The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1913-10-03


ment which repeals and re-enacts with
amendments any section of the exist
ing law is printed all new words pro-
posed to be added to the existing law
shall be printed in italics and all
words proposed to be stricken from
the existing law shall be indicated by
Cancelled type or some other appro-
pirate method, so that proposed
changes in law can be readily seen
and understood.
Fourteenth-We declare our firm
adherence to the policy regulating the
public service corporations through a
Public Utilities Commission. Said
commission, being a quasi judicial
body, should be entirely, free from cor
porate and partisan political control,
and the provisions of the law tending
to make it peoples court" for the
expeditions redress of grievances,
without formality or technicality.
should be strengthened and main
tanned.
Rights Of Oystermen.
Fifteenth-The Democratic party
pledges itself to guard zealously the
rights of the oystermen and all of
those who earn their livelihood out of
the waters of our State, and we do
hereby pledge our party representa-
tives at the next Legislature of Mary
land to enact such legislation as will
protect or restore their rights. In or
der to- guarantee fully that no natural
oyster bottoms shall be leased by the
State for private planting, we specific
ally promise the passage of law duly
authorizing and empowering the Shell
Fish Commissioners, upon proper and
reasonable complaint, and after due
notice to the party complaining, to
make a re-examination of the bottom
complained against, and il such COM
plant be well founded, so to amend
the survey heretofore made that to the
fullest extent, under the spirit of the
law, no natural oyster bed, bar or
rock shall be left out of said survey
or become subject to private leasing.
Uniformity In Taxation.
Sixteenth--We promise legislation
providing changes in the taxation and
assessment laws looking to uniformity
and equity in the enforcement of tax
levies.
North Point Anniversary.
We indorse the movement for a fit
ting celebration of the one hundredth
anniversary of the Battle of North
Point, the bombardment of Fort Nc
Henry and the writing of our national
anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
as an event not only of Statewide but
of national interest.
Deepening Baltimore Harbor.
We congratulate the people of our
State upon the increase in the COM
merce of the port of Baltimore which
has followed the decision of the Inter
State Commerce Commission establish
ing reasonably just >differential in the
freight rates to and from the great
Eastern seaports.
We believe that, with its natural ad-
vantages, consisting of being nearer
to the coal fields and to the great
grain fields of the West, and in having
q capacious land-locked harbor there
is a splendid opportunity for Balti-
more to obtain large share of the in
creased commerce that will follow the
opening of the Panama Canal, and we
call upon our Representatives in Con-
gress to make every effort to secure
an adequate appropriation from the
national Government proportionately
as great as the other Eastern seaports
for the dredging of our Baltimore har-
bar to take care of the increased COM
pect.
For Impartial Primaries.
We declare that the sole purpose for
which the party organization exists is
to organize and win the party's battles
at the general elections, and we there
fore pledge the choice of this conven-
ton for State chairman to place all
the party's machinery, poll books and
paraphernalia at the disposal, on equal
terms. of all the Democratic candi-
dates in the primaries, without pre-
judice or partiality, and to refrain
from designating or proclaiming any
candidate or set of candidates in the
primaries as representing or being
supported by the party organization.
1t is the sense of this convention that
there are no organization candidates
of the party until the Democratic
voters themselves have selected the
nominees at the primaries
Reaffirmation Of Promises.
The pledges of this platform are
made to be kept after the election of
the candidates Of the Democratic
party to their respective Offices, as
well as relied upon during the cam
paign, and, reminding the people of
Maryland that the Democratic party
has faithfully executed the promises
made in its platforms in the past, that
it has carried into effect wise creative
and beneficent policies embodied in
progressive and constructive legisla-
tion enacted by it. that it has cleanly
and economically conducted the gov
ernment of the State and protected
and advanced the substantial interests
of the people in all their material con-.
Germs, we respectfully ask at the hands
Of the people a renewal and continual
ton of their confidence and support