The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17

Strong Resolutions Passed by Cam
paign Club.-The Republican Club at Eklo,
9th district of Baltimore county, sent THE
UNION the following report with request that
it be published:
TO the Officers and Members Of the Republican Club
at Ekto your Committee on Resolutions beg keacs 20
report the following:
WHEREAS, The two great political parties of
Maryland are now engaged in a campaign which
will give the control of the State and county
governments into the hands of the Republican
party, which favors free ballot, q fair count
and a method of voting which the most illiterate
voter can understand, and the extension of the
elective franchise to all persons not disqualified
by the constitution of the State, which only dis
franchises idiots and unpardoned criminals, and
that all citizens not so disqualified may have
voice in the government under which they live,
and to the support of which they contribute
either directly or indirectly; or, the result of
the campaign will leave the government in the
hands of the Democratic bosses plant tools,
who have already passed laws which disfran-
chise thousands of good citizens who are obliged
to contribute of their means to the support of
government in which they are denied voice a
case of taxation without representation, such as
an English monarch imposed on his American
subjects, which resulted in the war of the Rev
oution and the independence of the United
States; and if the Democratic party is success
full in this campaign the election laws will be
further complicated and the elective franchise
further restricted, and possibly new constitu-
ton will be made after the model of some of the
states farther South, which will disfranchise
thousands more than are now DISTINGUISHED and
make the grand old commonwealth of Maryland
an olgarchy in which the many will be governed
by the few therefore be it
ResolUed, That we most emphaticaly condemn
the action of the Democratic Legislature for
passing and the Governor for signing such a
complicated election law as practically disfran-
chses some of our best citizens in both parties,
and excludes them from having voice in the
State and county governments many of whom
are large taxpayers and were voters before some
of the members of the Legislature were born.
Resolved, That we condemn, execrate and ex-
pose to public ridicule Legislature and Gov
ernor who are guilty of the basest ingratitude
in making a law to dsfranchisc many of the peo-
pie who helped to elect them.
ReSOtUed, That we are opposed to the long con-
tinuance in political Office of one set of men as
being not in accordance with Republican form
of government, which contemplates rotation
in Office"
Resolved, That as the combined terms of Office
of ten of the candidates the Democratic
ticket for reelection aggregates rs years, for
which they have drawn upward of $4,000 in
salaries, we think that they have been fed too
long already at the public crib" and should be
retired to private life to earn their living here
after by honest labor.
Resol0ed, That we have full confidence in the
Republican State and county tickets, and that
we tender them our earnest support and pledge
ourselves to use all honorable means to secure
their election.
Res0Ioed, That we especially recommend our
candidates to our Democratic friends who are
tired of "boss rule' and one-man power, and who
favor "a government of the people. by the peo-
pie and for the people,"
ReSOlUed, That we ask the cooperation of all
persons, without regard to their former political
utilization, who favor an honest and economical
election law that will allow all good citizens to
vote their sentiments and have their votes hon.
Respectfully submitted.
Fas s Snof Bull, Committee.
OSCAR MILLER,