The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-10-21
MIR. GOLDSBOROUGH'S LETTER

The Candidate For Comptroller Ac-
cepts And Reviews The Record
OF The Last Four Years.
Mr.. Phillips Lee Goldsborough's letter.
which was also addressed to Mr.. Pearrc.
was as follows:
am gra teful for the honor offered by the
Republican party in rendering me a rcnom
nation for the office of Comptroller, and
am conscious Of the broad responsibilities
that follow the acceptance thereof.
These responsibilities accept, and.
should the voters of Maryland see fit to
bestow upon me the Office for which | have
been nominated. it shall be my aim to so
administer the trust that it shall be said
the interests thus committed to my charge
have been well and faithfully kept. The
Republican party, in its platform of 1895,
distinctly pledged its nominees to great
and needed reforms in the government of
Maryland. The leading papers of the State
warmly Endorsed the utteranccs of the
Cambridge platform, and fearlessly fought
for the supremacy of that party. In this
battle for good government the indie
pendent Democratic voters of Maryland
stood side by side with the Republican
party. 1t cannot be that the memories of
the struggle of November >, 1898, have
passed from the minds of those who did
hD Il 4
cheerfully. though the danger was not
light, that Maryland might be lifted from
that political thraldom which had dark
cncd her fair escutchcon for years past.
need not particularize; the memory of
those days ana political deeds still live.
and 1t cannot be, nay, it is not So that
those who rescued this State from the
hands of those who had not properly exc
cutcd the trusts rcposed in them will per-
init the work then done to be now undone.
Pledges Kept.
The pledges of four years ago have been
kept; the reforms have been accomplished
yes every one of them-and the people of
Maryland have seen and now know that
during the administration of Governor
Lowndcs the State has had four years of
good, honest government literally, but at
the same time economically, administered
Upon the record thus made we stand ready
and willing, nay, eager, to meet our dis
tinguiShcd Democratic opponents, and If
that record he one of degradation and dis
grace of political environment that is re-
tarding the progress of Baltimore and cauS-
ing reign of terror in almost every Re
publican county of the State, as is charged
by the distinguished candidate for Attor-
ncy-General, Mr. Rayucr, then | say that
we who have been nominated by the Re
publican party of Maryland are not en-
titled to the vote of Il single son of Mary
land. But, let us see what that record is,
upon what proof this terrible Indictment"
is framed and found. Was it an act of
degradation" and 'disgrace' to pass Il re
Was reign of terror brought about in
Baltimore city and throughout the State
by the enactment of an election law?"
| Was not the reign of terror" spoken of
something that existed prior to and in
| 1895? Did the passage of n law giving to
Baltimore city Il new charter bring about
| this "dlsgracc' which this gentleman re-
| fers to? If these be the counts of the in
dictment to which the Republican party
must plead, then | say we are guilty, for
| it was that party which placed those laws
upon the statute books OF Maryland. But
may not ask, has not the wrong political
party been accused, and should not the
Democratic party be indicted for not hay
ing years ago adopted reform measures
which the people Of the State were justly
demanding?
But of these reform measures, these pill
lars of good government which the Repub-
lcan party has builded in the past four
years, | shall not write in detail, but viii!
contine myself to the operations of the
Treasury Department OF the State, over one
branch of which have had the honor to
preside for the last two years, and which.
for two years Immediately preceding We're
under the direction of another Republican
official, the Hon. Robert =. Graham, thus
covering four years of Republican admins
tration.
Reduction OF State Debt.
AT the close of the fiscal year September,
1895, we find that the net debt of the State
was 81, O05, 253.1 10, while at the close of the
fiscal year 1899 the net debt was $2,597,-
042.95 or a reduction In four years under
present administration of $4OS, 30. IS, not
lures Of 1896 and 1898 increased the State
debt $1,2o0,00o for the purpose of rebuild
ing the Maryland Pcnitentiary, entire new