The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-07-01
GIVE IT HEED.

The following from the Cecil Wing is
well worth a most careful study
In view of all the interest which is
being manifested in the matter of can
didates for local Offices, is it not a sad
commentary on our local patriotism, on
our regard for our form of government,
that no interest whatever be shown in
the matter of candidates for the Legis-
lature. Some weeks ago the Cecil
Star" called attention to this lament
able condition of things in a vigorous
and Just editorial to which lin part we
ask the earnest attention of our readers
The Star" said:
Here is place of trust and respon-
sibility of greater importance really
than any of the other Offices to be fill
ed, that is given the least considera-
ton. OF the men who have the max
ing and unmaking of the laws under
which we live, who are the arbters IN
a measure, of the way and manner in
which all the other public offices are
conducted, there is given not so much
as mention.
AS matter OF fact, the public should
insist upon having their laws made and
amended by the brainest, broadcast
minded and best men only. But the
people of the State have fallen INTO a
loose practice in making choice of their
law makers, and in this Indifference
may be found the cause of whatever
bad government we have, and the
wholly unjustifiable price the people
have to pay for it.
The great mass of the people give
little thought as TO their lawmakers.
and have handed over the selection of
these men almost to political managers
and bosses, whose first consideration is
the pliability of the candidates for
partisan and political purposes. Hence
evil after evil has crept into the affairs
of State, and the state government is
overloaded and becoming top-heavy
with expensive commissions and SUPER
fiuous officials, and each succeeding
Legislature is adding to this list. in
order to furnish soft places for poll
ticians who render service to their
party.
State taxes are mounting higher and
higher with each succeeding legislature
and the State dent is piling up in like
manner. A serious situation confronts
the people of Maryland, and until they
realize that their relief can come solely
through a legislature that is more con-
cerned about the public welfare than it
is about politics and politicians, they
will continue to pay the price for their
indifference to the make up of the BODY
that makes the laws that govern them.
Senator Lee, one of the Democratic
aspirants to the governorship said:
The people of the State are face to
face with serious problems. The State
must not be laggard; we must keep
abreast of the times; we must move
forward with steady progress. At the
same time we must not permit the
burden OF taxes to become too heavy
upon the people. How to continue the
improvement of our highways and other
measures for the progress of the State
and at the same time find means to
keep the tax rate within reasonable
bounds is problem which will demand
the entire time, the earnest efforts and
the best thought of the next Governor
of this State.
The multiplication of State boards,
each with an attending salary and ex-
pense list, has reached point where 1T
should not only be stopped, but where
a great saving can be made to the
State by the consolidation of many of
the existing boards and the substitu-
ton is many instances of single ex-