Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-10-24
Ritchie Calls Vote For Rival Only
Gamble.

broening would be gamble which de
not think the people of Maryland are will
ing to take"
Inc Governor said nothing that Broenine
had done as Mayor of Baltimore would be
any assurance that the high level" of the
State government during the last decade
would be continued.
lhis was the first of three speeches Gov
ernor Kltchie was scheduled to make in
montgomery county He spoke at night
at Bethesda and at Silver Spring with his
running mates.
Z. Brooke Lee. Chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Advisory Committee, also spoke
at these meetings, asserting that the
Democratic registration figures in Baltimore
mad demonstrated the lack of strength
behind the Republican Statewide candi-
dates.
Mr.. Lee also replied to attacks made on
him Wednesday night by Republican speak
ers. including Galen L. TAFT. Chairman of
the Republican State Central Committee
and Representative Frederick N. Zihlman.
Ritchie cited the progress made in Mary
land by the public schools. the State health
system and the State Roads Commission
under his Administrations
Contrast that record with the record
OF the gentleman in the City Hall. he said.
There you see efforts being made to evade
the rhartor r,rnu;o;ono CO.. &ho o,,o.5;na
of contracts. There you see parks being
built in the outlying sections of the city
instead of in the congested sections, where
they are badly needed.
Mayor Broening, in the City Hall, has
done nothing to assure the people of this
State that the work which has been done
there in the last ten years in building up
the school system, in eradicating disease
and in building highways economically.
will be continued wisely and where they
are needed"
The Governor also referred to the failure
of the Federal Government to make good
Its pledges in regard to farm relief. drought
relief and employment.
David J. Lewis. candidate for Congress,
also attacked the Hoover Administration.
particularly for its part in the passage of
the Smoct- Hawley tariff bill. This measure.
he said. "exempIified the folly and the
ignorance of the system which we have
adopted for making tariffs"
Under this system. Mr.. Lewis continued,
protectionist Congress "can pay its friends
if the nation must be bled ten times over
in the operation"
Declaring that less than ten per cent of
the surgical instruments used in this coun-
try were manufactured in the United
States. the last tariff bill increased the rate
on surgical instruments from forty-five to
fifty five per cent ad valorem.
He argued that every time the hospitals
of the country spent $1,000 for surgical in
struments they were paying over $4O0 in
a "sales" tax in order to protect the manu-
facturers of one-tenth of the instruments
they were purchasing.
MIR. Lee declared that the administra
ton of the county and State by the Demo-
Gratis has been so remarkably good that in
order to hope for political success our oppo-
sition has been required to create imaei-
nary ills.
I'VE believe" he added, that when the
opposition's 1880 county platform and can
didates hurled unveriied and indefinite
charges, alleging all types of corruption
and misgovernment and shouted generally
without specifications aboat bossism. they
are driven to this line of attack because
they are unable to find anything definite
in the true record on which they could
hang their attack,
Congressman Zihlman. State Chairman
TAFT and Mr.. Welsh candidate for States
Attorney, at Republican rallies Wednesday.
definitely identified the keynote of the
Republican county platform as directed
AGAINST the general tax and public improve
ment plan of Montgomery county and
me personally.
Needing a political villain. the Repub-
lican candidates have agreed to hang their
indefinite charges, not upon the thirty
county administration candidates elected
by a majority of 1880 Democrats in
direct primary. but upon me as one indi-
vidual who is not running. in the obvious
hope that unsupported attacks upon me
would be good bait for my fractional enc
mics who participated in the recent Demo-
cratic primary.