Evening star., 1946-10-15
Charter Group
Backs Charges
Against County
Five More Accused
Of Getting Political
Rewards Listed


Rewards Listed
Demand that the Montgomer,
County Charter Committee supper
charges of practices Of bad count.
government" was met today wheI
the committee listed the names o.
five more persons it said had bene'
fitted unduly from political consid.
erations.
The charter statement came i'm.
mediately on the heels Of the de.
mand from Chairman Alfred D
Noyes of the Democratic County
Congress.
Certainly the charter leaders
should produce the names, places
and dates that support their charge:
for the benefit of the voters" Mr.
Moves said. Either the charge!
are real or imaginary. Yesterday
they failed to mention Is of theil
16 charges and did not make con.
vincing or definite case concerning
the 18TH"
Salaries and Contracts Mentioned.
The Charter Committee also hat
charged payment of salaries ant
fees and award of contracts wer'
made In return for political in
fluence. Today's statement was di
rected at alleged political rewards
for activities On Democratic organ
tzation-sponsored Citizens Com
mittee to Defeat Charter" which
beat the issue in the 1914 election
1.-THE political machine that ha'
had the county government in it
grasp for nearly Is years has lonl
paid out substantial amounts OF ta1
moneys for political influence" ths
committee said. Certain politica
favorites =" receive salaries fal
In excess of the value of theil
services"
Listed as typical cases" were il
v. Morgan, part-time and "inex.
perienced" Civil Service commits.
sioner, who receives $4,000 annually
Mr. Morgan was identified as an &C.
tive worker for the 1914 Citizens
Committee.
Albert Brault, who was named
as executive secretary of the same
citizens committee, has been "re-
warded with a $4,000 job as part
time public utility agent" the COM
mittee said. "Still another instance
is that A. A. Moxley, who receives
$3.50 a year as inspector of weights
and measures. This occupation
takes but a small fraction of his
i working hours.
"a somewhat different illustra-
tion of the same general type is a
county employe who attended law
school while he was supposed to
be working in Rockville"
Excessive Fee Charged.
The committee did not name the
law school student. It did, how
ever, claim the IS 600 paid to Roger
j. Whiteford was an excessive fee"
for drafting legislation for the
General Assembly.
Montgomery County was already
paying it's regular attorney who
could have drafted the bill. Or this
could have been done by Dr. Horace
E. Flack, who is paid by the State
to draft legislation desired by men,
bers of the Legislature" the COM
mittee said.
"a typical example of contract
awarded for political services" the
statement continued, was the in
surance contract covering county
employees executed about year ago.
While the cost to. the county in this
case may have been fair, it is sig
nificant that the insurance was
given to a company represented by
King Mularkey who had rendered
political service to the machine
'"' (as) president of the Citizens
Committee to Defeat Charter"
The committee concluded sit would
be difficult to estimate the extent
of the particular practice of which
the foregoing are but a few exam
pies" but estimated the cost at
many thousands of dollars"
At the same time Mr.. Noyes de-
Tended Charles Janison, a road su-
pervisor, who is a candidate for
county commissioner from the
Barnesville district. The Charter
Committee had criticized a nameless
county employe on charges OF
running for an electoral office, and
campaigning on county time.
Calls Charges Untrue.
"Mr. Janaison is a recently re-
turned Army sergeant" Mr.. Noyes
asserted, who served on Leyte and
Luzon. He has done an energetic,
capable and conscientious job. To
say that his daytime work consists
largely of campaigning is as nearly
untrue as it is possible for such a
charge to be.
"Mr. Jamison had no opposition
In the recent Democratic primary
and his Republican opponent. for
the November election has with
drawn his name from the ballot
leaving Jamison only running
against an independent Democrat
from Gaithersburg.
"The only other proof of their
many charges that the Charter
Committee offered Sunday is the
allegation that campaign literature
has been prepared for mailing in
public Offices during office hours in
the recent primary and again In
the present campaign. We are sure
that 80 per cent of all addressing
of envelopes for campaign litera-
ture and all the placing of litera-
ture in envelopes was done by indi-
viduals on their own time and not
in county buildings"
Services Maintained.
Maintaining that every candidate
for reelection this fall is candi-
date while serving on the public
payroll" Mr.. Noyes continued:
1.-THE important fact is that all
public services of all county offices
were maintained to the fullest ex-
tent during both the primary elec-
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