The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-10
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
MR.. TALBOT AND HIS TICKET.

TowsoN, Nd, October 9th, 1903.
Editors of The Union I'm spite of having twice
trespassed on your courtesy in allowing me TO
express, through the columns of your paper, my
protest against the Talbot ticket ana tne shame
ful and pathetic sacrifice of the Democracy OF
Baltimore county to the uses OF It's seI-constitu-
ted and unhappily distinguished boss, L must ask
still further Indulgence.
The time for the November election rapidly
approaches, and it has become the imperative
duty of every self-respecting voter OF tnls coun-
ty to fairly and squarely face the issues OF tnls
campaign. In spite of all the buncomDe with
which Talbott's hustlers are trying to Defuddle
the voters of this county, the burning issue IN
Baltimore county today is "Talbottism" or de-
cency. 1t is whether the time has not come TO
see that Baltimore county shall rid itself Of the
reproach of maintaining such an institution"
as Mr.. j. Fred. G. Talbot, perennial Congress
man and practical politician. 1t is whether the
Democratic party will or not repel ana repudl..
ate a man who has done his best to cut its throat
by using it as a cloak for every species Of low
political corruption. This emancipation and. L
trust believe and hope in the name of common
decency and honesty it will come, must be
brought about by the Democrats OF this county.
They must themselves cast out from smong
them such men as he who have solLed aid be-
smirched the name of their party which i dear
to them who have used that party colby and
unscrupulously as means Tor tnelr own selflsn
be done in the primaries. 1t is vain and fauous
to think that if the ticket which Talbot nomi-
mated is elected the evl can Ge nd
sophistry that he has SO long succeeoed a de-
luding the party into allowing him to remain 10
nees are elected; as long as he is allowed t. con-
| troll all the county machinery; as long as he IS
| allowed to have in the window OF every loting
! booth in the county his men; as long as he is
| allowed to bully, browbeat and crush Democrats
| who oppose him; as long as money fr the
tickets which favor him is alloWea 10 nov into
| our citizens and voters, SO long is IL loh, nay
worse, far far worse than idle to talk of Uniting
Talbot in the Hontv most p be poit
| may not be to their taste to vote against atcket
I named by q convention even cGtted Democratic,
| Mr.. Talbot from Democratic politics is by fe--
| pudiating him at the polls. cannot thlnk nat
s5e a6e fg @sny SSetlsSS arfsa bins6 Of s6an
| part in the disgraceful proceedings thee enact
ed feel sure there are but few Dea4SceEia1s IN
their party with anything but reget. ana 10
them I say, join in doing the onlytnlng winch
voting against his ticket. What pes or can that
| ticket stand for but for him. wat Will every
voter who votes that ticket do lat vote to put
officers are elected. 1t mean that. TaiDott
named the ticket. The men N it have been
named by him before. In Letter written some me
| time ago gave some figures 8 TO the NUMBER
| of years which that ticket bid served. Those
figures have, by others, been argely augmented,
| and am told that the men IN the Democratic
ticket have served BaltimGe county nearly a
| century and have drawn fpm the treasury OF
| Baltimore county over $1O,OOO. Tried by TAI,
| Doll Lney nave DoeQ IOuDl 0OC WdubluS. Auu
when he nominated them n the face Of the OPP
position of thousands and thousands OF the nem m
ocrats of this county dominated tnem as M us
own choice, arbitrarily reckless and rutnlessly
| disregarding everybody and everything ne
bound them to him by NJ common tie. ne prano-
ed them as his own andtherefore say that nls
will be the sinister influence standing oenind
each of those nominees If elected.
There should then be no reason why any Dem-
shouId hesitate 70 Raetehr oe6 al
ism" has come to mean in Baltimore county.
Those of us who are of the younger Democrats
| have grown up with the stories of d1Shonest
elections controlled by thugs, of political bride
ry and corruption with Mr.. Talbot as the cen
trail figure 1t is known IN BaItimore CITY, IL Is
can be impeached because he spurns this unclean
thing from him, No Democrat can regard with
county ticket. called Democratic. But it is a
duty which every one owes his county, his neigh
Dor and himself to see that this thing of "Tai
bottism" is squelched and destroyed in Balti
more county.
| 1 am not to be understood as opposing the
ticket nominated by the State convention a.nn,,o
the answering and loyal support of all. Mr.
Warfield is clean, honest and stalwart Demo
crat an honest, upright gentleman, who will,
am sure, reflect credit upon his party, his State
and himself, If elected. 1t is and should be {
pleasure to every Democrat in the State to sup
port him and his running mates, Mr.. Gordon L
Atkinson and Mr.. William S. Bryan, who have
rendered their party devoted service, and whose
high character and unquestioned ability make
to which they aspire.
1t is against the county ticket-the Talbot
ticket-that the fight must be made. The issue
is Talbottism, and the wretched can't OF interes
ted spell-binders cannot change it, The person
mel of the Democratic party of this county ii
second to none, and this as much as anything
else makes it peculiarly Calling to contemplate
the lamentable spectacle of man of Mr.. Tai
bolts standing converting that party into mere
vehicle for his advancement. l ask in all can
dor how can we vote for man who is regarded
by the decent citizens of Baltimore county as ii
Talbot? How can we consent to have this coun
ty pointed out with contempt as the politica
farm of professional politician who regards il
| as his own and who controls it as such2
Bad as Talbot is, bad for the interests of the
county as his ticket is, he stands himself fol-
even a more vicious influence. l have under
stood and have often heard it stated that his OPP
position to certain of the candidates f9E 9se u
| baltimore CITY. Free SRasin. who feared that the
presence of anyone who was not very close tt
| Mr.. Talbot and him would break up the opera
tions of the infamous lobby by which dishonest
legislators and the scheming politicians who
manipulate them bleed and blackmail those op
posing or asking legislation.
Talbottism and Rasnism one at a time are ba(
enough, but surely our county is not to be turn
| ed over to the tender mercles of eUery politica
| huckster in the State, and we can only escape
from their presence and their influence by voting
| against their representatives. What do they
care for primary fights fiascoes as long as theJ
nominate the tickets and their dupes elect them
And until Democracy does mean, as it must anC
shall mean, decency and good government in thi
| county it is my earnest hope that the voters Of
the county will rebuke those who have bartereC
| and sold its good name, and tell them in no I'm
certain tones that they believe in no such un
tenable and absurd doctrine as party first an(
decency afterwards; but that in this county a
| least their party and decency and good govern
ment must receive the support of every goo(
| citizen. Very truly, Il. SCOTT OFFUTT.