Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-10-03
CORRESPONDING
SUBMITTING TO THE INEVITABLY
A Weep Over the Degeneracy of
Political and Social Morals.

CUMBERLAND, October l, 1885.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
The excite ment attending the con-
ventions of the two great political
parties being over, our people are
quietly settling down to business, and
looking forward hopefully to lively
fall and winter trade. The "sore-
heads" in each party will hardly NOM
mate an Independent ticket now, as
they can all wait until the Temperance
Alliance takes action on the tickets
already in the field, as they may pos
sibly put forth a ticket which will
gobble up the 1875 votes that st. John
polled in the county last fall.
The late democratic convention
seems to have pleased but few outside
of the nominees. 1t Is said that those
who worked the hardest and spent the
most money at the primaries, failed
to get any nomination, while those
who worked but little and spent less,
came off successfully. This would
seem to be but right, as the purchase
of nominations by rich men in politics
has been increasing during the past
twenty years, and is one of the worst
signs of the times. Competent men
refuse places on the ticket, and are
left off frequently because they have
no money to give away to their party.
l see by the New York papers that one
reason why Mr.. Roswell P. Flower de-
clined the nomination from the dem
ocracy for the Office Of Lieutenant
Governor was because he was not will
ing to open his money bags and in that
way help to procure his election. For
the.friends of pure politics this volun-
tary withdrawal of a man who can
only place in the balance an ambition
based on money is a benefit.
hear some talk Of a sorehead meet
ing in this city on next Saturday,
when a ticket will be put up composed
of candidates taken from the tickets of
each party so far nominated and few
new names added for members of the
House of Delegates, which is said to
be the weakest part ON each ticket.
We will see what we shall see, and on
the morning after the November cleo
ton there will be boat ready to take
all the defeated candidates with plenty
of room for other soreheaas who failed
to be nominated, up that historic river,
where salt is so plentiful.
Parties of strangers during the past
few days have been seen in the neigh
borhood of the old Winchester bridge
along the National Road, prospecting
for iron ore it is supposed now, as no
report has been received in this city
of anything else being found IN the
shape of English gold. coal, or natural
gas.
Since the meeting of the two polite
al county conventions there has been
a scarcity of natural gas in this city,
but rumor says i. is plentiful around
Frostburg and in the three inYef dis
trictS of this county, which wanted
much but received little in the shape
of candidates. Dando and Wambach
ought to poll Il pretty full vote among
their respective friends, and also
Hartley in the lower district, as there
are but few candidates from those see
tons to vote for.
When the districts are changed, so
that Orleans. Oldtown, Flintstone and
Raw!ing will not have quite SO much
power as the Cumberland, Frostburg
and Homecoming districts in a county
but are allowed strength
in proportion to their voting popula-
ton, then there will be less cause for
over the result of the
primary elections. The Crawford
county system wonld be better than
the present system of nominating can
dldates, but even in That system there
is room for fraud.
Caroline county on the Eastern
Shore, | see is agitated over bribery
at elections, and those who are opposed
to spending any money in campaign
are in favor of having an anti-bribery
law. What good would the anti
bribery law do if it was not enforced |
1t would be like the law of the con-
stitution in regard to salaries, violated
every day unless the States Attorney
was willing and anxious to enforce it,
and in such cases his own salary
would probably be reduced.
The sale of the library belonging to
he Young Mems Christian Associa-
ion, of this city, a few days ago for
mere pittance to satisfy q landlord for
ent, is sad commentary upon a city
% large, so rich and so given to glori
ying over its great advantages. We
well around about our fields of mex