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should not be guaranteed any rights. My good friend Gerald
Morgan has quoted from t-he National Municipal League
that a short ballot gives the best government. I do not
feel that Maryland has a long, ballot. The Attorney General
the Comptroller, and the Governor is indeed a short ballot
when compared with other States.
If there had been any scandal in the operation of
the Board of Public Works or the Comptroller's
office, or the Treasurer's Office, there might be good reason
to abolish these offices from the Constitution and give
their appointment to the Governor, but in the 100 years
that they have operated there has never been a breath of
scandal.
What this is doing is concentrating in the
hands of the executive greater power than now enjoyed by
any State executive on the American continent.
What we are asked to do today is cast aside
the wisdom and the experience of 100 years for a new
concept of government about which we do not know, and
lest your Convention grow confused, let me refer to the
Scripture: "Sayeth the Lord, stand ye in the ways and seek