Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-02
Dick and Campbell.


ing before an audience that was large
and enthusiastically sympathetic. In
fact, bat few warriors. ever returned
from search after "the bubble reputa-
tion at the lannon's mouth" to meet
more eclat than did this coupet, and no
heroes ever recounted series of cad
ventures by flood and feld"-exposure
IN committee and dangers in the hall
of legislation more painful and acute
than did this duet. Certainly John
Adams and John Hancock, Thomas
jefferson and James Madison never
more glad to see that they had actually
emerged from the perils which "tried
mems souls in the Continental
Congress. Whether they felt called
upon to give an account of their
stewardship history does not record,
but it is more than likely the people
exempted them from what was deemed
in those times an additional aud most
unnecessary exposure.
But, as said, the audience was large
and in thorough touch with the
Annapolitan twins.
Mayor Bear presided and was ad-
ditionally honored with liberal COB
of taffy pulled off by Mr.. Dick.
Mr.. Campbell led off in the eclair-
easement of the Legislative situation.
He spoke about an hour; told all
about the ill-starred bills-the ms and
outs, and deplored the loss of the
blessings which were to make this
garden-spot an Eden yet more glorious
than that which tradition locates on the
lovely Euphrates. He denounced gov
ernor Lowndes, attorney general Ga
baugh, the mine inspector, and chal-
lenged "the great paper" to Joint
debate
Mr.. Dick followed and closed in
another hour. He furnished the fire.
works. In fact, to him the failure of
the bills which were to give freedom
to mankind again, We're like the over
flow of Vesuvius to Pompeii and
Herculaneum. SO much civilization
was wiped out. The burning of the
Alexandrian library set the world back
unnumbered centuries, but the loss of
these bills has made the eclipse of the
exact quadrature of the circle infinite
and perpetual. 1t is true the semi
monthly pay bill was brought safely
through, but o, boys, as Owen Mere
dlth said
What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.
And, then, fellow-citizens, o, then
When wealth is lost nothing is lost
When health is lost something is lost
When those bills were lost all was lost.
OF course, the JOURNAL is not quot
ing Mr.. Dicks text, bu; it is following
him in substance.
Aside from what many will regard
an uncivll criticism of the chief magis-
trate of the State, the speeches and
the proceedings were orderly and
decorous. Messrs. Dick and Campbell
are not bad men, but they are in
politics, and as the average miners
heart is "a harp of thousand strings
all attuned to woes mostly imaginary,
it is the ''shift" of these gentlemen to
strike those chords of visionary hard
ship which weep, and gently touch
those which actually bleed in the very
helplessEess of chimerical wretched-
ness.
That which the JOURNAL most ex-
cepts to is Mr.. Campbell's challenge to
1.-THE great paper" to meet him in pub
lie debate to discuss the constitutions
ality of the mining bill. He generous
ly proposed to rent the hall, hire the
band and knock 'the great paper" out
in one round, a round and a-half or
two rounds.
The JOURNAL does not think the
challenge is quite fair
l, 'The great paper is not con-
stitutonal controversialist ;
2, The stage is not its constitutional
prize-ring, and
). 1t will become a stakeholder in so
per- cent. of no sport without paying it's
full half.
Moreover, Mr.. Campbell is trained
debater, fresh from the fields of 80 day
logomachy, while the JOURNAL lost all
1t ever knew of the sleight of verbal
dialectics eighteen years ago.
No-tke JOURNAL cannot accept.
1t prefers to save $40 and remain
unsmashed.
Much speculation has been INDUCED
concerning the partnership, formed in
Annapolis and still holding over.
Some think it Jones and Small or a
Nye and Riley combination-on
bound by religious sentiment, the
'other by a literary friendship, both
short lived.