Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-07-19

plant was being made. This. says, va
acceded %. and Mr. Wing went speedily /.
work on this warrant until such time - hi
regular commission could be made ont and
sent 90 him Now, Mezzrs. Editors, IL is Z
fact that can be borne out By reliable iesti
mony that with the exception Of zen
days all this great amount Of work had
been performed before Mr. Wing ever re.
ceiyed his first commission am speak
ing now Of Mr. Wings section, and not d
| the nuisance below the food gates az In.
dian Bridge, which i not included in
Wings section Mr.. Wings second war
rant was not issued until some time in May
but not TO be used until the first Of June.
Now mark the phraseology ofthe first war
rant For any work done thereon wings
sectionl this shall be your sufficient author
ity. Isn't that unlimited power, Could
he not with impunity have spent q 81. 900.
and had the gentleman (Mr. Jos. B. Davisl
have worked his nice game little sharper.
or rather had he have been able 10 use this
old innocent colored man as he hoped, would
to-day have been perfectly secure in his
gains; but watchful eyes Were upon him
and thanks. many thanks, gallan, Court
has checked him, impelled as they were
for the protection of their own good name
and honor. Thus we find the record and
thus ]; will stand
Now, l VIII turn TO what the gentleman
terms the funny part, which has occasioned
so many outbursts Of q potable laugh
ter. l am dear lover OF I'm, so you will
have to pardon me if dwell here liitla
longer. The gentleman would persuade
those not acquainted with the facts TO be-
lieve that this was district fight between
the second and Sth districts, and that the
sth district thought we were getting up Pc
titions TO prevent the Board from paying
some innocent laborers for some necessary
work done, while he with such men to back
as Thos. Shadrick, B. j. Mckay, Charles
IL. Pomeroy, L. c. Combs, Henry Adams,
Robert Fl. Cole and others were trying TO
secure the payment of their claims for them.
Now perhaps you may not think Mr. Jos.
b. DAVIS incapable of compounding real
nice joke himself, when assure you that
no man 50 far as known TO me has ever made
SINGLE objection to the payment Of Mr..
JOS. b. Davis's road reports, and TO relieve
your minds of this confusion will give copy
of my petition of which so much has been
said, which is as follows: We, the under
signed ax-payers of ST. Mary's county, and
being in Mr.. Jos. b. Davis's immediate
neighborhood, feeling ourselves deeply ag-
g,eved by the manner in which he is us
ing the monies appropriated or that may
he appropriated by your honorable body
for the repairs of our public roads, do here
by petition your honorable body to have
the work inspected, and if you find, as we
are sure you will
lst- That vast expense is being en-
tailed upon the taxpayers by the building
of costly and in many instances needless
bridges and other heavy and expensive
work, while the bad and almost impossible
roads are passed by unnoticed;
End. That our roads are injured rather
than improved by this work;
Bird. That he spends about three times
as much money and time as would be re-
quired for live, energetic man TO do the
same work; we beg that your honorable
body put a stop 10 such waste without de-
lay. We also assure your honorable body
that while We indulge the hope that you
will afford us the needed protection should
these fail, We will seek redress in Courts
having higher jurisdiction. We would
also suggest that in issuing of commissions
to road supervisors il should he left to the
discretion of the Court, and not to the SUI
pervisors, u say how much money they
shall expend in the repairs of the public
roads. All Of which is respectfully sub
mitted
Now, having given you my petition iii
full, | will endeavor TO show how Mr. Da-
Wis managed to get his petition signed -
extensively. He goes TO these very charit-
able gentlemen and states in sympathetic
tones, as he now does 20 the public, Tin
holder language that petition was before
the Board prohibiting the payment ofthese
poor laborers who had worked so faithful
ly upon the public road and whose lami-
lies were 50 much in need of their honest
wages, thus working on the sympathies Of
these gentlemen 10 such an extent a. to
make them so far lose sight Of the real ma
ture of his petition as 10 get more than fifty
men, who never saw his work, sign his pc
tition (many of them without reading it,
thus pronouncing that my petition was I'M
founded, and that the work done by Mr..
Davis was good job and much needed
Now, some may ask what has made Mr..
Davis show his benevolence to such an
extent as TO ride night and day 10 get
these poor men paid. Perhaps wnen
tell you that Mr.. Joseph =. Davis
or rather Mrs. Joseph B. Davis who is run
ming nice little store at the Factory has
most of these certificates, having taken
them in exchange for merchandise. This
fact may partially explain why these inno-
cent laborers so melt the heart of big Jos.
b. Davis And, because reminded these
gentlemen who signed Mr.. Davis petition
in ignorance of the facts in the case lhav-
ing never seen his work) OF the risk they
Were running, he tries 10 make il appear
that am 50 very Prescriptions as not 10
be willing to allow man an opinion he
cause he was at distance. This is another