The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-05-30

straight" Two of the delegates from
Garrett carried out this policy. One
did not.
Here we find this great and mighty
temperance advocate, Mr. Weimer,
working and voting for the amendment,
the adoption of which was the death
knell of this legislation. The difference
between Weimer's vote and mine is, he
aided in administering to it the fatal
blow by voting for the first amendment
and thus allowing politics to be injected
into it. 1t is worthy of note also that
the bill did pass the senate and met its
fate in the house Notwithstanding all
Mr. Weimer has said he would endeavor
to leave the inference that the bill was
killed in the senate. Did Weimer vote
for or against the bill as it came from
the senate? / DEFY him or any other
man to shoe that / eveJ- 7'0fcd against
this or any Ofher TEMPERANCE blII dHr-
ing my 7oh0Ie Legislature rarecr.
Now, as to the Oakland bill: Weimer
says | had no business to introduce such
a measure without first consulting him
and in this probably | made a mistake,
as you know Mr.. Weimer is the author of
so much important legislation for Gar
rett county-perhaps. | should have
consulted him instead Of the people of
Oakland. Maybe he is "the people, I"
and maybe he isn't. He thinks should
have known that the town would go
wet" had my bill passed. If this be
true, then why should he not have
known it as we'll as |? If he did know
it then why did he say he didn't know
how it would go if put to vote, but
that no matter how it might go he said
the fight would be so bitter and cause so
much strife that it would be worse than
to have the whisky there. Weimer
made these statements and it has been
proven that he made them.
The whole truth of the matter is,
Weimer has denied the people of his
own town that which he considers is a
good thing for Grantsville and Friends
vile. The opinion is prevalent among
number of people who have given con-
sideration to this matter, fair minded
people, that Weimer does not want tenn
perance in his own town; and it seems
he wants to give it to the other fellows,
but finds some excuse for preventing
their own people from having a chance
to get 1t for fear they might take it.
Further | want to say that the men
who are engaged in the liquor business
did not ask for this bill, but some of the
temperance people of the town of Oak
land did, which was proven conclusively
by the telegram sent by one of the lead
ing temperance men-one of the better
class of temperance advocates urging
the delegation, including Weimer, to
Pass Speicher's Local Option Bill.
AS for my home town, | wish Mr.. Wei
mer to distinctly understand that it is
dry" town, and that helped to make
it dry" which is more than he can say
as a resident Of Oakland Weimer SAYS
he made proposition to me early in the
session to repeal the law eXempting
Oakland from the provisions of the
county local option law and that assur-
ed him that would not let such bill
90 through the senate, This again
shows how recklessly he handles the
truth, His proposition was to repeal
ALL liquor laws for Garrett county and
put it up to the people of the whole
county to vote wet" or dry" which
proposition l readily consented to, and
Weimer had the bill prepared to be in
troduced. Delegate Long objected to
opening up the territory in his adjoining
districts which were already dry. "
Then he had new bill prepared which
he introduced allowing the county to
vote Oakland dry" and was the kind
Of bill Weimer wanted. This bin was
never reported by the committee and
Weimer lost another opportunity to get
in some good ticks for the cause of local
option and temperance. Werner at one
time had agreed with Mr.. Long that if
| would consent to pass bill for Oak
land, giving Oakland alone the right to
vote, he (Weimeri would be willing to
support such bill. Mr.. Long came TO
see me and | consented, but when he
reported TO Weimer he turned COM
plete fip-fop and 'reconsidered the pre-
vious question, " as it We're.
now wish to give my friends, as well
as the friends of Mr.. Weimer, some re-
markable expressions of this gentleman
who would regulate the nation and all
its people; remarks made By him before
leaving Annapolis for home after tire
months "self-sacrifcing" for the pub
lie good in the legislative halls of this
state. Here are some of the things he
said. and | charge you to mark them
well:
LIST. "This is the only Job ever had
in my life in which felt that l was
not giving my employer anything in re-