Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-03-02
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
Judge Bouic's Reply to Mr.. Isaac
YOUNG.

prepared sketch of my life, and for perspi.
Guilty, carefully arranged under four appro-
pirate and numbered heads Hoping to
make myself useful to you In preparing a
new and improved edition of that biography
l will give you some additional information
Mr.. Young thinks proved myself incom.
petent as Director in the canal board be-
cause permitted the accounts of the board
to become so complicated that it required an
expensive Legislative committee TO unravel
them. As to our comparative competence
and actual usefulness in the canal board I
leave it To the then employees of the canal and
sthers in condition to know to determine.
When he says the accounts were so c0mpli-
Gated as to require an Investigation by q
committee OF the Legislature to make them
intellgibe, he either does not know what
he is saying, or knows it is not true. The
investigation Of which he speaks was of
grave charges of a criminal nature preferred
against Col, Spates, personally, for conduct
as late President of the canal board, and
not against the board or any other member
of it. Col Clarke was then in the Senate
and was chairman of that in vestigating com
mttee. Col. Spates contended that the
charges grew out Of the malice of personal
enemies and certain politicians who wanted
some excuse for his removal from the Pres
idency Of the canal board. was summoned
as witness for the State TO prove the charges
to be true. That was another move of the
politicians. Was then holding Court at
Frederick city, and it was not expected
would leave Court to obey the summons
But did at once appear before the commit
tee in obedience to the summons. l was in
formed by the chairman of the committee
that the prosecution did not wish to exam.
inc me, and had leave to return To my post
~ tin dnt in
forthwith Sp ties was honorably acquitted.
Mr.. Young Is mistaken when he suppo SOS
he supplies an hiatus in my memory when he
says, Josiah Gordon was the immediate success
sor OF Spates as President of the canal board
and VIM Thompson, of r., my immediate
SUCCESSOR as Il member of the bJird. They
are both dead, AMI We're worthy men and
my personal friends. did 1t, therefore
choose to bring their names into this con
troverey. Were they living it might have
been otherwise. That supposed hiatus in
the order of succession does not alter the
material fact that Mr.. Young Was appointed
by Gov. Bowie to the place in the board
from which h; ha removed M;
Mr.. Young informs ule and the public of his
reasons, carefully prep ired AMI methp lie ally
arranged, for having given away the interest
OF the State H. the b u p RliirDsi Com
pany. That inturmatipn might b, interest.
ing were it not 81 oid All staic. L. WIS Civ.
en- u me at Annapolis IN the winter of 1887,
Just twenty one years ago, ny Mr. 1OunBs
political eIucttur, whp hti tascln ttei an
led him captive at MS own viii aud plets-
ure. The same reasons may lie found in the
report carefully prepared Tor the majority of
the Committee "a Internal improvements.
and sustained by astute, suphistlct 81 ani la
laclOus rea5oI9, AMI a bIil IN accor lane,
with the report was also repDrted 10y the
COMMITTEES and passed by the ;n,te Mr..
Young, Mr.. Bowie and other members ot tn,
commlttee signed that report and vots for
It's ADOPTION aud for The accompanying biil
giving the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the de-
celjtige name ol the Baltimore and Potom-
nc Railroad, ali it asked The reasoning OF
the report ia iuly met and refuted in the
minority report of the same committee by
Mr. DAVIS, ot Washington county, and the
injurious ctjnsequenc. 'ot the passage 0f the
bill to the best Interests OF tnc State an its
citizens are there demonstrated beyond u
successful answer, and which is supplement
ell and strengthened by the masterly letter
of.Iohu w. Garrett, President of the b. & o..
railroad, to the same COMMITTEES. Il will say
more OF this when | answer the last attack
of Ex Governur Bowie on me) Any one
who desires proof OF what [ have said, and
great deal mere of the ssme kind, better
said than l can re-say It, will find it N the
Journal OF the proceedings of the Senate Of
1867
Mr. Young has said in public converse
ton that Gov, Bowie consulted him rs to
the propriety OF appointing Col. Clarke
President of thescanal board at the salary
$4,000 year and $1,000 for personal ex.
penses. From that it appears that MIR.
Young was one OF the advisory privy coun-
Gil of Gov. Bowie, resident in this county,
and have heard of no other one having
been consulted by Gov Bowie in this coun
ty on that subject, therefore infer he WAS
entirely conversant with the action Of the
Governor during his administration.
1t has been said that when law extend
ing the time OF the B. 81 o. Railroad to fin
ish its Metropolitan Branch was passed
Gov. Bowie prepared message to the Leg
isature vetong that bill but before send
ing it to the Legislature he submitted it to a
friend for his examination. And II is said
that friend read it, pronounced it nonsense,
tore itup, threw it into the waste basket,
and so the matter ended.
Mr Young, did that thing occur? Was
Mr.Young that friend, or was it some one
elsef, II 50, who was it? Will Mr.. Young
tell us all he knows about it, and how he
can reconcile that conduct of Gov Bowie
with the vote which Mr.. Young gave for
the Pennsylvania Railroad, alias the B. q p.
railroad charter, with the view of compel
ling the Metropolitan Branch of the b. e. o.
To be finished, and which Mr.. Young says
he gave for that purpose
Mr.. Young says did not appoint him a
School pmmissloner because of my preju
dice against him. | deny, in all sincerity,
the truth OF that assertion, AMI call upon
4 A. a I. Il, 1..n.x .
las | am sure he will } the obligation of truth
requires him 10 say his charge is untrue and
unlUunded He thinks it was great presump'
ton in my nephew u act in the matter Of
school petition, as he thought proper To do.
Ii he means to be understood that l had
anything to do with the alleged action of
my nephew in circulating any OF the petit
tions or wording the letter of instructions
mentioned, he says what is unqualifiedly
false The fact is, when Mr. Young was
in the school board the law required five
members to constitute the board, one Of
them to be elected for each of the five origi-
nal election districts by the sole vote of each
district, AN 1t was under that law that Mr..
Young was elected by the voters Of Medley
district as School Commissioner. When the
law was chan gel and the Judges of the Cir
cult Court were required To appoint three
School Commissioners, the Judges desiring
to do the best they could, published request
! in the county papers that people would by Pc
titipn, or otherwise, recommend such com
petent persons for Public School Commis-
sioners rs they desired should be appointed.
In pursuance of that request petitions were
prepared by various persons and circulated
in all parts Of the county, and signed by
citizens all over the county, which was ex-
actly right, as the appointments were not
to be made from Medley's district, or any
other district alone, but for the whole coun-
ty. The appointee who happened to be
resident oi Medley's district had two or three
times as many signers to his petition in Med
eys as that presented by the friends OF Mr.
Young But ali it was important for me ~
know and act upon was that the men the
Judges appointed were recommended by @
great majority of the people without inquir-
ing why it was 50.
Fourth ami lastly, according To the well.
arranged and carefully prepared article ol