The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-02-24
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
THE VIEWS" OF A DEMOCRAT.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT, BALTIMORE COUNTY,

February 10Th, 1888.
Messrs. Editors AS the time is drawing near
when the people of this county will be called upon
to select candidates to fill the several Offices as
'the woods fulI'' of such, thought it would
not be out of place to give my views from Dem
ocratic stand point. In this district we have
didates enough to fill all Offices within the gift of
the people of Baltimore county, but from the feel
ing of the people of the 18th district don't think
they will have much trouble in selecting their
candidates to place before the county convention
for endorsement.
1t is surprising now -a-days how many gentle
men ready and willing to sacrifice themselves
for the good of their county. The time, however,
has come when the people will not allow such
Sacrifices to be made. They intend to take the
matter in their own hands and weigh the question
WE'LL and any candidate who cannot stand the test
(who will do the most good for the district? who
is the most capable? who the most honest p will
get the "grand bounce" That is they will find
the morning after the primaries they have been
elected-to stay at home
The delegation from this district in the next
Democratic county convention will'be composed
Of young men, and hope to see some of the other
districts represented the way. The venera
BILE Horatio Seymour, of New York, has said it is
time for the young men of the Democratic party
to come to the front, and the old men to step
down and out. And think from what l see and
hear that the time has come for the young men to
act on Mr.. Seymours advice. By cold men" I
mean more particularly that set of office hunters
who are continually grabbing after everything
within reach and of whom the 18th district has
had tremendous dose, though they still claim to
be alive and to own the district We want new
men, new blood, and we intend to have men that
can win in the convention, not "sluggers" who go
there for the purpose of trading off and selling out
the district like the bargain worked when Mr..
Rankin was made chairman of the convention, for
the purpose of getting him off the floor and muz-
cling him, by which means our district was sold out
and Isaac nominated for Clerk. The man who did
this now wants to go to the Legislature. Can
trust such man !? When we see how he has acted
in the past, going against his district whenever
he could make by it; killing off Baldwin and Bur
ton for Clerk by an underhand arrangement for
Isaac killing off Ady for Register by misrepre-
sensations I; anxious to go to the Legislature so
that he get the hay scales for himself all the
time and not caring for anybody else.
This district don't want that kind of man this
time and has no use for him any longer When
the people get ready they intend to pick their own
candidates for the primaries, and they will be men
who can win all the time. Dry fodder feed is
played out. 1 will not encrouch further On your
columns this time, but reserve what more I have
to say for another letter. HARTFORD ROAD.
1.-THE writer of the above is Democrat who has
never before written line for THE UNION. We
give place to his letter not because of any interest
we feel in the squabbles in the Democratic family,
but because of our desire to give all chance to
express their views when they do so. in a proper
and respectful manner. We can afford to laugh
at the squabbles of our Democratic friends.-EDs
UNIoN1