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

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5. An efficient, businesslike and
economical administration of ex-
listing law and the greatest possi-
BILE coordination among the sew
eral State Departments.
Baltimore City
We recognize the time-honored
Democratic principle of local self
government as fully applicable to
Baltimore city The people of this
great political division of the State
should have complete home rule
in all their local affairs. inasmuch
as the expenses of administrat-
ton are borne entirely by taxes
levied upon them.
We specifically favor the enact
ment of legislation giving to the
people of Baltimore the right TO
determine by a referendum vote
whether or not the Police Board
shall be appointed by the Mayor
of Baltimore, who is to be elected
at the next Mayoralty election.
We pledge our party to such an
increase in the salaries of the po-
lice force as will make those sal
aries compare with other salaries
and wages and to the passage OF
the necessary legislation de- soon
a spossible after the Legislature
of 1920 meets, so that the ;ncreas-
ed pay may begin at the earliest
practicable date.
Good Roads
We pledge our party to the con-
pletion of needed extensions of, or
additions to, the State road sys-
tenn, and, wherever necessary, to
widen and strengthen the State
highways; also, that the State
road system be extended and built
through incorporated towns.
We pledge our party to plan a
system of and to build such Sec
ondary or lateral roads as may be
needed to furnish the farmers
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to travel and haul their produce to
the main State highways and to
the shipping points. the cost there
OF to be equitably divided between
the State and the county.
We believe that both the main
State highways and the secondary
or lateral roads should be MAIN
tanned as part Of the State road
system, and that in no event
should the proceeds of any bond
issue ever be used for mainten-
ance purposes; and we pledge our
party to this policy.
Public Schools
We pledge our party to liberal
increase in teachers salaries; to
measures which will give to stu
dents at the State normal schools
reasonable relief from the cost of
sustenance while attending such
schools, so that capable persons
without adequate means may be
able to become teachers; to such
an extension of teacher training
facilities as will make it possible
to supply our schools with trained
and thoroughly capable teachers,
who have successfully completed
an approved course of study.
We pledge our party also to the
strengthening and development of
our public school system in all its
branches; to the end that the chill
dren of our State may, in health
full and well-kept school buildings,
receive a common-sense practical
and intelligently thought-out edu-
cation at the hands of the most
competent teaching and adminls-
trative staff that can be secured.
Agriculture
We have always favored the
most liberal policy toward the
promotion of agriculture.
The latest and most approved
methods of soil treatment the use
of fertilizers the testing of adapt
able varieties of seed and fertlii-
zers, the marketing of perishable
products, the proper feeding and
care of live stock and all problems
in which tn estate should serve
the farmer.
We pledge our party to the most
liberal support to the State Board
of Agriculture and the Maryland
State College of Agriculture, AMI
to the agricultural demonstration
and experimental work carried on
by them, and the enlargement and
extension of this work.
We favor adequate provision fer
paying the States share of the ex-s
pense of condemned cattle.
Thousands of acres of land in
this State could be made product
i've or more productive If properly
drained. We therefore favor a
policy which we emphasize the
importance of drainage.
Oysters
The pledges of the former Demo
cratic platforms for the restora-
ton of the natural oyster beds and
bars to public use having haen ra-