Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-09-06
Speech Of DR.. Wells Deliver.
ed at Brooklyn, Fifth
District, Anne Arundel
County.

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opposition to US, the original Demo
cratic progressives would cease. Do
You really believe that Mr.. Moss,
after making SO degrading PROPOSE
ton, cared the snap Of his fingers for
his associates in the so-ca led pro-
gressive movement? Of course not,
he was only after feathering his own
nest, as usual.
When the so-called progressiyes
opened their campaign, they began by
abusing and villiiying every one
who did not agree with them, and
are still ut their dirty work. They
persistently assert that the county
offices are sinecures and that the
deputy clerks perform all the work
pertaining to said Offices, and that
the he ads OF the different departments
are never present and leave all the
work and conduct Of the several offices
Ia the clerks. This deny. 50 far
as the Clerks office is concerned.
When | became Jerk Of the Court
everything in the way OF stationery,
which embraces all record hooks,
writing paper, envelopes, stamps,
pens, ink and pencils, was paid for
hy the county. Now the Office, since
my incumbency. pays these expenses
out of the receipts OF the Office. AT
the time Of my election TO the Office
il had never paid one dollar into the
S1ate treasury; the receipts and ex.
penditures always balancing to the
cent and. remember, that all this
time the county was payirg for all
the stationery and stamps. Since
have had charge OF the office have
saved to the oYerburdened taxpayers
the sum OF sixteen thousand dollars,
one -tfird the cost of our beautiful
ne Jail
Ii is true that / do not perform
much of the clerical work Of the
office, but exercise a general super
vision over the conduct of the office.
approve ali the bonds, make out
and sign all checks, and attend to
the bank account and other duties
and am ia and cut OF the office
every day in the year, except Sun
days, holidays or when am sick,
which IS not often. As 10 the
Treasurer department, know that
the Treasurer has most efficient
clerk and pays him out OF his own
salary. ! also know that the Re gis-
ter OF Wills pays his capable clerk
out of his own fees, so neither of
these clerks cost the county q
penny. Has any reliable person ac-
cused either Of these gentlemen, Mr..
Joshua s. Linthiculn, IRE asurer, Mr..
Oden Bowie Duckett, Register of
Wills, OF myself, Clerk of the Court
tor Anne Arundel county, of mall
feasance in office If so 1t is their
hounden duty to prefer charges of
imps achment against them.
They try to make the taxpayer
believe that the building of new.
progressive, up-to-date jail was a
useless expenditure of their money
and not at all necessary, notwith-
standing every grand jury for the last
twenty years, has condemned the old
Jail as insecure, unsanitary fire
box and a disgrace to the county.
Several recommended that new
jail be built, especially one of which
Mr. Elme II. Parkinson, the so-called
progressive candidate for Sheriff,
was member. Upon these recon-
mendations. Senator Bells ,frered a
bill providing for the erection OF a
new, modern. sanitary, up-to-date
bull ling, which is not only a credit
to the county, but stands as a mon
ument to Senator Bellis's progress
iveness. The so called progressives
claim that the building of the new
Jail was a reckless expenditure CT the
peoples money and not at all neces-
sary, Mr.. Moss even going so far as
to saw that the old jail could have
been made secure, sanitary and up
to-date for the sum of three Thousand
dollars. Does any sans person be-
lieve this? Have you ever calcul ited
what the small increase in our annual
taxes would be to pay fer this beau
tiful, modern, substantial building?
The taxable basis of the county is
$50, 295. .992, and it would be only
an increase of .0l 6-S of cent on
the hundred dollars. Why the old
jail was in such a dilapidated condi.
tion that any prisoner desiring to es-
cape could have picked his way out
with an ordinary tooth-pick as two
small children prisoners, one eleven
years old and che other thirte en-, es-
capped by digging out with q pewter
teaspoon, Notwithstanding at least
twelve or fifteen thousand dollars had
been spent in the last fifteen years
in repairing the ola Jail. We do not
hear so much opposition from the So
called progressives to a candidate
serving a third term 1ltinuously in
the same office. since they have
found out that Mr.. Smith. the pres
ident of the Board of County Com
missioners Of this county has not
only served third term, but is near
ing the end of his fourth term, and
that Mr.. Julian Beard, of the Second
district, is Finishing up his fifth term
and, mark you, my fellow Democrats,
both OF these gentlemen belong to
the so-called progressive party. Con-
sistency, thou art jewel. saw by
the paper that this same Mr. James
Smith charges the Democratic State
Central Committee for Anne Arundel
county with being responsible for
everything that goes wrong in his,
the Fifth district. In the name Of
the Lord what has the State Central
Committee to do with the misman-
agement Of the affairs cf the Fifth
district, when he. Mr.. smith, has