Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-03-21
HON. JOHN WALTER SMITH
NOTIFIED OF ELECTION
Standardized Says He Will Go To Wash
ingfon With The Purpose of Restoring
Confidence Among The Masses

Ex-Gov John Walter Smith laid
out the course by which he will steer
when he enters the United States Senate
in AN address Friday night at the Rennert
in Baltimore to the committee of the
House Of Delegates and State Senate,
which formally notified him that, in ac-
cordance with the results of the Sena-
torial primary election, he had been
elected to succeed Senator Whyte.
In his speech Senator Elect Smith
spoke of the ruthless wrecking of
legitimate business enterprise by out
ragged Legislative bodies. and declared
that he deplored and would try to avoid
extremes in legislation.
His speech follows
while it adds to the zest of success
TO know that am the direct choice
Of the voters of the majority party of
Maryland for the exalted Office Of SEN
ator of the United States il also adds
to the overwhelming sense Of RESPONSE
biity in the discharge of the manifold
and exacting duties of that position
duties TO which ! am new 10 feel | am
watched and criticised by the people
of the nation that may cast credit.
or perhaps discredit. upon the act of
the General Assembly Of my native
State in electing me IN obedience TO the
expressed wishes u the people. and.
most Of all. that | am directly answer
able to the people of this State. and.
that ! must look to them as my judges
and masters in way none of my dis
tlngulshed predecessors have done. To
say whether | have acquitted myself
creditably. and whether | have served
them wisely and well ! shall cndeavor
to do so with all my mental and physical
strength
II yield to none in my love for my
party or in my steadfast adherence To
my party's welfare and fortunes in
times alike of prosperity or disaster:
but ! promise you. gentlemen of the
committees, and through you your
honorable bodies. and the people Of
Maryland, that my service in the Senate
of the United States will not be married
by any narrow or bigoted adherence To
partisan ideas, and that | shall follow
my party only so long as it serves the
highest welfare of our people
SENATOR or ALL PARTIES.
while it is perfectly true that owe
my election TO the Democratic voters
of Maryland and to the Democratic
members Of the General Assembly.
conceive my duty as a Senator to ex-
tend 70 people Of all parties. and that
my time and attention should be at the
dlsposal Of every worthy claim. no
matter by whom presented.
II am far more alive to my own de-
iicient equipment for the problems
which must soon confront me than my
most bitter critic regret my limi-
tations far more sincerely than my best
friend but ! shall undertake the dis
charge of my official duties with fear,
il is true, but also with a determination
to apply myself with energy and the (
resolve To give ungrudgingly the best
that is in me TO the public service. |
hope shall succeed
81 feel that there is much that can
be done by one who desires to avoid eX-
tremesin legislation. have spent my life
in business: ] know all classes. | have
witnessed with sorrow the struggle of
the people TO support the burden of
monopoly carried by constituencies men
to criminal extremes. have seen the
ruthless wrecking of legitimate business
enterprises by outraged legislative
bodies, in indiscriminate crusades, which /
too often resulted in the punishment of
the innocent.
There certainly should be sane
and safe, if not a spectacular position. (
in the field of usefulness somewhere
between the pillaging, autocratic cor
poration and the blind communism,
which would destroy the good with the .
bad. 1t seems to me that the saving /
salt of common sense and experience /
could do much to preserve the country 1
if applied at this time, and that nothing /
is so much needed in our national affairs +.
as confidence on the part of the masses
that their necks are not to bee CALLED by