and I re-assert that under the acid and final test of our performance
we deserve to be continued in authority.

As we meet here, then, as the official representatives of the many
thousands of Democrats in all parts of our beloved Free State, let
us resolve that we will stand united for victory in this 1966 General
Election.

As one who has had the high honor of holding a position of
leadership in our Party for the past eight years, I urge Maryland
Democrats, at this convention and elsewhere, to join with me in
support of all our Party nominees — of George P. Mahoney, for
Governor of our State; of Louis L. Goldstein, for Comptroller of
the Treasury; of Francis B. Burch, for Attorney General; of our
five incumbent Democratic Congressmen and the Democratics we have
nominated for the remaining three seats in the House of Representa-
tives, and all the Democrats who have been nominated for the State
Senate, the House of Delegates and other local offices.

And finally, may I again express to all of you my sincere gratitude
for your many kindnesses in the past, and appeal to you, as a friend
and as a fellow Democratic, to remain loyal to the great political
Party with which we are privileged to be associated.

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