The Republican., 1931-05-21
Mountain Lake Park Is Again Agl-
totad hv Local PeODle

tdLeu ny AOSol CVPAS'
To the Editor of The Republican.
Legal voters in Mountain Lake
Park, together with lot owners there
and their wives and husbands and
children over 81 years of age are to
vote on adopting the new charter be-
ing published in The Republican,
said election or vote to be held in the
Park on July IA, 1881, in the after
noon.
All interested and eligible persons
should very carefully read all features
and parts of the bill; think, without
bias, what is likely to be the result
and effect upon the Park, Oakland and
this part of Garrett county If the
features of the Park are removed and
an ordinary town, with political gov
ernment by mayor and council are
substituted and made like any other
town in the county, then vote accord
ing to your best intelligence.
The Corporate Limits
Notice in the bill no courses are
given more definitely than the quad
rant they take;no reference is made to
any survey or plat to locate the out
lines and boundaries. Indefinite refer
ence suggests "the grounds of Noun
tain Lake Park Association" and
since the Association has sold the
bennett and several acres of border
tracts, not indicated in their survey
and plat, this bill can refer no more
definitely than to "the grounds" and
leaves the limits of the proposed cor
poration imperfectly and inadequately
described.
The bill does not cross the border
line of the grounds of Mountain Lake
Park Association" nor does it fol-
low straight lines from point to point
the Association grounds" The dis
tances do not appear to be accurate.
officers, Ets., of Corporation
To the mayor and council (six in
alD are added, by appointment, a
town clerk, a treasurer, bailiff, a
tax collector, an assessor, with assis-
tants, and compensation fixed by the
mayor and council. Three or more
judges, all persons, agents and ser
wants of the mayor and council,
thought necessary by them, can be ap-
pointed. All laws and ordinances
the mayor and council want, they can
pass and enforce by fines, imprison-
ment and even hard labor. sci
The mayor and council can assess
as they please and tax at 60 cents on
the assessment, which, if appealed,
they decide for themselves. Mayor and
council are given extraordinary pow
ers to bond the town, to build cleo
trio plants, water works; condemn pri-
vate property; provide gas supplies,
street railway; enforce the building
and maintaining of sidewalks, streets,
alleys, lanes, etc., from the B. & o.
R. R. to the Naylor farm, over mile
north.
The most extraordinary powers and
authority are given the mayor and
council, and it will require very re-
markable executive and financial abil-
ity to save making farce out of the
whole affair while attempting to do
everything from the aforementioned
to such unusual things as regulating
sweepings, pitch, tar and turpentine.
The bill seems to provide boss
job for everybody connected with the
mayor and council, whether he (oI
she) has great or small ability or in
clination to do hard and many tasks.
Indeed, it furnishes much interesting,
if not melodramatic reading for the
one who thinks as he reads. 1t will
pay to thus read it before you vote on
it July 18th next.
Possibly the most Tammany-like
provision is that of making the judges
out of the advocates. Somebody has
exercised a strange lack of propriety
and practical Jurisprudence in bring
ing about this arrangement. Most
politicians at least pretend to be fair
enough to avoid this condition with
the temptation and result likely to
follow in challenging and counting