Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-09-22
TEXT OF DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM ADOPTED AT
STATE CONVENTION


strong protest that it was defeated.
The Republicans promised the ma
ton prosperity; they have given it ad
yersity They promised to reduce
taxes. Taxes have been shifted. not
lifted The rich man pays less; the
poor man pays more. They promised
TO stimulate agriculture The farmer
today is mortgaging his next years
crop in order to live. The Republi
cans promised to revive business and
industry They brought on an indus
( trial panic. They promised employ
ment TO labor at good wages. There
| have been as many as 100000 idle
men at one time since the Harding
Administration came into office, and
the cost of living has not materially
/ decreased With an overwhelming
majority in both houses of Congress
and a Republican President, the Re-
publican party has floundered for two
years without leadership and without
program. blasting the hopes of it's
own adherents and falling in every
direction TO produce a vestige of the
constructive program 1t promised the
people. Its record of broken promises,
untitled pledges and shameless cater
ing to interests inimical to the well
fare of the nation merits its defeat
Record OF France Denounced
We especially condemn the record
of Senator Joseph Irwin France, who
now seeks recollection at the hands of
| The people of Maryland Senator
France stands for neither Democracy
nor Republicanism, he having repudi-
ated his own party, and having been
repudiated by the best thought of his
own party. He has consorted with
/ people who lack sympathy for if they
are not actually opposed to, the insti-
tutions of our Government He has
advanced projects of such a fantastic
nature that they have not received
serious consideration even from the
members of his own party.
He has occupied his time in aiding
and abetting a communistic govern
ment which openly seeks to over
| throw this and all other organized
governments by revolutionary means.
This he has done so vociferously and
at such length that ii has been diff
cult at times to tell whether he was
acting as an Ambassador from Soviet
Russia or as a United States Senator
from Maryland.
The filibuster conducted by Senator
France and associates in the last days
of a session of Congress cost his own
State millions of dollars in appropria-
tons. His enforced retirement from
the Senate by the voters at the next
election will afford relief to all of the
people.
We reiterate our belief. expressed
in the platform adopted by us in 1920.
that the law-abiding citizens of the
United States will never be satisfied
with the Volstead law. passed by
Republican Congress over the veto of
a Democratic President. We advocate
the granting of the use of light wines
and beer to the people. by whatever
legal means necessary TO achieve this
purpose.
We commend to the voters of the
State the candidacy of Hon. William
Cabell Bruce for election to the
United States Senate. His eminent
qualifications for this office make it
certain that, if he is elected. Mary
land will be ably represented in the
Senate and this State will again take
that high place in the counsels of the
republic to which it is entitled.
We also urge that T. Alan Colds
borough in the First Congressional
district; Willard E. Tydings. in the
Second Congressional district: An
thony ]. Demarco, in the Third Con-
gressional district; J. Charles Linthi-
cum. in the Fourth Congressional dis
trict; Clarence NJ Roberts. in the
Fifth Congressional district and
Frank w. Mish. in the Sixth Congress
sional district. be elected to Congress
by the voters of their respective dis
tricts, so that the State may have the
opportunity of utilizing their valuable
services in the House of Representa-
lives.
Pledges OF Party FULFILLED
As the Democratic party in the ma
ton is entitled to the credit for the