The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-02-26
A Vote Getting BIZ.


scheme are daily accumulating.
Thus the Bill, as originally drafted
and printed at the Office of the
evening paper, copy of which we
have, fixed the per diem of the jurors
at $500. This reduction was made
for the purpose of inducing the sup
port Of the taxpayers, on the ground
Of economy, and the usual Demo-
cratic clap-trap about their pre-
tended reduction in expenses. When,
however, some Of the older and
shrewder managers of the Democ-
racy in this county, pointed out to
the six wet nurses, that this would
make the measure unpopular with
the labor~organizations, because it
was q reduction Of wages there was
much CONSERVATION, and the wet
nurses nearly fell over one another
in their haste to amend the Bill
and put the per diem back to $50.
In other words the economy Of
expense was q good thing to pirate
about to the people, but when it
came to the danger of losing the
vote Of the labor organizations that
was another matter.
Nevertheless this little trick with
the figures will serve to show the
laboring man how much sincerity
there really is in the pretenses of
their Democratic leaders. All of
the six legal wet-nurses stand high
in place in the Democratic party
machinery, two or three Of them
have been prominent candidates in
recent times for the suffrages Of the
people, and all Of them last fall
went about making heart-rending
speeches about the expressions Of
the down-troden people. and yet the
frst measure of any kind they pre-
pare to be enacted into law, strikes
. blow ct the pitiful wages Of even
. juryman, and seeks to reduce his
pay here fifty cents below what it is
IN Washington county, in Frederick
county and other counties of the
State, and they are only scared out
Of their pitiful skimping Of the poor
mans per diem by dose Of politi-
cal wisdom from the practical
bosses.
The Bill % originally drawn and
printed put the pay Of . juror down
to $500 day, but as offered in
the Senate it is put back to ts.50.
In this condition the Bill is o vast
complication of useless and costly
machinery. At present the juries
are drawn by the Court without
any extra cost to the taxpayers
whatsoever. But by the bill three
new offices are created at $5 a day
for the people of the county to pay;
to be filled like the Election law
with two Ring Democrats and a
Mugwump Republican.
The Bill further provides that in
every case, even a little appeal case
where the contest may be about fifty
cents, or an assault case where the
fine may be dollar, either party
can demand and have the tales
jurors drawn from the box and
summoned from the four ends of
the county at an enormous expense
and the still more costly matter of
the delay to the Court. And Of
course, all these talesmen drawn
from Orleans, or Frostburg, or
Westernport, must be paid their
mileage and per diem, whether they
serve on the case or not, proceed
ing which is always very expensive,
tedious and inconvenient, and only
resorted to under the present prac-
tice, in any of the counties, IN very
important cases. such as murders,
etc.
Very cumbersome and expensive
indeed to the taxpayers, but not q
bad vote getting plan. since it will
enable a large number Of people to
take lot of trips to Cumberland
from all over the county at the ex'
pense of the taxpayers.
But the cost to the county will
pot stop here. The Bill being