The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-02-13
A RHYME-HousE OF DELEGATES, 1876.

My muse descend, my soul inspire
With sweetest strains from the Poets Tyre;
While / tell of the wondrous fight
Over Oakland as the County Site
OF young Garrett (up in the mountains,
From whence do flow crystal fountains
Of natures pure and wholesome beverage,
Unmixed with ''red-eye leverage
In the Legislative halls of MY Maryland
Where her chosen sons-a salonic band
Had met, laws to repeal-re-enact,
But from Justice never to detract.
The Grave Senators made bill of repeal
Which the startling truth did reveal
That Oakland should not wear the crown
OF being young CARROTS own Shire-Town,
Unless the sovereign's weapon the ballot did
declare
At an election special and fair
Not by a mere plurality,
Which oft leaves doubt of legality
That she had a majority received,
And thus all doubts relieved
Settled firmly not by Accident alone
By McHenry's gate, Grantsvile and Oakland
the bone.
The repeal of the Act of 1874
Was brought as message on the House floor
By the quiet Gassaway and received by Kidd
(From whose eagle eyes nothing is hid
And placed by him under Mr.. Speakers con
troll,
When it was read by the live DR.. Cole.
And afterwards appropriately referred,
But no voice of wall or moan was heard,
For one of the Doves had flown to the noun
tains
To quaff the pure liquid from the crystal
fountains
"Of natures pure beverage
Unadulterated by "red-eye leverage"
This Dove, mild as the poetess Browning,
Whose guileless lays all love to sing,
She rested few days in her mountain home,
Little thinking of the dark days to come;
Suddenly by intuition she took her fight
Back to the State Capital at night,
She sought rest in the bowers of ST. Bernard
(The other Dove the peoples ward
But Dove she had ceased to be
meekness he said the people must be free,
No laws of Modes and "Prussians" must
contract,
and against Republican Institutions react.
The eloquence of st. Bernard was rare.
Though not dressed with rhetorical care,
But with earnestness of soul did proclaim
That it was his highest noblest aim
To have the sovereign will made known,
And another victory of liberty be thus won:
That in the selection OF the town,
Which young Garrett calls its own
Shire Town, or County Site,
majority-not plurality-is right.
Thus spoke Bernard-on the motion to post
pone
lndefinitely-and he was done.
The Doves were sitting side by side
Just as afrectionate as groom and bride,
When the bill to repeal and enact anew
By the stentor voice OF Cole was brought to
view;
The motion was made to indefinitely post
pone-
Bernard had spoken and was done
When the Dove whose cot is in the bower OF
Oakland
Flapped his wings and took his stand,
And with the silvery lays of Browning
Did most sweetly sing
OF justice, tempered with mercy
And against the bill of Senator GETTY.
Softly, sweetly fell the plaintive appeal,
Which made the rhetoric of the other Dove
reel;
She spoke of Oakland as her ''own sweet
home"
Where in the summer heat birds do come
From every clime-plumage rich and rare,
With the sweetest, gentlest of the fair;
And on she garbled in melodious strain,
So gently assuming, yet not vain,
In praise Of Oakland-as the sacred spot
On which young Garrett should affix his cot
Bring all his jewels, ,Iwealth of mind and
heart,
And never let the E,mine from her depart
"A LOCKER on at the Cooing OF IN. Dores