Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-11-01
MINING JOURNAL
FROSTBURG, MD, NOVEMBER 1, 1880
\ Result Which Dcnials Will Not


Explain.
Mr.. McKaig thinks he was demo
crat in 1881.
The JOURNAL is morally sure that if
he is a democrat as rule, he was
then a republican pre- tenn.
Outside of its private reasons for so
fixing his status at that time, there is
the public one of speech made be-
fore the county convention of that
memorable wear. in which he laid out
cemetery for the democratic ticket
and read the preliminary burial ser
vice.
The answer to this melancholy pro
ceeding came in majority of only 80
in his own town for the nominee for
the State Senate, very small as COM
pared with about 337 for Schley for
Congre one year before, and l75 for
Blair the year after.
The difference between the two lat
ter majorities is partly accounted for
probably in the fact that the former
was presidential year: the latter an
off-year.
The relatively small figure for lSSl
must be traced to some other cause.
Especially so, because Heating for
Comptroller, a very unpopular nom
inee, more than doubled the JOURNAL'S
majority.
We know no reason, therefore, bet
ter than this
Mr.. McKaig, so-callcd labor friend
of to-day, laid out the graveyard and
talked tombstone poetry about the
ticket because democratic MJorerS then de-
n,anded laJor ticket! 1t is somewhat a
difference between then and nor.
The demand referred to skipped
him. He got one district out of fifteen,
and for this he determined to bury poor
labor until it contracted sense enough
to bow down and worship lin as the
real top-knot of toll in these diggin@s.
The result proved that 50 far as
Cumberland, his home, was concern
ed, his fervent prophecy was verified.
1t also proved that the beautiful
organization known us the knights of
Labor, the especial proscriptionistS of
lawyers, were gulled by lawyers into
supporting a lawyer as against lay
man who had long be-friended them,
especially when they needed more
than friendship-respectabi1Hy. They
turned the tables of stone, inscribed
with their moral law, upon their
friends. The latter, instead of the
lawyers, were thus outlawed by the
Noble Order, and the lawyers in
stalled INTO sacerdotal intimacy with
the pompous master workmen and the
bloviating walking delegates. And it
came to pass that the word went out
that "whoever don't like this cement
of professional concrete and toil-worn
conglomerates is liar -
1t was from this demagogic alliance
the late but perennial mining bill
sprung hash Of plagiarismS from
the laws Of Pennsy lvania, Ohio, Eng
land, ETC., all nondescript here. 1t
is this structure of many trainers
and this offspring Of many fathers
which still memorializes the trinity of
primary Knights of Labor, secondary
democrats and lawyers for votes only.
This is the keystone which still binds
the arch stretching from laws labor
to labor's law, a scheme of political
curvature which pays the profession
with the peoples offices and fools the
toilers with a biennial attempt at dan
gerous class legislation.
Turning from this DEPRESSION it will
be impossible for Mr.. Mckaig to cX-
PLAN his apostacism in 1881, and he
need not attempt it now or hereafter.
His prophecy, his sulks, if not his
quiet but active work, taken with the
resulting figures, cannot be cleared
up inside the domain of cause and
effect
Sample of Tariff Revision.
a cloak priced at $l2 before the
passage Of the Mckinley Act is now
marked $l475.
And a cloak which sold at $40 by
the wholesalers will cost the retail