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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02
NO LONGER A JOKE.
Country Journalism is Now to BE Regard
ed Highly.

Country Journalism is Now to BE Regard
ed Highly.
Much has been said OF the country
paper until many people believe it is
struggling institution fit for joke
rather than to be taken seriously.
Perhaps that may have been the case
at one time, but the thrifty exchange
list of the Times is evidence that it
is not so now. Never in the history
of the newspaper world have the
country papers shown such certain
signs of prosperity. Papers from lit
tie towns of anywhere from 1000 to a
dozen times that many inhabitan hts
are coming in with their regular adj
vertising columns crowded and addi-
tional pages provided for the accom-
mediation of the merchant who wants
to talk to his patrons. The country
editor is keeping in strict touch with
modern ideas. He has recourse to
new type, artistic effects in printing,
and he is making his advertising just
as terse and convincing as the editor
in the city, says the Pittsburg Times.
If when the new year comes and the
profits of the 12 months are counted
the country publisher does not have
a surplus in the strong box it will be
no fault of his exertions nor of his
patronage during the holiday season.
Nor will the effect stop there. No
step forward is ever wholly lost. New
possibilities have been made appar-
ent to the village paper, and the
highest ideal established will continue
to be the ambition. 1t is only the
men at the exchange table who can
realize the influence possessed by the
country editor and the excellent use
he is making of it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02
43.

has taken great..interest and suggest
ed many valuable improvements for
the protection and encouragement of
agriculture. Not the least is the pres
ervation of our forests. We hope
Maryland will fall in line with his
action and advice and purchase and
protect our remaining forests, partic-
ularly in Western Maryland. The
strong and scholarly statement or
plea for forest protection of our pop
ular and honored representative in
recent issue of THE REPUBLICAN will
surely awaken interest on that most
important subject. Our schools, our
streams, our forests and our roads
are common property and heritage.
Let us improve, protect and cherish
them.
OCCASIONAL.
Grantsville, Dec. 80, 1901.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02
FRAUDS TABULATED.
Republican State COmmitte Shows
Effect of Ballot Trickery in
Recent Election.
THE TABLE IS WORTH STUDYING.
A Well Substantiated Claim That 81, 900
Voters Did Not Vote or Their Ballots
Were Thrown Out BY the Judges of
Election.

The Republican indictment against
the recent ballot frauds of the Dem
ocrats has been made up and reduced
to cold figures. OF the $50 and more
polling places outside of Baltimore
city, a complete history of election
day practices has been received from
each point. Sufficient complete
wards and scattering precincts have
been taken in Baltimore city to be
able to make a good statement of
what has occurred there
All of these results have been tab
ulated by Mr.. John c. Simering of
the Republican State Central Com
mittee, who has had charge of the
collection of reports. Estimating the
number of votes thrown out in Balti-
more to be 5000, and this is a very
moderate estimate. the number OF
ballots rejected throughout the en-
tire State at the last election was
more than $4,000. Nor was this the
total Acknowledgement, by any means.
After applying the most vigorous
regulations as to registration and a
general clearing of the registration
lists everywhere by both Democrats
and Republicans who were entitled
to vote, there were still left 2S5, OOO
citizens marked qualified voters" on
the registration books. At the last
election there were less than 200, OOO
votes cast in the State, all told. There
are thus more than $1,000 voters to
account for.
The number of registered voters
not voting in Maryland in recent
years has ranged from $4,000 in 1886
to 10000 in 1898, when Congressman
only were elected. The average would
thus be about 22,500 registered voters
who do not avail themselves of their
privileges. This, then, would be the
way to account for the $4,000 voters
who did not appear at this election.
Habitually do not vote ~ 22,50C
Rejected ballots. ........... $4,000
Did not go to polls. ........... 80, SOC
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $4,000
1t is thus shown that through the
operation of the new election law
G3, 800 voters in the State have sud
denly disappeared from active par.
ticipation in the management OF
the States affairs. This is about q
per cent. of the whole and does not
include the average number of citi.
zens who for various reasons, sickness
and what not, do not avail themselves
of their privileges each year.
There have never been $4,000 col.
ored voters in the State, so it is very
evident that a large number of white
votes has been wiped out, particu-
larly when it is remembered that
quite large number of colored voters
either knew how to vote or learned
before the last election. 1t is also
fair to suppose that quite large per-
centage Of the $4,000 unexplained
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02

During the civil war it was recogni-
zed as a strong strategical point.
Fort Pendleton was built and occu-
pied because it protected the North
the National pike, the great high
ways between the east and west, and
should serious trouble ever occur in
this country it will be occupied again.
Had the government owned a tract
of land such as this at the commence
ment of the Spanish war, troops
would have been concentrated there
instead of Camp Alger and the scourge
of fever avoided.
The late Generals George Crook
and Innis n. Palmer built beautiful
summer homes overlooking por ton
of this ground, each of whom recog-
nized its suitability for great school
for our army, and who xpected
and hoped to see one established
there.
This matter is of vast Importance
TO the National Guard of this state
and while the location is not wit hin
our borders it is so close that our
troops may reap the advantages of
a great summer school. 1t is centrally
located for the assembling of troops
from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Ken
lucky, West Virginia, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York
and Virginia, and troops from these
states would gladly assemble there
for instruction, and at the same time
have delightful summer outing in
lovely climate.
1T is hoped that, when the officers
who have the selection of these camps
come to decide the matter they will
look to it that the sites selected are
supplied with plenty of pure whole
some water, as the country cannot
afford to have Chicamauga and
Camp Alger repeated.
According to the Baltimore l. Ohio
railroad surveys, Oakland is $500 feet
above sea level, the Geological sur
vey makes the elevation a little less,
but it is sufficiently high to insure a
delightful climate in summer exactly
suited for camping purposes and in
winter cold, dry, bracing one, sutfi-
GENTLY severe to insure the destruc-
ton of all microbes which may have
appeared during summer cncamp-
ment, and thus the troops will be
assured of healthy camp grounds
each year, and besides, the streams
are large enough to carry off all filth
which may be left in and around the
different camp grounds.
with all these advantages assured
i'll an encampment near Oakland,
Maryland, we suggest to the senators
and representative of our state that
they join those of Maryland and of
the other states mentioned and lay
this matter before the Board and be.
fore Congress when an appropriation
is to be made for the purchase of these
sites, and to use their inflence to
have one of the sites located in the
vicinity of Oakland"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02

stay-at-hOme voters were men whose
illiteracy precluded their even at
tempting TO vote. These, then, are
the figures with which the next Leg
islature will have to deal when it
meets next week-39, 800 men who
usually vote and did not go to the
polls and $4,000 men whose votes
were thrown out after they were cast.
If the number of rejected ballots
ran in any proportionate ratio to the
llliteracy of the various counties,
then it might be said that the fault
did not lie so much in the administra-
ton of the law as in the law itself.
but except in certain counties there
is no such relation. For instance, in
Calvert, a consistent Republican
county, where the illiteracy is 80 per
cent, the number of rejected ballots
was 81! per cent. of all those cast :
while in Queen Anne's, always Demo
cratic by 600 or 700, where the litter
acy is 80 per cent, the number of re-
jected ballots was only g. per cent
The most certain proof that the
number of white voters DISTINGUISHED
was large also occurred in Calvert
county. There are nearly 1900 regis
tered white voters in the county and
yet the highest number of votes re-
ceiyed by any Democratic candidate
in the county was 499
The table, which was prepared by
Mr.. Simering and which is appended.
makes interesting reading. 1t will
be noticed that the counties are ar
ranged in the order of percentage of
votes thrown out in the last election
The list is of course headed by Cal
vert, st. Mary's. Prince Georges,
Somerset, Charles and Anne Arundel,
the six counties where the trick bal
lots, independent Republican tick
cts and all other manner of trickery
were used. Carroll county enjoys the
distinction of having had the fairest
count among the counties, and Wash
ington county is next. Baltimore
city has the lowest percentage of all,
only per cent, but this per cent
mounts up to the appalling figure of
5000 votes, which, if two-thirds of
them had been Republican, would
have pretty nearly meant the death
knell of Mr.. German and certainly of
DR.. Herring, thus giving, the Repu bill
cans a place on the Board of Public
Works.
In an interview Mr.. Simering said:
who is responsible for this great
wrong? The sworn officers of the
State provided the trick ballots and
the appointing power was informed
of the intentions and purposes of his
appointees. Was there any interior
ence with the premeditated and pre-
arranged plan to rob the voters of
the State! The plot was discovered
and made public four days prior to
the election. Even Photographic re-
productions of the ballots which were
designed for the robbery were pub
lished. Was the oath contained in
Article l, Section 6, of the Constitu-
ton forgotten or disregarded?
lone thing is certain, the premedi-
tated wrong was not stopped, but
was permitted to be done. The prin-
cipal who permits an agent to do an
act is responsible for the act. The
man who receives stolen goods is held
as an accomplish with the thief
Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold
Laxative BrOm o-Quinine Tablets cure q
cold in one day. No Cure, no Pay. Price
cents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02

sIn ifth column indcates maiority for ComptrolIer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02
SALT BLOCK.

&C. c. Wilhelm has moved his saw
mill to Salt Block, where he will be-
gin saving in a few days for A.
Knabb &.Co.
George Groves made hasty trip
to West Virginia one day last week.
D. w. Loraw was at Salt Block one
day last week on business.
BLUE BIRD.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02
Calendars Receieed.

A strikingly handsome one from the
James Clark Distilling Company at
Cumberland.
From the j. b. Williams Company,
Frostburg, a very neat and attractive
one
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02

Last spring attended Normal, paid
my board, bought books, etc, attend
ed institute, and with incidental ex-
penses added leaves small sum. To
make the matter clearer append the
following:
Tuition at Normal ................... $500
boarding at Normal, 10 weeks. 200
Books chased..................... 400
Conveyance to and from Insti-
%
Boarding at Institute. 375
Boarding during term............. lS 90
- $50 IS
BY salary first term of 20 months "a
10 per 62 50
Balance for ~ months labor.......... IS
On my next term | will have IS.
to start with. This with the salary
l expect to receive for the second
term will give me $71.25. Deducting
$50 tor board | will have at the end
of my school term the sum of $51.25
to show for my labor of one hundred
days, or just 514 cents per day This
is a magnificent sum to be the pos
SCISSOR of, isn't it? Had | worked at
common labor during the q months
of the normal term and the months
school term, / would have earned
1895. AS it is ! will have $51.25l Yet,
after all, | am enjoying my vacation,
spending what | can of the 1915, and
expect to open school on January
end.
am not going to tell you what |
intend doing next year, but assure
you | shan't teach school at 514 cents
per day. Some one will fill the posi-
ton, and their interests are now to
be noticed.
We have almost $50 teachers EN-
ployed the present winter. Our
County Commissioners gave to the
public schools at the annual levy last
April $14, 900 for the running
of the schools and $4,000 for building
purposes. If were to ask the tax
payers of the county about levying
more money they would all tell me
that they pay too much tax already.
Something must be done. We can
not possibly expect to keep on pay
ing our teachers from $25 to $35 per
month. We can get one class of
teachers always for that price. Do
you want them? You cannot have
the teacher who is full of life, energy
and desire to make school as we'll as
life a success. Money is all we need
to have longer as well as better
schools.
Now we will do "a little more tigur-
ing. | was informed that the taxable
basis of Garrett county is over "a, OOO,-
900. We should have at least $4,000
levied for school purposes. That
would be $4,000 more than last year,
which would be .002 on the dollar
more tax, taking "a 200, 900 as a basis.
You can see the increase of tax would
be very light.
Shall our County Commissioners
give it to them or will we continue
Taxpayers, it is for you to say The
Commissioners are public servants.
They are willing to levy the money as
soon as they know it meets with your
approval.
| have given you the facts as | un-
derstand them. If am wrong hope
to be corrected. If | see matters as
they really are hope we may get our
good taxpayers to thinking and then
to think loud enough to be heard and
felt when the next annual levy is
made for Garrett county.
Wishing all my fellow teachers a
good time with $S.7 to feast upon, |
am. Respectfully yours,
A TEACHER
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02
0AKLAND'S ADVANTAGE
The Site Near Oakland an Ideal One
For the Location of Per-
manent Camp.
WOOD, WATtR AND GRASS PLENTY

Large Tract of Land Can BE Secured at
Moderate Figure Which Is Well
Adapted For the Purpose. The Climate
Not Too Hot In Summer Nor Too Cold
in Winter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02
A FEW FACTS
OCCAsIoN NAL.
Grantsville, Dec. 80, 1901.

Presented BY Teacher For the Benefit of
His Fellow Workers.
My first term of school has closed
and am going to tell you how well
ain off financially as a result of NV
labors.
Last spring ] attended Normal, paid
my board, bought books, etc, attend
ed institute, and with incidental ex-
penses added leaves small sum. To
make the matter clearer append the
following:
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WIIllno to be Judqed.

The Republican party in Pennsylva-
MIA in point Of policy and performance
and devotion to the interests Of the
great masses Of the people, has ever
been ready to meet the Democracy and
its Misrepresentation upon any basis.
This is pre-eminently true regarding
the history Of Republicanism in Penn
sylvania.
1t is we'll at this time to dwell upon
the achievements Of the Republican
party as exemplified in Pennsylvania.
We were told more than two thousand
years ago that men should be Judged
by their fruits. The Republican party
and its splendid achievements can
stand the supreme test Of comparison
with the Democratic party and It's
failures for the past forty years. There
is not a patriotic Republican today, in
state or nation, who is not willing to
have his party measured by this stan
dard.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-30
As TO Union Labels.

II was a Republican legislature in
Pennsylvania that passed this law, viz:
Every union Of workingmen. having
adopted and registered under the pro-
visions OF this act any trade mark, la
bel, symbol or private stamp, shall
have, possess and enjoy fun, complete
and unQuestioned power and authority
TO name, make, dictate and specify the
conditions and limitations under
which the same may be used by any
person or persons employing the men,
ber or members OF said associations OF
unions, or manufacturing any article
or articles upon which any such trade
mark, label, symbol or private stamp
may be affixed, or using In any manner
in his or their business the labor sym
bolized by any such trade mark. label
symbol or private mark. 30 registered
(P. L. 1901. page 1i4.)
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-30
STRONG FOR PENNvPAcKER

Distinguished Educator Declares In Fa.
vor Of the Republican Candidate.
The following letter appeared in a
recent issue of the Huntington Globe:
Our townsman, DIR. NJ. G. Brum-
baugh, former commissioner Of edu-
cation of Porto Rico, and now at the
head Of the department Of pedagogy In
the University Of Pennsylvania, writes
US as follows:
Philadelphia, Oct. z. 1902.
MY Dear Mr.. Butz: A number Of my
home friends have asked me about the
candidacy of Judge Pennypacker-
whether or not he is really good man
and capable of administering the high
office of governor ably and we'll. To
all such I wish to say that have
known Judge Pennypacker for many
years. He is perhaps the ablest schol-
ar of Pennsylvania history we have,
and his writings arc invaluable. He
is. as we all know, one Of the ablest
jurists in the commonwealth. He is
q kind-hearted, clear-headed, business
like man, whose entire career is a
great honor to him and the state. He
possesses rare executive ability and is
as resolute for the right as any man
know. He will make most excel
lent governor, one who will at all
times guard the welfare OF the common
people, whom he loves and with whom
he loves to associate. He is absolutely
independant Of all bias in his thinking
and will treat all persons with Justice
and equal fairness. In short, / love
him and feel confident he will make a
great governor.
To all my friends, give him unquali-
fed endorsement. l hope every one
will 90 to the polls and vote for him
He is the type Of man our public life
needs. We are fortunate to have him
as a candidate. We will be more than
fortunate if we elect him governor by
an overwhelming majority.
National issues of great moment are
involved in this election and l trust
every loyal citizen who is concerned fol
the welfare of 10,000,000 souls now un.
der our flag in the islands of the sea
will see that our present wise insulal
policy is emphatically endorsed and @
Republican congress assured.
Yours very respectfully,
NJ. G.. BRUMBAUGH.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-30

% iSs6, Inclusive, the sum total o( IN
appropriations for this purpose vas
el6.sss.o0o From 1890 10 1891 inclu-
sivs. there was appropriated In sup
port Of the cause Of popular education
81. .71s.000. The entire amount con-
tributed By the state for educational
purposes since 1895 is $sl. l.o6l. 1858. 1t
Eill thus be seen that In the twelve
years since 1890. more money has been
expended by the state in support Of
common schools than In all the years
from 1885 to 1890. In other words,
nearly sixty-nine per cent. of the entire
amount Of money appropriated for
school purposes by the state since 1885
has been appropriated in the last
twelve years, when the Republican
party Of this state and the policy Of its
leaders have been most severely criti-
Cised.
MONEY PAID THIS YEAR.
The reports of the auditor general
and state treasurer show that the net
revenue available for general appropri-
alton purposes is in round numbers
SIS ,000. 900 annually. OF this sum, &c.
100000 is appropriated each year for
public schools.
Will any fair-minded person seri-
ously contend that the state should
appropriate more than forty-eight pei
cent of its net revenues for educational
purposes? We now appropriate more
money than any other state in the
Union: all of which is to the credit Of
the Republican party.
The following is the official state.
ment of the amount which the state
pays this year In school money to each
county:
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Senator Brown On Company Stores.

Senator w. M. Brown, candidate for
lieutenant governor, is opposed to
company stores. On the discussion Of
a bill introduced by Senator Brown, in
the session of 1899, in reference to in
cooperating certain corporations. he de-
clared his position regarding company
stores. Among other things Senator
Brown said: II will go as far as any
one else to vote to properly restrain
any corporation that undertakes to mil-
itate against the people. =
would be willing that the bill be recon
sidered for the purpose Of inserting an
amendment excluding from the pro-
visions of the act any store run by a
company; that is, l mean, by a coal
company"
The bill had for its object the incor-
poration of retail stores. To the OBJ
jections that were made, Senator
Brown, among other things, said: 1--WE
are permitting today large, powerful
corporations of this commonwealth to
roam at will over the people. l be-
lieve there will come a time in the his
tory Of the state of Pennsylvania when
you will have to extend the power of
the people over these corporations.
want to say to you that when that time
does come it will not be to protect the
people against such corporations as are
embodied in and founded upon this bill,
but upon the corporations that are in
existence today, with twenty-five or
thirty millions Of capital, strangling
the people as they do"
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-30

In this connection, comparison with
the revenues and appropriations made
for school purposes in other states may
serve a useful purpose. Below We
give a statement from thirty-four Of
the leading states Of the American
Union, showing the total revenues Of
each state and the amount appropri-
ated by the legislatures thereof In sup
port of the cause OF education:
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-30
COId Facts,

Patient-My wife insists that my
sickness is purely imaginary.
Doctor-Don't let that worry you.
There will be nothing imaginary
about my bill.-Woman's Home Com.
panion.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-30

Brown-What was Jones kicking
about? You'd think he never got
what he wanted.
Smith-It's worse than that. He
Gays he never gets even what he does
MT want.-Detroit Free Press.
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A Tremendous Chance.

Oats it, Name! You kin see his
mother is pettin' an spoilin' him, an
I s'pose he'll go along dat way till he
gifts married."
"Yes; an den he won't hardly know
what struck him!"-Puck.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-30
Men OF Oak

Timbers of oak keep the old
homestead standing through
the years. 1t pays to use the
right stuff.
"Mca Of oak" are men in
rugged health, men whose
bodies are made of the sound
est materials.
Childhood is the time to lay
the foundation for a sturdy con-
stitution that will last for years.
SCOTS Emulsion is the right
stuff.
SCOTS Emulsion stimulates
the growing powers of children,
helps them build a firm
foundation for a sturdy consti-
tuition.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOVINE. Chemists,
4Oo-4lS Pearl Street, New York.
Gn~ end CT m. oIi dr,,ooicko