The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-20
Ye Editors Farewell.


III we were not permitted to remove
SUI print aper from the Adams EX-
t*sS office this week. although W..
#afe never, in these columns, said
aught against Mr.. Adams or his just
SreleDrated express. We have paid
aiany dollar Into the G. o. ID. de
Atftment Of this mans express com
naAy. Befote we came West, our
plAsician told us we could not live
Without cod liver oil, and indeed, he
Wa right for have we moi been G..
0- ID. liver OH The time since We
4 sail it,is paper
"rhe last remark is offered as a
+raiuItous Insult to every unpaid
>u5serber. Paid upsubscirbers may
omit il. Or we will go to them per-
'0naily ana apologize.
But let us seriously review the
Oast two yearo' history Of the World.
What have we not done to aid aud
rncuurase ur infant industries and
advance the Tagging commerce OF
Buffalo Wallow?
Let our flies show whether we
1aYe done " hat we say or not. Let
reluctant capital paw OYER our page,
covering the past, and answer if
what we now state he not accurate.
"Haye we moi, at the instigatiOn OF
leading citizens here, bUOned the
condition OF trade, When traffic was
lead, and currency nothing but ii
hollow memory?
"Have we not, through the col.
umus of the World, asked that Il bank
be at once established here, when, as
ii matter of fact, for year the posi-
office here has had to sell stamps and
take the pay out of the store?
"Have we not been gay and frolic-
some in these columns that the world
al large might not tumble to the woe.
within US? Have we not j0ked an
punned and lrolicked in print, when
the shriIl north wind was whispering
abroad with his icy breath, he hath
no under. clothing whatever?
1--WE have even been loyal tG the
town in which we lived, and this last
act IN our career shows how loyal the
town has been To US. Other news
papermen, with fewer brains and in
better towns, have grown affluent.
Low br0wed journalists elsewhere,
in towns that are populated by hu.
man beings, Rave done well, while
we with fatigued and vapid con
haye thrown away our two
best years and now 60 forth only
with what is exempt from seizure
and sale.
"We kept quiet when the conYen-
ti0n made its nomination for mem
ber Of Assembly last year aud as>is.
ted in his election because he was a
Buffalo WaIlow citizen, well know
Ing even then that he would be the
first man 10 put himself on the five
cent counter. We knew that he
would take any thing from pass 10
an unguarded wafer melon. But
everybody said we should stand by
the nominations, especially so long
as the nominee was man who lived
here. So he went to the Legislature,
worked for the better protection OF
muskrats and downed his neighbor-
on every corner. His pay was $3.50
for the session, out Of which he sue
ceeded in paying $500 board 5000
whisky bills. after which he found
hy system of rigid economy, he
had still enough left to purchase a
two moment morse and eyade the
grand jury.
more than all that, we have sat
up nigh,s to edit and correct and re-
vise and punctuale the alleged
snreches of this man, so that his
lellownen would not think him the
intellectual blight that he is. All
through the campaign his imitation
brains tljaled about in pool ul reu-
eyed rum, like the specimens III II
d0clor's office dancing on + bnsoIn
of jar Oi alcohol. Then he would
emit II speech To day, as the result
Of our toll, he is gay aud free in Can
ada, while we go form TO begin life's
battles once more with the bitter
memory of having assisted an intel
lec:ual angleworm into place where
he could market hi, moth-eaten soul.
ave have stood Ivy the people Of
Buffalo WalIow III every wy while
We have been running this paper.
We have maintained that gO)d order
prevailed mere night aud day, when
the facts would hardly warrant this
statement. We have pointed with
pride To our peaceful record as n TOW n
when the low refrain of the six
shooter, cooing to its mate, came