Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-05-10
The Monument Question.

The Monument Question.
We are grati9ed by the action o.
the Board Of County Commissioners
in reference to the iron railing anc
proposed improvements in Cour'
Square.
We are OF those who would see the
County Square in Frederick made
handsome, creditably handsome and
if needs be. by the use Of the county''
money.
Furthermore, we are Of those who
are pleased to see right step taken
regardless Of any considerations as te
who first took the step.
We dislike petty jeelous:es ant
dog-in.the manger policies and have
a contempt for people who won
serve in the brigade, if they can't bt
brigadier general.
Further, we are disposed 10 view
with suspscion, those who start in 8
plain, straightforward way to under
take the advocacy Of measure, on
its merits and among its friends alone
out who are so easily and readily led
to see sinister motives in the first
word Of opposition spoken. In the
first place then, let us say that we IA
vor the erection Of q monument on
Court Square. not because somebody
else opposes it, but because we desire
it. We put it in this way to make
apparent an idea that we, in common
with the majority, hold, that it is I'M
possible that any public measure
should be originated in Frederick
that is not opposed, not on its merits
but because them other fellers
originated the idea.
We were therefore prepared to Ind
a spirited opposition on the part OF
tue Times to the project Of the Elk
um,ner, as we have had only to read
to learn, that in the past, natural
antipsthy has, in AL unbroken Sc
ouence, caused the ono to condemn,
TINT which the other approved
The opposition therefore caused Ms
but little apprehension and were will
ing TO trust the matter in the hands
Of its friends, believing that the En-
or,tner had suggested practicable
way in which two commendable acts
would be done in one, the improve
ment of Court Square and the honor
ing Of the Union dead.
Now We find the principal cham
pion Of this excellent and honorable
movement degeuerating from the en-
nobllus and patriotic promptings Of
ite first utterances on the subject, to
the level Of politics, making the uu-
reasonable combination of the Times,
the Citizen and the Chronicle, re-
publican, democratic and an indie
pendent paper, placing a strained in
terpretation on the comments Of two
and refusing to recognize the fact that
Destiny decides the opposition of the
third.
Now there are thousands Of citi-
zens Of this county that do not care a
tu'pence for the rivalries and jeal-
ousies Of the Frederick papers and
their respective cliques; they recog-
ui1s their superior advantages for
suggesting and aiding to execute such
commendable enterprises as the mon
nment in question they are not TO be
Influenced by imputations of wrong
motives nor are they to be deferred
from striving to accomplish their de-
sircs, without reference to winch OF
the many-sided interests in Frederick
1t may or may not harmonic with
and IN the matter at issue, its friends
will have but one inquiry to make 4;
are we sufficient?
lfthey are, the monument will be
built, the Square beauti6ed and the
county honored if not, it will be their
mieiortune, that they were not prop
yrly led in the matter, but not at all
their fault.
',"He who is ready to buy up
his encmiee will never want q supply