The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-04-05
The Re1nedu.

ltevery taxpayer and voter in Baltimore county
would take deeper interest in our political af-
fairs and exert himself for the county's ma
terial advancement, we should have different
state OF affairs in our midst It is notorious
fact that it cost. ty-tlrse thousand dollars more
to meet The financial demands Of tie county nov
than IL did ander Republican rule seren gears ago.
One who has to help pay this should ask himself
the question "why is it p "And how can it be
remedied?'
II results from an utter disregard of the public
welfare or an iucapacity TO properly conduct our
affairs, or from combination OF the two. The
remedy must come from the hon;st solid think
ing people who have heretofore been too much
engaged in their business pursuits to give
passing glance to our primary meetings or cleo
tons or to do something TO keep the channel of
our county government pure and economical.
These citizens must put their shoulders to the
wheel and lift Us from the mire into which sham
Democracy has sunk US.
Seven months from now we shall be called
upon to elect county officers. Some of them are
to serve two years and others six 1t is of vital
Importance to all to have the right sort of men
selected. legislative delegation will be chosen
to make our laws and perhaps unmake u.s.
Scores Of politicians in every district in the coun-
ty are daily and nightly at work in behalf of the
bigger politicians who are to get the larger Off
ces and capture the best booty.
Let the solid men who desire no office them
selves set TO work to defeat the selfish ambition
of those whose business it is to seek Office and
live upon the public crib. Let them when ever
two, three or four happen together talk the mat
ter over and consider who in their knowledge
would make the most suitable and efficient men
| for given positons-and let them select their
men from among those who are not seeking nom-
nations Let these men be approached. by the
solid portion of the community and let their con-
sent be obtained to serve the public in any capa-
city they may be competent to fill. Then let
these people, more interested in the public well
fare than in the political ambition of any man
or set of men, 60 to work to secure the nomina-
ton and election of these gentlemen. This, in
our humble opinion, is the only way 10 remedy
the evil under which we now labor.
Those who want office are constantly at work
at shops, crossroads, depots, rum mills, any
where and every where that they can see man
for whom they have contempt enough TO make
their victim. Ifyou wish 10 counteract this in
fuence il must be done by work, earnest, ar
dent constant, persevering work. That is the
only way in which it can be successfully met and
defeated. So long as the solid intelligence and
integrity of the community sit quietly by and
allow the politicians to ply their daily avocations
of seeking and making influence and votes, just
so long will the politicians make the purses of
rich and poor the unwilling and unjust contrib
utors to their prosperity in the public service.
There are now seven months in which the
best men of Baltimore county could work up in
fueuce enough TO place before the voters ticket
of gentlemen of unexceptionable character, I'M
doubted integrity and unquestioned intelligence.
If this is done this ticket can win If this is not
done, you deserve TO be the slaves of your po-
itical masters