Evening star., 1938-11-01
Gov. Nice 10 Climax
Drive With Bid for
Baltimore Votes
Leaves Eastern Shore.
In La Plato Tomorrow
To Discuss Bridge
BY JAMES E. CHINN,
Star Stan Cnrresnnndent


Star Stan Correspondent.
BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. Back
on the western side of Chesapeake
Bay after a weeks tour of Maryland's s
Eastern Shore, Gov. Harry w. Nice
prepared today to wind up his inten-
sive campaign for reelection in
Baltimore and Baltimore County.
The Governor, however, will make
one deviation from this schedule by
going to Charles County in Southern
Maryland tomorrow to speak to the
tobacco farmers in La Plata. There
he plans to discuss the status of the
proposed bridge across the Potomac
River. linking Morgantown with
Dahlgren on the Virginia Shore-a
bridge in which President Roosevelt
has taken personal interest. The
Maryland site of the proposed span
was Inspected by the President when
ne invaded the State in September
on his futile mission to purge the
Democratic party of Senator Millard
E. Tydings.
Charges Road Funds Loaned.
The Eastern Shore expedition of
the Governor and his encourage of
9 running mates on the Statewide
ticket came to close last night at
political rally in the State Armory
at Salisbury. Here, Mr.. Nice made
blanket charge that the State
roads commission under the admin
1stratlon Of the late Gov. Ritchie
had taken $500,00O out of the State
road fund to loan to the United
Railways in Baltimore at time
when the street car company was
bankrupt, and declared:
MY friends, if you will look, the
forces who are behind and interested
IN the election of my distinguished
Democratic opponent. Mr.. Herbert
Romulus O'Conor, you will see the
same interests and forces who were
behind the scenes in the previous
administration. The people and the
forces who wasted your money in a
roads, are the people and the forces
who had no compunctions about
loaning half million dollars of your
money to defunct street car COM
pany.
My administration" the Cover
nor added, lis not loaning any $780,
ooo OF your money to a bankrupt
street car company. My admins
tratlon is not letting your money
leak out through sewers of waste
and extravaganza. My administra-
ton is not letting your roads deteri-
crate to the horse and buggy DAYS.
We are building modern roads.
cheaper by 5000 per mile than the
previous administration spent for
your narrow. crooked and unsafe
roads"
amazed" by Discovery.
Aside from finding the roads in
"deplorable" condition, and the
existence of many dangerous grades
when he took office, Gov. Nice said
he was amazed" to discover that
the roads commission under his
predecessor" had loaned $500 900 to
the bankrupt Baltimore Street Car
Co."
Renewing previous campaign
promises to continue, if reelected,
his program for rehabilitation O,
the States "deteriorated" road sys-
tenn, the Governor declared: MY
distinguished Democratic opponent
has been blissfully galloping about
Maryland scattering words on the
thin air, and they have in many
instances been very thin words, as
thin in fact as the Baltimore Sun
characterized his platform. He
rushes into Western Maryland with
the weird proposal to buy all of
Garrett County and use it for a
state park. He comes to your East
ern Shore with the weird idea of
creating a new beauty with picks
and shovels. He would tear up the
Natural beauties with which God
has so graciously blessed your areas,
and proposes man-made lakes for
the graceful swans, shaded and
winding lovers lanes and cool dells
and dens.
HE has told you he will throw
q great highway from Elkton to
Ocean City, and if we are content
to accept words for facts we would
be led to believe that in three
months, if he were Governor, there
would be dual highway from Elk
ton to Ocean City. He would have
rubbed an Aladin's lamp and To-
a genie would have appeared, there
would have been the road.
Says Many Roads Planned.
Mr. O'Conor has been a State
offcial for the last four years. If
he has been interested in the States
affairs he knows full well that my
State Roads Commission has COM
pleted plans for main highways on
the Eastern Shore. And if he has
been interested in the true progress
OF the State he knows, or should
know, that not only is the Elkton
to Ocean City road in our plans,
but many other main highways in
this section and throughout the
State"
The Goveror also pointed out that
under his administration many
grade crossings have or are in the
process of being eliminated. He
mentioned specifically those at Ken
sington, Beltsville and Rockville,
the scene several years ago Of q
tragedy that took the lives of IA
Williamsport High School students
when fast Baltimore e. Ohio pas
senger train plowed into a bus
which was taking them home from
a meeting at the University of
Maryland. Despite rising commod.
ity prices, the Governor claimed his
administration had brought eff
cheney and economy into the man
agement of State affairs, and that