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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03

ton in general, and within the last
four months more people have been
simultaneously engaged in its consid-
Grafton, he states, than ever before in
the history of the world.
The result of this study, Mr.. Bryan
declares to be temporary defeat, but
permanent gain for the cause of BIZ
metallism." He regards it as sig
nifcant fact that the silver sentiment
was strongest where the question had
been longest cOnsidered-that is to
say, in the West and South.
In Mr.. Bryan's opinion, the cause
of bimetallism made more rapid prog
ress than any other cause ever made
in such short time. He expresses
his assurance that the election can by
no means be regarded as a conclusive
settlement of the question at issue.
The advocates of free coinage are
convinced, he says, that they are
laboring in behalf of large majority
of the people, not only here, but
throughout the world, and he says
they propose to continue their con-
test, confident that four more years
of experience will convince many who
have thus far resisted argument.
This confidence, Mr.. Bryan says, is
confirmed by the history of recent
elections. Mr. Greedy was defeated
in 1872, he points out, and yet Mr..
TiIden was elected in 1876. Mr.. Blaine
was defeated in 1884, but Mr.. Harri-
son was elected in 1885, The Repub-
lican victory of 1888 was followed by
the Democratic victory of 1890 and
the election of President Cleveland
two years later.
Mr.. Bryan counsels the successful
party to remember that thousands of
Republicans have been held to their
party this year by the pledge that
will try to secure international bimet-
allism.'
In regard to the gold-standard
Democrats, he says they cannot do as
much in 1900 as they have done this
year. They have declared their effec-
ton for Democratic principles, he
declares, while they spared no effort
to secure the success of the opposing
ticket, "They cannot" he says,
disguise themselves again"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
A Welcome Stranger

Under pleasant auspices a son came
to the household of Judge D. w.
Sloan Wednesday morning, finding
two sisters, but no brothers. He
must be all that Shakespeare called
"a gracious little fellow for the
Judge, at whose own birth a jovial
star must have reigned, has been ap-
parently more in love with his life
than ever before. His very apt and
felicitous presentation of Gen. Cor.
don half a diem later is largely trace
able, no doubt, to the propitious
morning event. Congratulations
Frostburg Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
Merit is Not Enough.

Mr.. Carpenter, United States Com
mercial Agent at Furth, Germany,
says: "Americans seem to think that
the merits of their goods ought to be
sufficient to guarantee them a market
and that it is, therefore, unnecessary
to make special efforts to find custo-
mers in foreign lands" American
merchants used to have the same
idea with respect to the home market
the result partly of vanity, and
partly of failure to precieve the truth
that merit without push is a talent
buried in a napkin. Advertising has
taught them better at home; and they
should utilize large share of their
wisdom in the foreign market
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03

Samuel Butler was not the discov-
erer of the reciprocity of enjoyment
between those persons who cheat and
those persons who get cheated. Colos-
sal cheating, as well as colossal enjoy
ment on the part of cheats and dupes,
has gone on from the beginning in
this jolly world and will continue to
go on to the end. Our own blessed
country has perhaps given the most
signal modern instance. The conten-
ton on the part of thousands upon
thousands of our esteemed fellow
citizens that the money of the United
States was too good for the people of
the United States was, on it's face,
such bold, bald, brazen defiance of
ordinary common sense that it seemed
impossible that it should meet with
serious acceptance upon the part of
anybody anywhere. Yet it did. In
spite of its absurdity, in spite of its
dishonesty, and in spite of the confu-
sion and ruin it was certain to bring
in it's train, if assented to, over six
million two hundred thousand voters
did what they could to give us 50-cent
dollars instead of 100-cent dollars!
The pages of history are filled with
the details of popular crazes, crashes
and delusions, but it has remained for
the greatest republic, in the closing
days of a century of unparalleled ad-
vancement, to Guido the record.
The massiveness of our folly is made
more apparent when we consider that
Mr.. Bryan polled more votes in 1896,
when he was defeated, than Mr..
Cleveland polled in 1899, when he was
elected. Happily the diversion to
Bryan of the vote cast in 1892 for the
POpulist candidate was not sufficient
to overwhelm the sane friends of Or
der and honest money, but it was an
appalling expression of human guilt
bility. 1t should serve to drive to-
gether and compact in one solid body
the opponents of reputation and
socialism until they shall have settled
right and settled for good the issues
that have so rudely shaken the very
bases of our constitutional govern
ment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03

sent this country in the event that
European nations are willing to re-
consider the subject of bimetallism, it
would not be bad stroke of policy if
Mr.. Mckinley were to select Mr.. Bryan
a member of that commission, so that
the latter might have an opportunity
to ascertain by practical experience
the difficulties in the way of making
sweeping changes in the monetary
system of the world. There could
then be no charge of lukewarmness or
honest effort on the part of Mr.. Bryan
or his friends if they attempt to ex-
tend the use of silver for redemption
money were not regarded with favor
by the representative of European
nations. Mr.. Bryan would have every
opportunity to impress upon the
members of an international none
tary congress the views which he pre-
scented during the campaign. The re-
suit probably would be just what it
was when the issues were fairly un-
derstood by the American people and
rejected by a great majority of the
voters. Still, if the ''claims of silver"
are presented to the financiers of Eu-
rope by the most prominent advocate
of free coinage in the United States,
it will be impossible hereafter for the
friends of the white metal to complain
that the cause of bimetallism was not
pressed with earnestness and vigor.-
| Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
The Assessment Law.

Several Hagerstown lawyers have
expressed the opinion that the new
assessment law will yet be knocked
out" by the Court of Appeals.
The law does not permit the person
assessed, when the mere matter of
valuation is concerned, to appeal
from the Board of Control and Review
and in this particular, the lawyers
say, the law may be proven unconsti-
tutional.
For instance, should the Board Of
Control and Review Though it is not
likely to do SOY assess mans property
at considerably more than it is actu-
ally worth, the person so assessed is
without a remedy.
1t is intimated that several persons
who believe that they have been
assessed too high will bring the mat
ter into the Circuit Court by refusing
to pay taxes, and thus get an opinion
on the validity of that clause giving
the Board of Control and Review
final power.
The law provides that where the
question of title is involved an appeal
may be taken to the Circuit Court,
but as far as the valuation of prop
erty is concerned the Board of Con-
troll and Review is the highest
tribunal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
A Groundless Assertion.

The New York Journal asserts that
Mark Hanna had a corruption fund
of sixteen millions of dollars for the
conduct of the recent campaign of
which two millions remains unexpen-
ded. But the Journal offers nothing
but its own unsupported assertion,
either as to the extent of the fund
raised by Mr.. Hanna, as chairman of
the Republican National Committee,
or the uses to which the money was
applied, and its word is worth less
than nothing in a matter of that
character. The extreme probability
is that money was not improperly
used by Republicans at all. Certainly
the election in the state of Maryland
was the purest held here in many
years. The methods to which ring
Democracy usually resorted to in this
State were impossible under the new
registration and voting system and
the effect of fairness is everywhere
oPp1iOiAO III 0uO CoulU' DSluoCIdulC
hopes, even in several districts of
Carroll county, were blasted because
the usual means of swelling the Dem
ocratic vote could not be worked. AS
the Democrats persisted in claiming
Maryland for Bryan by safe major
ity, it is reasonable to suppose that
Mr.. Hanna would have used money
here, improperly, if anywhere. Yet
it is perfectly certain that the Repub-
lican campaign in this State was as
clean as any Of either party, ever
known in the old commonwealth.
There is no reason to doubt that the
same character marked the campaign
in behalf of Honest Money and Good
Government in every other State.
The Journal and its imitators know
much more about crooked methods in
their own conduct than they do about
Mark Hanna. Jones, Atgeld and Till
man, the Apostles of Organism, are
not political saints, and it is perfectly
patent that they did not stop at false
hoods to further the interest of their
cause and candidates. Men who lie
to prevent defeat will not hesitate to
lie for the purpose of accounting for
it when it is encountered.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
Silver as an Issue.

In the December number of the
North american Re0ieaD Hon. viii
liam J. Bryan has an article, in which
he discusses the result of the election
as affecting the status of the silver
question.
The issue on which the election
turned he describes as 1.-THE greatest
ever submitted to the American peo-
pie in time of peace" The declara-
ton of the Chicago convention in
favor of the free coinage of silver, he
says, forced upon the people of the
country study Of the money ques-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03

As THE election returns show, nei-
ther the Republican nor the Demo
cratic party has gained anything by
the admission into the Union of the
new States during the last eight years.
OF the seven States admitted within
that time North Dakota alone has
chosen Republican electors. These
States all contributed, on the other
hand, to fasten the Chicago platform
and a Populistic candidate for the
Presidency on the Democratic party.
The political benefciaries of the ad-
mission of these premature states
have been the POpulists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03

APROPOS of the election frauds in
Tennessee the Memphis Commercial
appeal DemocraD says:
ELECTION crimes must cease; cleo
ton criminals must hide their heads
and remove themselves from the gaze
of their fellow-men. A higher moral
tone must succeed, and the present
debasement of manhood suffrage must
come to an end. A clever thief must
not be regarded as the best party man
and entitled to the greatest honor.
Party loyalty must not be gagged by
the amount of thievery performed. A
demand for decency is not defiance
of party domination and a condemna-
ton of fraud is not treason to party
organization. The ballot-boX suffers
and election criminals have fattened
on the spoils of victory and trespassed
on public patience until further pa
thence would be a compromising of
crime. A halt has been called"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
BUSINESS,

The best authorities are agreed that
the business outlook is increasing
favorably.
At the end of last week about nine
hundred mills and factories were in
operation that had been silent before
election, and bank clearances for the
week were ten per cent. higher than
for the same period last year, and nine
per cent. higher than in 1892.
The prime fact of the situation is
that labor is becoming employed and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03

is receiving wages. This i fisey is
Immediately spent in buyingH pplies
and paying accounts. In q at de-
gree this helps business, Will the ac-
tivity of manufacture works up ma
terial and gives relief in Tat direc-
ton.
AS yet there has been httld fdvance
in prices, and that must be .garded
as fortunate, in the light of tpe slen
der resources of buyers geneElly. A
large volume of business With fair
margins is undoubtedly the proper
condition of affairs for the present.
1t enables the recently employed la
borers to provide the necessaries Of
life at the smallest possible cost, and
shows that the return of busin vs. has
come in way least likely to pl luce
reaction and collapse. W.
The reports of the commercial gem
cies at the end of the week wee, all
gratifying and full of promise for the
future.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03

The West Virginia Senatorship be-
gins to be interesting. 1t is true that
Senator Faulkner's term does not ex-
pire for two years, but it is generally
conceded that henceforth West Vir-
ginia may be counted upon as a safe
Republican state, and that his sue
cessor will be a Republican. The
most popular man in the state is
Nathan Golf He was the first one to
carry the State for the Republicans,
though he was counted out. 1t was
u shrewd move on the part of Senator
Elkins to get him put out of the way
by appointment as a Circuit Judge.
West Virginians say that he is too
valuable man to the state to be
shelved on the bench. He has not ex-
pressed his views as to whether he
prefers very honorable life position
to the more active career of a Senator.
The next strongest candidate is prob
ably Charles Burdett Hart, of the
Wheeling InteIIigencer. When Elkins
was trying to organize West Virginia
for Harrison, Hart boldly lifted up
the Mckinley banner, and carried it
through with a whirl. Next in popu-
larity comes A. B. White, of the Park
ersburg Journal, and Geo. C.Sturgiss,
of Morgantown.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
No Hope.

The Oakland (Md) Democrat is in.
formed that there is an impossible
gulf between the merits of tariff re-
form and free coinage.
The one is based upon a sound, i'm
perishable principle; the other upon
an unsound, fantastic conceit.
The Democratic party could do bet
ter before the people with prohibition
than free coinage.
Certainly better with local option.
Free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at any ratio is a wild duck.
1t is also a wild duck that is dead
Frostburg Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
THE NATIONAL TREASURY.
Receipts During the Past Fiscal Year Were
S326,976, 200, While the Ex-
penditure Amounted


penditure Amounted
to S352, 179,446.
WASHINGTON Nov. 29.-The annual
report of Daniel N. Morgan, treasurer
of the United States, shows the net
ordinary revenues of the government
during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1896, to have been 1926, 1876, 200, and
the expenditures 1852, 179, 446, leaving
a deficiency for the year of $25, 1903, 246,
or $17,6O1, 977 less than during the
preceding fiscal year.
The report shows that during the
last fiscal year there was an increase
of $7,S63, 1874 in the receipts from Gus
toms, an increase of 1884, 1872 from
internal revenue sources, an increase
of $2,479, 1929 from miscellaneous
sources, and loss of $97, 1923 from the
sale of public lands, making the net
increase in the receipts $13, 586, 1875.
The decrease in the expenditures
amounted to 81, O15,852.
The report shows the total receipts
from the first $4,000, 900 loan of 1894
to have been sos, 1850, 917; the second
loan of $50, 900, 600 of 1894, $58, 719, 10;
the loan of $62 ,315, 400 for 1895, $780,
42S, O56, and the $100,000,000 loan of
1896, Sill, 1855, 612. From the first loan
there was realized $50, S5O,264 in gold
coin and $3.50, 400 in gold certificates;
from the second loan, 500, 651, 1888 in
gold coin and $5,068, 410 in gold GER
tificates; from the third loan, $685.
42S,051 in gold coin, and from the
fourth loan, $109, 1927, 455 in gold coin
and 2,026, $40 in gold certificates.
| Referring to the condition of the
treasury during the last year, the
treasurer says:
1.-The gold reserve has been the
cause of much concern and has been
maintained only at the cost of fresh
issue of bonds aud by the voluntary
contributions of banks and financial
| institutions. With the exception of a
brief period in the autumn of 1895
and another in the spring of 1896, the
ruling rates of foreign exchange were
such throughout the year as to per-
NIT, if not to require, the export of
gold.
I'm ordinary times and under ordi-
nary circumstances there is natural
flow of gold toward the treasury,
which often is limited only by the
capacity of the treasury to carry the
| specie.
fortunate indeed has it been for
the treasury that even during the
most critical periods through which
the country has recently passed these
currents of inflow have not been al
together checked, and that where
their volume has been materially
diminished the loss has been partly
made good by the assistance of finan-
cial institutions. In the fifteen months
ended with September last the with
| drawals of gold from the treasury in
redemption of United States notes
and treasury notes amounted to the
immense sum of $192, 972, POS, while
the net gains of gold from all sources
attained a total of $9S, 1875, 902"
The public debt outstanding June
30, 1896. is shown to have been 81, 769, =
SAC, 1923, and ON June 30, 1895, $1,676,-
| 1908
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03

MAJ. MCKINLEY is to have two very
fine horses to draw his carriage. The
late Gen. Joseph 7. Terrence, of Chi
cago, possessed as fine a stable of
horses as was owned in the Windy
City. 1t was the Generals intention
before his death that two magnificent
brown horses, the best matched pair
in his stables, should be presented to
Mr.. Mckinley to ride behind to the
Capitol on Inauguration day, in the
event of his election. The General
left no written will to this effect, but
it is said that his daughter, Mrs.
Magonn, who has come into posses
sion Of the estate, will carry out he
fathers wish, and present the horses
to the President-elect.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
Maryland's School Fund.

Governor Lowndes' plain talk to
the Association of School Commits
sioners, composed of members of the
board of education from every county
in the State, has caused sensation,
particularly in the southern and east
ern counties. The free text book law
was the chief topic of discussion at
the annual meeting, and number of
the commissioners sharply criticised
Comptroller Graham's plan of distri-
button of the apportionment of $780,
900 by the last Legislature, because it
gave more money to those counties in
which the colored population is large.
Governor Lowndes defended the
Comptroller's course. SIT is no use
for you gentlemen to meet" said he,
land spend your time talking about
Mr.. Graham. He is acting on the
best legal opinions, and you cannot
change his policy. Go the next Leg
islature if you want things different
fo Mr.,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
international BimetaIlism.

Mr.. Bryan in his speeches during the
recent campaign frequently asserted
that the plank in the Republican
platform advocating bimetallism by
international agreement was a"hollow
mockery," and that the forces which
controlled the st. Louis convention
were opposed to bimetallism with or
without an international agreement.
Perhaps Mr.. Bryan believed all that
he said about the hostility of his OPP
ponents to silver, but as Mr.. McKin-
ley will no doubt make an effort to Sc
cure the cooperation of the CONNER
cial nations of Europe in perfecting a
scheme of international bimetallism,
Mr.. Bryan and his friends should be
content to wait for what the future
may bring forth before they condemn
the policy of their antagonists. As the
incoming administration will prob
ably appoint a commission to repre-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
AHopeless Lost Cause.

From the Louisville Post.
Is it expedient to commit the Dom
ocratic party further to free silver
We think not. The election shows
that the country is opposed to fee
silver, and, to use the phrase Fx sSle
New York World, that 1.-THE sound
money line is impregnable." 1t takes
224 votes in the Electoral College to
name President. Now look at this
phalanX:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
Electoral

There is not doubtful state on the
list, and neither Kentucky, Califor-
MIA, Washington nor Indiana is there.
1t is well to consider the matter as
one of practical politics. Committed
to free silver, the Democratic party is
doomed to perpetual defeat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1896.

SOME of the Popocratic managers in
the late political contest seem to fond
ly imagine that they can hold onto
the organization of the Democratic
party and at the same time let go of
its principles. This reminds us of the
fellow who in runaway lost his horse
but saved the harness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
SQtuIdOV, The 26th dQY Of December

1896, at the hour of two o'clock p. m. of said
day, in front of the Court house in the town
of Oakland, Garrett county MarylaI d, all of
the following parcels of land situated in said
county described as follows to-wit: First, All
that lot { ground which is known and de sig
mated as Military Lot Number Eighty siX(86)
containing the quantity offifty acres of land
more or less, and being the same lot that was
conveyed to the said William Klipstine by
deed from Elizabeth Myers and husband,
dated the Both day of May, 1890, and recorded
in Liber e. u. T. No 90 folio 2S3, etc.
Second, All that part of a tract ofland called
"Republic,' containing the quantity OF two
hundred and seven and quarter acres which
was conveyed to the said William Klipstne
by deed from Joseph Il. Anderson and wife,
dated the 2ith day of January, 1887, and re-
corded in Liber E. u. I. No. -, folio 2S4, etc.
Third, All that part of a tract of land called
Mount Nebo," containing the quantity OF
one hundred and eighty.siX and three-fourth
acres, which was conveyed to the said Will
liam Klpstine by deed from Berkeley w.
Klipstine, dated the 23rd day of March, 1886,
and duly recorded in Liber W. H. T. No. ii,
folio 27S, etc, among The land records of Gar
rett county.
Said lands are improved and in a state of
cultivation to some extent and will be sold
to satisfy the aforesaid execution and COSTS.
or so much ofsaid lands as may be necessary
Terms of SALE Cash on the day of sale.
AUSTIN BROWN,
3S-3t Sheriff of Garrett County, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-03
COMMISSIONERS Meeting
OFFICE OF
GARRETT Coz NTY COMMISSIoN ERS.
OAKLAND, MD, Dec. |, 1896.


GARRETT COUNTY COMMISSIo NERS.
OAKLAND, Md, Dec. |, 1896. }
Notice is hereby given by the County Com
missioners for Garrett county that the Cen
eral Assessors have been and are from now
on under the control of the County Commits
sioners and subject to their orders, and all
persons who have not been assessed and have
not made out their schedules are lequired to
do so at their earliest opportunity and have
them ready for the assessors when they call
for them.
The board will meet on January 4. 1897, for
the purpose of appointing supervisors OF
roads and the districts will be taken up as
follows:
Monday, January 4, Districts 5, r. 3 and 9.
Tuesday January 8, Districts 8, 8, 10 and |.
Wednesday, January q, Districts7, |, land 4.
Thursday, January I. the board will go into
session as a Board of Control and Review, and
all persons that have filed a notice of an ap-
peal will be notified what day and date they
will be heard and must attend on the day so
arranged.
ISAAC W. ABERNATHY,
THOMAS II. LAYAAN,
County Commissioners.
Attest: j. S. MEYERS. Clerk.