The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1879-10-11
ADDRESS
To THE
Voters of Baltimore County.

A consciousness of wrongs demanding remedy
and conviction that the surest road to the attain
ment of the remedy lay in the cooperation of their
fellOw-citizens who agree with them in the imper-
ative need of earnest and organized action, have
led to repeated meetings of representative men
from different sections of the county and the APP
pOintment of the undersigned as a committee to
whom was entrusted the duty of selecting ticket
to be submitted to the voters of the county at the
coming election.
With deep sense of the serious responsibility
thus devolved upon them, after fairly consulting
their fellow-eitzens of all sections of the county,
and after maturely weighing the character, fitness
and acceptability of all the persons suggested for
its consideration, the committee with entire unan-
Unity has made up and presents for your consid-
Grafton its ticket.
The gentlemen named upon it are well known to
you all. They are taken from both political par
ties. None have sought the nomination. Some
of them have illustrated by able public service in
the past their right to be further trusted in the
future. They are all honest, intelligent, and rep
resentative of the various interests of the county,
and may be relied upon for faithful discharge of
duty should you elect them to the offices for which
they are named. More than this they are put
forward with the belief that they can be elected.
The success of mere political candidates may be a
luxury, but the election of our ticket means bust
ness. 1t means the rghting of wrongs, the lessen
ing of heavy burdens, the breaking up of "ring"
rule, the protection of our immediate personal in
terests.
There are times when the people are more i'm
portant than the politician, and the pride of party
must yield to individual good. We believe this to
be such a time-one of those occasions when it
behOoveS people to take their own interests into
their own keeping and do their own work.
The purposes of our movement AID the causes
that have led to it are well known to you ALL The
people are over-taxed. The load is greater than
they are willing to bear. The imposition of the
burden is controlled by a g"-self-constituted
gaining and exercising power through machine
ry that should be broken up, and by influences
more successful than creditable, and of all which
the people have had enough.
The low prices of the farmers produce and the
greatly enlarged basis of taxation justify and de-
mand lower rates. 1t is question in the near
future if the entire product of our farms will not
be swallowed up in taxation. A fair and discrim-
mating adjustment will fully meet all the really
necessary expenses of the county, and we propose
to Top off all expenses that not really necessa-
~, reduce salaries that too high abolish offices
not required by the public business, and by judi
eious legislation properly to define and limit the
powers of the County Commissioners now entirely
too great.
In these and other matters your interests de-
mand supervision and reform. We urge you to
embrace this opportunity to secure it. We coun
sci you to be true to yourselves. We earnestly
ask your cordial cooperation and support. We
are confident that with it our movement will sue
coed, our ticket be elected, and that you will Sc
cure results which will be helpful to the best in
terests of the county and full of qualification to
every voter who gives us his support.
CHARLES I. CocKEY, Chairman.
JOHN 7. GRAHAM, Secretary.
BALTIMORE COUNTY, October 1, 1879.