The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-13

could escape from his environment and
develop into an executive of broad
vision. He had been trained in the
school of practical politics, a school
whose graduates are the best fitted to
give and lake in politics, to deal in
patronage. He laid aside his training
and there emerged a man who was
governor of the whole people, 20 whom
Office brokerage was subordinate to his
activities in behalf Of the state. In
thus entering upon a new political life
he broke ties near and dear to him. He
has bitterly complained in private, at
times, that he has been misunderstood;
that his acts were solely for the public
good.
The greatest political achievement of
Governor Goldsborough has been a de-
monstration by his acts that the Re-
publican party in Maryland can give a
decent, clean honorable administration,
one free of partisan bias and one with
out predominance of large bulk of its
membership. There are many Demo
Gratis who frankly acknowledge that a
Democratic administration at Washing
ton is not likely to succeed itself be-
cause north of the Mason and Dixon S
Line and north of the Ohio river there
are not in the rank and file of the party
enough Democrats of broad intelligence
and education, individually and through
public print, to defend their national ad-
ministration. 1t is further claimed that
in the Democratic rank and file in the
north are not Democrats in sufficient
numbers who are qualified to fill ac-
ceptably the federal Offices to which
they may be appointed.
Maryland Democrats have retallated
by putting forward claim that the Re-
publican party here has not enough
high grade men in several communities
who are qualified to discharge accept
ably the duties Of the offices 70 which
they may be appointed, that in the
rank and file of the party there are not
men who can successfully defend the
administration of their party They
confess that in the Republican party
there is large number of leading
citizens, but, they add, there is a wide
chasm to the colored vote.
Governor Goldsborough has put to
utter rout this charge of Democrats.
He has relegated to the waste heap the
old and familiar cry of negro domina-
ton" Democrats have not found it
profitable in this campaign to bring the
negro bugaboo to the front. He has
put to rout the accusation that the Re-
publican party in Maryland is incapable
of giving the state an efficient admins
tration.
Said the Governor in a recent inter-
view:
In reviewing the acts of my ad-
ministration | must discard the ego.
Otherwise hundreds of men and women,
blessed with high ideals, would be de-
priyed of that credit which is due them.
1t would have been impossible for me
to have accomplished as much as has
been good fortune without the co-ope-
ration of Democrats in the Legislature,
who, as | have tried, have placed state
above party. 1t has been my constant
aim to help along my fellowman There
are many who say that my admins
tration has been altruistic. BY build
ing hospitals for the unfortunate in
sane, by increasing the accommoda-
tons of others, by reforms in our
prisons, | have constantly had in view
the amelioration of the condition of our
unfortunates, at the same time striv-
ing to restore them to citizenship. Ac-
tuated by the same purpose, appoint
ed commission several months ago to
study the question of cure of inebriates
by healthy farm work. l want these
utterly miserable people to be restored
to the state to be self-supporting, in
stead Of burden upon the state or up