Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-09-19
The State Convection.

Murray Vandiver dropped his gavel an
made a short plea for harmony, unit
the close, about four hours later, there wa
no dscordant note. No fight was mad
on the floor against Gen. Vandiver for re
election, and the Gorman-Straus force
failed to carry out their plan to take thu
fight for the initiative and referendum t.
the floor of the convention after its failure
in the resolutions committee.
Senator Jesse D. Price. of Wicomic
county, was named chairman of the con
vention, and Col. E. Austin Baughman, o
Frederick, and Clarence L. Vincent, of Wor
cester, were made secretaries. No Opposi
ton was made to any of them.
The Lee people dropped the Vandivel
fight after it became apparent they would
not be able to muster all the votes against
him on any one man.
The formal nomination of Blair Lee fol-
the United States Senate, Emerson C. Har-
rington for Comptroller and Caleb c. Magru-
der for Clerk of the Court of Appeals
occupied but few moments. They had
no opposition in the primaries and all the
delegates were pledged to them. making
the nomination in the convention merely
matter of recording the delegations from
the counties and legislative districts of
Baltimore city.
The plank advocating woman suffrage
was rejected by the committee on resolu-
tons after an earnest discussion before
the committee.
The following is the platform adopted by
the delegates in the convention:
We the delegates and representatives of
the Democratic party of Maryland, in State
convention assembled, reaffirm our alleei-
ance to the principles of the Democratic
party handed down through successive
generations of Democratic statesmen, from
Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson and
William Jennings Bryan.
With the principles and policies set forth
in the platform of the Baltimore conven-
tion of the national Democracy we declare
ourselves in full accord. and we pledge to
them our jealous support.
We heartily congratulate the people and
the Democracy of the Union upon the
splendid triumph of those principles and
policies in the election of the candidates
of the Democratic party for President and
Vice-President of the United States, of a
large majority in the House of Represen-
tatives and of sufficient number of Demo-
cratic Senators to establish Democratic
control over the Federal Senate.
We admire the wisdom and moderation
of the President in administering the for
eign affairs of the country, especially deli.
cate and dangerous as they now are by
reason of the internal disturbances in Mex
leo, and we particularly commend the do
nestle policy which. with rare apprecia-
ton of the needs Of the people and a clear
purpose to render practical assistance to
the agricultural and business interests has
caused the President to inaugurate the
just policy of decentralizing the deposits
of Government money in the large financial
centers, and to distribute such deposits
generally under proper safeguards in the
distant rural sections. to the great expan-
sions of credits and banking facilities and
thereby also bringing the Government and
the masses of the people who support the
Government into closer and more beneficial
relations.
The passage through the House of Rep
resentatives and Senate of the Democratic
Tariff bill. revising tariff taxation in con-
formity with the fundamental principle of
tariff for revenue only and in the interest
of the people. constitutes great spectacle
of constructive craftsmanship under Demo-
cratic control of the national Government,
and there may be entire confidence that
the great program Of the President to re-
deem the Democratic party pledges through
legislation for the destruction of special
privileges and for the restoration of the Gov
eminent to the people is certain of attain
ment and will constitute a record of sue
cessfu party leadership for the welfare of
our country rare in its history.
We call attention with extreme pride to
the fact that the business of the country
is continuing with normal prosperity dur
ing the period of tariff revision. thus justi-
flying the faith of the people in the sound
ness of the Democratic tariff policy and
fulfilling the pledge of the party in the
national platform of 1912 that it would
not njure or destroy any legitimate in
dustry.
We indOrse and commend the senior
Senator and the members of the House of
Representatives from Maryland for their
nnwavering support of and helpful coop
GRAFTON in the passage of the Tariff bill.
including the great Democratic income
plan Of taxation. and also for their faithful
support of all measures before the Congress
in fulfllment of the pledges of the Demo
cratic party. by which ~purer and better
government Is TO be had and the rights of
the people best conserved and protected.
We pledge the Democrats of Maryland
TO uphold the hands of President Wilson
by electing Hon. Blair Lee to the United
States Senate at the coming election. With
a united party we shall strive by every
honorable means to secure his triumphant
election. so that Maryland may be repre-
scented by two Democrats in the Senate of
the United States and the dangerously
slender majority Of Democrats there may
be increased. 50 that beyond peradventure
the further pledges to the people in our
national platform may be expedtiously
redeemed.
We pledge the Democratic party to a
continuance of those progressive policies
which it has in the past inaugurated in
the State. and we declare our determine
ton to have Maryland keep step with the
truly progressive States of the Union in
all legislative and administrative programs
for the promotion of the highest interest
of the neonle