The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-07-22
CANDIDATE GREEN'S RECORD
What He Stands" For and What He
Has Done,

Two weeks ago the attention of the
writer was directed to long-drawn out
appeal by one signing himself l.. F.
/ Green, addressed to the people of Gar
rett county, asking for their support of
/ his candidacy for the House iof Dele
/ gates, and in the communication which
appeared simultaneously in THE REPUB-
/ LICAN and also in the Journal Mr. Green
laid down the platform upon which he
stands and by which he expects to draw
the support of the Republican voters of
Garrett county in the convention or at
I the primaries, which ever mode of max
ing the no unations the committee may
select or decide to have. Mr.. Green S
/ appeal is not to made to the Republi-
cans, but to the people of the county,
hence | am led to believe that Mr..
/ Green has little faith in the party he
fondly hopes to be nominated by, and
by the language of his platform one is
led to believe that he is not Repnbli-
at all. but a Prohibtionist, for in the
appeal tor support he does not ask as
man representing the Republican party,
but as one who is an out and out pro-
mbitiOnst, representing no fixed princi-
ples of nothing of nature
that would lead one to believe he is a
/ true Republican, but one who desires to
ride into Office by hook or crook Just so
he gets there.
Up TO the time Mr.. Green issued his
dictum nothing appeared. nor had any
thing ever been limited, concerning tenn
perance legislation except by the Anti
Saloon League of Baltimore city, which
organization, through Mr.. Green and
some other raw legislators at Annapo-
lis, forced upon the people of Oakland
the present odoriferous law which pre-
vent them from saying whether or not
liquor shall be sold in the town, and by
the same act legislated liquor out of
Accident, giving Mr.. Miller, at the
distilery, the sole right to sell it in that
section, and this without vote of the
/ people affected Still Mr.. Green has
the effrontery to come before the peo-
/ pie of Garrett county and state that he
/ Is believer in the great principle of
local self-government and is willing to
/ give the voters the right by wards, dis
tricts, etc, to say whether or not liquor
shall be sold therein. Truly Mr.. Green
/ has experienced great change of heart
since the last session of the Legislature,
and taking a retrospective view, one of
! discerning and enquiring mind is led to
( believe that Mr.. Green is somewhat
of political gymnast and really does
not know what he does stand for-ex-
cept to get the office.
Mr.. Green pledges himself in his plat
1 form not to swerve from his duty as he
''sees it. See what, may | ask?
Some are "seen" one way; some an
other
In the language of his platform of
| principles Mr.. Green is great exponent
of fair primary election law. If the
writer memory serves him Alright Mr..
| Green, when he was nominated two
years ago for the House of Delegates,
was pledged by the nominationg conven-
/ ton to enact primary election law for
| Garrett county, drawn upon the lines of
/ the Crawford county system. After
] tba oIootia,, I'D tnI bic 2
/ Annapolis this pledge evidently passed
from Mr.. Green's mind for no such law
was either framed,or enacted for the peo-
pie of Garrett county Now comes Mr..
Green, on the eve of another nominat-
ing convention, pledging himself to the
enactment of such law, when in the
face of facts he has broken the pledge
which he was in honor bound to per-
form, and states that the present State
law is both expensive and unintelligi-
BILE. On page 1891 of the Journal of
the House of Delegates for 1908 Mr.
Green is recorded as having voted for
the passage of the law he now condemns
as expensive and unintellgible. Mr..
Green record as a legislator and Mr..
Green platform of principles as can
ddate for denomination, are preposter-
ously harmonious. are they not?
Mr.. Green, as has been surmised for
the past year, is as wax in the hands of
these opposing the Republicans.
Here he brings to the surface the
influence which controls his every move
ment. The Garrett Journal, always
Mr.. Green's staunch supporter and a
guiding factor in his every movement,
suggested, and Mr.. Green followed the
suggestion, no doubt, when in his plat
form he bowls for a reduction of the
printing expenses of the county, de-
claring that too much of the peoples
money is being wasted on this item.
The press in one of the greatest factors
in the development of the country and
whatever pittance may be handed out
to the newspapers by the public officials
is an investment that will bring double
returns. But none of this money which