The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-10-20

re- The campaign for the Workingmen's and
Peoples Independent ticket was opened at Texas
on Tuesday evening by very successful mass
meeting, whichwas attended by upwards of three
hundred people. Mr.. Elijah Collins, lifelong
Democrat, presided at the meeting, and speeches
were made by Messrs. r. A. Remare and George
W. Cofran, nominees for the Legislature, and by
Messrs. w. Frank Mitchell and John M. Wheeler
The meeting was one of the largest, as well
one of the most orderly and attentive ever held in
the district. The following letter, which was
read on the occasion, fully explains ITSELF
BALTIMORE Oct. Is, 1877.
WM. E. CHILDs, Eso.-Dear Sir Il regret ex-
ceedfgly that the extraordinary press of business
which requires my presence in our own campaign,
prevents me from being present with you upon
the occasion of your meeting, but my spirit goes
with you, and hope much good may be done in
the cause of labor. 1t is great cause, and when
in its proper position defines ''all human rights"
Please receive my regrets and offer this as my eX
cuse. Wishing you every success, remain,
Yours truly, JOSEPH THOMPSON,
Workingmen's candidate for Mayor of BALTIC. city.
Rs~"KEEP THE SEVEN THOUSAND DOL
LAR BUSINESS BEFORE THE PEOPLE,"
writes correspondent. We are doing it, as will
be seen to-day. The chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee of BALTIC. county, while being
paid good salary as a county official, received
from the treasury of the county $7,275.46 for per-
forming a service which it his duty-or that
of his superior-to do without charging single
cent for it. suit is now pending-instituted by
the County OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES this same Of
fetal to this money for the benefit of the
county. Should the ring ticket-of which he is
the father-be elected, does any body for one mo-
ment suppose that this suit will be carried on
Ns~T The Democratic "variety" trOupe-a new
combinaton-gave an entertainment at Smiths
tavern, on the Jarrettsvile turnpike, on Monday
night last. The "star' of the occasion was Prof.
Yeott, who gave an exhibition of his great skill
in instantaneous changes. He showed how quick
ly change could be made from Democrat to
Republican, from Republican to Reformer, from
Reformer to a Democrat, and from half-fedged
Democrat to a full grown ring bird. tits needless
to say his hearers were greatly ~ delighted. The
audience was not large, but the entertainment was
of such character as to attract people from Wa
verley and Towsontown, and these composed the
principal part of it.
GS-An intelligent correspondent writes: "You
were right about the Comptroller. He has held
back nearly $500, 900 of the State public school
tax and ten counties have already employed coun-
sel-amOng whom is Judge Tuck-to bring suit
| for its distribution" What has the Journal to
say of its pet, Mr.. Woolford, now? If we are not
very far wrong this large sum of money, or most of
it, has been used as a political corruption fund,
and that it is not in the Treasury of Maryland
any more than it is in the pockets of the editor of
the Journal If Mr.. Woolford has this money
why don't he pay it over to the schools, where it
properly belongs?