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have either a nominating commission or
competitive or non-competitive elections for
the judiciary on a statewide basis? An-
swer: None.
Second, what states have a nominating
commission and non-competitive elections
on all levels of the judiciary, but limited
to certain counties in the state? Answer:
One, Missouri.
Ladies and gentlemen, I submit that
there has been no logical and practical
reason to change our nominating selection
system in this greate State of Maryland.
The real question is, are you willing to
take the chance and put this nominating
commission on a statewide basis, and have
the problem where it will not work. We
submit that it will not work on a statewide
basis, and that, fellow delegates, you and
your constituents will be unable to do any-
thing at all about it.
THE CHAIRMAN : You have now spoken
a minute and a quarter.
DELEGATE JOHNSON: I submit to you
that, as delegates to this Convention, as
representatives of your electorate, you want
to provide that the governor shall be and
remain solely responsible for the selection
of the judges in this State.
I urge you to adopt this amendment.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair recog-
nizes Delegate Willoner.
Do you desire to speak now?
DELEGATE WILLONER: No, Mr.
Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair recog-
nizes Delegate Key to speak for one minute
in opposition.
DELEGATE KEY: I would like first to
ask a question about the Baltimore City
Bar Association, and maybe if Delegate
Mudd does not wish to answer, someone
else would.
THE CHAIRMAN: There is very lim-
ited time available.
Delegate Mudd, do you yield to a
question?
DELEGATE MUDD: I will be happy to
yield. I do not know that I can answer the
question.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: My question is, how
many bar associations are there at the
present time active in Baltimore City?
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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mudd.
DELEGATE MUDD: Active in Balti-
more City, three so far as I am aware, but
I stand to be corrected. I am told there are
five.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: Does the list going
to the governor from Baltimore City come
from all five or from only one of these bar
associations?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mudd.
DELEGATE MUDD: I am sure in some
instances there is a list furnished by each
of the five.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: I think the Missouri
plan would prove an improvement to Balti-
more City alone because at least there
would be some togetherness in Baltimore
City selection of judges. Thank you.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair recog-
nizes Delegate Rybczynski for one minute.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Mr. Chair-
man, I would like to follow up on the dis-
cussion which I presented before about
what happened in Pennsylvania.
For those of you who plan to vote
against this amendment, merely on the
question of politics, let me tell you who the
commission finally came up with in Penn-
sylvania. I will read: "A third charac-
teristic is that each has engaged in public,
some in political service; one had been
elected a member of the state legislature
or the city council, each time as a candi-
date for the Republican party."
THE CHAIRMAN: You have a little
less than half a minute.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Another
was an incumbent deputy city solicitor who
had for thirteen years served in the City's
law department, a third had been a special
deputy attorney general, two had been
party candidates for office, a third was a
Democratic committeeman, and a third was
a Republican ward leader.
To those of you who are still afraid of
politics remember there are a lot of ways
of doing favors.
THE CHAIRMAN: Your time has ex-
pired, Delegate Rybczynski.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: The ques-
tion of who will do the favor for someone
at the lodge, who will put whom on the
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