The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-08-08


his family, reached New York on his return
last Saturday and is now at his country place
near Laurel The Senator returns in excellent
health and says he greatly enjoyed his trip.
While in Ireland Mr. German visited the BIRTH
place of his father.
THE DEMOCRATIC primary election which
took place in Montgomery county last Satur-
day proved clean sweep for Hon. Spencer G.
Jones, who beat Hon. Edwin Warfeld for
Governor by a majority of about 1 500. Mont
gomery is the home county of Mr.. Jones and
the friends of Mr.. Warfeld did not think that
he could carry it. He was successful in two
election districts by small majorities.
AT LAST it has come. After thousand and
one stories pro and con Charles NJ. Schwab,
president of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, sent his resignation to the company on
Tuesday and it was promptly accepted. VIM.
Il. Corey, who has been connected with the
concern for some years, and who was latterly
assistant to President Schwab, was chosen as
his successor. Ill health from overwork is
said to be the cause of Mr.. Schwab's retire
ment.
PREPARATIONS are going on actively in Balti-
more for the great demonstration of Odd Eel
lows to take place in that city next month.
The seventy-ninth annual convention of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge will meet on the 21st
of September and continue until the 10Th. 1t
is said that every section of the United States
will be represented and that fully 10000
strangers will be in Baltimore during the week.
One feature of the meeting will be parade in
which fully 10000 men will participate. In
point of numbers this will far surpass the
demonstration of Elks of last month.
THE GARRETT county Republican of last week
said: "There are few men in Maryland today
who WELD as much influence in political and
business matters or who have such wide and
intimate acquaintance with the people of the
whole State as Ex-Governor Lowndes. To
seek to nominate an untried and inexperienced
man for the position of Governor would be
very grave mistake. A practical business view
of the situation suggests this rather than any
political or personal arguments, and we be-
lieve it will appeal most forcibly to the COM
mon sense of the people of the whole State"
A RECOUNT of the vote cast at the Democratic
primary meetings 10 Hartford county was COM
pleted by the Executive Committee on Mon
day last 1t showed that George w. McComes
had been nominated for4the House of Dele
gates over Harry c. Lawder by majority of
q votes. The first count nominated Mr..
Lawder by majority Off. Joseph A. Price,
who received the highest number of votes for
one of the judges of the Orphans Court, de-
clined the nomination for personal reasons.
al Vph
next highest number of votes was declared the
nominee in place of Mr.. Price.
Col. GEORGE 7. CLINE, who died in Chicago
on the 18th of last month, left property-most-
~ real estate located in a half dozen states
valued at several millions of dollars Col.
Cline, who was native of Frederick, Md,
located in Chicago when it was mere village.
He bought property for song and held
it until it grew into great value. He was an
eccentric bachelor. He bequeathed all his pos
sessions to two brothers and sister and their
children. Some members of the family are
still residents of Frederick. Col. Cline paid
several visits to Towson some years ago and
may still be remembered by some of our older
citizens.
eminent Office is very conservative one and
slow to change. As an example, it is matter
of history that the exchequer accounts of Eng
land were kept by notches on stick one hun
bred years after book. keeping was invented.
In the early times our Government appointed
an official fnt-picker or inspector. He was
of some use then, but not now in these days
of breech leaders. Still he holds his place and
draws his salary Now comes the last example
of the conservatism of our Circumlocution
Office. The Government printing Office at
Washington is the largest in the world, and
has not yet heard that there is such thing as
a typesetting machine.
CONCERNING THE $40 graduates of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst before
1897 the Boston Ad,ertiser reports that 189 be-
came farmers, % market gardeners, % farm
managers, % teachers in institutions for farm
ers children, 16 farm veterinarians, IL stock or
poultry breeders and eight "entomologists."
That is a good proportion; and if all such in
situations turn out an equal number of gradu-
ates who will stick to the farm, the country at
large will in the end be greatly blessed In
telligence on the farm means profit from the
soil. More than this, the combined intelli-
gence of the agricultural class is the hope we
have of better politics. The city apparently
can no longer be appealed to. The work of
real reform is in the ballot cast by the man
with the hoe and behind the pillow.
THE coNcLAvE of cardinals at Rome on Tues
day morning elected Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto
Patriarch of Venice, as the successor to Pope
Leo, deceased. There were sixty-two cardi
nails in the conclave and Cardinal Sarto re-
ceived forty-two votes. He took the name of
Plus X. The new Pope, who is a man of great
learning, is sixty-eight years of age and greatly
beloved by all who are upon intimate terms
with him. A dispatch says "Sarto's election
to the Papacy is due to differences of view be.
tween the liberal and the conservative mem
bers of the Sacred College, which rendered i'm
possible the election of any.of the more prom
inent candidates. The college selected Sarto as
Pope because there was none of the opposition
to him that existed in the cases of Rampolla,
Serafino Vannutelli, Gotti and Oregia"
On MONDAY last, by appointment of the
first named gentleman, Senator McComas and
Congressman William H. Jackson held con-
ference at Ocean City Nd, for.the purpose of
trying to harmonic the differences between
the Republican factions of this State. The
relations between these gentlemen are person
ally very pleasant, but their differences as to
the conduct of party affairs, especially in Bal
timore city, appear to be almost irreconcilable
and unless they do something to bring about |
an early settlement of these difficulties they
will ieopardize the interests of the party
throughout the State. tits simply repetition |
of the old story of organization and anti-or- |
ganization, Senator McComas representing the |
first named Republicans generally care very |
little about these differences, but they dislike
to stand by and see their party slaughtered by
the men who have been put to the front as
leaders.