Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1888-02-10
Letter from Hon. Isaac Young.
PooLEsyILLE. Md. Feb. ID. 1888

PooLEsvILLE, MD. Feb ID, 1885,
9th is an article headed Judge Bouic's
Answer to Ex-Governor Bowie's Reply
Had the Judges name not appeared at the
margin, could scarcely have been persuad-
ed that he was the author. Regarding him,
as | always have done, as man of ordinary
judgment and keen penetration, am sur
prised that he should task our people to
read his facts and draw their own conclu-
stems from them" knowing as he does their
intelligence.
Fact No 1, "Col. Spates and were in the
Canal Board at the same time," conceded.
Was it because there was an expert lawyer
in the Board, who so entangled the business
of the Board, that the President of the
Board with fifty witnesses had to appear be-
fore committee of the Senate of Maryland
and untangle it for them, at heavy cost to
the State
Fact No. 2. "Mr. Bowie tells why he
turned Spates out and put Clarke in" The
fact is that Mr.. Bowie in his reply does not
mention Col. Spates, save in the quotation
from tho american, for the reason that he is
not capable of SO gross Misrepresentation,
knowing that Gordens Presidency of the
canal followed Col. Spates Therefore Spates
could not have been turned out by Govern
or Bowie.
Fact No. 3. snow the public will be glad
to be told how he got Young to vote for his
bill, and why he turned me out of the Board
and put Young in my place" Poor me was
not in mes place, unless me and William
Thompson, of r., were one and the same
"The public" will concede that the two were
not far from one, at least in some schemes
The intelligent public to whom he would
rntI Ia Fact hat II
President of the G. & o. Canal for 1869 and
that VIM. Thompson, of r., was Director
from Montgomery county. Then how can
that public rely upon any assertion or in.
situation made in his answer. To the in
quiry, "How he got Young to vote for his
bill" if memory serves me rightly, the b.
IL p. Railroad Company, of which believe
Mr., Bowie was President at the time, had
no bill before the session of 1867, of which
| was q member. The matter under con.
sideratien was q memorial of the b. & o.
Railroad to the Legislature praying that
body to so alter the charter of the B. & p
Road Sc as to prevent them from entering
Washington city; which memorial did
oppose for the following reasons:
LIST. deemed II bad policy for o State
Legislature to have it go abroad that no
confidence can be placed therein that makes
and breaks charters at pleasure Yea, in the
case of the State of Maryland at the bidding
of the Baltimore u Ohio Railroad.
I'd. Upon thorough investigation of the
subject, was convinced in my own mind
that u rival road would necesstate the B. &
y. Railroad to complete the Metropolitan
Branch through our county to over.com
the advantage, in time, that the other road
would have.
Sd. The State had deprived the citizens of
those counties through which the road pass
ed without remuneration) of large amount
of personal property, and when about to
have the value of their real estate enhanced,
tat the instance of the B. j. o. Company
have it taken from them. Because the B. &
.. Company had seen fit to enter into con
tract with the State for certain specified
benefits to paw "so-called capitation tax
on the Washington Branch, it was asked by
the frends-in this writing l may say friend
either to release the B. & o., or place upon
the Is. u z. road the same tax. Could there
have been any justice in that ? The State
did not offer to grant the same benefits to
the b. & p. that had been given the b. & O.,
and the Il. u 0. was not willing to open her
charter to amendment that the State might
realize revenue from said B. s. o. road
upon her taxable property.
Inquiry I'd. "The public would like to be
told why Mr.. Bowie placed Mr.. Young in
the Board of Directors" Might not the
public with equal propriety ask itself, or
themselves, why they sent Isaac Young to
the State Senate Or why elect the same
Isaac Young member of the School Board,
to be turned out by Judge Bouic upon pc.
tition circulated by his nephew in Rockville
district for the appointment of a gentleman
in Medley's and when said petition was
sent to Medley's with instruction, the indi-
vldual to whom it was sent, before circulat-
ing 1t, called on me at my house to know
II l would not start a counter petition, and
he will tell you replied that ii. the "public
see nit to suffer Judge Bouic to turn down
their expressed, lat the ballot, box choice
through prejudice, it was beneath my dig.
nifty to ask Judge Bouic under the circum.
stances to continue me us School Commits
sioner"
am egotistical enough to presume that
Governor Bowie thought he saw in Young
W hat the public either knew or imagined to
be in him.
One other fact and am DONE
Fact No. 4. "Mr. Bowie, Mr.. Young and
Mr.. Benz. Fawcett (who seemed to be acting
Is guardian angel for Mr.. Young, but in the
interest of Bowie) know the above to be true"
'eierring TO my vote. The public, or at least
he older members, know that VIM. Veirs |
Bouic, (Sen) William Thompson, of R, and |
Benjamin Fawcett were the political trio of |
Montgomery county, as evidenced when /
Judge Bouic went in the Canal Board Faw- |
eft accompanied him as Clerk and Treasurer /
when William Thompson succeeds Beuic /
s director he retained their pet, (who al.
Ways did their bidding in Berry's,l as Clerk
nd Treasurer: When Young is annointed