The Baltimore County union., 1875-10-16
HON. j. MORRISON HARRIS.

| We last week gave in our editorial columns
| brief sketch of Mr.. Harris career, supple
mentary to which we publish below few ex-
| tracts from the columns of the BGltima0reGn of
| I'd instant:
"Large and influential bodies of the voters of
Maryland, dissatisfied with the present ad-
ministration of the State and many of our mu-
ncipal and county governments, have noml-
mated the Hon. j. Morrison Harris, as a -sulta-
BILE candidate for Governor at the coming
election. Mr. Harris is so well known not on
ly in this city, but throughout Maryland and
the Union, that it is unnecessary to present his
biography to our readers.
II y
"For the last fourteen years Mr.. Harris has
been a strictly professional man, and not an ac-
tive politician, though for ten or more OF them
he has been considered Democrat in his dis
trict, and has voted the Democratic ticket at
all elections during that time. In fact, since
the war ended he has taken no active part IN
politics, or in political machinery, save IN ad-
vocating strenuously the recognition by the
Registers appointed by the State, of those who
had been disfranchised, as a consequence
of the war.
"In 1857, the Democratic Convention elected
to name delegates from Baltimore county to the
proposed Constitutional Convention, put Mr..
Harris name at the head of its list, giving him
fifty-seven votes, the highest number cast for
any delegate selected.
"This was not only complimentary, but an
unexpected trust. He felt correspondingly
honored by the recognition of his fitness for a
service dealing with the organic law OF the
State yet he was reluctantly forced to decline
the henor, in consequence Of the pressure OF
his professional engagements, which did not al
that time permit interruption.
"Since then Mr.. Harris has been often and
warmly urged by leading Democrats in Baltl-
more county to re-enter public life. Hitherto
he has respectfully resisted all such appeals
Bdring the present year of marked d.5co1ssff
with the old Democratic regime, he has peen
repeatedly importuned to give the influence OF
his name, his upright principles, his unsus-
tanned record, and his eloquent tongue on the
side of the evident battle going en- within his
own party. He did net, however, feel ADVISED
to swerve from the rule he laid down for his
life fifteen years ago; nor would he nave oone
so now, had not the appeal come to him ana
Mr.. Severn Teackle Wallis from such quarters,
and with such potency, to permit the use OF
their names by the Reformers of this State and
city, that longer resistance would have been
simple obstinancy, and not duty.
"Mr. Harris has been for many years mem
ber of s1The Committee of the First Presbyte-
rian church, and in 1854 as Chairman OF the
Building Committee, submitted plans for the
new church on Madison and Park streets, ana
continued to act as Chairman until the compile
ton of the work.
"They who have named and urged him as a
candidate for the Governorship of Maryland,
represent merchants, business men, workmen
| and taxpayers of Baltimore and the State, and
| they demand the services of firm, able, hon
est man, as duty in a crisis of Reform, at the
| helm of Maryland. =,
| at should be stated in this connection that
| Mr.. Harris is, and has always been, warm
| friend and earnest and vigorous advocate OF
our system of public education, and has en-
during faith in the value and absolute neces-
sity Of literally supporting the Public Schools.
| off the writer were preparing biography
| and drawing character of Mr.. Harris, instead
of plain outline of his life, he could but es-
| TEEN it pleasure to delineate his many excel
lent qualities. The ability and culture, the ad-
dress and eloquence, the gentle amenity, the
| frank heartiness, the adhesive constancy, that
always prepossessed his friends and elevated
| ninps of successful life"