Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-11-27
7 lie MINING .IOt RIAL.
FRDSTBuRG. MD, NOV. q. 1879.

iiirE:snN CO.. MY Al" ii"lo"i'E Iiit iNhHfl-
ely OF erect Hg i new C"rniN oi 81 ii al
COUNTY. .Ailc4auEs great extent ) urged
rs Justification OF tie project, but il l.
siou!nttiii il there lie not already too many
counties in the state, if one may jude of
The matter from Che heat exhibited nj the
late election. And, besides, tie ce;nty has
hrtn hu; recently Subjected to 3 i#r9cs licjng
in the shape Of Garrett coHn;y.-EA!H;p'c
SIN.
Witt reference 10 which t&e CnMlG'cn
I,e,,a oilers the following challenge with It's
accustomed confidence in the result
Let tic FEosTBuFG JOURNAL. ,lciyc into
that, ans, report
Wen, then, here VIC go. "Alicgany's
great extent is nol urged as Il cons .dc:alion
justiiyinG Tie project, fer the reason that it
is necessary to take a slice from 5oh Nc
gany and Garrett 80 to locate The new
county that it may meet every constitutions
al requirement. But it is evident neither
the .S,tn or Ne,rs knew this, and beth show
tho fo..y Of driving at conclusions in spite
OF adverse facts. However, this is import
ant only IS suggesting care in relying ON
the logic which proceeds tIom sucl! prem
iscs For instance:
One of Tie potential rca, ong Why The now
county is desirable clears away the mis-;
which heclouds the SPh'S speciou" eoubi
about too many counties in the State
already '-that is, too many oHt@tt the city
of Baltimore. On such ground any lcN,l-
opment in the counties may be objected to !;
any growth discouraged and any
movement crushed. II places any local
measure at the disposal of people who know
nothing of the needs which create it. Yet
the SIN, in effect, fayors it, and Tie Ne~s
holds it up to us as clinchcr
The Sun rests its Judgment further on
"the heat exhibited at the late election,
which means that while tlc city elected ''y
doubtful means tie democratic state ticket
the counties returned an homes ma iority for
the reform ticket. What else can il mean ?
yet the N6tcs either doesn't see ii, OK it siul
rifles every cry it has made over Baltimore
election frauds, when it Cites 10 L. the tslH'
paragraph rs settling TIE new county qucs-
ton. From the Baltimore stanNpoint,
therefore, this thing OF the counties rcduc-
ing, possibly overcoming, city majoriti"s, Is
an undesirable contingency; hcncp, there
ought to be no more counties.
Bad as ali this is, the merits of Tie Sues
judgment, as endorsed by tie -Ners, are not
improved when subjected to further test, in
matter in which we are all concerned
1t is easy to see that While we must stand
still, Baltimore builds up, and with its RAPID
growth comes the uniaii.ng multiplication
of legislative districts 1t must bc under
stood that the city has the advantage ci
special privileges in the matter OF new tul-
nations. When the population is sufficient
to call for AN additional Legislative dist.irt
the thing is done - 4 matter OF COursC. 20!
Baltimore knows more than tic country
the value Of legislative votes. There IS II,
kicking up among the back streets aEt
alleys when good part of the town is alb
sorbcd elsewhere. To gain representation
there is dependent mainly on the census in
ClcaSt, III tlS Souii'iN, 'hN tuNo'iNl'9 =
population territory, clecton-all come il
to be determined before we can make ne"
counties. With everything in the city's i'll
vor, and with more support drawn from
this county han an other in tie State, The
Sun, speaking for Baltimore, adjuJgcs tho
matter against us, and Inc -Aet-s assuming
to speak for the counties, accepts its friyo
lous objections with cNultation.
In this connection, also, it is easy TO sec
that these rigid constitutional requirements
amounting to prohibition Of new counties
on the one hand, and the comparative free,
dom from such cmbaTraSsmcntso on the city :
part, not only maintains b,.t aUgmelits Bal
tnore, supremacy in the Leg stature. So
well is this already established that the re-
maII, Baltimore gets all the legislation Size
wants. is passing into ii political aphorism
Certain it is, ii she docs not, it is from 10
lack OF constitutional favor But when
measures affecting Legislative rep csenlation
are introduced, the constituencies begin
oyerlauling The darling instrument, tie
Eastern and " ,scm shores are thrown On
the scales, and the matter settled as far as
possible in accordance with the views o:
hose who, the yelrs we'll knows, first and
last and all the time desire to keep West
ern Maryland under the heel OF Eastern
-Iaryland prepondcrance. The results Of a
policy flowing from such management has
been felt in Allegany for years, particularly
in canal affairs it shows itself now, and VIII
have frequent and ample occasion TO show
itself hereafter. 4 he !SUA torcshndows it in
the strongest arguments it or any other aI-
thority can offer, and the Ners proudly
refers to it as dctying overthrow.
Now we approach the SUES pcroration
1t sums up the whole matter in the drctul
fact that the county has been but recently
subjected to a large slicing in the shape OF
Garrett That may be a good argument in
Baltimore but it is tlimsicr, if possible, than
the sophistry of "too many counties We
might put the SIMS two theories together
and establish an economy which would sup
plant the republican system entirely, or else
make existing divisions perpetual without
regard to emergencies. 1t would even go so
far that the original establishment of Fred