SEN. BEALL TERMS HANDLING OF OTEPKA INQUIRY ATROCIOUS
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April 26, 1964
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dung of the Oto F. Otepk to the effect that only he
case. could win in November against'
In a speech before campaign the Republicans served "only'
workers In Baltimore, the Sen- to damage the candidacies of
at who is running for re- President Johnson and otherl
9r, Democrats.
election In the State's May 19 Tydings accused his oppo
GOP primary, charged that nent of "desperation" In the
Otepka was relieved of his final stage of the campaign,`
duties because he, "cooperated In a letter to aides across the
State, Tydings charged that
with a Congressional Invest'- Goldstein is "drastically down.
gating committee." grading the level''of his cam-
Otepka, former chief se- paign" in an attack "packed
curity evaluator for ,the State with distortions,, half-truths,
Department, was fired for al- outright falsehoods and manu-
factured facts."
leged insubordination. He;has In the Fifth District Con.
appealed. gressional race, Democratic
He was ~ suspended Sept. 23, candidate Raythond J. Me.
1963 and charged with conduct
"unbecoming Donough endorsed Tydings,
DState" of for the praising his "independent spire
7epartment of Sat al- it in Democratic Poll-ties." An-
egedly having given classified other Democrat,, Elbert M.
documents to the Senate In-Byrd, yesterday pledged sup.
He ternal was Security dismissed' from his p port port of home rule for the Dis-
post Nov. 5, when the. State trict.
Department, upheld the In the Sixth 'District, Re-,
charges, publican Harry Simms, who 1si
Bea11~ said that although challenging incumbent Rep.
Otepka was relieved of all Charles McC. Mathias and au-I
duties, he continues to draw a thor Brent Bozell, called Bon'
salary of more than $18,200 a zell "an enemy of the Repub.!
year. "It is apparent. that 'Mr. I' lican Party."
Otepka is being kept on the Said Simms: %"I n e v e r1
payroll as a.means of quieting,y thought Iwould find myself:
PYert L. Asher JI Meanwhile a crossfire of
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1 -1 ,m between joselh
Tydings and Louis L. Gold-
Sen. J. Glenn Beall (R-Md. j'stein, Democratic candidates
yesterday attacked the Stat for the nomination to Beall's
Department for what hscat, continued.
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Inauiry nP.Tc
en'. Be'all Terms
I a n d'i I* o' f e ph: a
members of Congress who
have taken a deep interest in
the case." the Senator de-
Republican Congressman and;
an extreme right-wing political'
clared. demagogue at. the same' time?}"If the reward for coming;
forward and honestly telling
members of the Senate and
House of Representatives' of
wrongdoing is dismissal;
omething horrible has hap-
pened in our 'country," .Beall
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