The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-10-28
The President of the School Board Ex-
Mains.

1t took the President of the School Board too
,cceks to explain the coal contract. We think it
might have been explained in one. This makes
no difference The taxpayers can read for them
selves the following from Mr.. Isaac:
~ received two propositions, one Fl om Mr.. BENZ.
L. Anderson, resident Of BatimO. city, offering
TO furnish No. 2 Gayard coal at 1915, and Sun
bury coal at $3.50, at any place on The line of The
Northern Central Railroad. The other PROPOSE
ton was from Mr.. II. Louis Giles, of Reisterstown,
"a former member of the School Board) offering 10
furnish No. Baltimore Vein coal at the following
prices: From the Pennsylvania line to Parkton,
S5.35; White Hall, $40; Monkton and Glencoe
$3.50; Sparks, $3.50; from Ashland to Mt. Wash
ington, $685., and at Baltimore, at 4,75, and Sun
bury at 10 cents less per ton. was
compelled to depend on the harder coal for my ac-
tom Democratic coal of course.) 1t so happens,
however, that Mr.. Anderson, whose bid was the
highest, is a Republican, and Mr.. Giles is DEM
ocrat. Some of the readers of your pa
per not intimately connected with the matter of
freight on railroad lines may wonder why coal
coming from Pennsylvania costs at Mt. Washing
ton sag 1855, and after passing Mt Washington
and being hauled to Baltimore can be bought for
s4.75."
We think some of the readers of the Journal will
wonder that coal delivered at Mt. Washington for
S5.65 and afterwards "hauled" to Baltimore can be
had in Baltimore at S4.75. 1t is Mr.. Giles, the
Democrat and OK member of the School Board, that
can do it. That is why Mr. Isaac gave the con-
tract to him. The School Board, he says, Gap
prove his action, and all citizens, whose good opin-
ion are worth having, will do likewise"
If Mr.. Isaac had the power of awarding the coal
contract delegated to him by the School Board he
should have thoroughly Investigated the matter
before making his award, but from his clear ex-
PLANTATION in last weeks Journal, he confesses he
did not do this until he had read our allusion to
the contract in an editorial published two weeks
before. He says he has "been at the trouble &c
get at the figures" These figures should have
been in the proposals of the Democrat and Repub-
lican who made them When Solomon said there
was nothing new under the sun, he must have left
out the coal contract of the President of the Balti
more county School Board.
In Mr.. Isaac's explanation he does not account
for jumping all the stations between Ashland and
Mt. Washington, although he takes great pains tc
enumerate Parkton, White Hall, Monkton, Glen
coe, &C. The public will see once more how ht
publishes just as much as he thinks suits his pur
pose, and no more Well, this is exactly wha
caesar" always did.
Now, as has been suggested to us, it seems strange
that the President of the School Board should pas
| over our other suggestions and drop on the Goa
question. There was nothing darker in it than il
managing the school interests of the county sub
servient to appointing Judge of the Orphans
Court, as Mr.. Isaac President, says has been done
| The public would like to see an explanation o
this; and We hope while his hand is engaged il
the business of explaining he will not omit it.
Another point he has not accounted for is reject
ing Mr.. Cofeld from the appointment to st. john
College, although he was entitled to it by all thu
rules of honor and fsir-dealing Perhaps the ont
who received the favor was a stronger Democrat
This may account for it in Mr.. Isaac's judgment
Still the public would like to know all about it.
We said before We would help him again. W,
do it this time by suggesting to him to explain thu
stove contract, and whether stoves could be pro
cured any cheaper than what he gets them for from
his friend whom we suppose must be Democrat
| Although we do not know the gentleman we vii
venture this much about him. After this is ex
planned we will help him again.