Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-01-29
Trying To Place All Departments Of
State Government On A Basis OF
Efficiency and Economy.

conclusion CnaC all plans to bring
about an effective and thoroughly
practical organization of the party,
must be based on the record of Gov
ernor Richie in his management of
public affairs. And the Governor is
making record on which there will
be no difficulty in building up
strong, working party organization
He is not only making such a record
from day to day (he works every day.
but he has prepared plans for future
work, which will place the State Gov
eminent in all it's departments on
basis of the greatest efficiency and
economy. He is preparing to abolish
all sinecures of which there are sew
eral expensive ones in existence, and
ccnfne his official force to the small
est number possible-and those to be
men of efficiency, and fully qualified
fol the places for which they may be
named. Where there are boards and
commissions whose active duties can
he performed by one man, he will
have the number reduced to one. He
is so much pleased with his success in
reducing the Board of Police Com
lrElissioners to one man, that he is
lgeavinced that several other import
ant Boards can undergo like reduc-
ton, greatly to their advantage. He
is going through all the departments
III the most thorough manner with a
view to adding to their efficiency as
well as to reduction of expense, and
those easy going officials, who have
been following the old plan of attend
ing meeting now and then, and real
1y doing nothing worth while, except
to draw their salary, will be surpris-
ed when they are rudely awakene
some day at the fact that their super
ior officer Knows all about their ne
eject of duty. Many of the State Of
fetal Force act on the assumption
that they are in office, and are paid
considerable salaries, for their politi
can influence, and not with the eXpec-
tation that they have any real duties
to perform except those merely per-
functory in character. Gov. Richie
is taking an entirely different view of
this situation, and the future rule O.
his administration will be, that hose
who are paid by the State must work
for the State. and that men who draw
large salaries will not be allowed to
turn their work over to some under
paid subordinate. These, and other
plans, which are already formulated
by the Governor, will furnish basis
for thoroughly efficient and enthu-
sisstic party organization, which will
replace the decayed and rickety apol-
cgy which has been gradually going
to rack and ruin since the death of
= the late Senior Senator Arthur p
German. The Democratic Party in
Maryland has more and better mater
ial now than it ever had in all it's his
tory, out of which to build up really
e2 cellent and effective organization.
1t always rises stronger and better
after such a defeat as that which it
underwent last year; it has nothing
TO regret in its past in this State, and
the old jealousies and grudges of the
rast, have largely died out. The rank
and file is stronger and more full Of
life and vigor than ever, and such an
organization car be brought into be-
ing before the heat of summer, as
will bring back all the success of the
past and make the Republican Party
in Maryland look as it did in past
years, when a decent respectable
white citizen. felt obliged to apoli-
gize when he happened to be so I'M
fortunate as to find himself allied
with what was then called the Black
and Tan Organization, and when, in
not few sections of Maryland, Re-
publican was sent around to the
kitchen door if he called at a Gentle
mans House.
1t is commonly reported here that
Major Brooke Lee will reconsider his
decision not to be candidate for re-
election as Comptroller. In making
this change, if he does make it, Major
Lee acts the part of wisdom, just as
Mr.. Hugh A. McMullen did, when he
reconsidered a similar decision four
years ago. It has always been the
custom for the Comptroller to hold Of
fee for two terms, coincident with
the Governor, and the pressure on
Major Lee, like the pressure on Mr..
McMullen four years ago, has been
especially emphatic, and the indica-
tions are that he will bow to the
wishes of the people, most strongly
expressed in all parts of the State.
And in this connection it will not be
out of place to state that there APP
pears to be rising demand that SEN
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