The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-24
PEOPLE WILL NOT BE DECEIVED.
MIR. Hurst Opposed Reassessment
LAWS Passed In 1890 and 1872

OIdbOIS
have little hope of the success of
their own cause when they feel COM
PEELED to bolster it up by the charge
that the independent Democrats are
supporting the Republican ticket
to avoid reassessment. Such a
charge is so transparency absurd,
and so precisely the opposite of the
fact, that they can only expect to
delude the most ignorant people.
1t is so ridiculous as to suggest the
query, what sort of audiences do
these orators address? If there is
any subject upon which the bosses
should sing small, it is the matter
of reassessment. Nothing in cur
rent politics more strikingly illus
trates the eyils of bossism and the
absolute necessity for the redemp-
ton of the State from this terrible
blight, than the devious history of
the peoples efforts to secure an
equitable reassessment of property.
The effort began more than eight
years ago. After continuous aglta-
ton, reassessment was reluctantly
included in the program of the
bosses, but evidently not with the
intention of practical results.
The legislature of 1890 passed a
bill. Individual members of the
legislature may have been perfectly
sincere in their action, but those
who did the managing knew very
we'll what would be the fate of the
measure. Again, IN 1892, after re-
assessment had been rebaptized by
machine convention, the legisla-
ture passed bill, and the same
was played. The governor vetoed
the measure, just as his predecessor
had vetoed the other measure.
Nothing abashed by the deception
twice played upon tine people of
Maryland, the BOSSES in 1894 again
solemnly enacted the force of en-
dorslng reassessment, but, grown,
bold by impunity, they did not
think it necessary to repeat the
empty form of passing bill. They
surrendered to the metallic but
seductive tones of the lobby, and
the bill -'died a-bornin.' 1t was
killed in the legislature before it
could reach the governor, and the
universal outcry which this failure
worked ought to have warned the
machine that it could no longer trife
with the public.
But the machine had been so sue
cessful in thwarting the people, it
had so often contemptuously Gefed
public opinion with absolute impu-
nifty, that it probably concluded it
owned the people, and could do as
it pleased with them. 1t was will
ing to make use of the people under
the threadbare device of reassess-
ment, and did persuade many of
them to go to the primaries IN ad-
vocacy of that cause; but the man
ayers very promptly unveiled their
real purpose as soon as the conven-
ton met. They rejected all Of
those candidates who were known
to the people as the champions of
reassessment, the candidate for
whom the people had voted at the
primaries, and substituted candi-
date for governor whose only public
record was bitter hostility to reass-
essment. Mr.. Hurst had earnestly
opposed poth of the reassessment
laws passed by the legislature of
1890 and 1892, and acknowledged
having bent his energies to the de-
feat of the bill passed 10y the legis-
lature of 1894. Nothing but faulty
could have led the Democratic ma
chine to make such a nomination
unler the circumstances, and the
only way to account for the absurd
charge against the Republicans is
that the managers have been mad
dened by their long surfeit of power
and imagine that the people of
Maryland will be supine and patient
under any proyocation.-Balto.
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