The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-10-30


hes, men. We need in this State less
politics and more business.
What A Real Governor Could Do.
We need a Governor to suggest and a
Legislature to adopt legislation which
will make the farm lands of this State
what they ought to be. through the
scientific training in an agricultural
institution worthy of its purpose of
the farmers of the State who till and
are to TIL them.
We need a Governor to suggest and
a Legislature to adopt legislation
which will make the Chesapeake Bay
the source of wealth which will COM
pensate private investment, and, by
increasing the taxable basis, relieve
public taxation.
We need a Governor to suggest and
a Legislature to adopt legislation
which will take into consideration the
draining of the lowlands of the State
and the means of their conversion
from thousands of useless acres into
lands of fertility which will support
thousands of human beings and return
to the State in taxation all that its
redemption from desolation will cost.
Above All. A New Class OF Men.
But apart from the immediate legis-
lation here suggested as, among other
things needed, we need a new class of
men in the public life of Maryland
men of high character. of trained
minds and ursefish public purpose,
who shall look upon the State as one
of the great sovereignties of the I'm
ion, resolved and qualified to make it
play ditirifed part among them. and
arousing among its citizens a feeling
that. as Maryland is the southernmost
of the Northern States, it ought to
represent the best thought and admin
istration of the North. and as it is the
it ought to represent the best thought
and administration Of the South,
A Straight State Issue.
While l am loyal Marylander, |
am not so much of a dreamer as to
expect Maryland to be converted at
once from the State it has been made
by the politicians, beginning with Sen
ator tolman and ending in its present
representative. Senator Smith. but if
We are ever to make a beginning of
State administration divorced from
this sort Il politics, now, in my iudg-
ment. is the time. The adoption of
the Seventeenth Amendment. depriv-
ing the Legislatures of the States of
the power to elect United States Sena-
tors, sewers the last tie between State
and Federal politics. We can now
think Of the election Of all Of OFT State
officials. including our Legislature,
without any thought of Federal poll
tics, and if We do not avail ourselves
Of this power Of single devotion to
thought of the States interests which
the new system gives Us, it will be be-
cause we do not deserve to have the
power which the law gives US.
Applying this view of the political
situation in Maryland | have an
Xiously compared the claims of
Mr.. Harrington. forgetting as far
as / can that he is a Democrat,
with those of Mr.. Weller. forget
ting as far as | can that he is
Republican; and | have come to
the conclusion that it is my duty
to vote for Mr. Weller, because. on
the one hand Mr.. Harrington is
the product of the old vicious sys-
TEN Of Maryland 20 itics. to which
| have been adyertinG, while. on
the other hand, Mr.. Weller has no
political history and no political
obligations.
Harrington \ County Boss.
Mr.. Harrington's experience, so far
as it has been made public and has
come to my knowledge, has been that
of lawyer, dividing his time be-
tween his practice and politics and
participating in politics to the extent
of making himse the boss of his
county. 1t is not claimed that he has
had any business experience outside
of the routine State Offices which he
has filed, from which we can infer
little as to his business qualifications
except that he is on honest man and
has beer satisfied to discharge his dut-
les within the limits of the law and
the old practices of the Offices.
Weller A Business Man.
On the other hand Mr.. Weller is
not a product of machine politics. He
is pure and simple business man,
who has also given serious thought to
enterprises of State administration,
one of which he has mastered and adj
ministered with exceptional and strik-
ing results.
He has had the handling of very
large sums Of money for State such
as Maryland, and has so expended
them and so conducted the business of
his trust that today the road system
of Maryland is the object of praise
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