The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-05

Some Hot Shot for the Apologist of the
Democracy.
To the Editor of The Republican.

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Democracy.
TO the Editor of The Republican
Absence from home prevented me
from replying last week to the Demo
cratic wind bag of abuse, alias ''Citi-
zen, land if the aforesaid gentleman (?)
thinks he can stop me with such
arguments (O as he produced in the
Democrat, he does not know me. l
shall keep the matter of the attempt
ed outrage of the voters of Garrett
before the people, and shall do what
/ can to agitate this question and let
the people see it in its true light, and
whether the "mills of the Gods grind
small or fine" The Democrats, in
Guiding "Citizen," will find before
they are through with this attempted
outrage of the people of our county
that even the best Democrats in Gar
rett do not endorse any such bastard
ly attempts to defeat the will of the
majority of the people as expressed at
the ballot box.
This brave () and truthful (O "Citi-
zen." this exponent (O of Democracy
as he sees it, made certain statements
in regard to law which he said was
enacted by the Legislature of 1898,
and which he dubbed as IAN attempt
to loot the treasury for political pur-
poses" 1t was an attempt at moth
ing of the kind. | may be very bad
man, but Ravenscroft, Noon and
Jacobs are the peers of even "Citizen"
himself, and no attempt was made
by them to loot the public treasury
But how about certain State Chair
man of the Democratic State Central
Committee and State Treasurer who
stole $130, 100000 of the peoples money
to run Democratic campaign with ?
said IN my last that the statement
of "CitiZen" was not true and gave
the page of the Senate Journal to
prove that he had not made correct
statement. When corrected in this
way he then states in his last that
the daily papers had made the state
ment and it was taken for granted
that it was correct.
Now | want to tell Mr.. "Citizenn
that it was not so reported in the
daily papers, and do not even think
that the Democrat so reported that it
had passed the Senate. Last week,
so that | might make no mistake in
the matter, | looked over the files of
the Baltimore dailies and no such
ICDOlU dpDCdlS III bllC bCUJN UllC IICfUtU
or the american, and Mr. "Citizen," :"
having some little charity, | will just
say that you made mistake. Some
Democrat may have told you. The
mills of the Gods may grind
"siuall'' or fine" you know which
is correct as you have been through
said mills and no doubt you feel very
small and | want to say that you
will be a great deal smaller before
you get a chance to reap the benefit
of this attempted outrage of the peo-
ple's rights by drawing your salary as
a school commissioner.
/ "The mills must have ground you
very small or you could very readily
see that | did produce arguments
which you or any other Democrat can
gainsay, that conclusively proves that
the most progressive States elect their
school officials, and even you say in
your first letter, $50 taken as whole
the appointive system would seem to
be at least as good if not better (when
we have a Democratic Governor)
than the elective
Now, Mr.. "Citizen,n your party has
attempted to perpetrate a great
wrong, an infamous outrage against
our people in this dastardly attempt
to legislate out of Office the school
commissioners elected by the people.
The attempt was made and in the
opinion of many the wrong was ac-
complished, but you have bit off
more than you can chew, and if, as l
have heard, U0T pOputi, 00a Del is
correct, Mr.. Citizen, your party, be-
fore you are through with this matter,
will find that saying is true in this
regard at least.
You have enacted your vicious law,
which is a retrogressive one and in
tended to keep the people in igno-
rance and the Democratic party in
power, but the intelligent people of
Garrett know their rights, and,
knowing, dare maintain" and, Mr..
Citizen if yon had only given the
Democratic Legislature the benefit OF
your vast wisdom perhaps they would
have enacted law that would have
covered the ground q little better,
and your attempted outrage may
have been complete, but your party
has failed to repeal Chapter 445, of
the Laws of Maryland, session 1898.
: That law still ste .ds and the school
board elected by che people will take
their office and serve out their terms
and conduct the office, not in the
interests Of cliques or parties. but in
J the best interests of the people and
for the advancement of the boys and
girls Of Garrett. 1t is too bad, "Citi-
zen," that you did not look this mat
ter up little sooner, but you have
let your opportunity go by, and "the
mills" have ground you, yes, small
indeed, and in your sore disappoint-
ment you can exclaim with the poet,
1.-THE saddest words Of tongue or pen,
} the saddest are these, it might have
, been.n
And, Mr.. "Citizen," why is it that
the most progressive states elect their
school officials? Why is it that the
states which have the smallest per
cent. of illiteracy are as rule Repub-
lican; while those states which have
the largest per cent.of ignorant people
are always Democraticf Why is it?
Does ignorance favor the Democratic
party and intelligence the Republi-
can? Why is it that Garrett county,
though robbed Of its rights by the
Democratic law distributing the
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