Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-11-08
MININ G JOU RN 4 L.
j. B. ODER. Editor.
FROSTBrRG, MD, NOV. s, 1873.

The Cumberland Daily Nears, ex-
planning the causes of the loss of the
State Senator to the Republicans says !:
The vote at Frostburg, hitherto
Republican, to the surprise of nearly
everybody went for Mr.. McCU.Lou.
This cannot by any means be account
ell for solely on the pride Of locality.
Besides the $Eccifc causes, both before
and on the day Of election, industri
ously used to divert votes from Mr..
JOHNSON to Mr.. MCCULLoH, the vote
seems to indicate that the scheme to
trade off Mr.. JOHNSON and Mr.. WI
DENER for Mr. MCCULLoH and Mr..
LuMAN was vigorously carried out ut
Frostburg. This certainly cost Mr.
JOHNSON and Mr.. WIDENEE each
some votes and every one so obtained
was through a breach of fair dealing
The same processes obtained some
what at Mt. Savage, as the vote for
the four gentlemen abovenamed will
Indicate How early in the day the
disgraceful bargain was consummated
and put into execution at FrostburS
and Mt. Savage we have no means Of
knowing. Mr.. WIDENER is equally
uninformed. The matter was an
nounced in Cumberland about half
past three in the afternoon, after which
hour Mr.. WIDENER undoubtedly lost
some votes here, although it was not
thought it would cost Mr.. JOHNSON
any.
We speak Of this as a Ja1yain-
Such we believe it to have been, and
as disgraceful and mean an one as was
ever enactedin Allegany county poll
tics
So far as Frostburg is concerned we
think the NearS is in error. That 90
cal pride had mach to do with Mr.
McCULLoH S large vote here is freely
conceded by those best informed IN
the matter. That there was any more
"bargain and sale in this than in the
considerable democratic vote cast for
the republican commissioners we do
not believe. in the one case local pride
and personal popularity were the con-
trolling considerations; in the other
a popular consciousness of efficient,
honest, progressive administration of
county affairs, induced the opposition
to assist in retaining the present board
Of commissioners.
But the true cause, if wee may be al
lowed to locate it, lies before the elec-
tion--in the County Republican Con-
vention which nominated the Senator,
two Delegates, the Clerk, the Sheriff,
two Commissioners, the Register Of
Wills, and the County Surveyor all
of Cumberland, to the utter exclusion
of Frostburg with the exception Of
Mr.. GREENE, commissioner. With
this exception the Republicans here
had no one to work for.
We are credibly informed by Re-
publicans that Frostburg was constant
ly and persistently denied support in
that Convention for representation
upon the ticket by the too Cum
6erland districts, so FULLY determin-
ed were they upon the absorption Of
every possible place. This fact can
not be successfully contradicted.
To "come back on Frostburg in
view Of these facts and upbraid her
for not supporting a Cumberland can
didate, in common with nearly every
body else from Cumberland, in prefer
ence to prominent and popular res
ldent of our own town, is a reproach
which smacks considerably of assur-
ance.
Under the circumstances, it is per-
fectly rational the result should be as
it is-Mr. JOHNSON, the single unfor
tunate Cumberland opponent of
Frostburg candidate, should be lag
ging in the race, while Mr.. McCuLLou
runs off with the prize on his own
ground.
In all this there is a cogent lesson
to the selfish city manipulators and
the unselfsh country manipulated-
Will each profit by it? We shall see.
The Election.
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