The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-10-09
Mike BO3lnO7l.

Mike, who is the ''ring" candidate fer State
Senator in Anne Arundel county, made speech
ct Odenton, in that county, few days ago, and
in the course of his remarks handled pretty
roughly some of the Democratic editors of the
State, among them Mr.. McCardle, of the Cuuber-
land Times The Times, in its issue of I'd inst,
'goes for" Mike as follows:
"We have not had much to say of Michael
Bann0n in this campaign, because his candidacy
in lower county does not particularly concern
as If the people of Anne Arundel prefer to be
represented in the Senate by man whose nomi-
nation fer the Office of Senator was known to
himself to be 80 offensive to the decent public
| sentiment of the whole State that he arranged to
| have his county convention do the work only one
| day before the State convention met in Baltimore,
| in order that the moral effect of such nonina-
| ton would not have time to react against Mr.
Carrolls prospeets-t is nothing to US. But
Michael made speech on Wednesday at Oden-
ton, Anne Arundel county, in which he made the
| following statement:
"Some of the press of Maryland have denounced
him. McCardle, of the Cumberland Times, de-
| nounced him because he had not been appointed
| Superintendent on the cana" &C., &c.
| 'sOur beloved Michael is mistaken. We were
offered the superintendency, or at least we were
informed that we could name the superintendent
Of certain division of the canal, and fill several
other positions on that work, as we'll as in the
service of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany if we would cease our attacks upon the cor
rupt combination OF which Michael and poor
Arthur are leading spirits. We declined the
proposition, if not with thanks at least with a
| determination to be consistent in our course
| We did not do as Michael did on certain we'll
remembered occasion. We declined the bride Of
| fered but he accepted a bride from both sides in
| a struggle over the passage Of bill through the
Legislature in 1871. Will he deny that COM
bination of coal companies first purchased his in
fuence in support of a measure to alter the char
| ter of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail-
road Will he deny that after taking this money
the Consolidation Coal Company bought him
over to their side by the offer of more money p
Will he deny that the greatest sum of money Sc.
cured his services against the proposed measure
Will he deny that he gave ST. $50 of the ST., SOC
he had received from the first parties back to
those from whom he had received it under q
| threat of having his tongue choked out OF his
mouth if he did not do it? Will he deny that he
whined and cried like great over-gr0wn coward
when compelled to disgorge, and begged riteous-
ly against exposure? If he does deny these things
| we think they can be proved. Of course such q
saint would not take fifteen per cent from an ap-
preparation. Oh, no, OF course not. Sucn q
snless creature is the very person to protect the
State Treasury-the very person to be put for
ward as an embodiment of old-tme Democracy
THE very person to make pure the muddy wa
tiers of politics. But we sorry to say that his
| speech at Odenton does not convince US thai
Michael Bannon is a prosecuted saint. We still
believe if either Michael Bannon or Arthur P
German had been in Jerusalem, and the betrayal
of the Savior had been let out to the lowest bid
der, Judas Iscariot would not have got the job. ~
That's pretty rough on Michael, and every
word of it must be true because it comes from 6
Democratic paper that knows what it is talking
about. Anne Arundel must indeed feel proud OIL
her candidate. A man of Bannon's type will re.
feet much credit on the Maryland Senate, nc
| doubt