The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10
Wilson's MILLS, August 6, 1899.

10 the Mountain Democrat
Your very brilliant and most COM
pllmentary letter to me. in your last
weeks issue, is before me, and it GER
tainly does YOU great credit as
grand and lofty tumbler. and as such
You will please accept my most
hearty congratulations. At first the
iawreIating to the county Treasury
ship was apparently all right. but to
your way of thinking wicked board
OF County Commissioners admins
terd it in favor of a Republican
Tresurer.
Nm, when through the columns
of h REPUBLICAN, it was borne in
on yor inner consciousness that the
law VS. drafted for Democratic
Treasuer. and consequently was
made Mandatory in its provisions,
you sumpersaulted into the position
that ii wa bad law all over, and
that 1 irresponsible for it. and in
your agon5you cried out, with tears
In your voce, where, oh where
was the Honorable George w. Will.
son that he id not prevent its pas
sage ?" And now alter having the
primary purp0es of the law, togeth-
err with the methods by which it was
placed on the statute books more
fully explained, you execute a hand
spring backwards into the position
that the law is good in all its parts,
save and except in single spot only.
and that 1 am responsible for that.
Now, Mr., Democrat, il you will
desist from those acrobatic exercises
long enough to read my letters, you
will observe that I did not denounce
the provisions of the law as finally
passed. But advocated. as l always
shall, the principles of local self gov
eminent. I do denounce the undem-
ocratic purpose to fitch the Office and
make it the football of the Demo
cratic county bosses.
Do you regard it as a trivial matter
that the rights and privileges of our
people should be sacrificed to the in
satiabls greed of your party man.
ayers !? Is it matter of no concern
to,you that the citizens of your coun.
1't5hould be deprived of the sacred
right of selecting through their i'm.
mediate representatives. one of their
most important officers? Is it Of no
consequence to you that set of pc.
li.ieal buffoons. in violation of every
principle of justice. of law. and of de-
cency, should juggIe a measure
through branch of the Legislature
in the manner truly and faithfully
described in my Annapolis letter I?
And then the idea of gravelv placing
such law on the statute books for
the government of free and intelli.
gent people O shame, where is thy
blush! And yet, the protest of the
Democrat is withheld.
The Democrat knew these things
perfectly. and in view of the fact that
the plans of your party managers
must have been familiar to you, and
of the additional fact. that the daily
papers gave full reports each day of
tho previous days proceedings. your
ples Of ignorance will not avail.
In both of your articles to me,
which, by the way, regard as state
papers of extraordinary merit ~ you
take pains to emphasize the fact that
when a member OF the Legislature l
drew my pay and allowances. Of
course did. and never pretended to
deny it. Your repeated reference to
the matte. however. suggests the pos
sibility that you may be hard run for
an argument. Why do you lay so
much stress on my pay and my post
ace ststnps? Why don't you grave
Land formally announce the fact
THAT Mr.. Browning or Mr.. Friend
drew their pay and their postage
stamps 2
The next time you attempt to illu-
inmate the subject of pay and stamps.
please don't forget the clerk from
Garrett county who pocketed his
pay and his postage stamps, and then
don't forget to allude 10 that little
boy that Mr.. Friend took to Annap-
oils who got his five dollars day
and the Inevitable postage stamps.
Your illusions to my pay. etc.. is
growing monotonous. Do you mean
to intimate that I ever obtained any.
thing improperly Everybody must
know, unless they have read the
Democrat with the most unfortunate
resulst. that not being a Democrat my.
self 1 could obtain nothing only pre-.
cisely what the law gives every men,
Der.
The Democratic hypothesis In ref
erence to the pay question asserts
Itself practically, something like the
declaration that "the earth belongs