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choosing the man who is going to be his
chief legal advisor.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
The Chair recognizes Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: I wondered if
Delegate Bamberger would yield?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Gilchrist has the floor. We will
come back to you, sir. Delegate Gilchrist,
go ahead.
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: Delegate
Bamberger, what would happen to an in-
cumbent candidate who wanted to run?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Bamberger.
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: No one
could run for attorney general except on
the slate with the gubernatorial candidate,
just as the proposed lieutenant governor.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Gilchrist.
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: Do you have
an opinion as to what would happen to the
minority party candidates for governor as
the result of their being tied up with an
attorney general?
We have in the past in Maryland been
successful on occasion in electing Republi-
can candidates as governor. It is a little
bit rare for us to run a straight ticket of
Republican candidates. I was just wonder-
ing whether you thought tying the three
offices together might have any deleterious
effect on the Republican candidates?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Bamberger.
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: I have
some personal feelings about that, but I
think that the fact of the matter is that
it presents the minority party an oppor-
tunity to elect an attorney general, because
in essence, he runs on the strength of the
governor, and we have been able to present
some strong gubernatorial candidates.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Gilchrist.
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: Would this
not afford the majority party the oppor-
tunity to destroy the minority party?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Bamberger.
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: I suppose
by that you mean it does not allow for a
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split in the executive department; that is,
a governor of one party and an attorney
general of another party, and if that de-
stroys the party that is what may happen,
but that is one of the objectives of this,
to avoid the division of executive responsi-
bility between the governor and the at-
torney general, and to allow the governor
to have as his runningmate and as his at-
torney general a person selected by him
and approved by the people.
It gives the governor as a client the same
right to select an attorney that any other
client has.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: Mr. President.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Dorsey, I think someone here
wanted the floor ahead of you. I will get
back to you.
Delegate Bushong.
DELEGATE BUSHONG: I wanted to
ask Delegate Bamberger, since we have not
disposed — do you yield?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Bamberger?
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: I yield.
DELEGATE BUSHONG: Since we have
not disposed of the comptroller as yet,
should he also be included?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Bamberger.
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: Delegate
Bushong is the first one who has been able
to tell me whether we did or did not dis-
pose of the comptroller. I did not know
what we had done.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
The Chair recognizes Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: Delegate Bam-
berger, do you concede that chief judge
Hammond was an outstanding attorney
general?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Bamberger.
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: I do.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: Under this sys-
tem, when Governor Bain was defeated,
would he not also have gone down to de-
feat?
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