The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-11-02
Eager to Get at The County Crib

properties OF civilized Journalism
as to attempt to build up Its sinking
fortuLes by habitually vilifying and
incorporating Republican officials
and candidates.
Two weeks ago the present board
of commissioners were the recipi-
ents of its handed compli-
ments, and last week still with a
longing, greedy gaze on the vanish
ing prospects of the loaves and
fishes pertaining to the commission
ers office, it had the contemplate
meanness to offer most cowardly
and ungentlemanly insult to Mr..
Isaac W. Alternately, one of the Re-
publican candidates for County
Commissioner.
Mr.. Alternately is not politician
or an office seeker,-did not ask for
the nomination; is quiet molten
sive citizen and minister of the gos-
pei, but there is nothing sacred in
the ewes of the Democrat when the
spoils of office and prospective Job
is in sight.
The cause must be desperate in
deed if it can Only be maintained
by vile attacks on clean, inoffensive
men who happen to be the candi-
dates of the opposing party; and as
II matter of course, | presume these
ebulitions are to continue al inf
nitum, ad naxseam to the end Of the
canvass.
If the Democrat PERSISTS in its
course of defamation and SANDER,
and insists on making a very stink
pot of itself it would certainly be in
order for the decent men of the
party to administer the rebuke 1t
has so richly earned by voting
squarely for the Republican candi-
dates.
There are clean, upright, honor
able men in the Democratic party
who would scorn to sneak round in
the dark and stab a man in the
back and how they can consent to
follow the lead of an exponent of
their party faith which has no
higher conception of it's duties and
responsibilities than to habitually
grovel in the filth and ruin of defam-
alton and misrepresentation is one
of the things which cannot under.
stand.
l say there are high toned, self
respecting Democrats who do not
wish to purchase success at the sac
rifice of decency, and who l am sure
would not Willingly be party to
such disgraceful methods.
To all such 1 would say there is
not an unworthy name on the Re-
publican ticket, not one that would
resort to any but open, manly
methods to secure their election,
and not one but will make an hon
est, capable, efficient official when
elected.
In reference to the candidacy of
Isaac W. Alternately it affords me a
real pleasure to say that l have
known him intimately since 1859
when he was a small boy, and l
have never known or heard of any
thing derogatory to his character as
a man and gentleman, and if the
worst that can be said of him is that
some elders and briars are permitted
to grow in his fence corners, | would
simply say that farmers are scarce
in this neck of woods who would
not be liable to the same objection;
and | am very sure that the officious
individual, who is alleged to have
forwarded the alleged communica-
ton published in the Democrat,
does not contribute one penny to-
ward the support of Isaac W. or
any other Alternately.
Furthermore | will bet ten dol
lars to ten-penny nail that it is
none of his or the Democrats bust
ness.
lSddCs SceulS W IlNC well CIlOuS II,
to dress comfortably and to have
plenty of land, horses, cattle, sheep,
and other property to make him
comfortable, with the ordinary
comforts and conveniences of life,
and what is of more Importance, he
has sense enough to mind his own
business and not to NEEDLE with
what does not concern him, an ex-
ample which the Democrat and its
alleged correspondent might credit
ably and proftably initiate.
Mr.. Alternately is not a politician
or an office seeker, but an honored
elder in church that has no pol
itics in its creed and no creed but
the Bible.
He was nominated while absent
from home conducting some relig-
ious service in a distant part of the
country; he was nominated for the
sole and simple reason that when
elected he Will make a clean, up
right. efficient County Commits