Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-11-01
Senator John Walter Smiths
Record Of Usefulness and Service
His Achievements For His state It's People His Party And
The Country AS Governor and Senator Have Not Been
Surpassed BY Any Other Maryland Man Who
Filled These Offices and Entitle Kim
TO Reelection.
TO Re election.

trict Of Columbia Comm ttee and for
seyeraleyears Was its chairman He
is thoroughly familiar with Washing
Ton and produced q tremendous I'm
proYement in Washingtoa's parks,
schools. streets, hospitals. etc. aud
has held 10 the half and half tax
system. His service on the District
Committee is enthusiastically aprre
eiated BY all intelligent residents Of
the District
Senator Smith. so far as know, has
but two hobbies public education and
pubic health Experts like Or, Hugh
III Young haze publicly stated that no
Senator in Washington was more help
fill than Senator Smith IN putting
through public health measures for the
alienation or suffering and the proven
tion Of disease
Senator Smith has helped over s 600
Maryland people since the war began.
He vas always accessible. always IN
defatigable He rendered them every
sort Of helpful, sympathetic service
without regard to their politics or re
+ 4ig.o on or. color If they were from
Maryland and needed help his time
energy. automobile and ptrseali Was
theirs Many Of these people were
supremely pitiful, helpless and OBJ.
scure.
The business men OF the State. the
Gamers. the manufacturers. steamship
rnen, landowners and others not an
naturally were subjected TO many
hardships when their properties were
taken over by the Government during
the war. These gentlemen sought Sen.
ator Smith, who usually by the ex-
ercise of his energy. force and inau-
ence. found some way to help Such
II practical services in measure homaly
meant stupendous results 10 Maryland
4 Likewise, the Merchants and Manu-
I faeturers Association. the Board Of
Trade, in fact all the representative
business organizations or Baltimore
and the State. look upon him as their
champion, always ready and willing
and able to serve the commercial and
business interests or the State.
Ia addition to playing a serious and
important part as member Of the
Appropriation and other dignified and
powerful committees in the larger
J legislative program, as have said,
Senator Smith has sustained an indis-
pensable part in the following matters
! of more immediate and local interest:
The Act to turn Fort McHenry over
to Baltimore City for park; TO ap-
propr.ate S550,000 for immigration Sta
ton at Baltimore; to appropriate 500
! 600 to erect a Memorial lin Baltimorel
TO Francis Scott Key to appropriate
1906, $50 to drcdge a deep snip channel
through York Spit so that Baltimore
could lie reached by ships Of heavy
{ draft to make appropriations for Fed
eral Buildings at Cambridge $4,000
+ and Salisbury. $4,000 to make aDpro.
priations to build powder plant at In
dian Head. s5G0909 9anl many later
I appropriations to enlarge the plant1,
sand to establish a dairy farm for I s.
Naval Academy. and to erect market
sheds for farmers in Washington; in
! securing all appropriations for Balti.
more harbor and channels and surveys
T BY the Chief Engineers. u S. a., I'M.
II provements of Crfsdeld Harbor, Elk
River. Rock Hall. Eastern Bay at Clai.
borne. Wicomico River and many 9th
er Maryland waters.
The passage by Congress Of legisla.
ton authorizing the purchase by the
/ Government OF the Chesapeake aud
Delaware Canal aud It's development
as an inland waterway
He broke the speed record in pass.
ing the necessary legislation through
Congress to sanction the construction
BY the state Of Maryland of bridge
across the Pocomoke River
He succeeded In retaining the Sub.
treasury in Baltimore. notwithstanding
strenuous effcrts which we're made IN
Congress for four years to abolish all
the subtreasuries; but lost out at the
last session
4 1t is no longer secret that Baltimore
was in danger Of destruction by reason
Of the storage by the War Department
Of an enormous quantity Of INT and
other high explosives, which had &C
cumulated in the Government Ord.
nance Warehouse at Curtis Bay for
shipment overseas Senator Smith
4 prevailed upon the War Department
quietly TO remove this stuff and was
instrumental in securing an appropria.
Il tor of 100000 to provide storage for
these explosives elsewhere, so that
Fl Baltimore viii not again be threatened
IN that way with loss OF life and prop
erty This death dealing deposit was,
OF course. a subject OF agonizing con.
Germ TO the authorities at Baltimore
and to the business men cognizant OF
the danger.
Senator Smith was almost solely re-
3 sponsible for securing proper recogni
ton and compensation for the civilian
instructors and employees at the United
81 states Naval Academy at Annapolis