The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-09-13
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
THE NEW DIVISION OF THE ELEVENTH
DISTRICT.

KINGsvILLE, September Sd, 1884,
Editors Union The late Encouragement ofthe
18th district into precincts and the location of
polling places is, to say the least, unique, and has
many peculiar points, among them more particu
larly standing out is the fact that it meets the
views and answers the wants of the few against
the interests and convenience of the many, who,
from year to year seek to express their political
opinions through the medium of the ballot. The
new division is not good geographically, is sadly
unequal numerically and territorially, and is total
ly deficient in convenience to any large number.
A. eEst w4aa sss@ t62t 9s aSgHf and
issued the proclamation, at fault and had
done the deed out of pure wantonness, to show
what an utter disregard they were capable of ex-
pressing for geographical lines or economy of a
farmers time and team, if not anxiety to reward
political heelers and rendezvous keepers, but such
l am sure is not the case, for our Commissioners
are pure and holy men and as Caesars wife. No.
our people alone are to blame. They should have
been on the watch at Towsontown for the petition
that wrought their woe and met it with counter.
Whereas, from their default, some one hundred
signers to paper it is doubtful they read or
heard read many probably never could read, has
suficed to disrupt old and wiser arrangements and
establish two polling places, each at the extremi
ties of their respective territories.
Take look at the map with order of division
in your hand and you will perceive at glance
the prepondcrating area, dotted thick with home
steads, that lie north Of Boarman's and south of
Kearney's. Why is this thus? The answer is
simple. Only because the citizens have not united
in asking for what heyindvidually desire-some-
thing better. Continue your observations and
you will find no vast mountain ranges or mighty
rivers rendering impossible an equal division. and
that the spots mentioned and selected polling
places are not the only oasis IN the deserts of the
18th district where the wild and warlike tribes can
assemble to slake their burning thirst. That the
district, the largest in landed in the county,
is susceptible of easy division into four equal, reg
ular, compact and convenient precincts, marked
by we'll defined and permanent lines, one will
deny. But it is claimed that with our present
population three is sufficient. On this latter basis
would not the tollgate on the Belair road be more
central than Kearney's and more easy of reach for
those citizens residing south of the Philadelphia
road and Great Falls than Nichols? The area
named naturally belongs to what is now the second
precinct, and the distance for its citizens in favor
of the toll-gate against Nichols would be 2 is
to 4. Would not Glenarm or Cuttings Mill be
more central for polls of the first precinct than
Boarman's, especially so were tho territory south
of line formed by the Hartford road and Sweat
House branch added to the insignificant area now
called the third precinct and its polls placed at
Kingsville? 1t is the opinion of all I've met that
such an arrangement would be much more salts
factory ship shape and for the greatest interest of
the greatest number.