Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-11-07
McComas VS.. Home-Both Lose.

condition Of affairs if the future of the
State Normal School at Frostburg depended
solely upon the election of A. c. Wilson
democratic candidate for the House of Dele
gates-Porter' Corner star.
The remarkable condition is-no.
body ever contended that "the future
of the State Normal School at Frost
burg depended solcIy upon the election
Of A. c. Wilson" etc.
And now with the following testl-
mony from the star, if its so,' we
will see that Mr.. Wilson's defeat robs
the school of "a friend at court where
friends will be needed:
The attitude of the democratic party from
the incipent stages of the establishment
of the Normal School in Frostburg has
been hostile and antagOnistic, and it has
been by the most strenuous efforts that the
school was completed and is now being
maintained,
In any other quarter this statement
would be regarded as conclusive of pop
ular duty to retain the services of {"
man who would have both voice and
force in his party. Instead we hav,
this:
Notwithstanding the facts we are asked
by the democratic press to vote for Mr
Wilson to save the State Normal School.
and everyone who does not endorse his can
ddacy must have his home patriotism and
educational loyalty impeached.
That's the alternative which the
JOURNAL now insists upon and will
continue to shoot into such enemies of
the school as is the Porter's Corner >t0r.
The county voter who preferred to con
tinue Louis f. McComas in the United
States Senate rather than take jus;
one step toward perpetuating the school
is not patriotic nor logai! There is no
getting out of this pinch.
Now then word for what the Por-
ters Corner STIR calls "the democratic
press" meaning the JOURNAL.
In asking republican voters to make
Mr.. Wilson a special envoy to the
Legislature in the interest of the school
it provided for democratic con-
tingency. 1t wanted only one demo
crat in the event of a democratic lcgis-
lature, leaving to four republicans the
mission of winning to our favor Il re-
publican legislature if the latter so
turned out.
Being an enterprising school man, Mr..
Wilson is exceptionally endowed for the
mission the JOURNAL named for him-so
endowed, indeed, that in any legislature
he would be hard to get away from in a
matter so deserving as our school.
For him the JOURNAL asked just one
of five votes-just one! Was that an
extortionate, exactlng, or even an in
ordinate request:
For this one thing-One only, it >acri-
feed its prejudices against German,
because it wanted to see the school go
ON whether German should sink or
rise.
The Porter's Corner star has won,
but the McComas whom it preferred
has lost, and the Lord only knows how
five republicans, unschooled i'll legis-
lation, are to persuade democratic
House of Delegates to give the school the
$25, 900 which their constituents, advised
by the Star, say they wont have if it
costs single party life, big or little
AS occasion arises the JOURNAL is
going to keep this thing hot and rub it
right under the collars of the gentle
men who prefer McComas' welfare to
that of the town and county as these
are interested in our school, pupils and
teachers.
Especially is it going to set itself to
the task of not permitting the Porter's
Corner Star to wriggle out of rcsporsi-
bility for consequences it sought if it
had no force in achieving them.