| Show Il Fl-Il I PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CANDIDATES' AS I KNOW THEM By ROBERT BARRY I Written for the New York Evening World and ald The Salt Lake Telegram I Continued from from yesterday esterday The Maryland ra land Free State understands understands understands under under- stands his point of view and comprehends comprehends com corn what ho l i is driving out The people to whom he has been beena a first rate governor sense tho the practical practical advantages of his code It lt is doubtful whether he has registered registered reg reg- a distinct national appeal i on an issue which should somehow 1 or other be a personal thing with the average man or woman Ho He appears to have pitched his plea Ina in ina ina a ke key just above the range of toe the yoke of a a. people to whom he must turn Inevitably for tor his political chorus I I Governor Ritchie o gain a a. triumph tri tn- for tor his theories must win wina a following such as ns Theodore trl-j trl Roosevelt could command lIe He does not havo it Ho lIe must draw v his support for a return to Jefferson Jefferson- JeffersonIan Ian fundamentals from the present- present day reservoir to which Jefferson had bad recourse In his struggle for their establishment lie He has got gotto gotto to get over to the tho m masses the idea that what Is conservatism with him was radicalism with Jefferson He lie has circumscribed his appeal be because because because be- be I cause he has not so phrased it as asto asto asto to make vocal ocal something which the great indifferent majority feels but butIs butis butis is inarticulate to express The trouble is he ho has unfolded a series of splendid addresses worthy of be being beIng being be- be ing assembled as a text book yet they carry no such ringing phrases as to enable publishers to pile pie up royalties for the author ADVOCACY SINCERE To d do those things it might be necessary to appeal to class Governor Go Ritchie would not do that To begin with ho he would not know where to start He lIe can appear before the chamber of commerce com corn merce merc of the United States to discuss discuss discuss dis dis- cuss the obligations of business in citizenship and be just as dispassionatelY dispassionately dispassionately fair In his discussion as when appearing before a trade and labor assembly to talk taIk re re- re lation 1 Ritchie's states' states rights advocacy I is not cant He lie means it It is a lofty Idealism Given the opportunity he would offer something something something some some- thing more than the lip Up service Mr Coolidge has contributed to the the cause before approving legislative measures measure which belled belied his words I IThe The Maryland governor tells his i story In the language of the editorial edi edl- I tonal page of the Boston TranscrIpt Transcript Transcript Tran Tran- i script rather than In that of the the headlines of or the New York tabloids No one of his friends criticises him for his taste but those who be believe believe believe be- be lieve he is an outstanding public figure sometimes do indulge in a afew afew afew few private regrets We Va would not bet for example a dime on Ritchie against a Willis in a contest contest contest con con- test where where- mass appeal was vital The govern governOr r has ha's yet to translate translate translate trans trans- late hi his political program for the Orpheum circuit audience He lie gets applause in hf the movies when his picture Is s shown because there are some Somo wets present yet prohibition prohibition prohibition tion Is only one section of his code To hundreds of his admirers the then n name me of Jefferson mean means nothing more than it Is supposed to be a fellow who wh was named after a lot lotof lotof lotof of counties in the south CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION Governor Ritchie does not desire anything of the sort He Te is trying to get people back to first ples pies The pendulum may swing Should it do so he would deserve a major share of the credit What some of us who have chuckled over the progress progress' of this attractive political figure have wondered was there could be any such shaking off of the popular popular popular pop pop- ular lethargy in time Jor the channIng charmIng charmIng charm charm- Ing little lady who is the official hostes hostess now at Annapolis to stand beside her son at the head of a re receiving receiving receiving re- re line in tho the Vh White It e House She would have hae all Washington at atler ather her ler feet within a a. week after atter her Jons Jon's inauguration He may prove pro to be the plon pioneer er in tn a political movement on which i iiI I i No 10 ALBERT 10 ALBERT C. C RITCHIE some one elso else will capitalize His Ills campaign is essentially one of edu edu- cation It may take too long for him ilm to reap the rewards Harry Allen Alien Cooper a gallant old fighter defied a hostile G. G O. O P. P convention at Cleveland to jam down unwilling throats the fact that the tho Republican party of 1924 was pointing with pride to the identical identical iden Iden- tl al things urged by Robert M. M La LaFollette LaFollette Follette in 1908 and then viewed with alarm It was vas Theodore Roosevelt who said Some ono has to be the pioneer That Is La 41 Follette He blazes the trail trait through the forest He explores the new country Then some one must come behind him and consolidate what he lie has gained for us That is what I have done The The name of Roosevelt was cheered l to the echo at Chicago in 1920 and at Cleveland in 1924 That of or La Follette Folletto was hissed by a lot lotof lotof lotof of yokels who had booed the name of Roosevelt at Chicago in 1912 What the friends of Governor Ritchie desire therefore is that he he- contrive somehow to dramatize his states' states rights issue in some such manner that he will not stand merely as the pioneer They wish that to get his idea across ly as the pioneer They wish that to get his Idea across he might have resort occasionally to the language of Will Rogers or Henry and get himself talked about It lt is doubtful Governor Ritchie would do so He expresses his own ideas in his own way and p people ople just have to take them or leave them on that basis The prominence of Senator William William Wil Wil- liam Cabell Bruce as as a a. stanch Republican Republican Re TIe- publican who who- has a a. seat on the Democratic side of the party aisle Is explained frequently as being expressive 0 of Maryland conserva conserva- A lot of that is instinctive with Mr Bruce He He would be the same If he were a senator from Iowa or North Dakota I He does represent however a distinct of Maryland Governor RIt Ritchie is a conservative conserva conservative conserva conserva- tive not a radical nor an evangelist crying tp in ip the wilderness One of tho the finest compliments I ever heard paid to a public man was whispered in my ear by a fellow fellow tellow fel tel low guest at a dinner party tendered tendered tendered ten ten- dered by the governor at the mansion mansion mansion man man- sion recently This man my fellow guest confided confided con con- has a fine tine social background He comes from the of Vir Vir- ginia this Ills father was eminent Inthe Inthe in inthe the bunch and amI bar of Maryland He lie is as handsome as a matine o idol in In his dress clothes yet vet he is happy as a kid tonight just to be informal and to you fellows over hero here from Washington for a f few w hours houts POPULARITY GAINS After his first hard fight to bo be elected governor a fi fight ht he le won woOl by only votes otes the people of this state began to inquire about him The result was that he shattered in 1923 the second term tradition which had stood since 1835 by and was chosen for a a. third term by lIe He stands today not merely the executive of this state not merely the political leader but literally the spokesman of the state He Ho is become a symbol He HeIs HeIs' HeIs Heis Is Is' Is Maryland He lie typifies all that th the state presumes to represent in what we prefer to regard as a sisterhood sisterhood sisterhood sis sis- sis sis- of states rather than vassals vassals vassals vas vas- of federal bureaucracy in iii Washington Yet as a conservative whose name is esteemed in the bankers I business men and babbitt lunch clubs of Baltimore Bert hBert Ritchie is respected as a man whose sole occupation is service to the people of Maryland whose constant concern concern con con- cern corn is the safeguarding not of business and bank accounts but of If th the tho rights ri of people n He is just that real and old fashioned That more than anything anything any any- thing else has explained to me how It H is possible to travel the length and breadth of the Maryland Free State and hear on every side he the Id identical estimate of the governor Bert Ritchie is a straight shooter shooterS a square guy Whether he gets to be known to toa toa toa a nation of people or suffers the disappointment which has come to all but thirty of all the men who have havo lived and died in the United States Mates without gaining the the- White House his friends can say in truth that that that-he he will havo had nothing to regret when he lie to lay himself himself him him- self down to sleep CONSERVATIVE ANT ANTECEDENTS His Ills antecedents were on the tho side or of conservatism ills His first public endeavor was on the side of ot the people He lie read law for tor two years in iii a prominent firm J In 1903 1003 he launched his own shingle on the windward side Ritchie Janney It ful read i lie He became an assistant city solicitor u In Baltimore A little later the Maryland he e was V P peoples people's w counsel before public service com corn mission Ritchie U vent ent Into that Precisely ii like ho he has has' gone into the job of being governor He lie started started-a a. fight for lor the peoples people's rights He lie brought about regulation of public utilities lIe He reduced rates That fight sat seems now a lon long ions ways behind him lIe ue works harder today than in that und undertaking lie Ho puts in long longer hours hours- He knows little leaves elso th the than his work work- lIe statehouse around 6 b o'clock at night nc lie taJ takes es a batch of papers wIth him He e spends most of h hi his evenings In his study in ini the mansion D n The koo books there re relate relate re- re i late to the tho fc science of government They are authoritative There Is la a aradio aradio aradio radio upstairs for his mother or I whoever sho might have hac in for an hour or two Sometimes ho he hears it More often ho docs does not He lie goes goe to a golf gol course courso tier der the greatest urging Colonel Robert Cram Grain Crain may entice him down flown to his shooting lodge now and then The governor is nervous a as a cat until h he h I is i. started for home He lie a little too high strung at tun tonics timeR His b be best t relaxation is an antel after tel dina dinner P chat confidantes |
