The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-08-08
Communicated,

communication
To the Voters Of Garrett County.
1t is amusing to listen to some of
the ghost hunters who here and there
have bobbed up since the convention,
for such must be the object of their
search as it seems to have no definite
form or shape. But if the pursuers
and those who might through sport
join them in the hunt should sud
denly be confronted by the object of
their search they would cover before
it like the Witch of Endor when she
was permitted to call up the spirit of
Samuel the Prophet. The object, if
found, would be hideous and fright
full.
Nothing is independent except that
which is capable of adopting itself to
all circumstances and conditions aris-
ing and in no other condition in this
life is there absolute independence,
and a solution of the problem may be
found by nominating your adjustable
politicians and guaranteeing them
your hearty support. Let us suppose
they are elected, dependent upon no
one, independent of all partisan faint,
they dare not ask a member of either
party to support measure for any
thing; they must stand alone exposed
to the storm of voluminous wrath or
become tools applicable to the use of
either party in emergencies and dan
gerous to our own interests when the
occasions are whetted to keen edge
by a little financial oil
No, gentlemen, this is not the way
out of difficulty. l admit that it may
become a future alternative for the
common people to unite in one gen
eral move for reform, but this is
neither the time nor course to be pur-
sued. We must stand by our own
present nominees and should give
them the largest vote ever polled in
our county so that when a rebuke is
necessary it can be soundly admins
tered. So let us give them our heart
lest support and let them feel that
they are part of our social and chris
tian system and of our number who
pledge our lives for our liberties.
And while the offices to be filled were
not enough to go around or represent
each district, the personnel of the
ticket is without doubt equal to any
previous ticket in our county and re-
fleets great credit upon the delegates
who nominated it, and we are GER
tainly fortunate in the nomination of
our representative ticket, of whom
Hons. Ravenscroft and Finzel have
large parliamentary experience and
knowledge of the work done during
their previous terms, much of which
the people of Garrett county and the
State of Maryland who prize the lib
critics bequeathed by their ancestors
and the rights guaranteed to Ameri-
can citizens under the constitution of
the United States, desire to have re-
pealed, especially that part which
DISTINGUISHES between forty and fifty
thousand voters, thousands of whom
are large tax payers, honest, enter
prising and possessed of high mental
faculty, whose past ability to vote in
diligently has never before been
questioned or thought dangerous to
the interests and well being of the
public. A large number also are old
soldiers whose ability to read and
write was not questioned when they
presented themselves to the recruit
ing officer but were accepted, went to
the front. discharged their whole
duty. came home, settled down to
honest toll in the different routines of
life and whose steadfast, moral and
christian habits and lives have been
one of the strong mediums in the
preservation of law and order. These
any many other fully as worthy citi-
zens of Maryland are by this motor
ious law placed on lower level than
the pardoned felon who can read or
the mental imbecile. Young men of
both political parties, this reckless
thrust at the honor and integrity of
your fathers reflects on you, notwith-
standing the fact that they have
given you all the educational advan-
tages of the day, and the gravity of
the situation will grow wider as the
truth dawns clearer on the minds of
the ambitious young men and youths
of this proud and boosted old home
and herald of Jeffersonian. Democ-
racy. And this law if allowed to ex-
ist will yet at no distant day be a
menace to civil government and the
moral institutions of Maryland.
Hon. Robert A. Ravenscroft, in hi