The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-06-14
Perplecities of Making AppOi'st-
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There is nothing more natural than complaint
after the appointing power, either municipal,
State or national has made selections for the Of
fees that have to be filed. Of course the COM
plant comes from the disappointed and their
friends II is impossible to please all or a major
ity. 1t is impossible for any appointing power
to enter into, know, feel and appreciate all the
feelings, aspirations, influences and desires that
surrounded and moved those seeking positions.
There are always two, three or four times as many
applicants for places as there are places to give.
One out of five only can get place. Four must
be disappointed. The four and their friends are
dissatisfied. Whether wisely or not they do not
always stop to inquire. No one, unless he has
seen and known something of it can have the
most remote idea of how difficult it is to make
appointments. Let US look at it. Here is an in
fuential man, or half dozen if you please
who desire certain appointment made from their
county or ward. They parade the claims SER
vices, influence and usefulness of their man.
They demand his appointment as necessity
No other man can dc so much or deserves place
so well as be- The appointing power knows the
| individuals making the recommendation to be
prominent members of the party and reliable gen.
tlemen. He acts as best he can under all the
| light he can gather upon the subject. The party
recommended is appointed. Somebody has to
20 out to make place for him. Some one is
nut out. The man turned out is soured, indiffer-
ent, grumbling and complaining. He and his
friends are all indisposed to do anything but find
fault.
Adozen of one-armed soldiers, old men who have
given two or three SONS to the Republican cause
in the suppression of the rebellion applicants
for places from the same county or city. All oil
them are worthy and their friends are all anxious
to see them get sometbing It may. he tAHaaafffigd
for the places they seek. Perhaps amid all the
perplexites of the situation the appointing power
finds it impossible to appoint more than one out
of the dozen. The other eleven and their friends
are disposed to think they have been unfairly
dealt with. Everybody can't get a place. because
the applicants vastly outnunaber the places that art
to be filed Few who are turned out think that
four years was long enough for them. Few who
were left out are disposed TO look kindly or con-
siderately upon their misfortune.
There were to our certain knowledge thirty.
six applicants for appointments in the Baltimore
Custom House from Baltimore county. All OIL
these were outs. All that were in made applica'
ton to be retained. This made over fifty appli-
cants, when it was not possible to satisfy more
than one in three. To satisfy everybody, they
must all have places. This could not be DONE
We base our remarks upon the facts and not for
thepurpose fdefending or censuring the Collector.
At this time we have nothing to say touching the
character of the appointees We are willing to
admit that perhaps no one else would have done
Just as he has done. Itremains to be demonstrated
that any one else would have caused less dissatis-
faction by his appointments. Some Baltimore
county man who is thoroughly acquainted with
the people and their desires might have made q
somewhat different selection with fewer heart
burnings. This remains to be demonstrated
But how would il have been with Howard and
Frederick?
1t is our purpose to say word to those who
we're turned out or who failed to get in. We
know some of both who behave like heroes, who
prove their patriotic manhood by the manly and
accomplishing manner in which they take their
discontinue. We are very much gratifed to
see that they remain loyal to themselves, which
is better than having position without doing
it. Loyalty to principle and to your own self.
reliant manhood stands above the considerations
of office or party. This bespeaks nobility Of
soul that is complimentary to those who prac.
tice it. 1t is the desire of all true Republicans tc
the grumblers and complainers to clasp hand;
with all those who wish it and go to work fol
our redemption.