Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-02-01
A PLAIN ANSWER TO THE RE-
CORD.


He Gays the idea in regard to the
poor Iaborer in the communication in
the CAPITAL. signed s. NJ. D.. comes
from the CAPITAL The CAPITAL did
not furnish one idea of that commu-
nication 1t was my own compost
lion, and every statement is true -
Mayor Claude in bis last report. said
,be debt due the Benk bad been in
creased from $4,000 to $l6.5OO-
Could | go to better record than
the Mayors Report
The Record man does not deny the
statement about the poor laborer,
hut tries to make excuse for it. He
docs not attempt to deny that the
plant of the Fire Department ia not
paid for. He says the Improvements
on the streets have been kept up
Now every ore knows there has not
been street paved for nearly two
aud a half years. SO you see that ell
my statements signed S. M ID. are
true and without the aid of the CAPT.
tai
He says S NJ. d. pays no taxes =
He is simply mists ken. The taxes
on bis property are paid regularly,
aud S. NJ. d. has owned more prop
erty and paid more city taxes than
the Record man will pay if he lives
hundred years if we may judge
by present prospects have found
one of my tax receipts, and | will
copy it for the benefit of the Record :
Daniel VI Sproglc 10 city taxes for
The year 1863 on $45 900 ut 9 cents on
$l0J-$296 90. Received payment-Ed
Ward Powers, Collector"
d. not use the slang expressions
malicious slanderer," coward, !"
"Ialseboods," etc. | know the pa
irons of the CAPITAL are an intelli-
gent class of readers and they do not
wish to read such indecent language.
The Record man further says the
object of the COMMUNICATIONS 10 the
CAPITAL comes from some personal
schemer Of profits that the present
Board has nipped for the publisher
of that paper and its friends. How
wrong for any gentleman to make
such unfounded charges The truth
is, an old gentleman SO years of age
brought here his capital from the
State of New York a few years ago,
and built the most beautiful row of
dwelling houses there is 10 the city,
and seeing that bis property is being
ruined by high taxes and annually
decreasing in value. be has been call
ing the attention of taxpayers by
communications in the CAPITAL and
otherwise. He is too intelligent a
gentleman and knows too well the
causes that are expressing him, to
ask any aid from the manager of the
CAPITAL or any one else in writing
bis communications Nor bad one
word been said about the city board.
in any of the articles published in
the CAPITAL, until the Record man
volunteered defence of that body
in language neither choice nor ele-
CANT. Neither bad one word of re-
proach been said against single
member of the board for every one
knows that the board is composed of
our best citizens who do not need the
interested championship ofthe Record
man.
/ do not agree with the policy of the
board, and if they had lived in as
many live towns as | have, they
would change their policy at once.
The Record man says it is With re.
greet that be wasted so much space
and time 10 teaching S, M. d. the
first rudiments of commercial science.
s. NJ. ID. did not ask the Record for
aoy Instruction in bis science. for it
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Is his belief that the Record man
should use more of his time and space
in instructing the apprentices given
to his care, and not waste it in using
discourteous language towards bis