Evening star., 1950-08-31
Republican Sees
Naming Of Lane
AsG.0.P.B Break
Kotz Says Governors S
Record Would Be
Good to Shoot At
BY the Associated Press


BALTIMORE, Aug. 3l.-The
Democratic fight for that party's
nomination for Governor came in
Tor a lot of discussion last night
at a meeting of the Maryland
Federation of Republicans.
Harry Leeward Katz, chairman
If the federation's executive COM
nittee, said that If Gov. Lane is
by the Democrats
we will have Gov Lanes record
10 shoot at"
But if George P. Mahoney gets
the Democratic nomination I'VE
would have to have a more posi-
tive program" Katz said.
Tax Program Needed.
Former State Senator Melvin
Fine of Baltimore city's fourth
district, told the gathering that
the Republicans must have an
actual tax program - that
would specify how our candidate
for governor intends to raise taxes
and how they are to be used"
Federation President John n.
jr., said Gov. Lane "al-
ready is fighting the COP instead
of fighting Mahoney." The Re-
publican candidate, Theodore r.
former Baltimore,
is without primary oppos-
ition.
Harry o. Levin, Baltimore at
torney who has long been prom
inent in State Republican Party
affairs, warned that "if things
continue as they are" Maryland
will become virtually a One-Party
State like Mississippi and Ala
bama and other Southern States"
Party Called Weak.
I'm fact, he said, the State Re-
publican Party has become very
weak minority party"
Gov. Lane said last night that if
q proposal by Delegate ]. Ray
mond Burlington, Democrat, Of
Baltimore, had been adopted in
1947, diets of patients in State
mental and tuberculosis hospitals
would have been reduced to
level"
The Governor described Mr..
Burlington as Mr.. Mahoney's
adviser on mental hospital prob
lens. Gov. Lane and Mr.. Ma
honey are the main contenders
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination.
The Lane campaign statement
said:
This Mr.. j. Raymond Buffing-
ton, exhibiting a somewhat be-
lated interest in the welfare Of
the mentally ill. went to the
Eastern Shore State Hospital a
week or two ago with a photog-
rapher and returned with some
pictures, which were deliberately
distorted. and supplied some
equally distorted and false in
formation to Mr.. Mahoney, and
Mr.. Mahoney, to all appearances,
took it as the opinion of an ex-
pert"
Lane Cites Program.
Gov. Lane cited a three-page
mimeographed program Mr.. Buff
f1ngton presented to the House in
1947 for budget reduction.
He said Mr.. Burlington had Sug-
gested that the legislature cut
more than SIS million from the
food allowance for mental hos
pitalS in the biennial budget pre-
Sented by the Governor, and
another 100000 from the food al
lowance for the tuberculosis sani-
toria.
Mr.. Mahoney has been attack
ing Gov. Lanes mental hospital
program as one centered on
bricks and mortar" rather than
pegged on helping the mentally
III back to health.
He has been describing what he
terms deplorable conditions at the
Eastern Shore State Hospital, and
has displayed pictures repeatedly
taken there.
Pictures Faxed, Lane Says.
After the Governor asserted last
week that the pictures were
faxed" Delegate Burlington wrote
Gov. Lane that he was present at
the hospital when the photo
graphs were taken.
Burlington said he was ready to
take an oath the pictures truly
represent conditions as they
at the time of his August
Ia visit.
Earlier Gov. Lane said he is not
opposed to a bonus for Maryland
war veterans, but he wants the
people to vote on it and to know
how they are going to pay for it.
My position was and is" he
said, that if the General Assem-
bly, wishes to provide for a vet
erans' bonus, subject to a ref
erendum, and includes in the
legislation provisions for taxes to
raise the funds for it's payment.
| am willing to have the electorate