Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-27
Some of Group
G.o.P.-Tineed,
Democrat Says ].
BY GENE GOODWIN

4 Mayor D'AleSandro of Baltia
more declared last night that
some of the delegates who will
represent Maryland at the DEM
locratic National Convention at
Chicago ought to be on their
way to California.
i The Republican National Con-
vention is being held this year
in San Francisco.
The Maryland delegates to the
Democratic convention opening
August Is, were chosen last
month by the party's State COM
vention. which was controlled
by an anti-D'Alesandro group
headed by George P, Mahoney.
Michael j. Birmingham am
j. Millard Tawes.
Consequently, many Of the
Democratic leaders who have
traditionally been national con-
yention delegates-such as for.'
mer Gov. w. Preston Lane, jr.,
and former Solicitor General
Philip B. Perlman--were by.
passed for lesser known Demo.
Gratis who had supported Mr..
Mahoney's unsuccessful bid for
the senatorial nomination against
/ Willard E. Tydings last May z.
Speculation on Names
Mayor D'Alesandro did not
specify which delegates he
thought ought to be going to
the Republican rather than the
Democratic convention. but most
OF his Montgomery County
listeners specialized that at least
two names on his mind were
r. Walter Graham and Irving
Kovens.
Mr.. Graham contributed money
to President Eisenhower's CAM
paign in 1852. Mr.. Kovens, al
; though Democrat, is chairman
of the Baltimore City Liquor
{. Board by appointment of Re-
publican Governor McKeldin.
whom he has supported in the
, past. Mr.. Graham and Mr..
kovens were selected to be con.
vention delegates from the Sew
enth Congressional District In
; Baltimore City.
The mayor, who was ousted
as Democratic National Commit
teeman by the same State con-
/, vention, also is known to be
lsmarting under boast re-
portedly being made BY M.
William Addison to the effect
that he controls at least IL OF
the SO delegates Mr., Addison Is
Gov. McKeldin's law partner
and respected adviser.
. Question Raises Point
! Mayor D'Alesandro made his
attack on the delegation befofe
{ about 100 persons in the Lynn
: brook Recreation Center In Be-
! thesda at a meeting sponsored
by the Western Suburban and
kensington- Wheaton Democrats
&c Clubs. The mayor was answer
ing question as to what posi-
. ton he thought the delegates
would take on a civil rights
plank in the Democratic plat
} form.
Who can say what the present
delegation will do" the peppery
. little mayor declared.
Some Of them ought to be
on their way to California. And
half of them wouldn't know
what civil rights are.
i think the Democrats Of
Maryland should watch very
closely to see how these dele.
gates vote on roll calls in Chi.
cago and then they'll know IL
they want those kind of people
for their State leaders,"
Mayor D'Alesandro is one az
the convention delegates. al
though the Mahoneyites made
! him a delegate from the second
congressional district, which is
outside of Baltimore City
Asked by one listener how he
explains what happened at the
State convention, Mr.. D'Alesan-
dro. who played a major part in
getting Mr.. Tydings to run
against Mr.. Mahoney. replied
with a shrug:
; i entered horse in the race
: land I was his jockey. He won
the race, but when the price
! went up. they disqualified the
Jockey"
Poor Trading Hit
Mr.. D'Alesandro also blasted
some Of the Democratic members
of the Maryland legislature
: who trade their birthright to
the Republican Governor for a
, mere pittance to take back to
their districts
Despite the fact that FIVE Of
the six State Senators from his
! city and "a Of the SO members
!. OF the House Of Delegates are
Democrats. he added, Gov. Me-
Keldin always gets his program
! through"
, Predicting a Democratic vic.
: tory in Maryland and the Ma
/, ton this fall, Mr.. D'Alesandro
|. said the Free State hungers fof
a young. liberal. progressive
Governor-one who will not Col.
crate backdoor politics"
The mayor classified himself as
a liberal" and said 1T was
primarily for that reason that I
urged Millard Tydings to try q
; comback against the represen-
! sible and reactionary forces
! which unseated him in 1880"
Mr.. Tydings was ousted from
7 the Senate by Republican Sen.
: ator John Marshall Butler. They
; will be rematched in November.
The mayor also said that the
urban areas were under-repre-
sented in the Maryland Legisla-
, ture. He urged his listeners to
/ be ready to press for a Consti-
/. tutional convention the next
time the opportunity arises in
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