The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1958-04-24
Your Senator Speaks ? !?


that, charging certain candidates
with trying to grab power. and
asking for my defeat. is certainly
no surprise to anybody. | here
with formally charge you with
''grasping' for power, for you are
also a candidate, and a spiteful
candidate at that.
What you lack in logic is GER
tainly made up for in downright
cussedness and irresponsibiIity
None but the most irresponsible
/ persons could accuse man who
/ has always worked for economy
and honesty in State and County
government, with having cost the
| County million dollars. simply
because he has always insisted
upon giving the voters referen-
| dunn on important issues, such as
Bond bills, when they have to be
! paid out Of the county taxpayers
| pockets.
In 1871 I passed a bond bill for
schools, with referendum. The
| people voted it down almost two
TO one. You have intimated that
/ this cost the county Million
| Dollars. | believe not. The money
to pay those bonds would all have
come from our local taxpayers.
| The schools that were built more
recently are being paid for out of
money coming to US from the
State for that purpose. In 194l we
had no such an arrangement. When
you accuse me having cost Mil
| lion Dollars, you are really accus-
ing the citizens, who wisely
think, voted that bond issue down.
In reference to your advice to
the voters, what leads you to think
that you are qualified to tell our
citizens how to vote? What great
things have you achieved in life
that would entitle you to take
such a privilege upon yourself?
For several years now, you have
been trying to scare office holders
by attacking them in the editorials
of your paper. Are you trying to
set yourself up as some kind of a
County Boss?
During the past four years you
have attacked many Of our office
holders whom you could not con-
troll On the other hand. you have
defended those who were operat-
ing outside the law You defended
the unlawful spending of County
Roads funds on private property.
You defended the two County
Commissioners who were unlaW-
fully using machinery owned by
] Cf hn 10 10
drilling at the County quarry. You
still continued to defend them af-
I ter they had been restrained by
Injunction
You used space in your paper
on the front page to condemn
those Of US who spent our own
money to hire lawyer to start
the Court proceedings. You tried
to ridicUle US and Islander us while
we were struggling to maintain
/ some semblance of law and order
in our County Government
At the same time you were using
! your paper to try to pin Angel
| Wings on those you could induce
to follow you
II you could have had your way
the unlawful activities would have
continued on at the County quarry
and the public would never have
been informed.
Had it not been for the Court
action instituted by one member
Of the Board Of County Commits
sioners, with the help of several
Of the good citizens, the drilling
would have gone on. and on and
untold Thousands of County Roads
| funds would have been wasted
Also, had it not been for the
Injunction restraining them from
doing so, they would have paid
| Commissioner Brenneman the re-
naming Seventeen Thousand Dol
lars which they claim is the bal
ance due for the drilling They
had already paid him approx
mately Fifteen Thousand before
the Injunction was issued
Your other sIanderous allega-
tions are too ridiculous for any
lengthy answer. I have never ridi-
culed any other Senator and no
Senator has ever ridiculed me-
| nave many EOOh II AN4lho III lll1
Maryland Senate.
| was chosen 10 pc member of
the Legislative Council for the
first time last year am now
serving my second year in that
capacity 1t is an added honor and
responsibility that has come to
me by will of my fellow Senators.
The Maryland Senate is a digni-
! fled body and we observe the best
decorum at all times. have served
in that Body with pride and l am
also proud of Garrett County. You
should come down and visit for
week or two while we are in ses-
sion You might learn how to hold
different opinion from that of
your opponent and debate upon
| the issue without becoming per-
sonal and insulting him. We all act
like gentlemen down there | wish
you could learn how it is done.
Your truly,
CLIFFORD FRIEND
49,. - -, rVtE.A l Mutt,