The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-01-25
PURELY POLITICAL
BY BALLOT BOX

With the primaries out of the
way, there is the usual luu in city
politics, while the campaign mana
gers of both sides prepare their
ammunition for the general election
battle. Neither the Democrat or Re
publican managers had been named
as this is written.
The Washington County Delega-
ton have been digging deep down
into the statute books of the coun-
ty and have unearthed raft of
obsolete bills that they intend to
have repealed at the present ses-
sion of the State Legislature. That's
what call a real job of house clean
ing. Nice work, gentlemen, ana
while you are at it, put forth all
your efforts to get reasonable
measure of Home Rule for city and
county. Both Hagerstown and Wash
ington County are getting much too
big to have to TASK teacher every
time they want TO leave the room.
Down in the Nations Capital the
fur is really flying and, from all
I have been able to gather, it's just
taste of things to come.
The feud of long standing between
Jesse Jones and Henry Wallace has
fiared into the open again with
President Roosevelt's request that
Jones resign as Secretary of Com
merce, to make way for Wallace.
Mr.. Jones resigned alright, but he
pulled no punches in his letter of
resignation and CURLY brushed aside
the Presidents offer of an AmbaS-
sadorship. His comments on the
qualifications of former vice-presi-
dent Wallace for the important JOB
of Secretary of Commerce produced
swift action in the Senate, where
Senator George has already intro
duced bill that would take the
powerful Reconstruction Finance
Corporation out of the Department.
Another Presidential nomination
that will cause fireworks in the Sen
ate, is that of Aubrey Williams for
the post of head of the Rural Elec-
IRRIGATION Administration. The REA
was the center, recently of bitter
administration fight, eliminating in
the resignation of its former head,
MIR. Slattery. Aubrey Williams,
former head of the now defunct Ma
tional Youth Administration, was
Harry Hopkins right-hand-man,
back in the days when the WPA
was in its infancy, and is Liberal
of Liberals" and New Dealer De
Luxe"
These two appointments by the
President are being looked upon az
payment for services rendered, but
right here in our own Free State
of Maryland, there doesn't seem to
be any services that have to be paid
for, in fact, from all l can gather,
the shoe seems to be very much on
the other foot.
While the Maryland caucus was
being held upstairs in the Mayhower
Hotel just before the Inauguration
last week, rumors were flying hot
and heavy around the lobby. that
the meeting was not as harmonious
and joyful as one would expect such
a gathering to be, on the eve of it's
titular heads Inauguration for a
fourth term as President of the
United States.
It is rumored that some delegates
wanted to know the real reason
back of Gene Casey's retirement
from the political scene and I also
hear that some very pointed ques-
tions were asked concerning the
vote of the Sixth District in the re-
cent election. 4t
Montgomery County, which de
livers a large slice of the Sixth Dis
trict's vote, is right on the doorstep
of the White House, so to speak, and
it is my understanding that the Ad-
ministration is terribly concerned
about the Republican swing in the
District and in Montgomery County
particularly, and intends to do some
thing about it before the 1916 Con-
gressional elections roll around.
have it, on pretty good authority,
that there is likely to be real shake
up before long in Maryland's Dem
ocratic organization and / under
stand that some members of the
Party, now high up in the organ
ization, are already shaking in their
shoes.
Sometime ago / reported the
laughable episode about the Naval
Laboratory, which involved Con-
greSsmen Sasscer and Beall in