Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-29
CORRESPONDENTS.
Against County BOssism.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, Sept. %, 1900.
To the MINING JOURNAL.

the Cumberland Times last Saturday
evening upon the Democratic League of
Allegany county. | will be very much
obliged to You if you will do SO.
1t seems some one i'll your "city on
the HILL designating himself "a Demo-
cratic-Independent,' published in the
FOr"m communication saying he in
tended voting for Col. Pearre for Con-
gresS because he "cannot be part of the
dirt and filth that clings to the Wilson
Avirett shoes
Permit me to say, in the first place,
that have not seen the FDIum contain
ing the communication of "A Democrat
ic-Independent, and know nothing
whatever about it except from the editor
ial i'll Saturdays Times. | have no
knowledge who wrote it, but will say
the excuse given for voting for Pcarre is
"A very poor one, i'll my humble Judge
ment.
But the Times avails itself of the
occasion to go far out of its way to attack
the members of the Democratic League
of Allegany county i'll most uncalled-
for and insulting manner. AS intimat-
ed, [ have nothing whatever to do with
or say about the controversy between
the Times and "a Democratic Independ-
| &,
| have something to say in reply to the
Times attack upon the League.
Judging from the tone of the Times
editorial | infer that ga Democratic In
Dependent made the little editor very
mad; indeed he seems to be mad all over.
Criticism seems to affect Johnnie pretty
much the same way it does Mark Hanna.
| The little editor was not content to
abuse ga Democratic mdepeudent, but.
as | have said, travelled Il long way
around i'll order to get in an attack on
the Democratic League. He is very
much opposed to democrats forming any
kind of an organization i'll this county
without asking permission of the Tn,rs-
Wilson gang. He calls the members
of the League ''hypocrites, "disorgan-
izers,' and says they "are at heart for
Mckinley and Pearre." Now, it is in
order to inquire of Johnnie what evil
dence he has to sustain this charge? l
venture the assertion that he has not
one particle. He knows those democrats
who formed this League to oppose "bOss-
ISM i'll the democratic party in this
county, and he knows when "bossism"
is crushed out in this county, his oc-
cupation as little boss will be at an
end; therefore, he is very mad
The democrats who formed the
League exercised their rights as freemen;
they did not ask permission so to do of
the self-cOnstituted bosses; hence they
are all awfully mad to think that any
number of democrats i'll this county have
independence enough left to form an or
ganlzatlOn to further the interest of the
democratic party.
Now, the truth of the matter is, the
| lDpmDfsrltlH tnp1x-
demned by little Johnnie, is the only
Reorganization" in the county that has
done anything, so far, towards the cleo
ton of the democratic national and con-
gressiOnal tickets. What Johnnie calls
"the organization has done nothing
so far, that anybody can see, for the
democratic national or congressional
| tickets. Every man i'll the Democratic
League he charges with "acting in direct
| opposition to the organization in this
county" supported Mr.. Bryan in 1896,
and We're rOundly denounced by some
men i'll 1.-THE organization as ''anarch-
lists" and 'destructionists' for so doing
Every man i'll the Democratic League
will not only vote for Mr.. BRYAN and
Major Little, but will use every honor
able effort to induce others to do the
same. Is this ''acting i'll direct opposi-
ton to the organization i'll this county,"
Before democrats can do anything for
their party, must they go and ask little
Johnnie Aviretts permission, or the per-
mission of what he calls the organiza-
tiOn?" Has it come to this in the
democratic party in Allegany county?
There are great many people, not
only i'll this county, but all over the
State, who do not believe the "organ-
Il
the nomination of Mr.. Bryan by the
Kansas City national convention
Everybody knows that Mr.. Vandiver
chairman of ''the organization, turned
his back upon Mr.. Bryan the last time
he visited Baltimore; everybody knows
the last Legislature (Which was COM
pletely under the control and influence
of "the organization" declined to ask
Mr.. Bryan to deliver an address before
that body; it is further we'll known that
this so-called Organization" did all it
could in this county to stem the tide in
favor of Mr.. Bryan snominatiOn "under
thespecious plea that they We're opposed
to instructed delegates.
| Now, if the members of the Democrat
tic league We're disposed to use harsh
language or TO call names, surely they
have sufficient evidence to justify them
in doing so. How easy would it be for
them to charge that Johnnie and his So
called Organization" are pretending to
support Bryan and Little simply for
what they can get ont of it, if they hap
pen to be successful. Johnnie and his
Organization pals are pretty much all
otfice-holders now, and as they want to
continue i'll the business hereafter, it
makes them very mad for anybody to
even suggest it's time for new deal
"The organization in this county has
actually made family affair out of the
appOintive offices i'll the county; they
not only covet, but actually "take all in
sight" The democratic party was
turned out of power in 1893 by the peo-
pie of Maryland simply because the peo-
pie became Disguised with the tyranny
and selfishness of 1.-the organization.
There is no sort of doubt about this.
One would suppose these Organization"
gentlemen had learned wholesome
lesson by the 1895 defeat, but they have
not. On the contrary, they've gone
further and behaved worse in this cOun-
ty since our success last fall than they
ever did i'll their palmiest days. But if
any democrat protests against this hog
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