The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-06-14
Republican Success Means In
creased Taxes and Bad Mu-
nicinal Government.

preceding history. Disorder ana UNI
checked transgressions of the munich
pal law became intolerable. Impudcnt
and drunken negroes, if not actually
encouraged in their lawles>ness, We're,
at least, never molested or punished
by the officials who owed their eleva
ton TO power to the support OF
such voters; and town that be-
fore then had been noted for its
good order, and peace and quiet,
became shamefully turbulent. Cnat-
tended females on the public thorough
fares after dusk incurred the risk of
insolence or;rude iostling by intoxicated
negroes, and arrests Were rarely made,
or if made, the offender was mildly
and inadequately punished. The inn
pertinence of this class of the commu-
nifty became uncomfortable and received
a check only when in 1874 the Repub-
lican party was driven from power in
this city by an overwhelming major
ity. Do YOU want return of the days
when your wives and daughters and
sisters could not promenade the streets
in the evening, without risk of insult
from drunken and depraved negroes?
If you do, restore the Republican party
to power in Frederick and witness
REPETITION of the experiences of ls7l-74.
The police and court records show
tn at it is from the negro class that by
far the larger proportions of offenders
come. The same class swells the vote Of
the Republican party. Without those
votes that party would be in hope.
less minority. If it gains ascendency,
it gains it by those votes, and if it en-
poets To retain an ascendency once
gained it must cultivate and deal gent
ly with those voters. BY the very logic
of its existence it is driven, therefore,
to be less stringent with the prevalent
criminal class than the Democratic
party is; and its past conduct has
demonstrated that it always has been
So There is but one remedy for the
danger that confronts us in this direc-
tion-and that remedy is to keep the
Democratic party in power.
But will the Republican Aldermen,
if elected, give us any more economical
administration of municipal affairs?
Again the answer comes back from
their former control of the city. There
is no single instance to be found under
any Democratic administration of de-
liberate misapplication of corporate
| funds. Mistakes of judgment may and
doubtless have been made, but a clear
cut, indefensible and deliberate misuse
of the bonds of the city never occurred
but once and that was under Republic
can rule. 1t has not been forgotten
that when the Frederick and Pennsvl-
vania Line II. r. was built il was with
out means to purchase rolling stock,
but the city of Frederick had on hand
some twenty thousand dollars of I'M
used Carroll Creek bonds; and these
bonds, issued under an Act of Assembly
Tor the express purpose of being used
for the widening of Carroll Creek and
for no other purpose, Were sold and
the proceeds We're expended in the
! purchase of an engine for the railroad
This was done by Republican Board
of Aldermen. \ public Office is a pub
lie trust. Bonds held by public Off
GERS for the public are held in trust.
The law authorizing the issue of the
Carroll Creek bonds authorized their
issue for a specific purpose and none
other; yet these very bonds, left unused
by the preceding Democratic board,
Were applied by Republican board to
use not only for which they We're
never designed, but still worse, to a
Use outside of and beyond the corporate
powers of the municipality. Perhaps
this was considered progressive man.
agement.
just in line with this progressive
management, which increased the
city's debt to the extent of the bonds
so mlsused, we Were struck with the
letter OF acceptance published by Mr.
George H. Zimmerman, the Republic
can nominee for alderman in the fifth
district. Mr.. Zimmerman owns a con-
siderable number of lots in the north
west addition to the town-commonly
called the development lots. In his let
ter of acceptance he says: 81 have con-
cluded To accept the nomination, and
if elected, will do my best to assist in
managing the affairs of our city in
progressive manner and to the best of
my ability" Is it Mr.. Zimmerman's
idea of progress that the city should, at
as expense, extend the water and light
az ID - rra troe.s -hrouph
his development lots? That certainly
is progressive, but it is not progress
that benefits the overburdened tax
payer. We need conservative and
economical, not progressive man
agement. Progressive management is
only another name for more expendi-
lures and unnecessary taxation, and
whether 1t be to benefit an individual
or a few individuals, it is necessarily
hostile to the interests of the taxpayer.
This letter of acceptance gives fore
cast of what Taxpayers may expect as
to increased taxation if Republican
hoard cLnuId ha oioataJ