The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-26


have asked his resignation and cut |
down the expenses. The least oner-
Gus service he could have performed |
were overlooked in some slip shod |
way, or utterly neglected-we mean |
the looking after the management
and discipline of the schools.
Can any resident tax payer say
that he erer saw either Commissions
ers or Examiner in either District No.
or No. s? How often was he seen
in No. 4? How frequently in any
school in Districts Nos. ?, ., or 7, and
yet the books show that this man
was paid fer full years service and
the Commissioners were equally
faithful in this particular.
Does it not look as though there
was to be no mention made of our
little "mileage," provided my"
little neglect" was condoned ? Is it
not barely possible that other items
than mileage have crept into ac-
counts so loosely kept by parties so
little amenable to any body or any
law? Are the people who pay for
this sort of thing by the sweat of
their faces to be told that they COM
NIT an outrage because they want
such an administration of affairs
changed? And is the fact that any
one Of these parties who so neglected
his duties as to irreparably involve
the credit of the county and the
prosperity Of its schools be allowed
to go free from censure because he
furnished a room rent free in which
these acts of omission ana ommis
sion were perpetrated Men may
excuse this delinquency if they
choose to do so, and allege that it is
a Republican raid upon the Demo-
cratic commissioners, and that per.
sonal dislike il at the bottom, but the
Democratic party, as a party, can
test the feeling of their people by
trying to endorse their action. If the
Democracy think these Commission
ers ought to be sustained let them say
50. Let the HeraLd in its next issue
speak out for or against a change.
Let the editor say boldly where he
may be found, and not publish
"Questioner's" letters and then
speak Of them as healthy reading for
inquiring minds. Let us see who Of
their political friends will take up
their burdens and face the people in
the defence Of their reteIti0n. Who
will apologize for the condition we
are in to. day through their acts, and
beg of them in the best interest Of
the county to hold on? There is Il
fine opportunity now for injured in
nnca,nn t.. to 6 al valnra,is defenders
and we invite them to the rescue.
Speak out, Democrats, one and AL,
and say if you are anxious to defend
this sort Of thing as the best your
party can do for our schools.
What we have done and said has
been done and said in no partisan
spirit, and we deprecate mixing orr
schools with political issues and if,
as a party, the administration Of
school affairs suits the Democracy.
we cannot object. We shall not.
however, relax our efforts till We
haYe secured for the county such
change as shall save our common
schools from utter destruction and
our county credit from collapse. We
shall not be so anxious to find men
to fill these places who can save the
county 'tWo hundred dollars in
rent" or who, upon provocation, can
reclte the catalogue of their virtues
as readily as a Sunday School scholar
can the ten commandments. These
are all useful and well in their way.
We want nOaC, men who will maxi
themselves familiar with the duties
they have topprfOrm, who will bring
order out of TIE present chaos, who
will control their present expendi-
lures, hold the employees of every
grade to strict account, substitute
prudence for recklessness, and be pre-
pared at all times to answer to their
fellow citizens as to what they have
done as also as to what they leave
undone, without the intervention of
"a" or "your committee"
1t is somewhat ostentatiously an
nounced that the Examiner has been
elected to serve till January / 1880
or till his successor shall be elected
and qualified. 1t is also announced
that the term of the schools, "holi-
days inclnded," is to De limited to
fifty-three days. Will the new Ex
aminer, Treasurer and Secretary
claim an entire years salary for his
service-a gu ry that comes with
some pertinence, we think, in view
Of the fact that the present deficiency
which so appalls us, is largely made
y