The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-02-12
GOT IN BAD WITH HOUSE
ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
Garrett County delegate Called To
Time After Making an Assault
Upon A Collesaue,


Last Thursday the Sun and the Star
of Baltimore and the Times of Cumber-
land gave an account of Mr.. Shartzer's
personal and unjustifiable attack on
MIR. Savage. 1t is to be regretted that
the delegate should so far have forgot
ton his manhood as to make such an
unwarranted attack on his colleague.
The Times of Cumberland of Friday,
in its Annapolis letter says:
A clash between two members of the
I Garrett county Delegation, which oc-
cured before the House Committee on
Elections, has caused considerable
comment among the members and is
greatly deplored by the friends of the
participants, Delegates Shartzer and
Savage. Mr.. ShartZer is financially
interested in the Garrett journal. pub
lished at Oakland, which is being con-
Quoted as an independent paper Under
he State law, all printing and election
advertisement has been published in
the Oakland Republican and the Oak
land Democrat, 1.-TWO papers of opposite
political faith, :" as provided by State
law. Mr.. Shartzer has introduced a
bill providing for the awarding OF this
election advertising to but one paper
in Garrett county, and that to be the
lowest bidder after ten days notice by
the Election Supervisors. Messrs. Har-
vey and Savage, two other members
from Garrett county, are opposed to
this bill, claiming that it conflicts with
the State law which provides for such
advertising to be published in 1.-TWO
newspapers of opposite political faith, "
and the House Election Committee
gave both parties to the controversy
hearing Tuesday afternoon on this
measure.
1t appears that Delegate Savage,
prior to his election to the House. was
a member of the Board of Election
Supervisors for Garrett county, and it
further appears that under a misap-
prehension the Election Supervisors
charged and were paid for their SER
vices for both the primary and the gen
eral elections last held. 1t also APP
pears that Immediately their attention
was called to the fact that the law en-
titled them to pay for only the general
election the Supervisors promptly re-
turned the check received from the
County Commissioners in excess pay
ment
At the hearing on Tuesday afternoon
before the House Elections Committee,
Delegate ShartZer became incensed at
the opposition of his colleagues, Dele
gates Harvey and Savage, and the con-
troversy between the contending parties
became acrimonious in the extreme,
and Mr.. Shartzer openly and with some
severity charged Delegate Savage with
try. z to mulct the tax payers of Gar
rett comfy out of the money which he
had enormously received, but which,
Mr.. Savage explained, he had returned.
The argument became very heated,
Mr.. Savage meantime defending his
position dispassionately before the COM
mittee. Mr.. STARTERS vehemence,
however, necessitated Delegate Rein
hart, of the Allegany Delegation, who
is chairman of the Elections Committee,
to call Delegate Shartzer to order and
to conduct himself with the dignity be-
coming the committee.
The incident caused no end of Cos
sip around the capitol in both the House
and Senate. and considerable interest
has been aroused in the Garrett stu
alton.
II bCCii dpO1l CliI III IillIV
that there has been friction in the Gar
rett Delegation. but this has been the
first open breach before the body Of
ficiallv. 1t is practically certain that
the Election Committee will report the
bill unfavorably. Meantime the Gar
rett Delegation continues to be divided
upon many of the bills introduced for
that county Shartzer op-
posing the Savage and Harvey bills and
these two antagonizing those Shartzer
prevail.
Mr.. Savage offered to support Mr..
Shartzer's bill if he would anne nd it by
inserting, two papers" instead of
one" making the lowest bid, claiming
that to use only one paper would be to
deprive a majority of the voters of the
county the right of such notice.