong and eloquence per-
suasive.
"Since becoming the nominee of
your party, not one single, soulful
word of praise for your President or
his Administration has escaped your
lips; not a single word of apprecia-
ton for his grant of funds for the
Susquehanna and Potomac River
bridges? Why is this, Mr.. O'Conor?
Rare Political Figure"
"Certainly you are too outstand-
ing statesman and rare political fig
ure, possessing the courage of your
convictions, to attempt to adroitly
trim your sails to each changing,
varying wind of political expediency.
81 do hope that your present atti-
tude is not assumed for the purpose
of gaining votes at the sacrifice of
your press-built reputation for polit
ical courage.
eff 1 may be permitted, may ask
you to enlighten the people of Mary
land as to your reason for emitting
any and all planks in your platform
dealing with the vitality important
subject of labor and capital? Have
you gone capitalistic or have you
plunged into what you may seem to
think are the troubled waters of labor,
refusing to make known your position
for political expediency and for the
purpose of deceiving some of the peo-
pie short time?
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