Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-29
FROSTBURG, MD, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1890.

THE Cumberland Ne,cs gave deliverance last
Monday to a very remarkable article, appar
emily editorial
Very remarkable, because in opposing the
proposal to have the governor appoint the
school commissioners, it exhibited immense
Solicitude for the sanity of a democratic Leg
islature that would pass a democratic measure
Vet more remarkable because it seemed to
answer the great conrndrum of the year
Where stands the NewS on the canal steal ?
And still more So because while it has tao
lilly assented to the ring colossal theft, it has
scowled upon the magic crclet and hissed-
hands off our little public school coterie!
All, and still more so, because such change
of appointment would, not only destroy the
democratic party in the State, but ''it will
make the republican party solid as a rock ~
For Il republican paper this is puzzing
logic, but, boiled down, it amounts to this
Democrats, do not be insane enough to do
this "6fdmOmS" thing-this thing that will
destroy your party, and build up ours Do
not turn out McCulloh and Shepherd, for
that will put two other democrats in, and thus
strengthen our party, Do not turn out Wei
mcr for he has frozen out of the service every
democratic eligible and imported none but
republicans, which would compel you to sue
cced him with a republican, which will de-
StrOy you and make us 'solid as a rock ~
These disasters we do not want, and (as you
will see further DOWN we will not have.
Honestly now, republicans, what do you
think of your organ?
And when it speaks of two or more added
heads yearning to be commissioners, and a
"tumetied head to be examiner are its
chronological requirements worth any more
than its partisan consistency? Do not the
curruptionists make similar pleas whenever
rcformers suggest reform? Is not dctraction
the dialect of all rings?
But, republicans. how do you like the .Ne~s'
certificate to Prof Wcimers democracy as Il
conclusive reason for his continuance as eX-
amincr-perhaps for life?
And in the face of Judge Syestcr's condition
to terminate, most probably, i'll the fall of
the machine into republican control-how do
you like this dict,tm from your organ p
OF one fact these intrigucrs may understand
as well first as last, and it is, that the people
of Allegany county will never submit the
public schools to be made a football of poll
tics, or inferior commissioners or Il stupid
examiner to be placed in the positions now
held by the present officials.
SO You see, republicans no matter how the
political cat jumps, school control is not for
you. ''rhc people will never submit to it,
and your organ has said it,
And YOU, reStive democrats, chatting under
an administration which has not in it an
ounce of qualifications, nora pennyweight OF
.Gy!timate intereSt-nativc or acquired, i'll the
public school system-~yuu arr .,adG to under
stand that since nearly all manhood has been
squeezed out of those whom official oStraciSm
has not driven from the county-you are the
inferior stupid people who may never
hope to be commissioners OF examiner.
And you, people at large, are taught the
consolng fact that there is no lower depth of
real disinterestedness and no deeper level of
incompetence for you to fatLom. You have
the worst, and like galley-slaves YOU are
bound to it for life.