Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-22
REV. JAS. |. SM|LEYS
POLITICAL CREED
Candidate For Congress On Chris
tan Socialist Ticket Issues
Earnest Of Campaign
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER

1 The Rev. James L. Smiley is native
of Baltimore. Md. where he was edu-
Gated in the public schools. For six
years he was in the employ of A. c.
Meyer & Co, serving first in the Ad-
vertising Department and later in the
Supply ONCE.
Desiring to study for the ministry
he took the full classical course at the
Johns Hopkins University. In 1892 he
was ordained by the late Bishop Paret
and has served churches consecutive
~ in Baltimore; Chaptico (St. Mary S
Coz: Vineyard. Haven, Mass: Alber-
ton. (Howard Coz and AS Brother
hood Chaplain with the Y. S. Army in
the Philippines 1S90-19O0. From 1906
to 1916 he was assistant at st. Anne's,
Annapolis.
During his nearly four years in the
Cotton Mills district at Alberton he
studied industrial problems and was
logically converted to Socialism as the
only economic expression of true re-
ligion. In 1907 he published a book
MAUD Muller's Ministry" a Christian
SOCIALIST mover.
He is now the Eastern District Sec
rotary of the Christian Socialist Fell
lowship.
AS student of current events, he
will, if elected, take to Congress an in
tellect and conscience prepared to
participate in the great work of Social
Reconstruction.
He heartily endorses the high ideals
of President Wilson.
AS an earnest of his political creed
he has issued a campaign card as fol-
lows:
SAVE DEMOCRACY!
1T would be the greatest calamity
in human history if, after the forces of
Democracy have sacrificed untold
blood and treasure to down the auto
crat Kaiser, they should permit the
autocrat Capitalism to fasten its fangs
again upon the United States and the
world.
The crimes of Capitalism have been
repeatedly exposed in times of peace;
and now the red glare of war is bring
ing them out again in bold relief
Barefaced "profiteering" is one of the
many symptoms. Capitalism worships
money The Government cannot
trust it to operate the chief public
utilities much less can we trust it in
the coming days of reconstruction.
WHO CAN SAVE DEMOCRACY?
Neither the Democrat nor the Re-
publican party They are both boss
ridden and purchasable, as their own
partisans admit. Distrusting these
WORKOUT parties. well-meaning men
start reform" parties which for a
while allure the bewildered patriot
and then vanish like the will-o'-the-
wisp. Why? Because Capitalism can
not be reformed" 1t is decayed be-
yond remedy. 1t must be buried with
cannibalism, feudalism, slavery, au-
tocracy. The People must own the
Government and all the means of pro-
ducing and distributing the necessar-
les of life. This is Socialism. 1t is a
worldwide movement and is in per-
feet harmony with the highest ideals
ever conceived by the human mind
The war is pushing it forward-we
must see that there is no BACKSLID-
ING.
BE world-builder and vote for So
cialism. 1t is the only trustworthy
system. It's purity in politics is as
sured by the initiative, referendum
and recall. If all true and loyal citi-
zens unite for Socialism, the day of
universal justice, brotherhood and
peace will soon dawn.
Yours for the New Age.
JAMES L. SMILEY,
"130 Prince George ST.,
Annapolis, Md
Candidate for the House of Repre-
sentatives, Goth Congress, 5th Con-