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SUCCESS IS NOT AS YOU FIND IT, BUT AS YOU MAKE IT.
IT WILL PAY YOU TO
PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS
THE JEFFERSONIAN
"WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE"
Equal and exact justice to all ruetj at whatever state or per-sua«rton, religions or political* —Jefferson.
VOL. IX. No. 40
"It Covers The Community Like The Dew"
TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920
MARYLAND JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 18*51 CONSOLIDATED 1816
BALTIMORE CO. DEMOCRAT E8TAB. 1S«K I WITH THE .IKFFKRSOIVIAJN.
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Republican Newspaper And Republican Candidate For State Senate Opposed To New Charter
" 'HENRY P. PIELERT, REPUBLICAN, WHO RAN
FOR SENATE, JOINS ANTI-CHARTER FORGES
L EDITORIALS DENOUNCES NEW SCHEME
New Charter Looms So Large And Far Away From The Purpose Of
The "Home Rulers" That Purpose Is Forgotten,
Says Stanch Republican Organ.
(Editorial from the Baltimore Ameri- pose will be forgotten in the general
can—Sept. 17, 1920.
.OBJECTIONS TO THE PROPOSED
CHARTER FOR BALTIMORE
COUNTY.
The charter which will be submitted to the voters of Baltimore county on election day destroys the system of government which has prevailed in that countv sine,, its egtablis.
debate, for the people of the county are confronted with a far more serious question than whether local bills' affecting the county shall be acted upon at Towson or Annapolis. They confronted with the question whether there shall be destroyed, root and branch, the whole system of overnment, which hay operation for generations, and
n doing this it transcends the j which was not under attack when the main purpose and object of the ho < -rule amendment was adopted,
rule amendment under which it was , Further, they must decide whether to framed The main purpose of thatl put in its place a form of county gov-
amendment was to relieve the legisla ture of the duty of passing- upon all local laws of the counties Qf Maryland. It was thought that the transfer to the counties of the power to enact their local legislation would result in shortening legislative sessions, I their cost, and do away with many abuses which it was alleged grew out of the system of having the 4egisla-ture pass upon these local laws. It is true that the home-rule amendment gave each' county the right, within certain prescribed limits, to alter its form of local government, but that
ernment that is wholly an experiment e people of this State and this part of the country.
Ir\ Baltimore coirhty, Where problems of local administration increase in moment constantly, the commission form of government, which flows di-from the whole people, and is simple, elaajtic, easily followed and easily controlled, is to be cast upon the scrap heap if the framers of the charter have their way and an'experiment is to be substituted. It is*' proposed to create a county government, in which not one man will be elected
3 main purpose. ' by the whole people, and not one man and we do not recall that it was seri- will be susceptible of punishment or ously contended that the sysjtem of ! reward at the hands of the whole peo-county government was fundamentally Pie.
faulty and should be abolished.
How does the charter offered the people of Baltimore county compare with the main purpose of the proponents of the home-rule amendment? It looms so large and far away from the purpose of the home rulers that that purpose is forgotten. ; is to be
It is proposed to create a county government in which those men to be chosen by the people will be chosen in and by the districts. Each of the fifteen districts is to elect one member of the county council. And no other official in the local administrative government is to be elected by
expected that the home rulers' pur-!the people. The fifteen district dele
: gates to the county council are to elect a county manager. There are to be no restrictions as to whom they select, and he is to be under no accountability, except to the fifteen district delegates in the council. He is to spend the money of all the people, but he is to be responsible neither directly nor indirectly to all the people. And under him are to be three heads of departments—public service, finance and public safety—and they are to be taken from anywhere, and are to be responsible to no one except first, their immediate superior, the county manager, and next, the council.
Waft ever an instrument provided primarily for the correction of one thing, used so sweepingly to do so
FLAYS HIS PARTY
Republican, Who Fought In War,
Will Cast Vote For Governor
Cox in November.
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'Edward B. Witte, former naval avi-.¦atotf ind (member of the commission j many' things?" An 'instrument intend sent last spring by the American Uni- | e |