The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-22

ing to ''levy" for his little bill"
The office of County Commissioner
is always thankless. Parties make
claims that, subjected to fair scrutiny,
are wholly rejected or largely reduc-
ed, and from that day forward the
representatives. of these claims be-
GENE their blatant asSailants. With
out "rhyme or reason" they are eX-
pected to ignore the claims against
the county, and cut down the rate of
taxation. But the clamor only lasts
till people understand that they have
been true to their interests-haye
met the responsibilities of the posi-
ton in ajust spirit and levied enough
to keep the county out Of debt. Such,
we believe, has been the course of
the present Board. With reduced
basis, they have reduced the rate .
cents, and provided for the following
extra expenses: Delinquents, $1,000 /;
reduction of bonded debt, 81 800 re-
pairs of bridges caused by floods,
81 200 survey of new line, 1925.
But he had one other grievance
the Commissioners would not give
the School Board but SS.500-and
launches into diatribe of the wrong
perpetrated on the poor. The Demo-
crdt knows that the public sentiment
of the county would have upheld the
Commissioners in Withholding any
appropriation for the School Board.
Such has been the arrogant and reck-
less management of our school affairs
that our tax payers did not care to
have $500 more placed in their
hands, to go the way of $4,000 they
have already ''got away with" Let
the people remember the history of
their past transactions, and their
present financial condition, as far as
it can be ascertained, its internal
quarreIs and dissensiOns, their re-
markable financeering exploits, the
confusion of their accounts, their ig-
norance Of what they owe or who
they owe it to, their refusal or inabil-
ity to furnish any statement in de-
tail of their doings; let the people,
we say, remember all these things,
and say if the County Commission
ers did not do too much, rather than
too little, when they placed $500 at
the disposal of the School Board. AS
to the opening of schools it is pub
licly stated and not denied by them,
that had the amount been doubled
they could not open the schools for a
day-if they paid off the obligations
that are now urgently pressed. We
suppose there will be another eXhi-
bition Of "financeering" that will
make the tax payers hair curl when
they have to meet it, as they newt
ably will. That schools will be open
ed (for AZ days. the salaries of
Boar d and Examiner paid, and the
Democrat GO into ecstacies over the
Cuisines qualifications and financial
ability" of the School Board, we do
not doubt. But we believe it would
have been more for the interest of the
tax payers to have stopped right here
and scertained what they owed and
what was cur hope of paying it.
Our County Commissioners may,
however, take courage. The COM
parison provoked and invited be-
tween their management of the coun-
ty affairs and the management of the
school affairs, is not to their disad-
vantage. They may have erred in
dealing with this school question, but
it is an error on the right side and
the tax payers will rather sustain
| them than venture to follow in the
footsteps of one whose support of the
School Board is SO reckless and blind.
Until the Democrat furnishes some
other and better proof than it has
yet OF ''purposed wrong" of SUBJ
serviency to party, of neglect of the
tax payers interest, they may rest
content. The attempt to get up a
side issue to divert attention from
their recklessness will not work. The
tax payers may groan at the ''levy,"
but if it is honest they will not ask
to postpone the evil day Of payment
to another year, or pay much heed to
attacks upon them by one whose will
was good to add to their burdens,
and whose spite against them has its
inspiration IN the fact that they
wouldn't pass his ''little bill"
The malevolence that assails the
County Board, the subserviency that
admires the School Board, will make
plain and ineligible the frantic zeal
with which he volunteers" again to
expose the outrages that are perpe-
trated upon the tax payers Of Gar
rett, which come home to him and
his friends with such special severity.
tits Injustice to the present Board
ia state that most of the bills passed