The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-10-12
Libelling their County.

The Republican leaders ofCarroll, IN order
TO mislead voters, in the hope of gaining con
troll of the county government, have resorted
TO Misrepresentation. The resolutions passed
by the late Republican county convention are
n direct assault upon the fair name OF Carroll,
and calculated to do the county material IN
;urv. retard her growth and impede her pros
perity. They tell the world that the assess
ment of real and personal property in Carroll
is in excess of its saleable value; that Carroll
is the heaviest taxed county in the state; that
the school funds have been squandered and
that the School Board is in debt, and the
inference to be drawn is, that the school sys-
tenn is badly managed and the schools inferior
The people ofthis county have prided them
selves on the good management OF county
affairs. the smalIness of the county and mu-
nicipal debts, the low rate OF county and
municipal taxation, and excellent educational
advantages. Besides these advantages they
regarded their location as unsurpassed, for
healthfnlness, their soil as productive and
their railroad, telegraph, telephone and mail
facilities as equal TO those of most sections.
These are the advantages this county posses
ses. and they we're told to strangers as induce
ments to locate in our midst. Onthese points
there has been no difference Of opinion. In
public meetings to promote enterprises, these
facts have been dwelt upon, without question,
and they are only questioned now to create dis
satisfaction for the sake Of partisan advantage
and for the sake Of this advantage the Repub'
cnn managers are willing to tell the people
beyond Carroll that all the inducements to
manufacturers in the way of low taxation and
to others in the way of low taxation and good
school facilities held out to them from time to
time, were mere shams and frauds, and we're
deceptions upon the part of our progressive
citizens.
Ii is scarcely to be believed that any indi-
vidual would thus desire to condemn his own
county and section, yet here IS body of
sixty. Eve persons, representing, or supposed to
represent, about $500 voters, deliberately
attacking and vilHfying their county, and for
the sole purpose Of gaining party advantage.
But no advantage viii result. The rather,
injury TO the party will follow. The people
Of Carroll viii not endorse party that thus
strikes at It's material interests, for the hop
Of partisan gain. To do so, would be to en-
dorse the libel on the county; TO bury the
Republican party under large majority,
would be a condemnation Of the attack.
The burdens of the farmers and others Of
Carroll are heavy enough. A tariff tax that
increases the cost Of the neeessaries Of life
nearly double, and the low price Of farm pro-
ducts, make it difficult to make both ends
meet. And if land buyers, manufacturers and
others are driven from Carroll by an endorse.
ment Of the ealumnies Of the Republican
platform, hard lines will indeed have fallen
to us.
Every voter of Carroll who does not wish
to condemn his county, impede her progress
and retard her growth, will vote against the
Republican party on November 9Th.