Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-10

The Sunpapers recommend that Mary
lands Democrats vote for j. Willard Tawes
as candidate for their party's gubernatorial
nomination in the primary next Tuesday.
We believe that the Governors subse.
quent record in the State House has re-
deemed bad beginning, and earned him
a second nomination.
We believe that the nomination of his
principal opponent, George P. Mahoney,
would emphatically not be in the best in
terests of the State of Maryland.
Though the political picture could
change in the months ahead. the outlook
now is that the winner of the Democratic
primary will be odds-on favorite to win the
governorship in November. This circum-
stance, together with the wide disparity in
the qualifications of the two leading con-
tenders, impels the Sunpapers to support
candidate in partisan primary, which ordi'
narily we are reluctant to do.
We state our preference in full aware.
ness that another candidate, David Hume,
has gathered strength in the past few days,
but we do not reckon Mr.. Hume an ade.
quate aspirant
We take full cognizance also of the
dingy old political documents lately brought
forward by James H. Pollack, vengeful
Northwest Baltimore political leader whose
manifold appetites include an ambition to
own a governor.
We make no excuse for Governor
Tawes in his early dealings with Mr.. Pol
lack. We expressed at the time our extreme
disapproval of the Governors first Green
Bag appointments, with their overgenerous
patronage pay-offs to Mr.. Pollock for his
help in the election of 1853 Nor do we
find persuasive the Governors response to
the tape recordings and papers now brand
ished by Mr.. Pollack.
We note again that this is an old story.
That Mr. Tawes and Mr.. Pollack had deal
in 1858 was an open secret. What matters
today is that Mr.. Pollack did not succeed
in his attempt to assume proprietorship OF
the State House. If he had succeeded he
would not now be trafficlxing in tapes and
papers
The two signal achievements of Mr..
Tawes's administration We're the passage,
at long last, of building and loan regula-
tory law and of a measure reforming Balti-
more city's municipal courts. Mr.. Pollack
fought both. In each case he threatened the
Governor with mysterious tapes and papers,
In each case Mr.. Tawes ignored the threats
On building and loan the Governor
forced the bill through the General Assem-
bly, and then boldly called special session
to break Mr. Pollacks effort to kill the meas
ure with legalistic tricks.
On municipal courts the Governor forced
bill down the threats of recalcitrant city
bosses, with Mr.. Pollock in their forefront,
putting all his prestige and all his power
on the line something no governor can
do more than once or twice in four years
and still keep his normal control over the
Legislature.
Mr.. Pollock tried to make Mr.. Tawes
his creature, and failed. Had he not failed
who would Mr.. Pollack's choice for gov
ernor be today Mr. Tawes or Mr.. Mahoney?
It is the full Tawes record, over more
than three years, that is before the voters
- the way in which, day by day and month
by month, the Governor has discharged the
duties of office. Building and loan we have