Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-08-16
HON. ARTHUR P. GORMAN
Some Potent Facts About The
Candidate For Governor Who
For Nearly Eight Years
A Member OF The
State Senate.
YOUNG MAN WITH A RECORD.
A Man Who Has Pursued His Course
With Admirable Judgm ent And
Self Poise.

Ihe hon. Arthur 4. German is wei
known to the people of MARYLAND
For nearly eight years he has been /;
member of the State Senate and ha.
served faithfully through four ses
sions.
For the past two years as President
| of the Senate he has occupied the off.
cial position next to that of the Chief
Executive and if during that time
there had been vacancy in the office
he would have been the Governor OF
the State. 1t is to that Office that he
| now aspires and he is asking the
Democratic party for the nomination.
The only way in which he can get the
| nomination is by the free votes of the
members of the Democratic party and
that is the only way he wishes to get
it.
Mr.. German is young man, but he
has a record and upon that record he
is willing to stand. 1t is a record of
achievement and of service to his peo-
pie in which any man might take a
just pride. At the State Democratic
Convention in 1907 the Democratic
party first took position in favor of a
great plan for the improvement of the
public roads. The party platform of
that year contained this clause:
''The work of construction and i'm
provement of our public roads already
so we'll begun should be steadily kept
up until, as the result of regular and
judicious expenditure, there shall ex-
ist in Maryland a system of public
roads as good as that to be found in
any of our sister states.
Senator German wrote that plank
and by his influence it was put into
the party platform. The subsequent
work on road improvement was its
outcome AS chairman of the finance
committee, Senator German held a
place of great power. In that place
ne was ever faithful to his people and
stood firmly against all demands for
appropriations which were not well
and completely justified. And the
record will show it.
More than this, in order to afford
some relief to the heavily taxed prop
erty owners Senator German consid-
cred it no more than just to put a
the moe wealthy corporation. He
introduced and had enacted a bill
which increased by 20 per cent. the
tax upon the gross receipts of rail-
roads earning over $4,000 per mile.
This increase made large addition to
the revenues of the State, amounting
over $3.50, 900 year.
But the largest measure of relief to
the taxpyers of Maryland grew out of
the investigation of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company. The State
owned $500 shares of the capital
stock of the Washington Branch of
the par value of S550,0 Since the
failure of the road in 1896 the Wash
ington Branch has ceased to pay divi-
dend, although Senator German was
convinced that dividends were earned
and that the State was not being
fairly treated. He, therefore, intro
duced resolutions appointing a joint
committee of the Legislature to inves-
tigate the earnings of the Washington
Branch. He took prominent part in
the investigation that followed and
the result of it was that the railroad
company paid the State $4,000, 00O
for an unproductive asset and one
which, in view of the new Washing
ton station, and the changes it made.
would probably never have become
productive. That sale cancelled So.
500, 600 of the States debt and the an
nual tax for interest and sinking fund.
They owe that relief to Senator Cor.
mans investigation.
In the Senate, Mr.. German being
chairman of the Finance Committee,
was naturally more occupied with
revenue measures than with other
legislation. Yet he did not neglect
| laws looking to fair elections and the
right of the people to manage theil
| own affairs. He was the author oi
the Primary Election Law of 1908, be-
ing the first law for legalized pri
mary in the counties ever passed by
| the Maryland Legislature, and alsC
the Senatorial Primary Election Law
The evidence of the value of Mr.
| Germans services in the Senate mex
| to the record, is the testimony of &
| careful and ever observant eye wit
4 ness. GuCH d WlNuSSS we nave IN int
Baltimore Suns Annapolis correspon
dent. We find the following estimat,
of Mr.. Gorman's work at Annapolis il
q dispatch to the Sun. referring to tn,
railroad investigation:
From the first move in the affail
down to the present time, March -
| 1906, Senator German, Jr., has pur
sued his course with admirable judg
ment and self-poise and without an,
suspicion of Interior or improper mo
tives and without any taint of poll
ties. One of the conspicuous features
| of Mr.. Germans character is his in
tense earnestness. When he under
| takes anything, he does it with al
his might and with singleness an,
honesty of purpose. To this is to b,
attributed his success at this sessiol
of the Legislature. He has mad
some mistakes here, but upon tn
whole his record is good. His intro
duction of a drastic and effectiv