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who are incompetent to advise, who have limited educa-

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tional backgrounds, who have limited interests in educa-

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tion and, consequently, the children of this State and

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the citizens of this State suffer.

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If I were running for the governorship of

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Maryland — and this is no pronouncement, please — one

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of the things I would argue for is greater power of

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representative government and more of the voice of the

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people. Let me cite two cases of that. In North

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Carolina, for instance, they do not permit the right

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of veto on the grounds -- as Woodrow Wilson said, free

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men need no guardians. In the State of Massachusetts

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they have what they call a right of free petition, which

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means any citizen can present a bill and it must be

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considered.

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I think the greatest weakness today in local

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government is that the power, under the new political

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theory, the power of the representatives is limited,

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greatly limited and the new political theory on that,

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the elected official must have all power to do the

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things he wants to do. But, suppose he is stupid?