Evening star., 1962-01-14
Mary|and's
6. 0. P. Slate
Sill Vacant
Porty Leaders See
Savings and Loan
Furor as Big Issue
By PAUL HOPE
Star Staff Writer

star stair Writer
BALTIMORE, Jan. l3 u
Maryland Republicans failed to
agree on a statewide slate of
candidates today but party
leaders indicated that the cur
rent furor over unlicensed
savings and loan firms will
provide one of the biggest is
sues of the 1862 campaign.
More than $50 party leaders
met here to plan strategy for
the coming campaign and some
of them had hoped they would
come up with a list of candi-
dates.
But Party Chairman Eldred
Rinehart, after a closed lunch
eon-meeting Of county and city
G. o. P. chairmen said that the
"field is still wide OPEN"
He did say that DR.. Milton
Eisenhower, president of Johns
Hopkins University and a
brother Of former President
Eisenhower, has said definitely
that he will not seek the Re
publican nomination for United |
States Senator.
Posts Eyed
Former Governor Theodore |
McKeldin has been reported as
a likely candidate for the
governorShip, but there was
considerable talk today that
party leaders might try to get
him to run for the United
States Senate seat being va
Gated by Republican John But
Ter, who is not running for re-
election.
Senator Beall, who had in
dicated earlier he might be
interested in running for
governor, told reporters today
he is inclined now to stay in
the Senate.
Representative Matthias, of
the Sixth District, was men
toned as a possible gubernator-
ial candidate although he has
indicated he will run for re-
election to the house.
Among the possible Senator
ial candidates mentioned today
were former Representative
James P. S. Devereux, Mr.. Rine-
hart, and Rogers c. B. Morton,
brother of Senator Morton of
Kentucky.
Views Given
Gen. Devereux told reporters
that he is not very interested
In running and Mr.. Morton
said he is more interested at
this point in running for the
House of Representatives in the
First District on the Eastern
Shore.
James S. Gleason, a Mont
gomery County attorney, al
ready has filed for the Senate
nomination but did not seem
to have much support among
the party hierarchy.
Chairman Rinehart made a !
blistering attack on Democratic
Gov. Tawes and the Democrat
ic party for failing to enact
legislation to regulate the saw
ingS and loan business in Mary
land until this year.
Mr.. Rienhart said that SEN
ator Beall sounded the alarm"
on the need for savings and
loan regulations in 1858 when
at Senate committee hearing
he questioned the operations of
some savings and loan firms.
Senator Beall called on
Maryland to provide adequate
regulation of the savings and
loan industry" Mr.. Rinehart
said.
He said that Maryland be-
came a haven for unscrupulous
operations and millions of dol
lars were extracted from an
unwary public through fraudu-
lent operations"
The G. o. P. chairman re-
ferred to it as 'the unSavory
savings and loan mess which
was perpetuated by Gov. TaweS'
veto of the 1850 savings and
loan regulatory legislation"
Mr.. Rinehart said that the
savings and loan scandles "in
my Onion will be one of the
key issues of the campaign this
fall"
Mr.. Rinehart said that "the
ugly part" of the savings and
loan matter was thai "the State
Legislature was dominated by
men with financial interests in
savings and loan associations
as a matter of fact one legis-
lator represented an aSsocia-
tion which had been indicted
by the Federal grand jury"