Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-05-27
Matters and Things Political.

Mister Bdit0r :--Liveing in part of the
county that has never, to my KNOWN, made
itself heerd thro the instrumentality of the
columns of a newspaper, the weliair Of the
human rase in iineral and Of Montgomery
county in particular, as the politsion say,
demands that the voise Of Chinkapin Humid
red should find expreshun consuming those
things which the people will have chance
to vote on next fall.
The apple and peach crop promises TO be
very light but the crop OF small fruits, in
the shape of candidits for offs, bids fare TO
be uncommon plentiful. Indeed, the names
Of such as is anxious to serve the dear peo-
Pile at Annapolis and at.home is legion, and
If the seventeen year locusts put in an APP
pearance and tune their pipes in consert
with our candidits, the musick in the aire
will be too overpowering for delikit consti-
tushuns to indure
In the furst place, the most important
question is not who the candidits will be,
but whose HOSES thay will ride round lee
pioneering on. | ernestly commend the
considerashun of this matter to the atten-
sion of all voters. Although taxible hisself,
the boss sometimes represents mortgages and
other sorts of property that is not taxible in
this State. Last summer candidits come to
these parts in CRATE profusion. live in an
Oub VI llb way pldCc anu bHc TOuc VI my
domisil is hard to find, but | don't blieve
any of these Gentlemen missed my shanty.
They all got thare dinner and he'd thare
HOSES fed, and to here them tell it you would
vote for them would of supposed that
every poor man who would suddenly
find hisself rtch. Thay said, insted of
working tobacco in the briing sun,
orter to be settn cross-legged in my par
Ter discoursing my wife, and it would be so
if things was as thay orter to be, and thay
would be so if thay could go to Annapolis
and make our laws. Well, some of en- did
go thare, but | onestly blieve, insted of get
ting better, things has got worse Than ever
seen en- before The enorn4ous low price of
tobacco and other things we raze for sail,
together with the high taxes and the closeing
of the schools the furst Of March, is two
much for any man that digs his liveing out
of the ground to put up with. Besides the
last menshioned fact, it is furthermore re-
ported that at the beginning of the next
school year, the New School Babtis School
Bord will order the teachers not 10 admit
any boy or girl in thare schools without
thay bring a sertifikit that thay have been
properly dipt.
In my estermasion, things can't get eny
better until the CRATE masses Of the people
take the Management Of affairs in thare own
hands, put in offs men Of thare own select
ing, and see to it that every sort OF property
bares its full burden of taXasion. | have
been told that thare Is two hundred million
OF dollars in this State that don't contrbit
one cent to the jencral tresury. OF course a
large part of this some is heit by rtch men
in this county.
One of those candidits before menshoned
rode Bowie Davis's boss last summer, and
here he is out now for hire seat in the
snagog, aiming at nothing short of the State
SENT. Well, if he gets in this time, he will
halter ride some body else's boss, for Just
here is WHARF the boss story comes in |
have known Mr. Davis for more than fifty
years, and this is the furst smart thing /
ever knowd him to do. He is a rtch man
that pays very little taxes because his welth
consists in mortgages and other property that
is not taxible, and he knowed that the voters
of this county bleve every ritch man orter
contribt his full shear TO the jeneral tax, and
not leave the poor to pay it all. This fact
he knowed well, and he also knowed he had
no show TO go to the legislator in these
peace times when every voter can put his
ballot in the box without being drove away
by a Yankee soldier So the best thing left
for him to do was to get a man that would
represent his interest at Annapolis TO run
for oils, and he mounts him ON his own
boss and starts him out lectioneering. Well,
the upshot of the story is altho this canddit
pretended to be in favor of retrenchment
and reform and the taxasion of all sorts of
property, when they brung him to the
scratch in the legislator he cast his vote
agin the taxasion of mortgages, and Mister
Davis carried his pint after all.
In the big fife now going On betwixt the
Hamilton ring and the German ring, the
voters of these parts feel very mulch
like the woman when her husband and the
bare was filing. She didn't care a cuss
which side whipt. Mister Hamilton is
ritch man that pays little taxes, and per-
haps Mister German don't pay any, 50 |
can't see where the poor mans intrust will
be promoted by siding with either
Yours with respect,
ZEKIEL CRuMP