Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-10-20
Senator John Walter Smiths
!. Record Of Usefulness and Service
His Achievements For bis state It's People His Party And
The Country AS Governor and Senator Have Not Been
/ Surpassed BY Any Other Maryland Man Who
i Filled These Offices and Entitle Him
Ill To Reelection.
To Re election.

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than ali. az q labor saving dev!ce by
Nay % making one fairly eomYrehens
I've answef to the many Inquiries
daily have IS to the specific record of
Senator Jotu Walter Smith shall ask
,ou 20 pablsh the following
INas Senator Smiths private seere
cary from 1899 untn 1865 ard AZ one
devoted 10 I'm and closely associated
with HIN III over twenty years fee
l can justly claim ~ intimacy q
knowledge y his career not ayaisale
90 all. as we'll as i license % plt be
fore tho public some achievements We
Aaye been unable 20 induce him 70
mention ID his own behalf
Every ss3oi child should learn az
che older generation knows that as
state ssnai from Worcester County
after SIX years struggle Senator smith
put the tree school Book bin through
and was weli-night written down rev
olnt'onlst
AZ Governor he put through leg sla
ton 10 rsot ganise tbs pubile sehaal
system AMI strengthened il iuntaa
urably. to feorgani1e the Police be.
partment 0f baltimore and u rebuild
the oyster navy and tbs House u or
rec4ion 10 add to the State ltouse 10
build the court OF Ap1eals building,
the Fifth regiment Armorg 70 tlilisa
the Improvements 10 the pcnltent.aiy.
10 add 10 Springfield Hospital FOR tbs
Insane aud noated 3to State bonds a
4 premium and left the STATE Treasury
virtually OH OF debt
Two other significant acts stand out
He signed tbs original Nofknen'
Compensation Acs for Maryland one
OF the 1rst acts OF It's kind passed any
wnere. and upheld BY tho progressive
doctors Of the. State. he started Ia 1902
the long, long light for the state care
OF tuberculosis that al last developed
fRu.t III tho magnificent State Sana
sDria1n ii sabiilasyiile. of which Ire 10
president. And housing 425 patients
and 9 soiai appropriation recently
made OF $1,000 for d coiored 7 y
Nanaterium designed ultimately 10
houss ESQ patients
Aided By samuel NJ Shoemaker and
Redmond e. Stewart and their asso
cistes. he passed and approved tho
nrst good roads law enacted III Mary.
land and appointed Waiter w Crosby.
8 81 ientiae roads engineer Roads En-
kneer for Baltimore County THAI
ms ahe beginning OF Maryland's good
goads system begun twenty years ago
Senator smith perhaps owes the
President no heavy debt for personal
s4vors. but no has recognized the Pres
edsu4 patriotism and ability aud has
aUne full share In living Up TO all the
alsmoeratie platform pledges He has
supported President Wilson's admin
Gstratlon consistently
The record Of the Democratic party
when In control Of Congress was bril-.
liant, Senator Smith was fully in &C
cord With most OF the legislation pro-
posed BY the party leaders during that
unique period. such as the Federal Re
serve Act. The extension OF the Parcels
Post and Free Rural Delivery the
Farm Loan Banks Act. laws 60 restrain
gambling q cotton grain. ete the
Federal Good Roads Act the Child
Labor iaw. the act erecting the res
establishment Of our Merchant Marine.
etc
Senator Smith did not share with
Senator odge. aud some others. the
.,xs.,ts.s, - &,-,t So ytwttaa c4a4ae havIS
declare Yar on Germany hastily in the
heat OF passion when the Iusitanis
was sunk He felt tina, every effort
should be made to avoid war bur when
the war did come. and even before
when his sound Judgment told him war
was inevitable. he ardeutly supported
avery measure designed 70 aid N pre-
paring tor and prosecuting the war.
In . word every var measure passed
had his assistance
He has also supported acts 70 pro
vide VA Risk Insurance Vocational
Instruct!ea and every other at that
properly recognized and rewarded III
the right way the Army and the Navy
and the civilian personnel, who did
she real work Of the va His war
record Is without a cav
Senate Smith voted and worked for
che rattasatson Of the Treaty Of Yer
saslles With the Covenant Of the
League Of Nations He accented res
eYvasiens in the hope that concessions
would insure the final adoption of the
Covenant ~ the Senate. aud on the
theory nat part Of 8 loaf is better
than no bread though preferring the
whole lest
He urged the return Of business en-
serprises taken over during the war as
vel az the ailroads telegraphs cts
20 their owners as soon as the stress
and necessities OF the war would per
mt and opposed the Government so
ing any deeper into business that com
petss Nth private enterprises thar
was necessary
Senator Smith is "Bigger Navy
Man. las served fer years on the
apn4we f-,-,,,,4{%sao has f~a