The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-05-23
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
rTr. Robinson Reptiles to 1r. E. A
Weimer.
Cumberland, Nd, May 90,

Cumberland, Nd, May 20, 1912.
To the Editor of The Republican:
DEAR SIR:-After all these weeks of
GREATNESS anxiety and expectation; af-
ter arousing the curiosity and interest
Of your readers by regular announce
nents that mot this week, but next
week" he would make reply to my
queries anent his attitude on the Oak
land Local Option Bill and the cause of
its defeat; that he would proceed to
meet the criticism which month or
more ago he had invited. intimatlng the
while that he meant to rout his detrac'
tors horse, foot and dragon, visit dire
disaster upon his critics, cover his
enemies with confusion, drive them
through the ropes ''beaten to fragile"
by his clear-cut and lucid explanations,
literally annihilate them with the sledge-
hammer. blows of his irresistible logic
and argument-after whetting our
appetite for sensational disclosures and
keeping US keyed up to the highest ten
SION, almost to the swapping point, for
weeks and weeks-Hon. E. A. Weimer,
of Garrett county, lightning change po-
Etical artist, funny local option comedian
and versatile legislative vaudeville aero
batic star of the 1912 session of the
Maryland General Assembly, becomes
sponsor for a most remarkable and
Unusual literary deliverance. The
mighty king with his forces has march
ed up the hiil-and then he marched
down again; behold, the proverbial
1nountain.has labored and brought forth
a real mouse-t tail and all.
Mr.. Weimer' S effort in some quarters
may be considered a response, but by no
geometrlcal, chemical or any other pro-
cess can it be made either a defence or
& reply to my article published in your
paper some weeks age, in which |
charged him with being responsible for
the defeat Of Senator Speicher's meri-
torious Oakland Local Option Bill, in
that he prevented it's passage by the
House ofzDelegates; and in which not
only made the charge, but produced the
evidence, the proof of my every state
ment.
Mr., Weimer's diatribe-I can find no
better word through which to convey
the proper estimate of his etfuson in
The Republican of MAY 16th-his da-
tribe really discusses an entirely new
proposition while ignoring totally the
real issue involved take up subject
which is as foreign to the subject OF my
article of,t,May 10Th to which Weimer
assumessto ''reply," as the sinking Of
the Titanic is to the O'Malley bribery
charges, or the electrocution of Rev.
Richeson is to Delegate Weimer's fire.
quent washington conferences with
certain gentlemen at intervals during
legislative session. The subject anC
the only subject under discussion was
the Oakland Local Option Bill, anC
Weimer's responsibility for its failure
to pass the House after Senator SPEECH
er had put it through the Senate. Mr.
Weimer took exception to my news
article in the Oakland newspapers a
the close of the Legislature; in which
charged him with being the responsible
party; he tried to dlscredit my knOWl
edge and information on that point il
The Republican of April l1th; l "pulleC
the proof" on him and clinched the fact
in my article dated April 18th, and t,
these structures he now essays t
reply" Instead, however, of meet
ing the issue fairly, honestly and honor
ably, the Garrett Delegate utilize near
ly IL inches of his more than 50-inc
reply" in figuring out whether PAL
for the publication with my own money
or whether Senator Speicher or som
wet" person is paying for it; 10 inche
are used to explain Mr.. Weimer's ''cor
duct with reference to the State wild
Local Option Bill" and the remainde
Of the valuable space, more than hal
of it, is devoted to a vicious attack upo
oendtOT CpelCieI anu MS RECORD nC
his record upon the Oakland Local Or
ton Bill, but his record upon the Ant
Saloon League Bill, which Weimer pei
sists in substituting for the Oaklan
Bill, the only one that has been at ssu
in this entire controversy.
Weimer's feverish anxiety to kno
whether or not | am paying the e.
pense of publication in this discussic
with nv own money is about as ge
name to Welmer's anti-temperance col
duet as the question of whether Ant
Saloon League Anderson, Weimer hin
self, or some anti-Speicher crooked R
publican politician is paying the bills c