The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-03-04
For The Democratic Advccaie
Not Scared Yet

SILVIA Rrx February 18th. 1899.
uEssrs. EprroRs Ia reply 10 the letter in tho
columzs Of your valuable paper last week. signed
silver Run wiz say that are not searoi yea
And We are very sorry 10 say that We cannot borrow
a large dictionary that ssEne writers borrow and
that Sc have no desk SIC MP toanf speed y bu'e
slav writing our Letter. baf win write nals without
the large dictionary aud without the hciP Of oihrrs
We viii uow let the people know that silver BaH
has chronic kickers as said Ia last weeks leiieF.
and the other clAss are chronic p0uieTS IL TIE
grSt place be SAWS the letter sIrprisa ana is'
leading 10 the people. twas not nliaioang a. Al
II was just wha; the people were locking for. aud
the Hanover Records correspondent said nothing
but the truth, even though he Is not out 81 MS
teens The write. tries 10 usakc :, appear that We
are misleading the People By our Letters, and th=i
silver Run Is not that Kind o. = Placr- But Il is
lust exactly As has heen saia in cur arsi letter AMI
II anyone doubts it. let him here and 1--we Tor
SIX months aud he viii say the thing, II one
man has good luck and makes cent moro than
another there are about standing rtzdy - loat
and wish him all kinds ~ had luck G'stlyer krn'
not accepted Then he brings it In agAin about
the removed postmaster being appointed through
boys Judgment Ha Ia We pity you that you
are too ignorant To understand things better than
that You ought TO gather In few more books and
then hold up. lie Unsupported by the wish Of the
people not by us poor little boys. aud before we
10 any farther want the writer 20 understand
that the removed postmaster Is as much Of gen
tienlan Is he - Aud tho writer is trying 10
shoot himself of on the tax question. Why. the
moved postmaster had heavy "a. payers names on
his list h,avicr than our good elders reierri 90 In
last week : ester--nos only name but dozens q
them. There is no doubt that the one turned down
last spring was OF spotless character aud heavy
tax faver bat he cannot say that he voted the Re-
publican ticket for - years He voted the Demo
cratic ticket until he was turned 10 a Republican
some years ago. ike few more we have in our
village No indeed, sir- IS no voter, neither DOES
her father vote No doubt he would vote II no one
else would. And we want silver Run" TO under
stand that II he would have entered the post
Office he would know whether u was kept decent
or not but as he one Of the chronic poalers
and never came in he knows nothing AZ all about
IT, Then he saTs that we haven't brains enough 20
know that the ministers not al the head Of the
church: II they are not they should De. And II is
no use 10 try To make the people believe that the
elders are sorry fer what has been going on since
last spring for they have been Of the starters
OF the fight We do not mean all Of the elders, We
mean those that feel guilty when they read this
letter Yes we have people living on pensions,
that is all true, but how many are there In silver
Run that would not draw pension If they could
especially "silver Run" Not one. We also have
some here very few, that used 10 have more than
our pensioners have. and lived in style, and no
doubt they are glad TO live sparingly now. II we
have any in our village that could not go as far as
! Hanover without borrowing a dollar we would mol
| blame them for boring at our pensioners Then be
saws the balance don't pay 5000 taxes. Good foI
! that We wonder If silver Run" pays 500! Il
he does we are misled. We hope you will pardon
US for bothering you with letters, but we do i
TO let the people know that the writer cannot scar
us so quick and do it to LET the public know thai
we are not smoothing the thing over like some
writers do but are telling the truth, and we arr
shooting at the writer who is well-known here ane
| all nver the community THE BOYS"