The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-11-04
EDWARD p. PHILpoT.
TO the Union Party OF Baltimore
! ,4SAkaH hJiwCounty.

I 49, 80 a. .. At~' ~ "
FELLOW CITIZENS THE Union Executive Com
mittee OF Baltimore County, in view OF the extra
ordinary proceedings had by certain disappont-
ed politicians who have presented a county tick
ct for your suffrage jim opposition to the Regular
Nominations, feel it to be their duty to address
That no POLITICAL party can survive, without
fidelity the part of those who claim to belong
to it, is a self evident truth; and although an
organization based upon the Loyalty and purity
OF its principles, may by its intrinsic strength
withstand the ,spasmodic attempts of defeated
and rejected aspirants to disorganZe and embar-
rasS II; yet the continuous and persistent mach-
nations and treachery of this class of men, after
repeated and unmistakeable evidence of the pop
ular disfavor, should not be permitted to pass
Without exemplary rebuke.
An opportunity is now at hand, which we
think should be awaited of by the true Union
men of our county to administer to these malcon-
tents aswithering and final condemnation.
Never in the history Of parties, it is believed,
were nominations made with more unanimity-
At the Primary Meetings, whilst Il proper and
justi6able rivalry and competition took place be-
tween the friends of the respective candidates,
the proceedings were characterized by harmony
and good feeling for the most part and in no in
stance, Whichihas come to The knowledge of this
Committee, has any well founded complaint been
made against the entire fairness of the Primary
Meetings. In the Convention, a corresponding
honorable and temperate competition among the
delegates prevailed, and the Ticket nominated
was chosen after successive ballotngs, in which
every candidate enjoyed the fullest opportunity
to press his claims Men, who participated in
the Primary Meetings and were turned down by
the people, and who were ready to receive nomi-
nations from the Convention il they could have
been obained. and who profess to be Union men,
have Notwithstanding these facts, presented an
Opposition ticket, and claim to solicit support
from the; Union party.
/ The mere statement of this state Of things, in
our judgement, ought TO be sufficient TO enlist
every honorable Union man against such fac
ton. 1t is in vain to hope to maintain party
organization, fsuch INSTRUMENTATION and reckless
disregafd'of party obligations find favor with
The obligations of honor aie not less impera-
tive and forceful in politics than in morals and
the man who will surrender the one, under the
influence Of disappointed aspirations and selfish
nesA ID hRtto be trusted in the other. Men
whose principles hang loosely about them in pol
itics, are not above suspicion in morals for there
is but one law OF morals, which underlies Truth
and Honor. ITfe F90.1
These people may affect to he good citizens
and true men, but it has been seen in the past
That such principles or rather such want of
principles leads TO the most extreme and dishon- |
orable shifts and devices to attain success for an
illustration of which single instance will suf-
fee
At the lastIelection in Baltimore county, the
ticket was nominated almost unanimously by |
the Convention ,disaffection manifested itself
soon after fhe nominations were made toward a
single candidate, whose defeat was procured by
the printing of spurious ticket in one of the
Districts, upon which the name of an lndepend-
ant candidate was placed and the name of a
regular nominee omitted. This spurious ticket
was held by aud handed to Union Voters who
received it and voted it rs the bona .fdc Union
ticket. The wrong here perpetrated was three
fold frst to- the party, second, to the nominee,
and third, to the voter, who was cheated out Of
his suffrage. s.-4-~
The opposition now set up in our County, to
the regularly and fairly nominated ticket, comes
for the most part from the same quarter, aud
will doubtless hope for success under like frauds.
And we deem Ii onr duty to warn you against
such dishonorable and dishonest attempts. Let
every v0lsT carefully scan the ticket which be !