The Democratic governors, working with the Democratic leadership
in the House and Senate of the United States, and backed by the
Democratic National Committee, can make a record that will insure
the election in 1960 of a Democratic President and another Democratic
Congress. Last November the voters placed their confidence, their
hopes for the future, in the Democratic party. If the nation can sur-
vive with some remaining strength during the next, the final, two
years of the weak Republican Administration, the coming Democratic
Administration must be ready, without delay, to rebuild the nation's
economy, to provide adequate defense, and to revamp our foreign
policies so as to regain the respect and the friendship of the allies
we still have and of the uncommitted nations. Every state governor
is vitally interested in the problems, the issues, arising from national
and international relations, as well as local conditions. There is much
work, hard work, for us who hope to help. I am here tonight to
enlist my Administration and my State in the great Democratic cause.

ADDRESS, GOOD GOVERNMENT DINNER
BALTIMORE
April 21, 1959

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Democrats, enlightened Republicans
and good citizens of Baltimore! Two weeks from today is election
day in Baltimore City. And I'm going to predict right here that it is
also going to be D Day—Democratic Day—in every single one of
the city's six districts!

This city has had a proud record under Democratic mayors, and
tonight we are gathered here to endorse a man whom I predict is
going to make one of the greatest mayors Baltimore has had in all
its long history. J. Harold Grady is the kind of man Baltimoreans
have been looking for. He is the kind of man Baltimore needs. All
Baltimoreans will walk with pride—knowing that they have had the
wisdom and good judgment to elect Grady as their mayor!

This entire Democratic ticket stands before you tonight, after emer-
ging victorious from a hard-fought primary. Democratic voters
exercised their privilege to participate in that primary, and as good
Democrats they all accepted with good will the results of the election.
A look around this hall tonight should leave no doubts in anyone's
mind that in the general election, two weeks from today, Harold

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