The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-03-12
Special Ccr7espondsnce Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM ANNAPOLIS.
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the administration and the Executive appoint
ments. which, not having been confirmed as yet.
are still objects of interest. That some of the
appointments have not yet found favor in the
Senate. however. is probably more largely due
to the absence of Senator Young, of Baltimore,
than to any other cause. These appointments
are of Importance to the sick Senator especially,
since he and senatorial courtesy at the same
time have largely been ignored by the Governor
in their making which all the more entitled him
to the consideration of his brother Senators,
the Governor having shown him none. That
the Senate on Mr.. Young's return will con-
firm most if not all of the Governors APP
pointees, now held up however, does not seem
to be doubted, but not because these appointees
are satisfactory. but because the men who
wanted others have mostly thrown aside poll
tics, for the present at least in disgust and care
not who the Senate confirms.
To Mr.. Warfeld, probably entirely satisfied
with himself and his course, 1t makes but little
difference, and to the weary leaders, who are
worn out with bootless abuse, it matters less;
but it certainly looks at this time as If new era
were about to dawn in Democratic Maryland
politics. The old combinations have been
thrown aside. A new deal from a new deck and
from new crowd OF players looks almost In
sight and it is but natural to wonder what kind
of new deal 1t will be. Will it be an improve
ment on the old? Perhaps the start can tell.
In the first place then perhaps it will be well
to look into what has been put into Office in
place of that which has been put out and what
hands may be laid on to take the vacant posts.
Mr.. Warfield, in the first place, for the future
counts on public sentiment being powerfully
on his side by reason Of the high class of char
acters which he has put in office, and expects
Democratic victories largely on this sentiment.
But sentiment has not been created, the Gov
ernor's belief on the subject to the contrary,
and in fact it is doubtful If in many years such
a universal wave of cold disapprobation has
been started by this one cause of trouble-the
appointments. The city papers it is true, praise
the selections, but the city papers, moved
heaven and earth to encompass his defeat and
the defeat of his party and see defeat in the fu-
ture as result of his course, while. If single
Democratic county paper in this State outside of
Howard county has yet had good word to say
Of this administration. 1t appeared in paper
which your correspondent has not seen, and he
sees nearly every one. Therefore instead of a
wave of enthusiasm and praise for the start of
the administration, there is GOODNESS and silence
and instead of nine enemies and one migrate for
every appointment, 1t is probably no exaggera-
ton to say that the Governor has doubled the
number of the former at least.
Granted that every man that he has put into
Office is of blamelessly high character (which he
is not by any means) the fact remains pitifully
apparent that the whole lot of them put to-
gether, Daniel J. Loden, appointed police JUS
tice and not yet given station. excepted, could
not carry ward in Baltimore city. And when
this is understood and believed, for it is fact
the whole lot of them could not carry q ward
the solid support on which the Democratic
future rests, the fimsy help of lacking senti-
ment being left out of considerations easily
understood.
The pity of it all, from the Democratic point
of view, lies in the fact that the Governor might
have done much. Instead of going blindly
ahead on the matter and selecting men who have
not voted the Democratic ticket five times in
twenty-five years and instead of offending
almost every man in Maryland in
Baltimore-who has any political strength.
If Mr.. Warfield had only chosen men who are
strong politically as well as honest for there are
many such, and if he had conciliated instead of
ignoring and humiliating everyone to whom he
is under genuine obligations, how much he
could have done.
As it is even the men of the Maryland Club
are condemning him, because, while they en-
Graft rat Who really needed the place. he must needs
appoint Fenge, as a member of the Board of
Election Supervisors. And if the clubs are un-
friendly to him, how are the East Baltimore
people feeling, who gave Police Justice Garland
such recommendation as never man had be-
fore for reappointment? And If the labor or
CARNATIONS are condemning him in cold-blooded
resolutions for bad faith with them about the
labor statistician, what are the gentlemen of his
own county and elsewhere, who hold his own
personal letter promising unequivocally to APP
point them to Office, thinking of him?
The people here, at any rate, are disappointed
in the Governor and more than rejected office,
seekers are embraced in this list. His appoint
ments on the whole, too, even as far as character
and fitness is concerned, are not unusual, some,
like the Police Board, being exceptional and
others, like the justices, being below the ordi-
nary and hopelessly weak, as has been already
pointed out politically.
Socially, too, due possibly to the fire, but
nevertheless the administration thus far has
hardly been brilliant, the Governors entertain
ments having been largely family affairs and of
little consequence. The Smith administration,
this far advanced, outshone it, and the Lowndes
administration-well, Governor Lowndes him
self is an ideal host and his social administration
alone was so admirable as to carry Anne Arun-
del county for him when Smith defeated him at
the close of his four delightful years at the man
sion. This is rather severe comparison. how
ever, for the Lowndes administration, with that
of Governor Jackson, was the most brilliant
known at the State Capitol during the last fifty
years at least.
The bill to amend the charter of Perry Hall
Methodist Episcopal Church Sonth, of Balti-
more county, was reported favorably in the
Senate and passed to its third reading.
The bill to reimburse Deputy Sheriff Burke,
of Baltimore county, for the expenses incurred
by him in the suit brought against him by
George W. Edgar, has passed the Senate.
The bill to provide the Baltimore county
Sheriff with $500, or any part of that sum each
year, to defray the expenses of conveying pris
oners to and from State places of detention. has
passed both houses.
The bill to change the boundary line between
the 1st and 80 election districts in Baltimore
county has passed both houses.
The bill providing for the dissolution of Pim-
lico, already having passed the House, came up
in the Senate on Wednesday for final passage,
but on motion of Mr.. Perkins, of Baltimore
city, was made the special order for next Tues
day. This measure was introduced originally
by Mr.. EveFhart. The Corporation Committee
has reported this favorably in the Senate.
Mr.. Stevenson has introduced bill to exempt
from taxation Trinity church-yard in Baltimore
county.
MIR. Walter r. Townsend, among others, is
mentioned in the list of incorporators of the
proposed Baltimore, Annapolis and Bay Side
Railway Company.
Mr.. Green has introduced bill in the House
to authorize the erection of bridge over Back
river, in the 18th district of Baltimore county.
Senator Biddison has introduced bill to de-
termine the location and bounds of tract of
land in Talbot county called Sharp's Island.
Senator Biddison also introduced bill to
sanction the requests of Ella NJ. Gardner.
The bill to incorporate the Towson Electric
Light Company of Baltimore county, passed
the Senate with amendments to confine its
operations to Baltimore county.
The bill authorizing the Clerk of the Balti-
more county Circuit Court to transcribe certain
records, has been signed by the Governor.
Mr.. Fitzsimmons has introduced bill in the
House to amend the assessment laws of Balti-
more county. W..
SHOULD ANY Democrat object to the President
of the richest and mightiest nation on earth
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