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I'm clearly aware of the fact that this board doesn't go out until next
year and it should take some action to eliminate these things or make
these people give up their licenses. It's the only way we are going to
break organized gambling.

Q. Governor, when you say that the Senators are clearly in the hands
of the gambling interests, would you explain a little more fully what
you mean?

A. I have made this perfectly clear before, during the time I was
Baltimore County Executive, that there seems to be a very unusual

interest in the preservation of these free play gambling type pinball

machines, and I think this is just a followthrough of the course of con-
duct that they have taken in the past. They are out to protect the
gamblers by controlling the board, because they are afraid that we are
going to take some action to rid the taverns of these devices.

Q. What I was getting at, are you charging them simply with doing
the work of the gambling interests ethically, or are you saying in the
pay of the gambling interests?

A. No, I am not charging them with being on the payroll of any
illegal action. I'm saying that politically they depend on the goodwill
of these people to be elected.

REMARKS TO DELEGATES-ELECT,

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION SEMINAR,

GOUCHER COLLEGE, TOWSON

June 26, 1967

Let me say first on behalf of the people of Maryland that your seek-
ing this very transitory office was much appreciated, and further that
you are to be congratulated for being elected by a very discerning and
interested minority of those eligible to vote in Maryland.

I have no doubt that all of you, regardless of whether or not you

are presently members of the bar, will emerge from this convention

as the finest constitutional lawyers in the entire State. But before you
can begin the difficult task of rewriting a Constitution, it is important
that you know the contents of the instrument you are preparing to
rewrite. Perhaps it is equally important for you to have some insight
into the functioning of government, so that you can relate the con-
stitutional theory to everyday practice.