The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-06
REORGANIZATION IN BALTIMORE
COUNTY.
Members of Republican State Central
Committee Holding Federal Ohces
May be Asked to Resign.
1Vashinoton DisDatch in Baltimore Herald


Washington Dispatch In Baltimore Herald.
The understanding here is that effort is to
be made to reorganize the Republican party in
Baltimore county, and that W. Tyler Page, whom
j. Fred c. Talbot defeated for Congress in the
Second district at the late election, is to under
take the task.
Mr.. Page is distinctly not out of Maryland
politics a result of his recent reverse, Du1 IS
already steering his compass for a denomination
two years hence, when he thinks ms chances ol
success will be largely enhanced because OF the
Presidential contest. 1t is for this reason thaI
the friends of Mr. Page believe that he should
take such action as would result in unlfylng Ine
party in Baltimore county. IL rs conI e haeu
that although the Republicans would nave Deen
beaten in the Second district anyhow, Detter
showing would have been made had the pre-
cinco gi,s1 NJ PACE ia said to recognize
as a fact that the demand for reorganization
comes from both camps of the county itepuuoiit
cans and so will proceed with the work without
Thought of giving offense to either. lie VIII en-
deavor to accomplish what ne concelVss 10 l ~ d
needed reform by bringing about the retire
noent from the State Central Committee of g.
Ross Mace, chairman Samuel II Dehou, sec
rotary; G. Ellsworth Y pton and u. horsepower:
Messrs Mace and DeHoff are also members OF
the County Executive Committee, and 1t is not
improbable that they will also be expected 10
terminate their services IN That connecton 1 Inc
chief reason given for this move is that the Fed
eral positions held by these four gentlemen pre-
clude their performing their duties as commit
teemen in the thorough manner tnaU is ueinanu
ed to achieve success Mr.. Mace is appraiser OF
the port of Baltimore; Messrs. DeHoft ana
Householder find employment IN the internal
revenue Office in that city, while Mr.. Uptonis IN
Office here. 1t is asserted that two of these gen
tlemen have expressed to Mr.. Page Willingness
to retire from the State Central Committee; pro
vided the others do likewise. If this could be
| accomplished it would result, in the opinion OF
0ssSssI0 ono -slaatis1 paa-
Mr.. Page is still the clerk of the House Com
mittee on Accounts, but whether be will con-
| tinue in the position after March 4th, when the
l present chairman Representative Bull. of
Rhode Island-retires. is uncertain. At any
rate, he intends to keep hand in Maryland
| politics. When asked what his plans along this
| line were, he said today:
1T is looking rather far ahead. and, while it
| seems to be the consensus of opinion among a
| great many people in the district that l should
| be and will be the nominee two years hence,
| consider that rather counting chickens before
they are Matched. great many things may
happen in two years, and, while / will not say
positively that will not be a candidate, should
consider the matter very carefully before ac-
cepting the nomination if it were offered to me
by the party.
II have received letters from prominent gen
! temen throughout the district and State thank
ing me for the fight made, and they flatter me
by saying that, in their opinion, the party owes
me thanks for having taken up what appeared
| to be in the beginning losing fight; and 1t is
their opinion that had lost nothing at all that,
| being young man, had placed myself in q po-
sition for being rendered the nomination two
years from now, and. at all events, had gained
| prestige for having gone into the fight and made
the contest creditable to myself and party.
|
| work as was during the campaign, but it is
work of another kind. A great many people of
the district look to me to attend to their own
and the districts affairs where they come in con-
tact with the governmental machinery"
SOME INTERESTING facts are noted about
trolley transfers in New York. The Metro
politan Street Railway during the year of 1901
gave out 176, 900 900 transfers, and this year. on
account of the further extension of the trans
fer system, the company expects that the num-
Der will reach 200 900, 900. the transfer sys-
TEN was inaugurated in 1884, and during the
first year the company distributed 10000 of
the free tickets Each year the number has
increased till it has reached the figures now
recorded. Giving out this number of trans
fers has cost the company an enormous sum
of money in printing and paper. Over 10000
tons of paper were used for the transfers of last
year, and, as the dates are changed each day,
the cost of printing was also very large. Per-
haps no city in the country is more liberal
| with transfers than New York. There you
can travel nearly half day for five cents, for
you can be transferred on a transfer. OF
course, such liberty is only possible in large
city, where the travel is so immense that the
public can be served at minimum COST
A DISPATCH from Wilkesbarre, Pa, says the
head of the coal companies in that city and
vicinity declared, when asked about the causes
for the coal famine in New York, Philadelphia
and Washington, that there was no occasion
for any. They say these cities are receiving
| more now every day tnan they ever dlu before,
there being a considerable increase over the
normal supply for this time of the year.
While the mines of the companies are not pro-
ducing the normal output, the companies are
diverting to the three points coal which is
needed in other places, because there is quick
er market and the distance of hauling is not so
great as with the coal sent West They give
as the cause of the famine the greediness of
| those who are able and willing to pay the
present prices demanded by the dealers in buy
ing to store away for emergencies more coal
than they need for present use.
DIR. LYMAN ABBOTT. speaking on the subiect