Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-11-19

AN analysls OF the vote cast last
week, surprising as it was, for any
existing purposes would involve a
useless occupation of space and sx-
penditurs of labor. For future uses
~ guide to political preparation for
campaigns an investigation in the in
tsrsst Of all parties may be profitable.
In doing this it will be wise to avoid
a. far a. practicable all deductions,
leaving the vote to speak its own
volume.
In summing up the oaRsss Of DEM
ocratic defeat the Cumberland Times
reports the following:
Various reasons are given for the result
of the election and the large majority
given the republican ticket. Some have
/. asserted that 1t was the passive action of
the Baltimore & Ohio while its subordi-
mates ran the election; others that the
Yots ct Mt. Savage and District No. -,
where the machine shops and coal mines
OF the Consolidation company are located,
show how il was; while others call attcn-
iion to the vote in No. 8, showing the in
duence of the Short Line road. Again,
others say the democratic party catered to
the socialistic and labor elements of the
county in nominating its ticket, and that
tho corporations were bound to oppose it
quietly II not publicly.
No doubt exists that all these pow
erful influences contributed to the
result, and in addition several others
of trihing but unduly effective in
strumsntalitiss were employed to
bring about democratic defeat.
With respect to the last very sug-
gestive hint we were aware of the
restivenesa of Cumberland under re-
cent attempts by mining influences to
dominate the politics Of the county.
This fact was manifest in the proceed
ings of both conventions of the lead
ing parties, and it furnished the cue
to one of the insidieus ISLANDERS of the
campaign involving the good name of
the JOURNAL. On several occasions
afterward it cropped out in converse
tions with Cumberland lawyers and
merchants--msn who possess too
much sense to be alarmed by a scare
crow in any other field. But the
poison, started upon an electric track,
was for the most part undiscernible
and beyond pursuit.
There has never been, even by i'm
plication, the slightest foundation for
the fear which settled down like
nightmare upon the too astute con-
science Of the Cumberland bar. In
its platform of good wages for the
people and equal rights to competing
railroads, it never became necessary
for the JOURNAL to utter a question
able sentiment, even if it had been
entertained. It has held that both
right and duty commanded the peo-
pie to secure Individually, collective
ly, and in all cases honorably, all the
wages obtainable-in their own and
ell depending local interests. To
this end it maintained the dignity of
labor-a theme which even lawyers
apostrophize-only on the stump and
about election time. 1t has ex-
pressed the same regard for the
blsckleg, the assassin of good wages,
that the respectable lawyer feels for
the dirty shyster.
In the railroad dispute no thought
vas ever entertained here of robbing
one company to give to another. All
We contended for was an unrestricted
line of the new road to its destination,
or just precisely the immunity pos
,ssssd by the old roads.