The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-09-29

and physical. y list Ofsaid applicants
should be preserved, showing the aver
ages made and the order in which the
applicants stand, and from said list all
officers and men should hereafter be
appointed on the basis of merit and
efficiency. Said examination should
be simple in its character and relate
only to such subjects as properly per-
tain to the duties to be performed by
policemen, and no question should be
propounded in regard to the political
or religious belief of any applicant.
"The police force as now organized
and as it may hereafter be constituted
should be exempt from all political as
sessments and should be prohibited
from making contributions for political
purposes The members Of the force
should be subject to removal upon
charges made in writing for inefiiciency
or for other reasons, only after fair
and impartial trial.
"In short. the police force of Balti-
more city must have thrown around it
every safeguard that a carefullydrawn
law can contain, so that it shall be
lifted ont Of politics and kept from the
possibility oi hting used ior political
purposes, and every man, from the
marshal down, should be made to feel
that the preservation of law and order
is his first and only duty, and that so
long as that duty shall be we'll per-
formed he shall not he subject to re-
moval
SCHOOLS AND LABOR.
THE public schools, fostered and
cared for by the State, and always OBJ
jects of great solicitude to me, should
be taken from the domain of party poll
tics and their scope and efficiency en-
Iarged and improved, all of which can
be accomplished without increased
taxation for State purposes. On the
contrary, by economy in other expendi-
lures, a reduction in the interest OH the
public debt and careful outstanding
of the investments of the State, taxes
can he reduced.
Capital and labor must each have
the full and complete protection of the
law. The right to organize in each in
stance is already secured by acts passed
by Democratic Legislatures and ap-
proved 10y Democratic Governors.
Legislation that would retard progress
in the development of enterprises or
unduly restrict the rights of our fellow
citizens to advance their own interests
would not meet with my approval.
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS.
"The agricultural interests of the
State is the foundation stone of our
prosperity and should be relieved so
far as can be of its onerous burdens.
To this end | am in favor of 4 better
road system throughout the State, the
strictcst economy in the expenditure
of the States money, enabling US to
decrease the tax rate, and any and all
other proper legislation that has 4
tendency to lift the burdens and i'm
prove their condition.
Gas l said in the beginning, l re-
peat, that the questions at issue n this
election have nothing whatever to do
with the national problems, which in
another year you will be called upon
to consider.
"Thrce-fourths of the taxpayers of
the State, and very large share of
the intelligence and character of our
people, are to be found in the ranks of
the party which we represent to-day.
Shall it be said that they have supinely
relinquished their hold upon the con-
troll and power which are rightfully
theirs, and handed over their best in
terests to a party the very foundation
Of whose power and a very large por-
tion of whose constituents are antago-
nistic, not only to the material inter
ests of our people, but to the peace and
security of their social life.
"Thanking you, gentlemen, for the
courtesy with which you have dis
charged the duty imposed upon you
by the convention. | cow leave the
final settlement of all these questions
to the individual voter, who alone must
determine what is best for the State of
Maryland and the people within her
| borders"
Mr.. RAYNER'S CHALLENGE.