The Republican., 1899-10-12
COMPTROLLER GoLDsBoRoUGH


Cites Reforms In The Operation of Til,
Treasury Department.
Comptroller Goldsborough wrot,
from Cambridge on Tuesday;
Ur. Chairman and Gentlemen oftb,
Notifcation Committee:
Il am grateful for the honor offered
by the Republican party in rendering
me denomination for the Office OF
| comptroller, and am conscious of the
| broad possibilities that follow the
acceptance thereof.
"These responsibilities | accent
and should the voters of MARYLAND
see fit to bestow upon me the office
for which l have been nominated, il
shall be my aim to so administer the
trust that it shall be said the interests
| thus committed to nv charge have
been well and faithfully kept.
The Republican party. in its plat.
form of 1895, distinctly pledged its
nominees TO great and needed reforms
IN the government of Maryland The
leading papers of the state warmly
lndorsed the utterances of the Cam
bridge platform and fearlessly fought
Tor the supremacy of that party. In
this battle for good government the
independent Democratic voters of
Maryland stood side by side with the
Republican party. 1t cannot be that
the memories of the struggle of No
vember 3, 1895, have passed from the
minds of those who did yeoman
service upon that day, and did it
cheerfully, though the danger was
not light, and did it that MARYLAND
might be lifted from that political
thraldom which had darkened her
fair escutcheon for years past.
Il need not particularize. The
memory of those days and political
deeds still live, and it cannot be, nay.
it is not so, that those who rescued
this State from the hands of those
who had not properly executed the
trusts reposed in them will permit
the work then done to be now un-
done. 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
Lowndes 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 distinguished Democratic
opponents, and if that record be one
of degradation and disgrace of a
political environment that is retard-
ing the progress of Baltimore and
causing a reign of terror in almost
every Republican county of the
State, as is charged by the distin-
guished candidate for Attorney-Gen
eral-Mr. Rayner-then | say that
we who have been nominated by the
Republican party of Maryland are
not entitled to the vote of a single
son of Maryland. But let us see what
that record is-upon which this
terrible indictment is framed and
found.
WAS it an act of degradation and
disgrace to pass a reassessment law,
a free school book law? 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 something
spoken of that existed prior to and in
1895? Did the passage of a law Civ
ing to Baltimore city a new charter
bring about this disgrace which this
gentleman refers 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 having years ago adopted reform
measures which the people of the
State were justly demanding?
"But of these reform measures,
these pillars of good government
which theRepublican party has build
ed in the past four years, l shall not
define in detail, but will confine
myself to the operations of the Treas
ury department of the State, over
one branch of which have had the
honor to preside for the last
two years, and for the two years
Immediately preceding were under
the direction of another Republican
official, Hon. Robert p. Graham, thus
covering four years of Republican
administration.
AT the close of the fiscal year
September, 1895, we find that the net
debt of the State was $3,005, ,253. 13,
while at the close of the fiscal year
1899 the debt was $1,597, ,042.95, or
reduction in four years under the