The Republican., 1893-05-11

OUR ESTEEMED nelghbOr, the
Mountain Democrat, in its issue of
last week and the week previous
tried hard to show wherein the
present board of County Commits
sioners had squandered the money
of the people of the county. In
this it utterly failed and we think
it will not soon try the same game.
Truth is not regarded in the
Democrats editorials. Deception
suits its purposes better and it con-
stantly uses it. For the present it
is pretending to be the friend of the
tax payer and the public schools of
the county and tries nightly hard,
but in vain. to create dissatisfac-
ton and discord in the ranks of the
Republican party.
1t is one of the easiest thing in the
world to reduce taxation-stop i'm
proving-as the Democratic board
preceding the present board did;
place a false basis of nearly $780,
600 on the assessment books of the
county and leave it there to be dis
covered and rectified by the incom-
ing board; cut down the appropri-
ations to about one-half the amount
required to carry on the business of
the county; leave a debt of some
thousands of dollars to be paid off
by the next succeeding board; allow
debts to accumulate that should be
paid when they are due and in
many other and divers WAYS con-
duct the public business in purely
and wholly Indifferent manner.
The present board of county com
missioners have conducted the bust
ness of the county in business like
manner. Contemplated improve
ments have been provided for and
to-day the county does not owe
one cent that it cannot pay. Not
so, however, with the great and
only Democratic board that was re-
moved by the popular voice Of the
people at the election two years ago
"a board which was domineered
over and controlled in it's every act
by extraneous influences.
The records in the commissions
ers office when the present board
came into power were found to be
in deplorable condition. No sys-
tematic account was kept of
the money expended out of the con-
tingent fund and the only method
by which its disbursement can be
ascertained is by examining the en-
tire proceedings of the last board.
This is only referred to as an ex-
ample of the internal practices of
the previous board, and not for the
purpose of divering the minds of
the people from the question at is
sue.
1t is an easy matter to deal in
gcneralitieS, and it will be observed
that the Democrat in all its silly
vaporings about county matters and
public expenditures, has utterly
failed to specify in single instance
wherein or for what purpose u cent
of the peoples money has been mis-
appropriated or misapplied by the
present board. 1t has failed to
show wherein the payment of sim
gle dollar out of the public treasury
could have been avoided. 1t has
likewise failed to prove that the
debts which have been cancelled
were not wholly due and owing by
the county, and if the Democrat,
with all its show of virtuous .blus-
tering about the welfare of the pub
lie finances and the burdens of the
tax-ridden people of Garrett county
would in its wisdom devise some
means or inaugurate some system
whereby communities as well as in
dividuals could pay their honest
debts without imposing burdens
and restrictions upon themselves,
then the people might take some
stock in the Democrat, but until
that is done the midnight oil which
is spent upon the labored deserta-