The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-10-29
M'KELDIN TALKS
AT REPUBLICAN
MEETING MONDAY
Candidate For Governor Pleases
People AS He Greets Them All
Over County In Whirlwind
Tour

Tour
Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin,
Republican candidate for Gov
ernor wound up whirlwind
tour of Garrett county in an eff
fective and forceful manner on
Monday evening in Oakland
High school building before ap-
proXimately two hundred per-
sons.
The rally concluded the hurried tour
of McKeldin and the other State can
didates that had been made from 10
O'Clock A. NJ. to P. NJ. over a sched-
uled route that called for stops at
Grantsville, Keyser Ridge, Friends
vile, Accident, McHenry, Deer Park,
Crellin, Deer Park, Swanton and Kitz-
miller.
The State candidates were Joined
at Grantsville by members of the Re-
publican committee and a number of
county candidates. The group was
somewhat battered, but undaunted, by
the rain and first snow storm of the
year with which they were greeted
when they first began their trip, but
it turned clear and colder for the bal
ance of the day.
McKeldin, coming down from the
stage to talk directly to the people
who attended the Oakland rally,
touched upon what he called "O'Con-
or's continuous broken faith with the
people by constantly saying one thing
and doing another"
For instance, McKeldin pointed out
that O'Conor had announced he had
no time for campaigning on account
of the war effort in which he was en-
gagged, and yet following him Nickel
DIM around in every part of the
State.
He denounced O'Conor for his
broken promise of "only one term"
MeKeldin charged Governor O'Conor
with having "been instrumental" in
the defeat of the one-term amendment
that was brought before the people
after he had assumed office.
He further charged that although
O'Conor had announced that he was
not interested in building up a politi-
cal machine yet he attempted to elect
his man as mayor of Baltimore City
against Mayor Jackson; attempted to
elect Bruce against Radcliffe for U.
S. Senate; attempted to elect a man
Of his own choosing in various county
elections for State Assembly, and
when these failed he started picking
off individual members from city jobs
and hosting them to important State
positions" by cutting off minority
representation on the State Accident
Commission and proposing elimination
of minority representation in every
instance he could.
He declared the Democratic ma
chine" was getting worried in Balti-
more and that in spite of the over
whelming majority in Baltimore City
he was expecting to lose there by less
than $4,000. "If that happens there"
he predicted, there is going to be a
Republican Inauguration for Govern
or" as he felt confident that he would
carry the counties of the State.
He declared people of the Eastern
Shore were rising in anger over the
attempt to smear him with the unnec-
essary newspaper articles which
charged him with automobile speed
ing while on his campaign in that
portion of the State This went on for
four days, he said, and when it was
finally investigated it was learned
that McKeldin was not even in the
car which had been reported speeding,
and was in no way responsible.
McKeldin touched briefly on the
State surplus Of 10 million which Mr..
O'Conor takes credit for Grating. He
asserted that it was taken from the
people in the form of income tax, that
it was not needed, but instead of re-
turning it to the people to be used
right now in purchasing war bonds to
build armament with which to win
the war, which he asserted was being
lost at the present, the Governor pro-
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