The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-09-02
Coyrespondencs Baltimore County Union.

| BALTIMORE COUNTY, August 2Jtn, 1910.
MeSSTS. Editors Il hasten to express my sympath,
for you in the calamity you suffered in being burn
out on last Saturday morning Yet as far as your pa
per is concerned know that ''the Union lives
in spite of fires any other caamities that CONF
upon it, and do not doubt but that your wel-knOwl
energy and enterprise will find some means by which
ever, myself and all your friends will sympathizt
with you in the pecuniary loss you have sustained
which, have no doubt, was quite heavy Remem
Der that whom He loveth them He chasteneth."
saw by this mornings papers that Col. Ruby viii
lend you helping hand in the way of type from his
Office SO that you will be able to get out TINS week
issue of your paper regularly. Well. that is right
good and neighborly in the Colonel he Is right
clever fellow and man-and have no doubt that he
docs it with the very kindest kind OF heart and asG
do not doubt that If he gets burnt out, you will
help him with equal generosity. know your good
ness and kindness OF nature, and you are fully de-
serving of the Colonel's help. "NeighbOrs must be
neighbors" You know, although you do differ in pol
itics.
Now, Messrs Editors, Ruby's paper contained an
item last week headed False pretenses on large
SCALE" There is good deal OF that in these days
The item referred to a swindling operation by some
one-perhaps a Democrat-in woody commodity
known as sheep. l have nothing to do with that
matter except to that there are frequent at
tempts made about these times, at many particular
places and especially in Baltimore county-at what
are known as Tilden and Hendricks Reform Clubs
to pull wool over peoples eyes,
As read the resolutions of the Young Mems Til
den and Hendricks Reform Club-although they were
almost too long to read-in one of the precincts OF
your district, could not help thinkingand scarcely
saying audibly-remembering the heading of the
above item, "FdlSe pretenses on a larger scale.
buttons, "sympathized with Samuel j. Tilden,' and
was glad of that, for it seemed honest and frank
in them to do go; go will we sympathize with him
after next November when he has gone the same
route of the venerable Horace Greeley.
But also 1 sympathized with them. How much
mental labor and worry it must have required on
their part to evove" those long resolutions out of
their sinner consciences-for there was where they
must have come from! They never could have been
mon fn6 frOa cntl n
where no men ever have their political rights re-
stricted" and there is no "sufing of baot-boxes."
In Baltimore city is where that is usually done.
But sympathiZed with them for another reason,
Messrs. Editors. | sympathized with them in their
attempt to reform themselves. Did not some OF
them at least have to 'eat crow" They did not eat
it John Kelley did, for he "knew that Tiden could
not be elected THAT he could not carry the State OF
New York." and yet he is working with all his might
AS is Supp0Sed-for Tilden's election.
These "young men, had to ''craw backwards" to
''eat crow They never did wrong act in their
lives, and their resolutions were teeming with the
fulsome praise of Tilden, the great exponent re-
former. of Hendricks, and of their own noble nten
tions to teach the people OF Baltimore county what
is genuine reform, inscribed on their banner and not
'sham REFORM. (Reformers OF last fall will please
take notice that the reform of then was sham re-
form, according to these youths" Of which they
have had ample opportunity to judge do not doubt
as to some OF them whom 1t hurled from once-"to
their own sorrow.')
They did not go forward to "eat crow" but crawl
ed backwards to do it, and heartily depore the mis-
deeds of their fathers in Office" which now so
threaten to keep themselves out forever hereafter in
this county, and to defeat any candidates they may
put up whether for Congress or any other offices
Here is their acknowledgements: "As the last
election of our country has Enthusiastically shown,
that the people were dissatisfied with some of our
leaders, "-these young men's fathers, for do not
suppose that they themselves are yet old enough to
be elected to Office, and If they it cannot be pre-
sumed they are condemning themselves and, too, it
manifests much ingratitude !-'now for this reason
do the members of this club promise, &C. and
iffiirifti- GU >'nnIe lfliden anu hendricKsj know
and they will do their duty with that class of men
chow ungratefu)- for selfish purposes, ah! have
trodden the will of the people of this county under
their feet and by SO doing were principally instru-
mental in losing this county by heavy vote IN the
last election. Oh my had almost said, ''Ye Phari-
Sees We hypocrites who hath warned you to flee from
the wrath to come!'' But thought that would
wait until after the coming election and also the one
next following it, and then we could see that the peo
pie can discover the true" from the false and
that it is not SO easy to "hood-wink" and deceive
them.
Last fall these "Reformers," of modern date, could
see nothing wrong and you could not persuade them
that there was .,.Lis anu novoteu iOr the
Sreg Siaf Nominees" But now they "eat crow''-it
is only ''sham'' eat though, after allcrawl back
wards deplore when their fathers, if not themselves,
did ask the people to forgive them, become virtu-
ously indignant at somebody, and condemn him or
them and then ask the people to vote for them or
their candidates!