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September 4, 1920—Page 4
THE JEFFERSCK^IAN, TOWSON, MARYLAND.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
TOWSON, MARYLAND. >•
Entered ai second-el aas matter at the
Port office at Baltimore, Maryland.
Telephone—Totrion 289.
Published every Saturday at Towaon. Baltimore County, Maryland, by The Baltimore County Jelferaonlan Publishing Company, Incorporated.
OFFICERS. W. Gill Smith Elmer R. Haile,
President. Secretary.
Wm. J. Peach, Martin J. O'Hara,
Vice-President. Treasurer.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS John M. Dennis William J. Peach,
Martin J. O'Hara, W. Gill Smith,
CJarville D. Benson, Elmer R. Haile, Losrie Bonnett
L.OGIE BONNETT. Editor and Manager
SATURDAY, SEPT. 4, 1920
For President
JAMES M. COX.
For Vice-President
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
For United States Senate
JOHN WALTER SMITH.
For Congressman
CARVILLE D. BENSON.
Vote for the Charter and you'll vote for disaster.
At any rate there, is no red pepper in the Irish "stew."
"Blessed are the meek," is the slogan of the profiteers.
The more people you put to work, the less the bunch can turn out.
Europe's heart may be broken, but its gall and nerve are unimpaired.
Don't wait for the hereafter. Make it hot now for the coal profiteers.
Hello! Hello! Hel-o-o-o! My, my, why don't that exchange girl answer?
Are the radicals in Baltimore county going to lead the people to disaster.
May sugar prices continue to drop until the profiteers are down and out.
Old Jupe Pluvius at least did his durndest last week to make Baltimore county wet.
It isn't prohibition that takes the joy out of joy riding. It is the price of gasoline.
No one can truthfully say that, the new charter form of government is progressive.
Some exceedingly lazy people are showing wonderful industry in searching for booze.
Strange that the "wets" have not claimed Harding on the score of his being a Baptist.
It is a dangerous thing to allow such boys as the uniformed motorcycle police to carry huge revolvers.
The youth of the next generation will not inherit a taste for liquor, unless he inherits a cellar.
Republican political bosses always select a candidate who can be trusted to love, honor and obey.
A great many men will be content in letting their wives do the voting as well asi the marketing.
A vote cast for Benson means a vote cast for good representation from the Second district in Congress.
Perhaps one reason that highwaymen are so scarce is that they find the restaurant business so good.
The recent cool snap leads us to believe that the coal dealers have taken the weather man in the firm.
There is no reason in the world why a Democrat should not carry Baltimore county and Maryland this fall.
Los Angeles blames the earthquakes there recently on the fact that the city has grown so heavy it staggers.
The new railroad rates will relieve the country of the frieght problem and the public of a little more cash.
The danger is that we may monkey along talking about a separate peace until we get into a separate war.
Whenever Harding speaks he knows Penrose and the Other Republican bosses will furnish the applause.
That the political complexion will be changed there is no doubt now that the suffrage amendment has been ratified.
Price, Watson & Dietz (limited) have put another record on the charter .machine. It is the voice of Major Barton.
Inasmuch ask according to Harding, votes for women means civilization is saved, why does he not stop campaigning?
Formerly they usjel to prosecute folks for working on the Sabbath. Now you have to prosecute them to work at ajl.
It would be interesting to know what Andrew Jackson, of old fashioned Democracy, thinks of his State of Tennessee.
No campaign would be complete without publishing the fact that every candidate's mother was fond of him as a boy.
A few more broadsides like Governor Cox-s Dayton speech of acceptance and "G. O. P." will take on a new meaning "get off the porch," for instance. Warren is already wabbling.
To the cry of the French at Verdun, "They shall not pass" the cheer of our own men in the Argonne Forest, "We shall go through," we must add this: "It shall not occur again."
SENATOR SMITH AND CONGRESSMAN BENSON.
For years large contributions have been made to the Republican campaign fund for no purpose except to buy a governmental underhold and to make illegal profits as the result of preference.
The fact that normal times are returning is evidenced by the United States sending a gun boat to watch Honduras.
Ponzi is said to have political ambitions. What an ideal chairman of the finance committee of his party he would make.
"LaFayette, we are here!" General Pershing reported in 1917. Will Senator Harding, in 1920, report: "LaFayette, we have quit.'?
The Taxpayers' League (Price, Watson and Deitz, limited) reminds one very much of three men in a row boat without oars being flopped about by the waves.
Benson is the man to send to Congress—the Second district wants no substitute or figure head to represent it at Washington.
Some Republicans say the South needs the Republican party. They are right. The South couldn't get the cotton picked without it.
The right of way on "th6 roads of Baltimore county seems to belong to the heavy car that can push the little fellow into the ditch.
Even as the Nation entered the war for an ideal, ao it has emerged from the war with the determination that the ideal shall not dfe.
Figures state the facts. It has been proven that the new charter form of government will be much more expensive than the present form.
The first "fly cops" have made their appearance in Pittsburgh. In the "smoky city" policemen have employed aeroplanes to "spot" gamblers.
A battle royal is in progress between former Judge Burke and Major Barton, and the weak and decrepit charter is the cause of it all.
The further he geos along, the plainer Mr. Harding makes it that if elected he will be just the kind of a President the Senatorial cabal needs in its business.
Women will now be on the same footing as a man since they will be allowed to vote. .We may expect to see them smoking cigarettes on the streets, chewing tobacco, cussing and what not.
The "royal family" of the Taxpayers' League—Price, Watson and Deitz, evidently have their eyes focused on some "plums" in the event the voters are so foolish as to pass( the new charter for adoption.
Very little is heard of or from Senator Harding's running mate, which may be accounted for by the fact that when the head of the ticket is put on the tail end he doesn't know exactly what to do or say.
Major Randolph Barton will And it a useless task to steer the weak and decrepit ship "Charter" to the port of "adoption." The rough seas of "opposition"' will smash it up befoi* its date of arrival in November.
Experiments are always costly. Baltimore county does not want to experiment with a new form of government as long aa it now has in operation a good administration, and as long as it is the richest county in the State.
Whether Mr. Blakeney is for the charter or not we do not care to say, but we have every reason in the world to believe that he never saw the document until it was published, and he was a member of the charter board too.
The publisher of a farm journal states that the agriculturists in the great corn belt are much pleased with Harding. It is understood he has promised good weather during his four years in office and immunity from insect pests.
Baltimore county will be the first county in the United States to have the manager form of government if the new charter is adopted. Do the people want this rich and prosperous municipality to be an experiment for the whole country?
The Republican proposal (a separate peace with Germany) means dishonor, world confusion and delay. It would keep us in permanent company with Germany, Russia, Turkey and MSxico. It would entail, in the ultimate, more real injury than the war itself.
May we ask why Price, Watson and Dietz are the only members of the Taxpayers' League, who are actively interested in working for the new charter? Can It be that the "royal family" have ambitions like this: Price for county manager, Watson for treasurer and Dietz for roads engineer.
The Rev. W. F. Sheldon, of New York, an independent, non-partisan minister of the Gospel, who is living up to the fundamental principles of Christianity—peace—by supporting the League of Nations, has supplied one of the best campaign slogans on this issue: "Cox and Civilization vs. Harding and Hell!"
There has been no finer note of patriotism and Americanism struck in any campaign than the tributes Governor Cox is paying in his speeches to the memory of the valor of "our boys who died and are sleeping in France," and to their brave comrades who survived, and the reiteration of his determination to "keep faith with the dead." Governor Cox has not orgotten what they fought and what they died for, and as President of the United States they could have no more faithful and sympathetic trustee of their interests.
Representative Slemp, of Virginia, one of Senator Harding's campaign lieutenants, promises that if the Republicans are successful in November they will reduce the living cost by revising the excess profits tax, by repealing the transportation tax, by increasing the tariff schedules and by modifying the income tax laws.
The Republicans have controlled both houses of Congress since May, 1919. Why, Mr. Slemp, have they not already done these things? Certainly, it wasn't for fear of a presidential veto, because the President more than once asked Congress to do at least some of them.
If by any miscarriage of suffrage, Senator Harding should be successful at the polls, who would be President of the United States?
The Senator and the "dominant group in the Senate" that nominated him have repudiated what they call a "one-man" Presidency, provided by the Constitution. The candidate has even announced tfr&t he intends to make the Vice-President a member of his Cabinet, for which there is no provision whatever in the Constitution. The Presidency is to be run by a syndicate; everybody-—that is, everybody in the Senatorial Syndicate—is to have something to say.-
There is no question about who will be President if Governor Cox shall be elected. The president in name and in fact will be James M. Cox. If S.enator Harding shall be elected the President in name will be Warren G. Harding, but a Board of Directors composed of Penrose, Lodge, Smoot et al. will be President in fact.
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From the reception accorded Senator John Walter Smith and Congressman Carville D. Benson at the Timon-ium fair during the week it would appear that they are both strong with the people and that their re-election is assured.
One encouraging sign to tWfe Democratic nominees was the numerous proffers of support from the ladies who attended the fair.
Senator Smith during his long public career, has rendered distinguished service to the people of the State, particularly during the crisis through which the nation recently passed. The people generally recognize this and they are disposed to send him back to Washington in order that the State may not be deprived of his influence and ripe legislative experience. He is looked upon at the national capitol as one of the ablest representatives the State ever had there, and no one can question his patriotism, his loyalty, his ability and his disposition tn serve his! constituents. He seems to be stronger with the people today than ever before and quite a number of Republicans in the county have announced their determination to support him at the coming election.
Congressman Benson, too, has demonstrated his ability and worth as a representative of his State in the national Congress. Although he has swerved but one term, he has freely participated in congressional debates and has made his influence felt for the good of his State and of the Nation. Following out the policy of his distinguished predecessor, Congressman Talbott, he has devoted a great deal of time and care in attending to matters for individual constituents through, out his congressional district, and in this way he has won the friendship and support of a great many Republicans. He is now in the prime of life with an experience in public affairs that few men attain at his age, and it is doubtful if any man could be found in the Second Congressional district better equipped to represent the people in the next Congress. Fair minded voters in both parties recognize this.
FRANTIC EFFORTS BEING MADE TO
HOODWINK PEOPLE ON
NEW SCHEMS
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*against the proposed charter should cause the good people of Baltimore county to follow your leadership without hesitation, knowing you as they do through your long public service as a jurist of Baltimore county; where by reason of your fairnesis toward all *n the administration of that very high office you distinguished and endeared yourself to so many of them.
Politics should not enter into this contest, whatever. It is a matter that affects every man who lives in Baltimore county as to his property and rights, and I will, therefore, recommend your action to all my friends and acquaintances regardless of any party affiliation.
Sincerely yours,
WM. H. LAWRENCE.
The other opponent of the charter is former State Senator James J. Lindsay, a Democrat, and one of the leading members of the Baltimore bar. Mr. Lindsay, who resides in Towson, has not in recent years been active in politics, but he has always taken a lively interest in the civic affairs of the county, and he believes that the proposed charter is entirely inadequate as a form of government for the county, Mr. Lindsay also takes occasion to defend Edward H. Burke, counsel to the County Commissioners, from an unjust insinuation made concerning him by John Watson, Jr., President of the Taxpayers' League, in an article recently published in one of the Baltimore papers.
Mr. Lindsay's letter is, in full, as follows:
Mr. Logie Bonnett,
Editor of The Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland.
Will you permit me a few brief comments upon two articles, which appeared in the Evening Sun of its issues of the 26th and 27th inst., upon the proposed charter for Baltimore county.
This charter has been attacked in a series of letters by Judge Burke, addressed to the people of the county, and after a careful and studied analysis of it he has pointed out in clear and definite statements, that it is subject to serious and insuperable objections, such as to render it entirely inadequate as a form of government for the county.
The sole question and the only question in my opinion, with which the people of the county are concerned is this: Are these objections sound? If they are, then the adoption of the charter as framed, would be a great misfortune to this county. , We naturally look for some answer from those favorable to the charter, but so far, except as to the purely legal question raised by Judge Burke, no answer worthy of any consideration has been attempted. \
The two articles to which I refer were written by Mr. John Watson, Jr.. the President of the Taxpayers' League. The first does not attempt to answer. anything, or to give any reason why the charter should be adopted—the second makes a feeble and inconclusive attempt to answer
the legal proposition stated by Judge Burke, that the Board of County Commissioners cannot be abolished, and consequently if the charter should be adopted, we will have a dual government in this county; however, I do not propose to discuss this question.
I merely wish to say that in his letters and in his reply to Major Barton Judge Burke has, in my opinion, established clearly the soundness of his position.
My object in this communication is to call attention to Mr. Watson's first article—the greater part of which is devoted to a recital of past events, which have no bearing whatever upon the question at issue. It answers no objection and gives no reason for the adoption of the charter. All he says may be true, and all he says is utterly irrelevant to the question before the people. It is true that the distinguished Commission who drew the Act of 1918, Chapter 456, did not provide that the County Council should be elected at the same time the charter was voted upon, but this was not an accidental omission. It was evidently thought that such an important matter as a change in the form of government in a county should be removed as far as possible from politics, and therefore should be voted upon as a separate proposition and should not be tied up in the election of the Councilmen.
In this the Commission was clearly right and so was the Legislature of 1920, in refusing to pass Mr. Watson's statewide bill which would have the effect of injecting partisan politics into the question of the adoption of a charter. He complains bitterly of this, but this does not stop him from trying to make the question a partisan one, or from making mean and vicious attacks upon the motives of men who stand high in the confidence and esteem rtf the people. After stating that his statewide bill was killed in the House Judiciary Committee, of which Mr. Edward H. Burke was chairman, he makes this statement: "The ex-Judge's| son has since been rewarded by appointment as Counsel to the Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore county."
I have taken nn active part in the political affairs of Baltimore county for a number of years, and am not now, nor have I been identified with the "organization" in the county, but I feel that the baseness o"f this insinuation against tne character of Mr. Burke should not pass unnoticed.
I have known Mr. Burke all his life and have seen him grow from babyhood to manhood. I know that he is a man of ability and unquestioned integrity and for s'everal years before the war he had been a practicing member of the Baltimore County Bar, and had built up a good and growing practice, and during a part of that time was one of the Counsel to the County Commissioners. He resigned his position as Counsel, gave up his/ private practice, left his wife and home and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in order to do "his bit" for his country. After the resignation of Hon. T. Scott Offutt. early in April of tiiis year, as Counsel to the Commissioners, necessitated by his appointment as Chief Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit, to succeed Judge Burke, who resigned in February of this year, it became necessary for the Commissioners to appoint another Counsel. Mr. Burke Avas not an applicant for the appointment, but the CommisrJfioners knew he was qualified, and felt that, in view of the sacrifices he had made he should be reappointed Counsel to the Board.
He was therefore "rewarded," for his experience and ability and for the sacrifices he made for his country.
Mr. Watson fails to mention the fact that his bill was killed in the Senate because' that body agreed, for the reasons already stated, with the Commission which drew the Act of 1918, that it was improper to elect the Council at the same time the vote upon the Charter was had.
JAMES J. LINDSAY Towson, Md., Aug. 30, 1920.
REPUBLICANS EXPOSED
(Continued from Page 1, Col. 7) fiscal year July 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919. All the estimates for this period amounted to $41,673,447,681. Congress appropriated $27,092,094,720. True, the executive branches were authorized to enter into contracts calling for expenditure of an additional $9,0000,000,-000, making the total appropriations and authorized contracts more than $36,000,000,000. At that Congress cut under the estimates about five and a half billion dollars.
Appropriations exceeded the estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1916, and ended with June 30, 1917. This was the preparedness period. The estimates were for $1,473,-857,808. The appropriations were
$1,625,484,995, an increase of $151,627,-187. The increases were made in the army and navy bills, due to enlarged military and naval programs. For the army Congress appropriated $267,596,-530.10, as compared with estimates for $150,931,483, and for the navy $313,-300,555, as compared with estimates of $217,652,176.
Every year since the Democrats came into office they have cut the appropriations below the estimates. When they came into full charge of the Government March 4, 1913, the supply bills had been prepared for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, having been part of the business of the j short sessdon in the winter of 1912-13. Each year, with the exception of the preparedness period of 1916-17 they cut
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the appropriations below the estimates as a glance at the following figures will show.
Fiscal year ending June 30, 1915: Total estimates, $1,152,681,772.02; total appropriations, $1,116,118,138.55. Cut below estimates of $36,563,638.47.
Fiscal year ending June 30, 1916: Total estimates, $1,135,187,984.31; total appropriations, $1,114,937,012.02. Cut below estimates of $20,250,972.29.
Fiscal year ending June 30, 1917: Total estimates, $1,473,857,808; total appropriations, $1,625,484,995.53. Increase above estimates of $151,627,-187.53.
Fiscal year ending June 30, 1918: Total estimates, $2,087,319,656.02; total appropriations, $1,962,210,200.05. Cut under estimates of $225,109,453.98.
Fiscal year ending June 30, 1919: Total estimates, $41,673,447,681.06; to tal appropriations, $27,092,094,720.75.
FINDS HARDING "UNFIT
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2 o'clock in the morning to decide upon him as the candidate and to determine his policies, the Republican party was assembled together for solemn deliberation."
"Governor Cox's record is a distinctly progressive record," said Mr. Ickes. "That record prdves that he looks upon public office as an opportunity for public service. He is standing in this campaign upon what he has achieved along progressive lines for the public welfare. His eyes are to the front, fixed on the future. He is not wabbling. And he is running as James M. Cox; he is not masquerading as a second edition of Grover Cleveland or a substitute Andrew Jackson."
SNAPSHOTS OF NEWS
(Continued from Page 1, Col. 2.)
Two big sugar refiners in New York met the cut to 17.10 cents a pound for granulated sugar made 10 days ago by a leading refiner. ,
The campaign of Eugene Debs, the Socialist nominee for President, was officially launched from his cell in Atlanta Penitentiary.
The French government has decided to appoint two delegates, tn the American Mayflower celebration in November #and December.
Anticipating a lockout, the metal workers of Milan, Italy, have seized the factories and are threatening the owners with violence.
Adam Tesarck, -who had been confined to jail at Prince Frederick on the charge of false pretenses, escaped by. forcing the cell bars.
Tokio fears for a report that Chinese and Korean students will stage a demonstration when the United States congressmen visit there.
Martial law has been declared in Canton in a move of the southwestern military government for the overthrow of the Peking government.
Marguerite M. Hueger, the 14-year-old girl who disappeared from her home at Plymouth, Mich., was married in Cumberland on August 19.
Attorney General Palmer instructed state's attorneys to investigate alleged cobinations and conspiracies among dealers to increasje coal prices.
Three men were injured and considerable property damage resulted when a hurricane struck the Eastern Middletown Valley in Frederick county-Five bids aggregating $2,845,000 were opened by the Shipping Board for two tankers now under construction at Oakland, Cal. Decision was reserved.
Tentative plans for the construction of a large dirigible hangar at the Naval Aviation Base on North Island, San Diego, Cal,, was announced by Secretary Daniela.
Gov. James M. Cox and Dr. Aaron S. Watkins, two of Ohio's presidential
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Adoption of dancing in all the branches of the Y. W. C. A. was urged by Randolph W. Vizay, of Milwaukee, president of the American Society of Teachers of Dancing.
Secretary Baker.-said that he would notify Congress when it reassembled that the current appropriation for the pay of the Army was not adequate, necessitating a deficiency measure
A Brussiels dispatch says the Belgian government received a letter Monday from Premier Millerand, stating that the French government approved the Franco-Belgian military agreement.
Business and industrial conditions will be marked by a definite trend to a somewhat lower level of prices, according to a report issued by the United Statesl Chamber of Commerce.
Gen. Boris Savinkoff, the noted anti-Bolshevik leader, has announced his complete recognition of Gen. Wrangle's government in Southern Russia and his intention to give General Wrangle his support.
Explosive Trades,1 Limited, of London, has acquired a $25,000,000 interest in the General Motors Corporation of America, according to advices received from London by the Department of Commerce.
Importation of automobiles', motor-cyclces, musical instruments and other articles considered luxuries has been
prohibited by the Norwegian government, the Department of Commerce was advised.
Herber* Hoover has directed the American Relief Administration. of * which he- is the head, to spend $500,-000 in caring inr w'ai- rufugees in Poland, in addition to sumsi necessary to continue feeding a million Polish children
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