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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-11
Legislative Notes.


The following Garrett. county bills
have been approved by the Gov.
ernor:
Reducing the fees of sheriff.
Repeating the act authorizing the
appointment of warden to the jail.
Reducing the fees of County Sur
yeyor.
Providing for additional pay to
Court Crier. This Office is held by a
Democrat.
To repeal the act establishing Dis
trict No. u.
A bill requiring security for costs
in trials before Justices of the Peace,
Amending the Deer Park charter.
Bill relating to jurors and wit
nesses. Providing for their payment
by the County Treasurer, instead Of
by the Clerk.
Repeating the huckstering license
so far as it applies to Garrett county.
Bills have been introduced by Mr..
Friend to provide for repairs on the
national road ; TO prohibit non-resi
dents from fishing and hunting in
Garrett county, and to prevent any
one from fishing in Bear Creek fol-
two years, also to prevent the de
struction of fish in the waters of Gar
rett county by dynamite.
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A Sober Second Thought.

1t is sober second thought which
Influenced the Senate of Maryland
last night to request the return from
the House of Delegates of the bill
passed hurriedly last week extending
the term of the mayor of Baltimore
to four years. This bill was passed
by the votes of nineteen Senators,
and the return of the bill was reques-
ted by vote of ten to nine. The
House of Delegates was notin session
last night, and so the request cannot
be acted upon until it meets to-day.
It may be assumed, of course, that
the exercise of courtesy usual in such
cases will bring the bill before the
Senate again, when the opportunity
will be afforded for more deliberate
procedure than heretofore. Since the
hasty action of the Senate in this
matter 1t has been suggested that If
the change of term and time is de-
sirable it ought not to be accomp
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lished until new mayor and new
members of both branches of the city
council are elected on the proposed
new basis. The people elected the
present mayor for two years and the
city cOuncimen for one and two
years it is considered undemocratic
to legislate them into longer terms,
when it is perfectly feasible to ac-
complish the object, which seems to
be desired by many people, of doing
away with the October elections by
fixing the period for beginning the
change when the terms of the present
incumbents shall have expired. the
objection which showed itself when
the scheme was suddenly projected in
the Legislature, without having been
previously suggested in the campaign
or intimated before the Legislatures
is significant of the way in which the
step is regarded by the people, who
are and ought to be jealous of their
rights. 1t is to be hoped the Senate's
action last night will result in such
final action as will prevent the estab-
lishment of precedent which may
some time return to plague the in
yentors.-Balttmore Sun, Tuesday.
The Garrett delegation at Annapo-
lis is respectfully requested to care
fully read the above. They might
give the last two clauses a second
reading.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-11

The people of Kansas are haying
such trying time with the democrat
lied postal service under this AID.
ministration that Representative Per-
kins, of that state. wants Congress to
inquire into it and find out where
the trouble is. The postal service in
many other sections of the country
is in quite as bad condition as 1t can
possibly be in Kansas, but it will be
futile to expect Congress as at present
composed to give 1t any attention.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-11

DIED IN CHURCH.-A sensation
was occassioned in the Zane Street
Methodist Episcopal Church. Wheel
ing, w. Va. Sunday evening by the
discovery that one of the congrega-
cation, Mrs. VIM. Windel, who was
supposed to be quietly listening to
the service, was dead. She had ex-
pired from heart disease without at
tracing the slightest attention.
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1t is said that Governor Jackson,

It is said that Governor Jackson,
on general principles, objects to hay
ing the Legislature pass mandatory
act requiring county commissioners
to do what they already have the
power to do. He says that when in
the Senate he consistently voted
against all such mandatory bills be-
cause. in his opinion, the county COM
missioners are the best judges in the
matter Of county expenditures.
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The Boston Herald wants to know

The Boston Herald wants to know
how long it will take the bumptious
protectionist organs TO find out that
shouting Free Trade doesn't hum
bug anybody" 1t is most emphati-
cally answered by Southern news
paper, the Chattanooga Tmss. which
wants to know how long it is going
to take "the bumptious Reformers"
to come out in their true eolors as
Free Traders, and adds that "it is
about time the Free Traders found
out that their reform cloak don't hide
the architectural angles of their inn
ported British political economy"
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Democrats and Cleveland.

SN-~
No real Democrat desires the re-
election of Grover Cleveland. The
evidences of the truth of this PROPOSE
ton are turning up every day. The
reason is that Mr.. Cleveland is an in
CRATE. He has done since his inaug-
uration that has not appeared to him
to De of advantage to himself. He
was nominated and elected by Dem
Ocrats. OF course, the Mugwumps
helped. Every vote helps, especially
in an election so closely contested as
that of 1884. But where would Mr..
Cleveland have been but for the
Democrats? He would have receiv-
ed so few votes that all who cast them
might have been drowned in Gen.
Scott's ''hasty plate of SOUP" If it
were not for the Democrats he would
have dever entered public life. His
party gave him his first chance and
made him President. A good many
Democrats who knew him voted
against him. These are now joined
by still larger number who have
found him out since he has been in
the White House. One of the latter
has written to the San upbraiding
our esteemed contemporary for aban-
doning its fight against Mr.. Cieve-
land, and the Sun responds, in effect.
that it has simply recognized and ad-
mitted certain recent Democratic acts
which the President has committed.
1t refers especially to the fact that he
has kicked the civil service humbug
overheard"
When Mr.. Cleveland advocated
Civil Service Reform he thought
that it was vote catcher. 1t was.
perhaps, because it captured the
Mugwumps, while most of the Dem
Ocrats voted for him on the theory
that the reform cry was a campaign
dodge. But Cleveland was green at
politics and proposed to keep his
promise. Then the "boys" revolted,
and the President discovered that he
was about to be left stranded without
the bulk of his party. IF he had
been sincere in his professions of love
for the new system, this was the hour
that he would have shown his cOur-
age, but he yielded and he is now
one of the leading spoilsmen of his
time. In consequence, true Demo-
Gratis, like the Sun, think we'll of his
recent conduct. Nevertheless they
do not desire his denomination. The
Sun says. in answer to its correspOn-
dent, that it does not admire him
personally, and that it will not adj
vocate his nomination. However,
it will support him if he is nomina-
ted. The Democrats are all agreed
on this point. They will take Mr..
Cleveland if they are obliged to, but
they do not like him, And they do
not like him because it is apparent
that he was Civil Service Reformer
and is now spokesman to advance
his own interests. He was willing to
turn his back upon the Democrats
when he thought that the Mug
wumps held the balance of power.
and he is now ready to desert the
Mugwumps when he finds that it Is
necessary for him to consider the
Democrats. The man who thinks
only of himself, and forgets his
friends when he is prosperous. is an
migrate, and ingrates are not popular
among Americans, whether they are
Republicans or Democrats.-N Y.
Mail and Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-11

Francis Miller, a prominent law
yer of Montgomery county, died at
his home near Sandy Springs Thurs
day morning, aged SO years. He was
a prominent politician, and was twice
a candidate on the Republican State
ticket, being in 1887, nominated for
Acknowledgement. He leaves wild
oW and four children.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-11
SATURDAY, FEB. IL. 1888.

We regret very much that we are
compelled in mere self defence, as
citizen of Garrett county, to criticise
the work of our law makers at An
napolis this winter. We are all citi-
zens together, bound by common
cause. and the concerns of to-day are
pregnant with results upon the future
of our county. Laws of repression
will react upon our posterity, and if
we as citizens have, as we claim, the
real prosperity of our county and
state at heart, we will hesitate before
we burden our statutes with such
laws as are now on the calender at
Annapolis, and which, in fact. are
simply intended as repressive of the
free rights of our citizens. The rights
of the citizens of this State are al
ready curtailed too much by the ap-
pointiye power, and the correspon-
dent in another column we'll voices
the sentiment of the mass of our
right thinking people when he, in a
satirical vein, calls upon our masters
to do away with elections altogether,
1t is hard to repress our feelings I'M
der the provocation, and that our
people do not rise up in their might
and power and give expression to
their righteous indignation, is simply
due to the fact that we are law abiding
citizens and taught to respect the law
making power. 1t looks as though we
were to be punished for voting the
Republican ticket and as though
dire and severe punishment must be
visited upon all those Democrats who
last fall refused to submit to the lash
of the masters. 1t is difficult for any :
one outside the limits of our county
to realize the true inwardness, as it
were, of the many laws introduced
the present session at Annapolis.
Allow us to mention few only as a
sample:
A law providing for the appoint
ment by the Governor of Election
Commissioners for each county who
shall have full control of our Election
machinery. appointment of Regis
tiers, Judges, Clerks, &c.
A law providing for appointment of
School Commissioners by the Govern
or-This to punish DIR. Bartlett. who
last fall defied the ring. and to get
rid of the present School Commits
sioners who are insisting upon the
payment of a large balance due the
school board by late Democratic
tax collector.
A law providing for the appoint
ment of county treasurer by the
Governor, in order to make a place
for ring worker.
A law providing for the appoint
ment by the Governor of nine men
at FIVE dollars day to make new
assessment, which should be entitled
law to provide places for eleven
Democrats twelve counting the
clerk who worked for the ticket last
fall.
A law to reduce the fees of the
States Attorney, who for the first
time in the history of this Republic
can county happens to be a Republi-
can.
A law to reduce the fees of the sher-
if who is Republican, and so on
Gd i,yfnit,tna adj aaa1Seuna. Is it to be
wondered at that property is depre-
ciating in value, that our people are
leaving the State, that capital is re-
pulsed, taxes high, our roads bad.
our school terms short aud emmi-
grants passing through our doors by
the hundreds every day? Gentlemen
is it not high time that you call a
halt. Our masters we humbly pray.
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We Told You So.

The Democratic party in Maryland
made certain pledges of reform to the
people prior to the last election, just
as it had uOne on the eve of every
campaign since the nomination of
Governor Hamilton. The american
warned the public of its insincerity,
and the utter Immortality of good
resulting from further support Of an
organization which had paved its
pathway with broken promises. But
the people of Maryland are good ma
tured and long suffering. They did
not believe that such earnest plead.
ings rs were put forth by the domi-
nant party could be made IN bad
faith, and the managers we're given
another trial. There is keen anxiety
not only here in Baltimore, but all
over the State, to learn what use will
be made of the respite.
A partial and very unsatisfactory
answer has already been given by
the legislature. More than one-third
of the session has been consumed by
the passage of some five or six local
bills, four of which were to suppress
the right of self-government in Gar
rett county, because the majority of
the people in that county voted for
the Republican candidates last fall.
The only other measure of import
ance which the legislature has thus
far deigned to consider is one to de-
prive the people of Baltimore for two
years of the right to choose their own
mayor and city councilmen. because
at the last election the voters fright
ened the managers out of their wits,
and made them spend all the cam
paign funds on hand in order to elect
their ticket. The party treasury is
bankrupt and the managers are I'M
willing to face an Indignant people
or run the risk of similar campaign
until their Golfers can;be replenished.
They openly state this as their mo-
tive for doubling the terms of Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, and
the public is at liberty to judge, with
such complacency as it may. what is
to be expected from a session so aus
piciously begun.
But, perhaps, when vengeance has
been satiated and malice has done its
worst, the majority will settle down
to business of character needed by
the State. Well, the prospect is not
reassuring. If there is anything a
simon-pure Bourbon does hate, it is
fair election law. and through the
ingenuity of the managers. the feat
ures of the admirable bills placed at
the disposal of the members have
been so mixed and played against
each other that there is little likeli-
hood of a measure being passed to
correct the evils which have become
almost unbearable in this city.
1t wouldn't do, anyhow. The state
must be saved TO Cleveland if he
should be the Democratic candidate
for President, and he didn't get
much of a majority in Maryland
three years ago. The Republicans
and Independents have become phe-
nomenally active since then, and the
complications caused by municipal
politics are to be removed from the
struggle. What is the use CT clear
ing the way if a brand-new, honest
registration and election law is to be
intejected to dash Democratic hopes "
This is cogent, if not honest. reason
ing and will probably prevail.
Is there any chance for reform leg
islation on matters not directly con-
nected with politics? Scarcely, A
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-11

More than 700 Republican clubs
have been organized in various parts
of the country since the recent club
convention in New York. and the
good work is still going on. The
seed was cast into genial soil the
crop is growing grandly; the harvest
in November will be victory.
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taken to be copy" was set up before
we discovered the mistake. Being
upon the point of going to press we
leave it for what it is worth, saying,
however, that we assume nc respon-
sibility whatever for the motives ex-
pressed.
FoXTowN, Feby. Eth. 1888.
Mr.. EDITOR will you allow me
through the columns of your valuable
paper to make a few suggestions to
our members of the General Assem-
bly, at Annapolis. You know. Mr..
Editor. that it has got to be trite
aphorism that all things are possible
with the Maryland Legislation, and
you know just as well as l do, Mr..
Editor, that the effete instrument
called the Constitution of the State
was never intended to curtail the
privileges of our statesmen at An
napolis. Well now, for my idea, for
which l claim no copyright, or trade
mark, it is not original either, unfor-
tunately, as we have had the scheme
mentioned heretofore. Pass law
doing away with these troublesome
elections altogether, and give the
Governor power to appoint every
thing, and if the Governor is not
satisfied with this create a few more
offices. Let us see. The Gov. is to
appoint election commissioners. Well
they must have clerks and 1 know a
man about my size, weight and CON-
plexion that would just fill the bill
for clerk, and there is Tom and Dick
and was going to say Harry, who
will soon be out of a job. There are
some men down our way besides my
self who have never held any fat
office yet, and never will if the people
have any say so, and as we voted the
straight ticket and curse DIR. Bartlett
and the school commissioners, why
we believe we would get justice done
US for once if Elections were done
away with once and for all.
Now Mr.. Editor 1 wish you would
just see Tom at once and get him to
prepare such bill and get Dick to
60 down some day when it suits and
push it through and tell Cap. that il
he is afraid of them Republicans who
voted for him he can just "aoipk his
eye" and they won't know any better,
Mr.. Editor, l hope you will have
the Postmaster-General stop the cir
culating of that Republican paper,
taken by so many people down here
1t just causes trouble and dissatisfac-
ton, and every little thing that is
done down at Annapolis must go all
over the county. Please don't forget
this.
Mr.. Editor, please meet Dick at the
train the first time he comes up to see
the boys and tell him that ran all
over this part of the county and cir.
culated local option stories about the
Republicans last fall, and tell him he
is my man for the head of the ticket
in two years again. Tell him if he
has promised everything else That,
owing to the hard times, l will be
satisfied with Return Judge.
Yours in haste.
OLD HICKORY.
P. S.-Don't forget to meet Dick at
the train.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-11

The following communication, no
doubt intended for our contemporary
across the way, by some means I'M
known to us reached our desk, and
taken to be copy" was set up before
we discovered the mistake. Being
upon the point of going to press we
leave it for what it is worth, saying,
however, that we assume nc respon-
sibility whatever for the motives ex-
pressed.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-26
INEXCUSACLE IGNORANCE.

The Anti-Monopolist says that the for
eign immigration OF this country comes
because of cheap lands and to secure
homks. Reliable statistics CIV. T. Swift
ler's Bureau of statistics) show us that
of the nearly 800, 900 who came TO our
shores last year nearly 200, 900 were fe-
males. They did not come to secure
cheap lands. OF the remaining 300, COO,
5000 were professionals; about 1000
skilled occupations; 11,G00 miscellane-
Gus occupations, not including agricuI-
ture, making 266,000 and leaving only
about $4,000, or less than seven per
cent of the immigrants who proba-
ably came here for land. AS a fact
they are not agriculturalists; they do not
come here for lands at ali. But they do
come here to find employment in our
workshops; on our public works, and as
professional men or skilled laborers.
They accumulate in our cities as a rule,
and only a very small per cent of the
generation which comes over ever seek
to, or succeeded In securing land. The
younger ones, many of them, push for
the west and make land owners and 10y
al citizens. So much for the land owner
question. ''Such ignorance in candi-
date for the vice-presidency is mex
cusabIe'
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-26

Since the announcement was made pub
lie that Commissioner Atkins would retire
from the head of the Indian bureau the
first Of the month the president has been
casting about for a successor to the
Tennessee would-be senator. The Hart
ford Courant is informed that among the
men whom Mr.. Cleveland is understood
to have had under consideration for that
position are ex-Congressman John E.
Ellis, of Louisiana, and Agent James
Mclaughlin, of the Standing Rock
agency, Dakota. The ex-congressman is
temporarily out of political job, is per-
sonally agreeable to the president, has
influential friends. and is the fortunate
possessor of a wife who sis of strong
philanthropic inclinations and has es-
.pecially interested herself in the cause
of the Indian" Mclaughlin is highly
spoken of as one of the best men and
most efficient, business-like agents in the
service. He has been connected with it,
in one capacity and another, since Presi-
dent Grants time. Although he is
Roman Catholic, the New York Evening
Posts Washington correspondent is tod
that ''most of the efforts for his advance
ment Is made by Protestant refOrmers."
More serious handicaps than his religion
are his meager education, his lack of
executive experience on the big scale,
and his half-breed wife.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-26
For the Eagle.
JACTA EST ALEA.

The convention waits in breathless silence;
The hour is past for idle speeches,
The chairman rises with mein impressive;
His voice from floor to gallery reaches.
Ladies aud gentlemen, have the honor
TO present TO you Ben Harrison's name,
A man, unsmirched by party dealings,
Against him stands no word of blame"
Then. a loud huzzah fills the dense packed
hall,
All. men, you're but boys grown young
again.
For you rise and shout and frantically call,
For the man you would raise above COM
mon men.
And your voice echoes far DER the laugh
ing water;
Lake Michigan's breeze bears it on to
the sea,
1t whispers exultant to chieftain' S daugh-
ter,
And she breathes sigh and pra5s- for
thee.
Take this statesman's name as symbol, a
watchword;
Let Republicans proudly wave it on high,
Following brave Ben Harrison, of Indiana.
We bring back the spoils Of war or We
dieI
Viola Ethel Lawrence.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-26
Just Like Old Abe.

Chauncey VI. Depew told the following
anecdote at dinner recently in Wash
ington: when the Merrimac was on
one of her threatening cruises during the
war, a scare arose among the New York
men lest she might enter that harbor and
proceed to lombard the lower portions of
the city. A delegation was appointed to
call on Mr.. Lincoln and secure defense.
When presented to the president, the
delegation arose man by man and told
how much money they represented. One
said that he was worth 10000, 600:
another that he represented $50. COG, 600.
and so on until the totals had reached
several hundreds of millions. Mr.. Lon
coin heard them through and then said !:
Gentlemen, do not know where the
Merrimac is, ane if did have no ship
that l can send to stop her. Toe re-
sources of the government and our credit
are strained to the utmost, but If / had
as much money as you say you have, and
if / was as badly 'skeered as you seem to
be. would buy waT-shIp and present
il 10 the government.
Wichita eagle., 1888-06-26
Frank Nav bias constructed a sailing

Frank MAY has constructed a sailing
wagon, and on Saturday we enjoyed the
luxury of sail, running on the read
south OF the railroad track. The
schooner consists Of four wagon wheels
upon which Is placed a sail arranged
similar TO the sails on sailing boats.
Ropes guide the fore aes.ls, being used
like lines 70 haraess. Mr. Bliss had
charge Of the lines and Mr, May at
tended the sail. Frank intends securing
a patent and constructing thes7e convey
ances for expeditions travelling on the
prairies. Tfis sloop or schooner can
run faster than wagon pulled by
horses. As means OF sport IL Is a good
thing. and little more ingenuity might
adopt a plan that could be utilized Cor
carrying merchandise as well az passen-
gers.--Cimarron Echo.
There is one advantage that is not
mentioned, and that Is, there vii never
be want a wind.
The work Of laying the iron on the
Dodge City, Moasezuma ard Trinidad
railroad began last Frisay. Grading has
been completed for forty miles and cars
will be running between Dodge City and
MoatezHnia Ia short time.
Chetopa has passed an ordinances pro-
hibiting boys under - years Of age from
appearing on the street after : o'clock AZ
night. Putting water on d ducks back.
No Kansas town should ever think 81
setting up IN business without q ars
company. a brass band, water WORKS and
a base ball club.