Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-08-31

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republished in 1890 in the MESSENGER
that in the year 1SS2-only thirteen
years ago. one of the most gigantic
frauds ever attempted to be perpetra-
ted in this county was attempted by
DIR. 5. 5. Quinn and his partners in the
newspaper business in Pocomoke City
He was then one Of the editors and
proprietors of the Record and Gd.eit,
newspaper and he and his partners
concocted scheme which, had it not
been for the men elected by the Dem
ocratic party as County Commissioners,
would have caused the taxpayers Of
this county to pay to these men t'cO
thousand IRE hundred and serenity eigh,
dollars for work which jury decided
was only worth two hundred and
eleven dollars and thirty-two cents. Ii
was regular" Democratic Board OF
Commissioners which called halt ON
Quinn and his fellow conspirators
and these are the men, some of whom
are living to-day and are ready to give
some of the inside facts OF the case :
ELIJAH b. CAREY.
JONI ii. CLARK,
ROBERT II. POWELL,
WM. CoTTMAN
I. J. HAYMAN.
These are the men who stopped the
editors of the old Record and Gazette
from depicting the county treasury
Some of them have gone to their
graves with the words of "well.done
good and faithful servants" following
after them. The Others are true Il
their fellow countymen and the Dem
ocratic principles for which they have
so long battled.
When DIR. Quinn. meets you with
"honey" words or writes them for hi:
paper, calling upon the dear, precious
people to follow him TO the land OF
promise, ask him if he is after another
two thousand five hundred dollars
Tell him the people have their eye:
wide open now and that they recognize
the 'nigger in the wood pile" If he
wants to know why he is made an issue
in this campaign tell him he has named
the men who compose the Independent
Commissioners ticket and the conven
ton has endorsed his paper, and there
fore it is natural to have your eye,
open for a man who once did two
hundred and eleven dollars and thirty
two cents worth OF printing for Wor
cester County and sued the county fol
50, $500. OF course no jury could
be found to allow it, but he demonstra
ted his willingness to feed too literally
at the public crib. Good Lord deliver
us from such reformers!
Why gentlemen, you who are follow
ing these remarks, what do you think
Of people who would try to make tn,
taxpayers of this county pay nine
hundred and thirty.seven dollars anC
fifty cents for a Sheriff's Notice o.
Election in newspaper? And We
that was the charge made by Quinn
the now refulgent rciormer of POGO
moke City, Worcester County, Mary
land. These are the peoples affair
and they shall know them. as this is no
going to he one sided campaign. An,
although the MESSENGER is newspa
per containing no sensational state
ments, it proposes to tell the truth an,
to call a spade spade. No man car
skulk around and abuse the Democra
tic ticket, posing himself as John III,
Baptist or Apostle Paul, while the fact
remain that he has been weighed il
the balance and found Judas Iscariot
without our making it known.
But, let us return again to tina
printing bill AT the time il was pre-
sented to the Commissioners it almos
paralyzed them. II was not bill fol
doing all Of the county printing or ever
one-half Of the county printing bu
simply the Registration work for 4
part Of the districts of Worcester
County and the publication Of tn,
Sheriff. election notices and the mod
est sum asked, demanded. aud sued for
was s2,57S.0O. They thought they
had Worcester County by the mech
and they would wiring it, but Oh,
would-be-wringers "got il in the neck.
From one end OF the grand old Demo
cratic State Of Maryland 10 the other
was this attempt To gouge the taxpay
ers Of Worcester County discussed ant
at the trial which was held in Salisbur,
much interest was manifested. Tn,
case was removed from this county be
cause the conspirators were afraid t.
face the righteous Indignation of oul
people and they hoped to recover III,
full amount sued for if the trial wa,
held in Wicomico. We have told you
that an unprejudiccd jury gave tn,
firm of Merrill, Quinn d Crockett q