The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-12-08
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To the old Board of County Commissioners,
whose term of office expired this week, the
people should say: swell done good and
faithful servants Their management of
the affairs Of the county has been consistent
and careful. Conducted always on business
principles, they have guarded with jealous
care the pockets of the people. The treasurer,
too. who has been with most of them for two
terms, and faithfully recorded all the business
Of the Office, leaves behind him the best evil
dence of a good clerk-a well-kept set Of
books. The Democratic party of Carroll has
been fortunate in their selection of men for
the important position Of County Commis
sioners The old board is succeeded by gen
tIemen Of the highest honor and integrity,
and the people las the Democratic party al
ways has the welfare of the people at heart
can rely upon wise and judicious application
of the county funds. Strange to say, the of
flee of County Commissioner does not make
the holder of it popular-the more faithful
the officer the less popular he becomes. Now
man who runs for the office Of County Com
missioner ought not to run for any other Office
for at least 30 years. Yet with the Orphans
Court it is different. A judge can be a jolly
good fellow, with nod and smile for every
one. He retires from office as he entered,
the same genial gentleman, excepting that he
has a few more friends and the title of
Judge, by which he is ever afterwards
known; even his children call him that instead
of father. His political aspirations are in no
way molested; he can have Annapolis or
Washington in his minds eye. Many of the
readers of the ADVOCATE would probably ask:
Why is this? We answer: Because the Or
phans' Court has nothing to do with the
public roads.
Nearly every Democrat in this district re-
ioices in the election of Carlisle as Speaker
of the House of Representatives, the vote of
our Congressman to the contrary notwlth-
standing It looks to us as if we were in
sight of old landmarks, and had not forgotten
the fundamental principles of our grand old
party.
After politics comes pork. A Freedom
farmer don't care so much about the weight
of hog as he does the price of it when
slaughtered, and, as pork is low, he feeds
high, so as to make up in pounds what he has
lost in price. Mr.. 0ctavius Devries, at
Henrytown, killed hog this week, Is months
and Is days old, that weighed 500 pounds;
Mr.. Devries has fine pen of hogs, and
promised to let us know when he killed the
largest one He asked us not to publish the
weight of this one, as he did not care about
pork popularity. We promised him we would
not, and being politician, of course we
kept our promise.
Mr.. George f. Jones, with his character
istic enterprise, will rebuild the Deyries paper
mill, which was destroyed by fire on the LIST
of November Mr.. Chas. A. Warfeld has
repainted his fine residence and outbuildings.
The work was done by the Little Brothers,
yet it was a big job.
Josh Lee, Freedoms famous constable, ar
rested bad negro, one George Washington,
who was wanted by the Frederick county au-
thorities. Josh is a brave fellow, and amt
afraid to take hand at anything.