The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-02-19
MARYLANO'S GOVERNOR
STANDS ON HIS RECORD
6OldsbOrOugh Says He Has Given a
Non-Partisan Administration.

Since my election to office | have
endeavored to make my administration
as nearly non-partisan as it was possible
for a man who held office as the repre-
sentative of party to make it. AS
evidence in proof of this | can point to
the type of men on the various boards
of Baltimore city. In my campaign |
promised that | would if elected not
permit the police force of Baltimore TO
NEEDLE IN politics and that | would
name type of men on the Police Board
that would give proof to the citizens Of
the State that meant what said, and
that this applied likewise to the police
examiners and the Liquor License
Board.
Since the induction into office of
these boards the conduct of their Of
fetal duties has received almost univer-
sal commentator. The only complaint
| have heard has been from party
standpoint; that, in fact. they could
not be used to play Republican politics
The work of the Liquor License
Board in clearing out numerous saloons
in the red-hght district was an initial
work, not only in Baltimore city, put
elsewhere. | do not recall any other
city where just such an effort has been
effectively used by the license board
and was told by visitor the other
day from another state who was looking
into the questi n that nowhere had this
work heen done more effectively.
Likewise in my campaign through
the state one of the strongest argd
ments used against my election WAS
that would put the schools into politics
| repudiated the indictment then and l
have not been and will not be convict
office found the school boards of all
the % counties dominated by their
Democratic membership and the coun
ty superintendent in all the counties
belonged to the same party.
There have been about seven or
eight changes in county superintend-
ents, the remaining being undisturbed,
and in every instance where there was
a change, it is my judgement, 1t made
for the betterment of the schools and
the uplift of the people in the severai
counties This statement will, | be
lieve, be borne out by majority of tbs
impartial people in the counties re-
ferred to.
THE State Board of Education Will
now having on it a majority of It's
members who are Republicans, has con
frmed the nomination of B. F. Purdum
a Democrat, as Assistant State Super-
intendent of Education, as named ty
Dr. NJ. Bates Stephens. the Superinten-
dent
I'm the selection of Republican arc
Democratic School Commissioners It
has always been my aim to get as rep
resentative type OF citizen as it w&s
possible to get. | understand bill has
been introduced in the senate by Sena-
tor Price while. If passed, would legis-
late out of office the present Sta
Board of Education, creating a new
board, to serve at salary of $1,000 4
year each, and composed of three mem
bers, S. King White, of Wicomico; DR.
J. S. Bowen of Baltimore county, AMI
Clayton Purnell. of Allegany, the last
gentleman being a member of the pre-
sent board, whose term expires in MAY
next.
80 tar as | am capable of judging
the reason underlying this desire to
grab the school boards of the state i
clearly political. some of the advocate
of the bill being those who are now
connected with the educational system
of the state, if am credibly informed.
others who used to be associated with
it but who are now out of Office, and in
one instance one now holding minor,
or S. a day Job, here in Annapolis.
and other gentlemen of more or less
political prominence-and not of any
other prominence - throughout the
state.
That the present State Board Of
Education is an intelligent, wide awak
and progressive body is a fact well
known to every impartial person who Is
interested in the cause of state wld4
education. Proof of this has been
given by their acts since being in Of
flee and by the policies for the future
as expressed in their annual report TO
the Legislature.
LAS to the hospitals for the insane.
take it for granted that all fair minded
people who know anything about these
institutions will admit that the ad-
ministratIon of their affairs during the
past two years has not been contami-
mated with politics. Indeed. they have
been run upon high plane of efficiency.
and in 1913 a system of cooperative
purchasing of supplies of saving many
dollars to the tax payers Of the state.
LAS to penal institutions, my well
/ known interest in the reform of them
is such as to vouchsafe that the politi
clans are not to hold sway over the I'm
fortunates within their walls, and
have urged and helped to bring about
many measures of reform which have
proved most humane and to the great
betterment of the criminal classes.
"A commission appointed by me has
been studying this subject, and viii
soon make its report, to be followed b.,
bill under which, | understand, a
state wide commission would be APP
pointed to have full care and direction
of the penitentiary and the House of
Correction, as well as provide for All
advisory board on pardons, and in ali
! likelihood recommended an indetermi-
nate-sentence statute.
ut is not out of place to call atten
| ton to the character of work done by
| the justices of the Peoples Court anc
| likewise the excellent administration
of the Bereau of Statistics and Infor-
nation which has charge of the en-
forcement of the Child Labor law. and
also the work being done by the Ter
| Hour Law Bureau for Woman.
I'm recently appointing two members
of the State department of Health, i.
may be noticed that one of the gentle
men was Republican and one Dem
ocrat. This is true also of two trustees
Just named for the Maryland Agri-
cultural College.
LAS another instance that the ad-
ministration of my office has been free
from unfair partisanship it may be re-
called that had no hesitancy in is