Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-17
LET IS AVAIL OURSELVES or
EVERY MEANS or DEFENCE
AGAINST F0RCIBLE ANNEXA-
TION.

Under the encouragement OF num-
Der OF the local leaders in this coun-
", we learn that Dr. Elihu S. Riley
has written a booklet. Of about fifty
pages, setting forth in clear and
vigorous manner the wrong and in
Arundel county any part OF it without
the consent Of the people affected and
forcibly annexing it to Baltimore
City.
The author has spent no little time
in investigating the historic, the
political and the legal sides Of this
question He has thoroughly ex-
amined history OF the formation of
counties and~cities In Maryland since
the founding OF the colony in 1854,
and he has not been able TO find, not
withstanding the Court OF Appeals in
its remarkable decision in Morgan VS..
DAILY. Goth Md, 1883, based much o.
It's unrighteous and Illegal decision
in holding that the Legislature had
the-power, without the consent of the
people in the section annexed, to take
one part of county and put il with
In the corporate limits of Baltimore,
a single case except in the General
Assembly's Act of 1888, where any
city was carved out Of a county with
out the consent of the people, and
made a political unit OF itself, nor was
one ever before incorporated except
within the limits of the county in
which IL was originally located
Cities have over and over again been
created within counties but always
remained except in the one case of
1888. within the political unit or
county in which they were formerly
located IL was a pure invention OF
the Court Of Appeals to make this
outrageous decision a part OF the
policy and Jurisprudence of the State
II was contrary TO every line of
Maryland history.
on the legal side the booklet is
shown that the unjust decision stands
neither on organic statute, or COM
mon law Not single authority from
any judicial or written source of any
kind was quoted in that decision, and
the author further proves that that
unjust Judgment was based on no
words in the Constitution OF Mary
land but on what was left out, to
which fact the Court of Appeals of
1883 had to refer and say that its
opinion was founded on words or
omission and not of declaration. Fur
thermore. the author proves that the
decision and Interpretation, given the
Constitution to sustain this unholy
Judgment, were contrary to the rule
laid down in the Code, that where the
word county is used it must, if rea-
sonable, include in its meaning the
word city. Then, If this We're so, that
decision was in the direct teeth of the
very spirit of just legal interpreta-
ton in Maryland and contrary to its
written guide of Interpretation. The
author takes up the political ques-
tions that affect it and paints in true
colors the men who are at the head
of this movement, analyses the politi-
cal wickedness of the Baltimore poll
ticians. their treachery to all that is
good in government-inclusive of
their cruel slaughter of NDavid ].
Lewis-whereby the crow was put
on the eyrie of the eagle He makes
il plain that Baltimore city is seeking
to govern the State while it cannot
govern itself. the the Board of State
Police. the Board of State Supervis-
ors Of Election and the State Liquor
Board for Baltimore all prove. The
author opens clearly TO view that un-
der this Court-made law, every coun-
". il the deision is carried to its real
and absolute fnality. could be alb
sorbed and made part of the city
and every county wiped out of ex-
istence at the win of the Legislature
without referring the issue to the
people at any time. great or small,
as the consequences may be. The
decision was a mockery. a delusion
and snare. made to suit the politi-
cal hour of the day and not for all
time.
All OF this the writer gives in
plain. terse and most vigorous Ian
guage
The whole story is held together
by vein Of romance that keeps the
attention of the reader wildly on the
main subject.
A few paItry hundred dollars, in
subscriptions. less than three hun
dred. would put this work before the
whole people of the State and honest
men in the city of Baltimore. and in
the counties. and thus they could see
the danger. the suhtilty and the in
EQUITY OF the great wrong now on
foot Every county of Maryland
should be an enemy of the infamous
project