The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-10-03

w nile we declare our urn arrogance
to the preservation of every right of
individual liberty under the law, we
declare that public peace and public
order are absolute and essential con-
ditions of free government, and we
therefore, will oppose with our utmost
power the forces of disorder .and law
lessness, from whatever source they
may emanate, which are unhappily
manifesting themselves in many parts
of the country. The supremacy of the
Constitution and the laws made in pur-
suance thereof are the best and wisest
guarantees of the rights, liberty, and
happiness of all the people, and all
movements seeking by force, threats,
organized popular clamor to overthrow
or supplant these guarantees are at
tempts to destroy the American system
of representative government organized
and established by the Constitution.
NATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR.
We endorse the course Ofthat great
statesman, Woodrow Wilson, who.
with malchless courage and sagacity
has applied the eternal principles of
free government to the mementous So
cial and economic questions which have
in the recent years come upon US to
tense our national life and test our pa
triotism.
The Democratic party, through it's
control of both the executive and legis-
lative branches of the national Govern
ment from 1918 to 1919, has kept pace
in its public acts with the social and
material progress of the American peo-
pie. Its constru ctive legislation touch
ing the social welfare, industrial pro-
gress and banking system of our coun-
ty brought US to the fateful days of
April. 1917, strong, prosperous and re-
sourceful and enabled US, as a united
and spirited people, to crown with vic
tory the cause of Liberty in the great
est war in the history of the world.
We take pride in the way in which
the Democratic war administration,
founded in deep patriotism called to
its service, regardless of party, those
men whose training and experience
made them necessary in the mobiliza-
ton of the countrY's entire resources
AS result great army was assembled
with remarkable speed, trained and
transported across the seas, equipped
to strike the final blows for genuine
liberty in the world year before
Europeans believed it possible. Large
ness of expenditure in the accomplish
ment of such result was national
economy, as we'll as the motive force of
national triumph.
In contrast with Democratic perform
ance, we call attention to the course of
the Republican Congress, which, during
the month of its complete legislative
control, has failed to rise above petty
partisan politics, and in consequence
has failed to respond to the imperative
legislative needs of the American peo-
pie touching the varied problems of re-
construction Of the nations industrial
life which press upon us for immediate
solution to preserve our country and
our government.
We endorse the efforts of President
Wilson to gain recognition for the
principle that controversies among ma
tions be settled by peaceable means
and we give our wholehearted support
to the treaty of peace drafted at the
Peace Conference at Versailles, includ-
ing the league of nations, which is a
part of that agreement.
THE STATE ADMINISTRATION
We remind the people of the State,
of the redemption by the Democratic
party, under the administration of Gov
ernor Harrington; of the pledges made
by US in the platform of 1915. The
budget amendment has been adopted.
Continuing appropriations have been
abolished, and legislative expenses
greatly reduced. Useless offices have
been eliminated, the membership of
the State Roads Commission reduced
and the Conservatio Commission
formed. The State Law Department.
under the Attorney General, has been
created, and special counsel to State
boards and commission abolished. A
uniform system of accounting has been
inaugurated. The envelope system
has been abolished, and a special regis
tration day before primary elections
provided in the counties. The Home
Rule law has been passed. The system
of good roads has been maintained and
enlarged. The agricultural resources
of the State have been developed anG
the State College of Agriculture re-
organized. The puplic school system
has been improved. A state Board Of
Prison Control has been created ant
the way clared for the adjustment O.
contract labor.
In order to meet the war emergency
and to enable Maryland to do its whole
duty in keeping with its traditions
Governor Harrington convened the
General Assembly in special session
in June, 1918. The work already be-
gun by the Maryland Preparedness ane
Survey Commission appointed by hin
enabled the General Assembly to pro
vide the needed legislation without
dol lon H1nfn -
lation drafted by the Attorney Genera
was presented on the day the Legis
lature met.
Among the bills were those providing
for million-dollar war loan, the Mary
land Council of Defense, State farm
for prison labor, the Maryland State
Guard, suspending judgments, lega
proceedings and statutes of limitation
in behalf of soldiers and sailors absent
in service, amendin G militia laws, pro.
viding that soldiers and sailors should
not be stricken form the registration
books and authorizing successive legal
holidays There were also other meas
ures designed to conserve health, pro-
perty, and the Compulsory Work law
the first of its kind in the country, which
was copied by other States and received
nationwide approval. The Absent
Soldiers and Sailors Vote law was
passed The prompt and effective
steps taken by Maryland proved in
valuable assistance in helping to mo-
billie the resorces of the country for
war purposes.
But the constructive legislation en-
acted during the present administration
did not end with the redemption of the
party pledges and the provisions for
the war emergencies. The health laws
have been revised In portant re 70 rms
have peen effected in the bank and H.
surance laws. The Motor Vehicle laws
have been amended. Measures aiding
the conservation of fish, oysters and
crabs have been enacted. Child labor
legislation has been passed.
The financial affairs of the State
have been managed with exceptional
ability, the accounting system mprov-
ed and simplitied, and the Comptroller s
office maintained upon Il tn roughly
business basis under Mr.. McMullen
We have done far more than redeem
the promises made by US to the people
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