The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-10-19
Special Notice.
WooDBERRY, BALTIMORE COUNTY, !

! October 18TH 1878.
| NNEDITORS OF UNION :-Ifyou will allow
me the courtesy of little space in your
paper, should like to say word to Mr.. Ruby.
| The Journal of last week makes futile attempt
at giving number of reasons ~ why Democrats
should not vote for Hon. George B. Milligan for
| Congress. The first is because he was the IN
| conditional" Union candidate for Clerk IN 1863
fifteen years ago. Are Democrats to be told that
| they must not vote for a man because he was
| Union man in 1868? Is the editor of the Journal
for secession yet And does he speak for the
Democratic party of the I'd Congressional district
| ON this subject? The writer knows the Demo
| cratic party is not now in favor of secession
Then if not this falaeious argument of the Journal
is the veriest cap-trap. If not, it is a standing
insult to large number of gentlemen whom the
Democratic party has elected to positions of trust
and profit in the county during the last ten or
twelve years. And in more than one instance the
party has honored itself in honoring them. 1t is
an objectionable insult to the general intelligence
of the Democratic party of the county.
There are some persons who distinctly remem-
Der that Hon. John l. Yellott-at present an or
nament to the Democratic party and to the last
Legislature of the State-who carried the Demo-
cratic banner triumphantly through our county in
campaign SO recent that the editor of the Jour
nal can scarcely have forgotten twas associated
with Mr.. Milligan ON that identical "UncOndi-
tionaP' Union ticket in 1868. And Major YeIlott
wasMen demonstrating his Unconditional" Union
principles by serving his country as a soldier, not
even leaving the field to take part in the canvass
Had any fellow year ago. in print or out of it.
attempted to influence Democrats to vote against |
Major Yellott because he was an Unconditional" |
Union man in 1858, his place in the catalogue of
animals would have been settled Just as readily as
though folks had seen his ears or heard his bray.
The animal is just as readily recognized now to |
the intelligent Democracy. How many who were
n m
POteet, Col. d. M. Matthews, DanT J. McCaulev.
Joshua +. Cockey, Wilson Townsend, Edward
Rider, Francis @. FOssett, Sam'l J. Robinson Hon.
Stevenson Archer, who voted for emancipation in
1854; Charles H. Nicholi, who graced the consti-
tutional convention of 1867; A. p German one
OF the most prominent Democrats of the State and
host of others too numerous to mention were all
Union men during the war; WHY did not Mr.
Ruby turn them all down on that score or has he
like the fellow who kicked the Jew for erucifv-
ing our Saviour-just found it out?
The second reason ~ he inferred from "a little
scrap OF political history of George B. Milligan"
is that ne was the law partner and associate of the
late Henry winter Davis and therefore imbibed
and shared to some extent his political IDEAS If
this was the worst company he ever kept-and this
seems to be the gist of his ofense, the essence of
his crime in the estimation of Mr. Ruby-he GER
talnIy mas not been great criminal. There is
but little doubt that Mr.. Milgan was as intimate
win winter DAVIS as Mr.. Talbot is with some
gentlemen ass s. reputable. Yet we don't con-
cede that Mr.. MilhgahS company furnishes anv
reason why Democrats should NOT vote for him any
more than Mr. Talbott's does that they should cote
for him. Objection to a man because he was as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Davis fifteen, years ago, when
we have been obliged by party dictation to vote
TOR Horace Greeley on PLATFORM that embraced
and endorsed rs just and right the LEADING meo-
;ures advocated by Mr. Davis fifteen wears aoo
md asking us to accept that objection as sound !
argument, is equivalent to telling Democrats that
he Darwinian theory is correct and that thew are
now on their return to the premitve stage of their
Intelligence as laid down by that scientific gentle
nan. The acceptance of this objection viii be a
demonstration of his theory highly gratifying. no
iOubt, to Mr.. Darwin. The single Illustration of
he PromulgatOr will scarcely be sufficient for his
purposes.