The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-07-11
A DEMOCRATIC PAPER ON THE "Boss"

The Voice of this week has an editorial on
Independence Day." from which take, with
out comment the following extracts:
"But we must look closer home. This year Of
1885, shall it be to us year of jubilee or of re-
greet? Do we intend to have any reformation here
will we allow the same old drift in county
affairs! We speak most particularly of the great
necessity existing for change in the Clerks
office of our Circuit Court. Mr.. Isaac has been
in public life now for so many years that the
memory of man can hardly run to the contrary
Even the six years that have elapsed since his
nomination and election have utterly failed to re-
move from him the suspicion as to how he got
that nomination and the greater suspicion of how
he accomplished his election. He is to-day, as
he has been for years, the type of that which
crushed LAGOON His power in the past with the
Court, with the jury-box, with the School Com
mssoners, with the various officials and the funds
of the county, have all been greater than any man
in our county ever exercised before or will ever
have hereafter. The defeat he experienced in
1882 in the judges ticket was almost his first
reverse, not counting the time when he carriel
the I'd district by the aid of negro votes and then
lost. The change of the Board of School Com
missoners was another reverse. Other changes
have also taken place which have shorn him of
much of his previous power
eve are approaching another primary contest.
Our county officers are again to be selected,
among them the County Clerk Mr.. Isaac is
making desperate struggle not only to maintain
himself, but also to be renominated He is cars-
fully putting down his wires, fixing mis- fences
and arranging his dummy candidates in different
districts of our county. Believing that the Dem
ocracy of this county, by large majority, are OPP
posed to him. believing that he was not honor
ably elected the last time; believing that he has
not acted up to the doctrine Of public office being
public trust; believing that his own last official
report to the State shows him to have been run
ming the Office for his own personal benefit end
not in the interest of the tax payers; believing
that his long continuance OF many years in
Office has led him to be utterly Indifferent to and
unmindfu of the peoples interest; believing him
! to have been extravagant in wasting the peoples
money, we frankly say, "No more Isaac for u.s."
| We believe Baltimore county wants no more of
this sef-constituted Boss, and We are satisfied
that the whole county is longing for that breath
of freedom, that Whit of free air which will make
US feel like free people, Independence Day nat
urally has gone, but let every man determine
that the day of our next primary election shall
be for our county another Independence Day, a
jubilee day, day in which the democratic voters
shall clean out their shop. To accomplish this
needs vigilance, care, determination the people
must be on guard. Let US initiate the historical
examples of the past, that mighty past which
now appeals TO US, and be strong in the deter
mination not again to be put to the shame of his
| candidacy. Of those who so carefully follow him
| in his tortuous way, we can only say to the peo-
| pie, 'Let no guilty man escape"