The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-12-07
OPPOSED TO INTERFERENCE.
A Correspondent Scores the Move to Gust
the Board Of school Commissioners.

A Correspondent Scores the Move to Gust
the Board of school Commissioners.
TO the Editor of The Republicans:
/ notice in last weeks JOu1na5 an
article touching upon school legislaT.
tion where it says there is a report OF
starting u petition in the northern
end Of the county to get the present
law repealed which provides for'bhes
election of our school officers and
thereby prevent the duly chosen and
selected School Commissioners aud
Examiner from taking the oath OF
office.
The complaint seems to arise from
the fact that the officers are all resi-
dents of Districts Nos. 10, Z and IA.
Now, | do not see why any such lame
excuse as that should be brought up
when the gentlemen elected were the
unanimous choice of the Republican
convention which had representa-
tives from every district of the county,
and there were no objections raised
then. In addition to this, all were
elected by unusually large majorities
which shows conclusively that they
were the choice of the masses. Fur
ther, they are among the best men in
the county, and fully competent to
fill the trust imposed upon them by
the voters. The retention of Prof.
Palmer as Examiner is a step further
in the advancement of the standard of
education in Garrett county.
do not think, however, that the
report of this mythical petition
started in the northern end of the
county, and if it did | am convinced
| that it was the work of some Demo
crat who is too blind partisan to
see the error he is committing. 1t
seems to me that it is the work of a
a few sore-heads nearer home, who
were defeated, and, with the assist
ance of Il semi-DemOcratic editor
have concocted this scheme to create
dissatisfaction among the Republi-
cans. | am persuaded that in this
the schemers will not find the people
of Garrett county so blind anC
weak as not to see through theil
attempt to take from the voters theil
right to say who shall serve them il
public office. They are fully capable
of selecting their public servants anC
will not allow the Governor, through
the recommendation of few favor
ites-who in the past have made
some sad nistakes-tO say who shal
serve them.
want to urge all good Republican
to stand by the men whom the.
helped to elect, and also by the Law
which gives us the power to elect ou
officers. We do not proposed to b.
hoodwinked by petitions in tn
hands of Democrats whose only pur
pose is to create dissatisfaction in tn
Republican party-the party that be
lieves in the advancement of the fu
ture man and woman of Garret
county.
These petitions in the hands of tn
representatives of a party which to
day stands upon a platform in favo
of anything that has an "anti' to
is nothing more than can be eXpecte
-anti-expansion, anti-gold, ant
good times, anti-honest dollars, ant
good wages, authorization, ant
general prosperity and anti-0d tdb'
tu11.
In THE REPUBLICAN the peopl
can rely upon journal which wi
: give its best endeavors to kill thi
! movement in its incipiency, am SURE
We must keep an eye on this move
: ment and allow it to proceed no ful
ther. w. BEE.
DEER PARK, Md, Dec. 5, 1889.