Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1906-08-03
Disappointment The Real Cause.

Mr.. Editor Permit me through your
columns to thank the Editor OF the Adpo-
cate for the compliment paid me by taking
my communication headed "Discredits Ex
aminer White" for the text of column ed :
itorial in the last edition of his paper.
After reading that editorial, l have reach
ed the conclusion that the trouble with the
Advocate Is that its Editor is mad thous-
and dollars worth with Senator Lee for very
properly preventing him from getting q job
at the last session Of the legislature, and he
Is trying to strike the Senator over Mr..
Whites head, and, by way of parenthesis,
IL does seem to me he cares not much If he
hits Mr.. Whites head In doing 30.
Now have no harsh feeling toward Mr..
White, and am more than reluctant to say
anything that might in any way hurt his
feelings, but If his champion insists upon
protractng this correspondence shall con-
tlnue 1t by stating facts, and insisting upon
having from public officials statements of
facts, which think the public are entitled
TO know.
What say first say last. and what say
last stick to, and that Is this, Mr.. White
when last elected Examiner said In no un.
certain words he would not again be an APP
plicant for the position, which statement he
repeated over and over. If l misstate the
TACT, let his champion deny It, and will pro-
duce proofs. When Mr.. White made the
statement say he did, he either did or did
not mean what he said. The Editor OF the
ADVOCATE, who, must confess, Is In better
position to Judge than l, evidently thinks
Mr.. White did not mean what he said, but
surely Mr.. White can have no cause OF
complaint If he was taken at his word.
Now, in the light of the fact that Mr.. W bite
had, as early as May, 1905, declared his pur-
pose Ito walk the plank' of his own accord
| In May, 1905, how absurd it must appear to
| intelligent people for the Advocate to persist
| In the assertion that the number OF School
| Commissioners was increased to "butcher"
Mr.. White. But what il in this the Advocate
does tell the TRUTH Does not everybody
in Montgomery county know that Capt. An
derson was put out Of the Office Of Examiner
by board selected for the express purpose OF
putting Mr.. White in, and that Mr.. White
| was put out to put Mr.. Higgins In, and that
Mr.. Higgins was put out to put Mr.. Luckett
| In, and that Mr.. Luckett was put out for
the purpose of putting Mr.. Burdette In, and
that Mr.. Burdette was put out in order TO
again make Mr.. White Examiner.
| So far as | am concerned, Mr.. White has
held and enjoyed the office for fourteen years
and think the time was Over-ripe for
change, and now that change has been
made In both the Examiner and the control
Of the board, desire to suggest to 1t the
propriety of having Its accounts extending
over the past two years audited not for the
purpose OF ascertaining whether the money
has been accounted for, for have no doubt
Mr.. Whites accounts are accurate, but TO
| find ont whether the expenditures have been
made from the proper funds and In accord
ance with the law, and especially in regard
to the expenditures for the erection Of the
school houses at Rockville and Gaithersburg,
and the pay Of the assistant to the examiner
If this suggestion 10 adopted, and hope 1t
will be. for il is an eminently proper one,
the report of the auditing committee should
be given to the public.
| have learned from recent discussion In
the press that free scholarships In Western
Maryland College are filled after compete
tive examination. would like for some one
to tell me when and where and by whom the
last examination to fill the female scholarship
for this county was held.
| DEMOCRAT.