Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-11-04
Mr.. MELVIN ENDORSES TICKET.
Leading Citizen Expresses Confidence
In Administration Of Affairs Under
Democrats.
Communicated
Editor of The Evening Capital:

Editor of The Evening Capital:
In these closing days of the county
campaign, it IS gratifying to no: . the
vigor and III animity with which the
Democrats of Anne Arundel are PRESS
ing the claims and merits Of our
splendid county ticket; and this is an
opportune time, it would seem, to
urge upon every Democrat and every
citizen the wisdom and necessity of
going to the polls next Tuesday and
of interesting himself in getting his
neighbors and friends to go to the
polls, and insuring the election of
our local nominees by the largest pos
sibe majority.
We may be reasonably sure that
every Democrat on the ballot will win,
and may think that his success is the
same whether it be achieved by tens
of votes or by hundreds of votes, and
yet little reflection will demonstrate
that it is better to do all we can to
make assurance doubly sure, especial
ly as TO those candidates who have
opposition.
As an expression of confidence in
the administration of the affairs of
the County Commissioners office, the
seven Democrats whose names appear
on the Democratic ticket are entitled
to full vote, both because some of
them are to be reelected, and because
others will go into the Board for the
first time. and should feel that they
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by the clearest voice of the taxpayers
whom they are to serve.
The same reasoning applies to the
Judges of the Orphans Court. In
Judges Tydings, Cusack and Abbott,
the people have faithful servants of
best type, experienced and cap
able. and they, too, should receive
the votes of every intelligent man
who participates in the election.
Mr.. Bousch, for County Surveyor,
is an excellent candidate, and ought
not to be forgotten in the booth.
Mark your ballot for him, also.
Now, in some respects more than
is the case with any other city or
county in the State, Annapolis and
Anne Arundel have a most direct and
intimate interest in the composition
and the work of the Legislature.
1t is, therefore, of the highest mo-
ment, really of transcendent import
ance, that we should have a solid Dem
ocratic delegation in the State House.
We owe it, for one thing, to the rest
of the State, that our one vote in the
Senate Chamber and our four votes in
the House of Delegates should, on
those few occasions when party divi-
sions occur, be cast on the side which
represents the white population and
the most cherished public sentiment
of Maryland. Anne Arundel cannot
be true to herself, nor properly soliei-
tOus for the great concerns she has in
keeping, if she permits any but the
voice of Democrats to be heard when
her name is reached on the legisla-
tive roll-call.
Given candidates for the Legisla-
ture, whose Individual worth and
mental capabilities are such as to
Justify their nomination by the
Democratic party, these are always
to be preferred by any thoughtful
citizen or taxpayer of our county.
For Maryland is. in every aspiration
and sentiment, a Democratic State,
and a non-Democratic Legislature
we have had but twice in a life
time. = The Legislature of 1912 will
he Democratic body. There can be
no manner of doubt about that. In
the eagerness to grasp "half loaf, -
and their mistaken view of political
conditions, our good friends the
enemy, abandoned the ever-losing con-
test for seats in the General Assem-
bly,. Anne Arundel Democrats can
do something for their people this
winter in this body. Anne Arundel
Republicans, however personally lik-
able, could do nothing.
1t will be the duty and task of our
next Democratic Legislature, under
the able leadership and wise direction
of Blair Lee, of Montgomery, to carry
forward on the broadest lines the pro.
gIessive and reform policies and meas.
ures, the constructive statute-makinp,
of the Crothers administration, which
administration will be continued by
German. And the people of Anne
Arundel can just now perform no more
grateful and result-promising public
act than to place in the Senate hv fhe