Evening star., 1932-07-01
R|TCH|E'S RECORD
NOMINATION PLEA
TydingS Tells Convention of
Balanced Budget and
Long GovernorShip.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
CHICAGO, III, July Gov. Albert /
c. Ritchiss record in keeping Mary
lands budget balanced with a surplus
in the treasury his consistent stand
for States rights on the prohibition
question and his opposition to central /
ization Of national power were cited by
Senator Millard E. Tydings of Mary
land, in presenting the popular Gov
ernor Of that State to the convention
as a presidential nominee.
After stressing the fact that, as Mary
lands fourth-term Governor, Ritchie
already has served longer in consecutive
terms than any other Governor in the
United States, Senator Tydings said.
What caused the unusual bestowals
of confidence in a commonwealth 300
years old? 1t is no mystery. The rec
ord gives the answer
First, he completely reorgsnized the
State government, rebuilding it finally
and soundly on a business basis, elem
mating waste and duplication. He fused
1t into a compact. workable instru-
mentality to serve the public good The
State tax rate on homes and farms has
been not increased, but cut 30 per cent
since he took Office. The State budget,
which he developed. has never been out
of balance. Even at this hour there Is
a 10 per cent cash surplus in the treas
ury.
Bonds at High Mark.
Now mark you well this almost un-
behevable assertion, which testifies as
nothing else can to his business ability
This very month the bonds of the State
of Maryland have sold higher than the
bonds of the United States Government
itself.
Contrast this record with the record
Of the present national Government
under Herbert Hoover. Here is our
country crying for reduction in taxes,
crying for reorganization of its Gov
ernment with its muddled finances, un-
balanced budget s30O0,OO0 deficit all
under Hoover And here is a man
with a record Of governmental reor-
ganization, cash surplus in his States
treasury, a reduced tax rate to his
credit with the bonds of his State oc-
cupying. alone and unrivaled, the very
pinnacle Of financial integrity in the
whole world
Search the Nation over for a record
Of achievement to which we can attract
the voters to the Democratic standard,
and I say to you that no man can
furnish it as this man does. On these
facts alone, millions of oppressed tax
payers of all parties would flock to him,
to obtain for the Nation the relief he
has already so bountifully given his
State"
Senator Tydings recalled that in 1922
a Republican President asked the Gov
enors of coal mining States to call out
the National GuIrd to police mines.
Gov. Rltchie," said Tydings. was
the only Governor to refuse the request.
He told the President that the presence
Of armed troops would mean bloodshed, |
and he did not believe it necessary then,
or any other time to settle labor dis
putes by bullets and bayonets."
Centralizing of Government.
Senator Tydings told the convention
that time after time Gov. Ritchie has
pointed out that Capitalization of
National power, coupled with the
granting Of subsidies by the Federal
Government, and its incursion upon
fields not properly belonging to it, was
creating a huge Frankenstein, which
would not be responsive to the will OF
the people. that it would demand such
nourishment in the form Of taxation,
that the day would come when the
people would stagger beneath the load
and cry aloud in pain and ask for
deliverance"
No man in the country, Tydings as
serted, has fought harder than Gov.
Ritchie ito preserve this republic as
1t was originally conceived, a republic
in which the States would remain
States and in which the Federal Gov
ernment would confine itself to national
questions only. and not be a huge octo-
pus reaching its myriad and expansive
tentacles into every phase Of our State, |
business and personal activities.
"A decade ago." Senator Tydings
continued when other mems tongues
were silenced by fear or held in resig-
nation Of the forces, which had violated
these great principles and changed our
fundamental philosophy by inserting
the eighteenth amendment in the Con-
stitution of the United States, the fight
ing blood of his Scotch ancestry surg
ed up in one great flood and undis-
mayed by criticism or eXrodiency. he
dared to cry out against this ruinous
experiment"
Question of States Rights.
Senator Tydings said that with Gov /
Ritchie the question was not one of |
liquor or no liquor, but a question of
whether the Federal or the State gov
ernments are best equipped to deal with
this problem in the interest of true tenn
perance and good government. Tydings /
declared the Maryland Governor pre- /
dicted the abuses. which would fol- /
low this experiment, that lack of law /
observance, crime, graft and hypoc- !
risv."
The speaker reminded the delegates 1
that while Ritchie is a son of the 1
South. born in Virginia, the North .
knows him, too, "and loves him deeply /
for he has been in it and worked in
it, The Senator added that the man
he is placing before the convention I
likewise symbolizes the "whole-souled /
candor which the West demands. .
Truly. he submerges all sectional lines /
he towers above all groups and dis /
tinctions"
While the convention was considering |