The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-12-04
Friday, December 4. 1914
MATTERS POLITICAL AND
OTHERWISE

MATTERS POLITICAL AND
OTHERWISE
It is the ambition of this jour-
nal to do something for the bet
terment of Prince Georges
county. Not that we think the
county to be retrograding in any
respect, or even drifting along
in a listless manner; but if con-
ditions are carefully analysed,
we believe that many avenues OF
improvement may be discovered,
and many energies awakened.
First of all, is there a proper
spirit of local pride? Do we, as
citizens and voters, demand for
the county all that she is entitled
to receive? There has been rap
i'd growth in population in many
sections; the assessable basis re-
ceives healthy accretions each
year, and this development has
been noticeable for a long time.
Prince Georges County can no
longer be considered a part OF
that territory politically dubbed
'the Black Belt". Democracy
has been in the ascendency here
for nearly a decade. AS an
integral part of the 9Th Con-
gressional District it would be
supposed that its relative size, as
compared with other counties
in the district, might entitled
this county to more consideration,
and yet how rarely has it had
one of it's sons in Congress. The
Republicans do not seem to be
disposed to furnish a candidate,
but turn to Charles or Calvert
for available Congressional tim
Der. The Democrats have not
done much better. Since the
days of the late lamented Comp
ton who represented US in Con-
gress with SO much honor and
distinction, our people do not
seem to have made a really unit
ed effort to have as a represent
alive, Prince Georgian. It is
true that nominations have been
given to gentlemen in this coun-
ty, when they meant nothing
more than empty honor" and
the support accorded the candl-
dates has been half-hearted and
often embittered by fractional
contentious.
AS an integral and important
part of the Seventh Judicial Cir
cult composed of this county and
her sisters St. Mary's Calvert
and Charles, we have suffered
still more in the distribution of
honors. Since the adoption of
the last State Constitution, near
ly so years ago, the Chief Judge
has come from either Charles or
Calvert County; and Calvert had
an associate Judge when it did
not have the Chief Judge.
St. Mary's has had one of the
Judgeships continuously, while
this county has been thus honor
ed for only a portion of this time.
Have our people been lacking in
intelligence or political acumen?
We are not willing to concede it.
But there has existed here for
MANY years an unfortunate ri
valry between party leaders who
seemed unwilling to make per-
sonal sacrifices for the sake of
party gain. fractional fights
have lost many contests, and the
Republicans have been wise
enough, for their own good, to
foment these differences.
We hope that a better spirit
may animate the Democracy of
Prince Georges next year.
There will be important local Of
fees to be filled. If primary
contests are to be made, let them
be conducted in a more magnani-
nous spirit, so that all may unite
in the election Of the Democratic
nominees. The politicians are
hustling already for vantage
ground and the people are watch
ing. More anon.