Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-13
A Probable boomerang.

The Cumberland Neps is inconso-
liable.
Speaking of the JOURNALS "broad
denial of the charge that it is one of
1.-THE Mulberry Sellers tribe" that
'tell us that the competition of Nova
Scotia coal is business impossibility,"
1t says later that
The tenor of its entire line of argument
and the tendency of its every deliverance
upon the subject has been to discourage the
advocates Of protection to coal
Yet in the self-same column from
which the Neacs clips are the following
paragraphs:
1, 1t is wrong therefore, to sacrifice COM
modify which needs protection particularly
wrong to do it under the everlastingly false
pretense that it is a raw material.
2, The JOURNAL will never cease to believe
therefore, that the proposal to slaughter the
coal of this region is forced, far-brought
misconstruction of the Chicago platform.
Even after this the NeDs says:
Nor can they find one editorial expression
calculated to impress the people of this county
with the fear of competition from Nova
Scotia coal under free trade regulations.
If all readers are like the News, the
JOURNAL has little to expect in the
way of fair reading.
For instance:
In its very latest issue it speaks of coal as
ian arrogant mendcant for protection"
What the JOURNAL did say was
Concerning its (the Nems) policy of adver-
Using coal as an arrogant mendcant for pro-
lection, the JOURNAL believes it the worst that
could have been adopted at this time.
The JOURNAL, it will be seen, was
not speaking of coal at all, but of the
Ne,os' "policy."
In its zeal to magnify itself the Ne~s
gets soft it's base.'
In the same issue of the Neacs is
letter from Rockville which contains
the following expressions IN substance.
Concerning the cause of apathy in that
end of the district the letter says:
l, This is due to what many of the most
ardent democrats regard as Mr.. Williams
undue cautiousness. He seems DESTROYS of
not taking any advanced position, and to be
content to allow the campaign to drift along,
relying upon his underlined status on the coal
question topoll large vote among the miners
of Allegany, etc.
., 1t is their (the majority of voters) con-
viction that he should declare for free coal.
3, One of the most prominent tariff re-
formers and Cleveland democrats in this
district has publicly stated that while he will
vote for Mr.. Williams he will not turn his
hand to influence others unless Mr.. Williams
comes out plainly and unequivocally as an
anti-Gorman and free-coal candidate.
To give as little provocation as
possible for this sort of thing in the
agricultural portion of the district the
JOURNAL has believed we should not
be clamorous about our need. The
idea is abroad down there that free
coal means cheaper coal, and we add
strength to it by setting up our fright"
to protection in imperious tone.
Moreover, it is to that section mainly
Mr.. Williams must look for his election,
and, if elected, we want him to go to
Congress as naturally our friend and
not unnaturally pledged enemy.
The JOURNAL firmly believes, there
fore, that all pressure here to make
Mr.. Williams declare himself for or
against free coal will react down
there, and, if elected, he will owe this
region nothing.
The coal question is up among the
farmers as it never was before.
And, in the JOURNALS humble
judgment, if Mr.. Williams is forced by
Allegany impolicy to go with what
the majority of the district wants, he
will unhorse Mr.. Wellington in both
Washington and Frederick and carry
Montgomery with a majority that will
astonish even the buoyant democratic
optimism of Col. Bill Kilgour.