The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-11-04
Maryland Line P. O., Baltimore county, M
REFERENCES:
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR Ball
TIMORE COUNTY
4 i q RICHARD GRAsoN.

TlMORE COUNTY,
slAn RICHARD GRASON-
n 1.-THE announcement that Mr.. Grason will
w be- q candidate at the ensuing election,
VIII be received with qualification by his nu-
lnerous friends
He was elected Judge in 1854, was duly com
missloned by Gov. Bradford, qualified and dis
charged the duties Of the office until sometime
in March, 1865, when the Legislature declared
him ineligible and disqualified from holding
the Office upon the grounds of disloyalty.
1t is held by those who supported him and
generally conceded by his political opponents;
that the action Of the Legislature was hasty,
unjust and impoltic.
The country at the time was unhappily en-
gagged in civil war, and whenever the action Of
the Legislature and the most active of his OPP
ponentS were canvassed their course was ex-
cused upon the grounds that the act was al4var
measure andla matter of necessity, owing to
surrounding circumstances.
The war is now over and the authority of the
Government is established and recognized in
al the States, and all good citizens are putting
forth every effort to restore harmony and good
feeling in their respective communities and
through the whole country
Mr.. Grason presented himself to the Board of
Registers of the 9Th Election District, which
was composed of Edwin L. Parker, ESQ.,, Gen.
S. C. Leakin and DIR. j. +. Ward. Objections
were !hdue " his rlgng 70 Register; many OF
the witnesses who testified against him at An
nap0l3s, were summoned and examined, and
after a thorough and careful investigation Of
the case they declared him to be loyal man
by registering him qualified voter of the
Stafe. The gentlemen composing the Board Of
Registers are well known as Union and Admin
lstration men of the strictest school; they have
lived many years in the same district with Mr..
Gsand have had the fullest and most ample
ifv0 f narfa
just grounds for the charge Of disloyalty.
Mt. Grason,i in permitting his name to be
used at the ensuing election, will enable his
friends who are Registered, and who supported
him before to rendorse him-and, at the same
time, will afford an opportunity to those who
were opposed to him at the last election and
aided, in a moment of undue and groundless
excitement, to remove him from position to
which he had been fairly and honora bly, elect
ed bya majority of the voters of Baltimore
county, TO reconsider their former action and to
dc himthe justice which is so enlinently due,
bylreinstating him in the position from which
hewas removed r 1000 g
The Hon. ID. c. III. Emory who is Mr. Ora
son's"opponent for Judge, is gentleman OF
high tone, legal ability and unexeeptionable
private character; but the circumstances under
which he holds the Judgeship in place of Mr.
Grason at the present time, are we'll known to
the paople and are to be deeply regretted. Mr..
Grason's friends do not propose to charge Mr.
Emory with any completely in the matter o
his removal. but they do contend, upon the
grounds of even-handed justice, that neither
MFs Emory or his friends, should expect hin
(Mr. e. to hold an Office to which Mr.. Grasor
has already been duly and fairly elected, anC
from which he has been improperly removed
and that Mr.. Emory will have no just cause o
complaint against the people Baltimore count,
either asegoOd citizens or party-men, if the,
should take high toned and liberal view Q
the subject and reinstate Mr.. Grason as Judg
of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County.
Nov. At - JUSTICE.