The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-05-12
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commissioners of the county.
but, stimulated, allow me to pre-
euuie' by my "appeal for moral sup
po'', the temperance people began to
poieelVe that they had duty to per-
ior'n In the premises, and l began to
receiVe letters from different sections
VI the county every day, showing
thatafter the efforts of the liquor peo-
PIE mad subsidized, the temperance
cause had gathered itself up, and
WIN rush and roar, had rolled
ACROSS the county like a great tidal
wave, and the report came in that
over thousand signatures had been
ootalned, and only for the want of
time II looked as though as many
more might easily have been secured.
MT. Z. s. Otto wrote that with an
otner day he could have gotten
hundred more names. Hon. Geo. l..
Mlchaels wrote that he could obtain
10 signatures in his section, only it
was SO near the end of the session it
seemed useless.
This began to look like public sem
tlment was becoming aroused in the
county, but too latel The bill had
pas:@seskhe House. and had gone to
| tbesenate where it would encounter
no Digestion.
But hy some means, and for some
purpose, the bill was amended in the
Senate ant came back with two
amendments; one of which was
adopted, tndthe other rejected.
l was nfOrmed also that several
hundred dNllars had been raised by
the liquormen 10 the county to
secure the rpeal of the Local Option
law. and begn to canvass the senti-
ment of the Fouse more thoroughly,
and found ths the bill as amended
could be defeatd. which accordingly
was done as stated in my dispatch.
The letter l set you on the Sd was
private dispatc, written hurriedly
in the commissioner packing up to
leave place of witch l had grown
heartily tired. Bit it was not the
publication of the etter to which
so much objected, but the unfriendly
comments which accompanied it,
Now. a word in leguard to my
supposed hardness in presenting the
petitions and l have done.
The first intimatiOn | had of any
petitions being sent me, was the pre-
sentation by messenger of a special
delivery package just about the time
the House was to be called on the
last day of the session. l was COM
PEELED to use the time of prayer and
also of the roll call, putting the proper
endorsements on the petitions, as |
knew they would be first in order
and it would be difficult to get the
rules suspended at that stage of the
session.
you will observe there was not
much neglect or tardiness here, as
within % minutes after they arrived
in the mail the petitions had become
the property of the house.
When | had time l read your let.
ter directing attention to the regis.
tered package forwarded some days
before and without a minutes hesita-
tiOn or delay 1 went to the postoffice
and inquired for them and also why
had not been notified. The post
master said he had sent me the notice
which some how escaped me.
Finally as the reasons" of my alb
sence from Annapolis at the time the
first petitions went, is "but known
to myself"-though not unknown to
you-and as it is not especially or
particularly anybody's business, /
pass 1t by without further comment.
And now, having explained the
situation as 1 see it and understand
it, and having no inclination to
bother or be bother any further about
it, "Let us have peace."..
Yours truly,
GEO. w. WILSON. =