The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1883-10-20
Correspondence baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE. October 18th.

BALTIMORE, October 18th, 1885,
Editors Union 1T is reduced to fact that
Ohio, at the recent election, went for Democracy,
though conceded Republican State. This result
was not altogether unexpected, taking into con-
sideration all the circumstances. There we're local
causes that operated against the Republicans,
chief of which was the temperance cause as en-
bodied in prohib tion, which meant the entire and
absolute destruction of the trade in dstiling, SELL
ing buying using and dealing in ardent splits
of any kind or in anyway except as Medicines
This measure offended and very unpopular
with large body of influential Germans and
others who had long been engaged in that traffic.
Most of them and still are Republicans, but
conceiving the party, arrayed, in this measure,
against their vital interests and long established
business, felt it necessary to vote with the Demo-
Gratis, believing that party more in utilization with
them than the Republican, their own. They did
the same thing year ago, when the temperance
question was first merged (mainly) into Republi-
can politics and the party was then largely de-
feated, being reduced from large preponderance
in its favor to an immense vote against it. The
same influences worked in the same way at the
contest this year, giving Ohio, her Governor and
State Legislature and many of her other officials
to the opposition. There were thousands oS Re-
publicans who preferred giving up their favorite
party rather than vote with a combination willing
to bring about their business ruin, by mixing with
it problems not belonging to mere partizan or po-
ltical matters. 1t is plain to every one that this
is what beat the Republicans in Ohio during the
past two years. They went outside their legit-
mate course by Incorporating foreign measures,
which, really, had no business Herewith. Thus
has been their defeat and so must it be so long
they go outside of doctrines, measures and princ-
pies that should not be intermixed with political
movements. 1t would, therefore, be best and
safest to have temperance questions discussed and
managed wholly aloof from partizan politics ON
aif fo1 tn he
doing, it will nju the temperance cause itself.
If the Republicans of Ohio hope to regain their
former position and partizan triumphs as hitherto
they had better let outside issues like temperance,
local option and prohibition severely alone here
after. In these things they can learn considera-
BILE wisdom from the Democrats and many of their
own political comrades, not only in Ohio but in
several other States during tho past eighteen
months.
am very glad to learn from numerous sources
and in many substantial ways that the prospects
of Mr.. Holton becoming the next Governor of
Maryland are decidedly hopeful. 1t is fact not
deniable that an unusual number of Democrats
have openly asserted their determination to sup
port him and other Republican nominees. No
one need go farther than Wavery, in Baltimore
county, to be convinced of this. There are, as
learn, not less than sixty Democrats who declare
they will vote for Mr. Holton, and others who say
they will go the entire Republican ticket Similar
information, not only from OLner SecClOnS OF your
county but from all other counties in the State is
often proclaimed and reiterated. There is no
question, from his manner and intercourse with
the people as he mingles among them, rapidly in
creaspg popularity marks his career He appears
to have greatly the advantage in this respect over
his Democratic antagonist, Mr.. McLane, who peo-
pie say is too distant, too cold, too old and too
much played out as politician. He expects peo-
pie to vote for him whom he seldom recognizes
when meeting them. 1t is just the with
Holton. Everybody likes him, and he makes
friends on all sides. think you may put it down
that he will be the next Governor of Maryland,
and that the State-the Legislature-will go the
same way, thus giving Republicans the next U. S.
Senator in place of Senator Groome. The party
is certainly in good spirits here in Baltimore and
elsewhere
The municipal election to take place in Bati-
more on the Oath inst-next Wednesday-to elect
a Mayor, members of the City Council, etc., has
become intensely exciting. The Fusionsts, COM
posed of the entire, undivided Republican party,
joined by large body of Independent Democrats,
are united and harmonious and vigorously in the
indeed, assert their triumph is sure by large ma
jority.
The decision by the Supreme Court ofthe United
States pronouncing the 18th and l4th amendments
of the Civil Rights bill unconstitutional, so far
the actual States are concerned, has caused
much lamentation and many regrets among the
colored citizens here and elsewhere. The decision
will certainly debar them of some privileges hther
to awarded them, which in the end may prove
best for their race. NEsToR.