The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-10-28
HIS TEMPERANCE RECORD.
What the Leader OF the Peoples Par
~ Has Done For Temperance.

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To the Editor of THE REPUBLICAN:
As supporter of temperance, and a
temperance worker, would like to say
few words regarding the position tax
en- by some of our leading temperance
people on the so called copies party
ticket.
To begin with, there has been a great
deal said about one of its candidates
from the Prohibition party joining hands
with our people has always been an
enemy to temperance, and in his de-
fence | claim it is a case whereihis fore
sight has failed him, for cannot see
any excuse for him accepting place on
a ticket fostered by one9.who has al
ways been in sympathy and, defended
the saloon keepers of our County.
| ask the question: wlo called .the
people of our County together 5and told
them they were being mistreated, boss
ridden and shamefully abused?s Was he
not a man that has been before the peo-
pie Of our county as a candidate oftener
than any other man in the county?- Has
he not been accused of swapping and
bartering votes every time he was
candidate until his own partyj had al
most termed him a poltical@gypsy.
Is he temperance man?-One who al
ways stood up in its defence andsstayed
by the people he is now trying to lead?
Let us turn to the records of.our Courts
and look the gentleman up. Here We
find him way back in the nineties in
Deer Park district fghtingsone of the
first temperance measures ever passed
in our County and for theIsake of few
dollars put the obnoxious saloons back
in the district
Next we find him in 1898 INF. FRIENDS
vile district battling against ,the tenn
perance people with his writs,of man.
damus.
We follow on down, and 7again We
find him in 1902 with more writs of Man
damus fighting the good people Of Hut
ton and Crellin to reinstate the two sa-
looms which had been triumphantly
ousted by an act of the Legislature
Follow him on down to 1896 and here
we find him in the halls of ourElegisla-
ture and before the then good Governor
of our state fighting in the defence of
two Of the worst dives that ever existed
in our cOunty-one run by notorious
cOIored man when his own stateywould
not legalize his business but he was
good enough to be dumped on the peo-
pie Of District No. without any u o.
lection, in the eyes of the so-called
leader of the Peoples party. But thanks
be to our representatives in the legis-
lature at that time for through their
skill he was overwhelmingly defeated
in his nefarious scheme.
Next we find him with the same old
chestnut; his writs of mandamus before
the courts, but they quickly decide in
our favor. Then by some ruSe or other
he discovered there were a little more
elasticv in the Negroes leg and he adj
vised him to carry his case to the Court
of Appeals and was likewise defeated
there.
| tell you voters of Garrett County,
that one of the candidates for place
on the Peoples party ticket sounded
no false alarm when he said that blood
was thicker than water and there was
a political snake in the grass.
While in conversation the other day
with one of the state leaders of the
Prohibition party the subject was
brought p about one of our prominent
men joining hands with the enemy and
he said he did it without consulting the
state organization and they intended to
let him fight his own battle since he
had acted so indiScreetly in cutting
loose from their party and casting his
lot with people that had always caused
them trouble.
| admonish all fairminded temperance
men, on the second Of November when
you come to the polls to cast your bal
lot, not to deliver Yourself into the
hands of your enemy for there are good
temperance men on both the Democrat
and Republican tickets to make your
selection from.
AN INDEPENDENT TEMPERANCE VOTER.
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