The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
THE Ap1posE "GoNE WRONG" AGAIN

Like tiger in his lair the adipose editor of the
Journal has waited long time for a chance to
spring upon The UNION and destroy it at one fell
swoop He has been painfully remembering the
well-deseryed castigations which we have visited
upon him for his fawning sycophancy, servile sub
serviency and obsequious pandering to the whims
and ancies of the various county officials for their
favors-"sucking at their paps," as the overgrown
baby of the political bottle calls it. His eyes
have become blood shot prying into the editorial
columns of The UNION for something savory to
feast upon.
TIE UNION of week before last expressed itself
as having made no opposition to the extension Of
city limits and that it did not propose to make
any, because it is honestly of the opinion that the
Belt belongs by right to the city of Baltimore, and
as a matter of simple justice she should have it.
These remarks were made as reply to the Sums
indiscriminate attack on all the Baltimore county
papers as being opposed to city extension because
they might thereby lose the "pap" on which they
waxed so fat. We denied the soft impeachment,
and stated that like the Sun, THE UNION is not
supported by political favors and owes nothing
and asks nothing from factions or favorites.-
These remarks were made the groundwork for the
assault of the mire-covered editor of the Journal
in his last weeks issue. He casts his eyes over
twenty years of the countys history and finds only
three-1S65 and 1875 and 1S76-in which he says
the Iedgers of The UNION are burdened with "pub-
lie favers;" and yet, like the sycophant that he
is, he apologies to for the allusion by saying
call of them you were entitled to, and we always
felt pleased that you received them, and believed
tha. you earned them.'
No public advertising that THE UNION has re-
eeiyed from any quarter has been sufficient to buy
its silence or exclude from its columns any wrong
doing of any county Official when the publication
of it was benefit to the people of the county, and
a matter upon which they should be enlightened.
We have never, like the editor of the Journal ira
duced the political motives of a Governor because
Of the loss of a certain amount of public adver
Using, and the deprivation Of q subsidy in the
shape of the publication of the general laws
Never yet have we bent the suppliaRt knee that
Npap" might follow fawning. Poor fellow ! The
ghost of the loss of necessary "pap," which would
follow city extension, is chasing him to despera-
ton in his assaults upon those who are governed
by princple-not policy-in their actions.
That THE UNION is toadying to the San is another
of the Journal editors feyered imaginings. Ifhe,
in some of his lucid intervals, would overhaul his
E'papped paper he would find in its editorial coll
nmns enough of seryile, sycophantic toadying to
the San to make good sized supplement to that
excellent newspaper.
The UNION is trGer to the county and her best
interests by an honest expression of its opinion on
.he Belt question than is the Journal, which pub
heiy opposes city extension while its protested
editor has privately expressed his indifference as
Co what the result Of the issue might be. Two
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