The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-10-26
For the AgiS and htteUgenter.
Another View of the Road Question.

Mr.. EDITOR; The man will never live in
Hartford county who will not see places in
our public roads that want mending. AS
long as they are used for travel these will
with the utmost vigilance need repair, us they
| are constantly worn by use. But the man
has never lived in Hartford county, since it
was made II county, who has seen upon an
average of general condition better public
roads than we have now. This, i'll spite OF
all said and written upon the subject, is the
truth. More practical common sense road
mendng is now in vogue than was ever the
case at any time heretofore, and the atten-
ton of farmers and others to the condition
of our roads and their consequent improve
ment is the result. This has been and is now
being done under the present control OF our
county affairs and no doubt will continue to
greater extent in the same channel unless
our people become impatient and weary of
well-doing, and make change Is it good
for us that this should be done?
A community that is as thriving as ours
and so well advanced in all respects-public
roads not excepted-shouldin interfere very eau
tiously under pretexts of this sort with our
progress. You have already said, Mr.. Editor,
and l believe truly said, that that particular
question is out of the domain of politics, but
as our Republican newspaper will have it
that it is feature of the campaign, then |
say let our citizens be cautious how they de.
pose from control of county affairs the Demo-
cratic Commissioners, under whose admins
tration this great advance in our county
prosperity in every thing has been achieved.
But yet, Mr.. Editor, since l think of it,
there is one roads l suspect gives rise to all
these complaints upon the part of our Re.
publican friends as to these and kindred mat
t,nt 60 Coo ,11x ,,F md In
Jordan is q hard road to travel-that is the
road that leads to Republican success in
this county. This road starts at the Balt-
more Custom House and is laid QUITO run
through Hartford county, clean on to the
Commissioners office, and thence 10 Anna
polls and elsewhere. And this road is so
dreadfully out of repair as to be unfit for
travel. Indeed, it has been so little used for
many years that it has not been thought
worth while to keep it up at all, and hence
all these complaints on the part of the Re-
publican newspaper about the bad condition
of the roads. 1t is said that your brother
editor of the Times recently applied to the
Commissioners for an appropriation of three
hundred dollars for the purpose OF repairing
it, but being refused is ofcourse, mad about
it. do not believe myself that the people
want it repaired. With all the cry about
saving the county money, there is an old
adage that is true, if you give some people
an inch they will take an ell, and they will
fight all their might for the inch, on purpose
to afterwards get the ell. No, Mr.. Editor,
there may be some rough places in it, some,
perhaps that want mending and ought to
be, and will be mended, but take it all in ALL
the old Democratic road, shaded by the old
hickory trees planted by Jackson along its
margin, that has led us to our present state
of county improvement and advancement, is
the highway of safety and prosperity for our
people. 1t is not good for us to turn aside
from it into doubtful paths The guides who
would so lead us astray are not to be follow
ed. OLD CITIZEN.