Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-10-14
COR RESP0N D EN- C E
The Republican Ticket.


The republicans have given us
good ticket this fall. There is no
doubt about that. Salt can't save
our democratic friends this time. l
remember last fall walking through
pine forest on Savage river and seeing
a red cross chalked on a pine tree.
It was live tree then, but it was
doomed to the NAV of the great Lo-
chiel mill at Bloomington. The dem
ocratic tree is still standing, but it is
chalked through and there will be a
great profusion of sawdust next No
vsmber.
think it will not be denied by any
who know the man that McComas is
the brainieat congressional candidate
that has been stirred up in this dis
trict for some years past. He discus
ses political questions, not like dem
agoguical quack. His point of view
is that of an honest aud profound
thinker. His scholarship is extensive
and exact, yet he talks like plain
man OF business. There is little of the
bigoted partisan about McComas,
though an ardent republican. He fills
the bill exactly and ought to be elect
ed. He is a man with career before
him, too, as you will find by and by.
Edward Stake is man we'll equipp-
ed by mental character and attain
ments for the bench. He made as
popular States attorney in Wash
ington county as Hunter Boyd did
here, and | don't see how I could say
anything greater in his praise, He is
thoroughly unpretentious, though one
of the solidest lawyers in Washington
county, He is more than popular
there-which often does not mean
much-he is respected and beloved.
He will honor and adorn the bench.
AS to w. J. Read, of Cumberland,
we all know him. Mr.. Price, l see,
opposes H.. Read in the Independent,
which will surely defeat him The
Times also opposes him. In fact, the
Times has Lever forgiven Mr.. Read
and his conJreres for saving the city of
Cumberland from financial collapse,
brought about by one of the most i'm
beetle administrations that place has
ever known. 1t also feels very sore
because Mr.. Read in his letter of &C.
ceptance proposes to execute faithful
ly solemn duty that the law of the
State lays upon our judges, namely,
the selection Of school commissioners.
If Mr.. Read had been silent upon this
point he would have been defeated
The people of this county-republican
to the very core and marIow-wsnt
the schools placed in the hands Of that
party which is the natural friend Of
education which, wherever it has had
power, has fostered and perfected
public education as the democratic
party has never done. Look at the
testimony, the proven facts. Com
pare Massachusetts, Iowa, Illinois,
with South Carolina, Kentucky, Ar
kaneas. The Times praises our pres
ent board Of school commissioners be-
cause they have given us nine months
schooling. II has taken the demo-
cratic party since 1867, or fifteen years,
to do that. If the republicans had
had control of school administration
we would have had ten, months school.
ing ten years ago.
There is another vital fact to be
considered here. The school commits
sioners and the county commissioners,
for obvious reasons, ought to be con-
trollel by the same party. The last
named board would then feel that
every step in advance made by the
school commissioners would be so
much political capital for their own
party. Their public spirit would be
aroused to lend them every possible
aid, and we should have the two
working harmoniously together. AL
ways expecting the republicans to
control thecounty commissioners, let
Us have the others of the same ilk.
The fate Of the schools for the next
fifteen years, my fellow-citizens, now
hangs in the balance. This is the
first time you have had the chance by
your ballots to fairly have voice in
their control. Now is the time, by
voting for the republican judges, to