Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1916-02-03
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1915.


He Is More Active Than Ever
And Will Unload on the Tax.
payers if They Are Not
On The Alert.
Mr.. 'LeGore is not dead one"
by any means and his defeat in the
last Legislature only sharpened up
his wits to try other avenues by which
he may be able to force public opinion
on the County Commissioners. He
has been most liberal with the vari-
Gus newspapers of the county, pub
fishing paid articles on what he states
are facts, and incidentally working
in a sort of sob story" about the
Golden Rule proposition and have it
applied little more literally. He
wants the Golden Rule all right, but
it is that kind of Gold that passes
current which he proposes that the
taxpayers shall dig out Of their peck
cts for this wonderful GU public i'm
provement which he says was built
especially for the public convenience"
Mr.. LeGore don't tell you that he
was interested in having railroad
built and had an act of Legislature
passed for that purpose. This act
proceeds the one that he attempts to
tell you he was authorized to build
this bridge. In this first act among
the many other things that he and
his incorporators were empowered to
do, was to build bridges" and long
before the session of the Legislature
of 1904, Mr.. LeGore was engaged in
building this bridge; long before this
he had acquired the roads in ques-
ton: land on both sides of Monocacy,
and it was not until shortly before
the ending days of the Legislature of
1904 that the Act was passed and his
bridge nearly finished, hence his story
about his being authorized to build
and construct" is a myth. Why did
he find it necessary for an Act to au-
thorize him to build a bridge? Mo-
nocacy is not navigable stream and
he owned the land on both sides OF
Monocacy and in the bed of the
stream, and thus owning it, he did
not have to ask anyone for the privi-
lege of building this bridge. Mr..
LeGore owned more than this. For
miles on each side of the stream he
acquired land and so far as we know
he still owns the same. which land he
bought 80 that WHEN HE BUILT
HIS BRIDGE AND HIS DAM TO
GENERATE ELECTRIC CURRENT
HE WOULD FLOOD HIS OWN
LAND AND NOT BE SUBJECTED
TO DAMAGES TO LAND OWN
ERS. Mr.. LeGore won't deny this.
This Act of 1904 SO much talked of
by Mr.. LeGore had il very large rep
tile (snake) in it when sent to An
napolis that the Commissioners had
to have eliminated before they allow
ed the same to pass. This was pro-
vision that sought to prevent the
County Commissioners from building
any bridge on the Monocacy within
two miles from this proposed bridge
then in construction. Why this
clause do you ask? Simple enough.
Mr.. LeGore had been fighting for
number Of years, the building of a
bridge near the mouth Of Owings creek
on the Monocacy about 2 miles from
this point and he sought to prevent
having competition for his bridge.
This all can very easily be verified by
anyone interested.
We have frequently invited Mr..
I.eGore to discuss his bridge in the
columns of The CLARION, but he has
thus far failed to do SO, altho he is
very liberal with his paid advertise.
ments in a number of other papers.
We publish one of his paid advertise
ments in this issue Immediately after
this editorial for the benefit of our
readers who do not get to see the 9th
er papers, and they can then form an
idea of what Mr.. LeGore is doing.
We still tell Mr.. LeGore that he
can discuss this matter in this paper
if he chooses, but we reserve the right
to answer back.
Now listen to this.
Mr.. LsGors's expert engineers