Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-09-26


our party to each and all of these remedial
measures, and we pledge ourselves to CO.
operate to the fullest extent with the Fed
eral Government in the adoption and car
ryine out of a nationwide plan to lower
the cost of living.
ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY.
We pledge our party to the strictest
economy in the administration of our
State Government To this end we declare
for:
1. The creation of a Central Purchasing
Department for all State boards. commits
sions and offices.
2. The establishment of an efficient
merit system applicable to the employees of
the various State offices. boards and COM
missions.
8. Careful preparation of the State budget
so that the State revenues may be conserved
while the legitimate objects of govern
ment are attained.
a. The enactment of the fewest possible
laws which create additional offices, cause
extra expense or are burdensome to or I'M
duly regulatory of the public.
S. An efficient. businesslike and econom-
ical administration of existing law and the
greatest possible coordination among the
several State Departments.
BALTIMORE Cry.
We recognize the time-honored Demo-
cratic principle of local self-government
as fully applicable to Baltimore city. The
people Of this great political division of
the State should have complete home rule
in all their local affairs. inasmuch as the ex-
penses of administration are borne entirely
by taxes levied upon them.
We specifically favor the enactment Of
legislation giving to the people of Balti-
more the right to determine by referen-
dunn vote whether or not the Police Board
shall be appointed by the Mayor of Balti-
more, who is to be elected at the next
election.
We pledge our party to such an increase
in the salaries of the police force as will
make those salaries compare with other
salaries and wages. and to the passage of
the necessary legislation as soon as posi-
BILE after the Legislature of 1920 meets, so
that the increased pay may begin at the
earliest practicable date
Coop ROADS,
We pledge our party to the completion
of needed extensions of. or additions to,
the State roads system. and. wherever
necessary, to widen and strengthen the
State highways also. that the State road
system be extended and built through in
towns.
We pledge our party to plan a system
Of and to build such secondary or lateral
roads as may be needed to furnish the
farmers and others with good roads over
which to travel and haul their produce to
the main State highways and to the ship
ping points, the cost thereof to be equita-
bly, devided between the State and the
county.
We believe that both the main State
highways and the secondary or lateral
roads should be maintained as part of the
State road system. and that in no event
should the proceedSof any bond issue ever
be used for maintenance purposes; and
we pledge our party to this policy.
We pledge our party to make appro-
priations which shall be sufficient to en-
able this State to avail itself to the fullest
extent of the cooperation Of the United
States in the continuation Of Federal aid
to roads in Maryland.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
We pledge our party to a liberal increase
in teachers salaries; to measures which
will give to students at the State normal
schools reasonable relief from the cost of
sustenance while attending such schools
so that capable persons without adequate
means may be able to become teachers
to such an extension of teacher training
facilities as will make it possible to sup
ply our schools with trained and thorough
ly capable teachers, who have successfully
completed an approved course of study.
We pledge our party also to the strength
ening and development of our public school
system in all its branches; to the end that
the children Of our State may, in healthfuI
and well-kept school buildings. receive q
common-sense, practical and intelligently
thought-out education at the hands of the
m st competent teaching and administra.
tive staff that can be secured.
AGRICULTURE.
We have always favored the most liberal
policy toward the promotion of agriculture
The latest and most approved method:
OF soil treatment. the use of fertilizers, the
testing of adaptable varieties Of seed anC
fertilizers, the marketing Of perishable
products, the proper feeding and care o.
live stock, are all problems in which the
State should serve the farmer.
We pledge our party to the most liberia
support to the State Board Of Aericutur,
and the Maryland State College of Agri
culture. and to the agricultural demonstra
ton and experimental work carried on b,
them, and the enlargement and extension
Of this work.
We favor adequate provision for payinI
the States share of the expense of con
demned cattle.
Thousands of acres of land in this State
could be made productive or more pro
ductive II properly drained. We therefore
favor policy which will emphasize tn,
Importance Of drainage.
OYSTERS
The pledges Of former Democratic plat
forms for the restoration of the natura
oyster beds and bars to public use having
been redeemed. we hereby pledge our party
to the continued protection of the oyste
men in the free use Of those natural bed