Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-09-19

CT tAE CAaAC NOAFNhttoA
We, the representatives of the
Democratic party of Maryland, in
convention assembled, declare or
loyalty to those great fundamental
principles OF free government upon
which our State and national Gov
ernments were founded.
At the base of free government
Is the equality of all citizens be-
fore the law, with the collective
will, expressed at free and fair
elections, as the rightful source
of all political power; and We spe-
cifically reaffirm our belief in the
sovereignty Of the people, whose
will. lawfully expressed. should be
made effective by law and applied
in the conduct of government.
We declare also that freedom OF
religion, freedom of the press and
education of the people are indis-
pensable safeguards of free gov
eminent: and we hold that life,
liberty, property and contracts are
fundamental rights of the people.
inviolably to be preserved, and of
which no one, even the humblest
person, should be deprived but by
the law of the land.
While we declare our firm al
legiance to the preservation of
every right OF individual liberty
under the law, We declare that
public peace and public order are
absolute and essential conditions
OF free government, and we, there
fore, will oppose with our utmost
power the forces of disorder and
lawlessness, from whatever source
they may emanate, which are un-
happily manifesting themselves in
many parts of the country. The
supremacy of the Constitution and
the laws made in pursuance there
of are the best and wisest guaran-
tees to the rights, liberty and hap
piness of all the people, and all
movements seeking by force,
threats, or organized popular cla-
NOR to overthrow or supplant
these guarantees are attempts to
destroy the American system of
representative government or
ganized and established by the
Constitution.
National Administration
We endorse the course of that
great statesman, Woodrow Will
son, who, with matchless courage
and sagacity has applied the
eternal principles of free govern
ment to the momentous social and
economic questions which have in
the recent years come upon us to
tense our national life and test our
patriotism.
The Democratic party, through
it's control of both the executive
and legislative branches of the ma
tional Government from 1913 to
1919, has kept pace in its public
acts with the social and material
progress of the American people.
It's constructive legislation touch
ing the social welfare, industrial
progress and banking system of
our country brought us to the
fateful days of April, 1917, strong,
prosperous and resourceful and
enabled us. as a united and spir-
tied people, to crown with VIC
tory the cause of liberty in the
greatest war in the history of the
world.
We take pride in the way in
which the Democratic war admin
instration, founded in a deep pa
triotism, called to its service, re-
CARELESS of party, those men
whose training and experience
made them necessary in the mobi-
lization Of the country's entire re-
sources. AS result a great army
was assembled with remarkable
speed, trained and transported
across the seas. equipped to strike
the final blows for genuine liberty
in the world a year before Euro
Deans believed it possible. Large
ness of expenditure in the accom-
plishment of such a result was a
national economy, as we'll as the
motive force of a national triumph.
In contrast with Democratic
performance. we call attention to
the course of the Republican Con-
gress, which, during the months
of its complete legislative control,
has failed to rise above petty par
tisan politics, and in consequence
has failed to respond to the i'm
perative legislative needs of the
American people touching the
varied problems OF reconstruction
of the nations industrial life
which press upon us for imme-
date solution to preserve our
country and our Government.
We indorse the efforts of Presi-
dent Wilson to gain recognition
for the principle that controver-
sizes among nations be settled by
peaceable means, and we give our
whole-hearted support to the trea-
ty of peace drafted at the Peace
Conference at Versailles, which is
a part of that agreement.
The State Administrator