The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-27
Special Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM ANNAPOLIS.
STATE HOUSE, ANNAPOLIS, MD

Is. IS.
February "a. 1904. {
Speculation and gossip over the Governors
appointments is the chief occupation of the
local lawmakers and what few of the more dis
tant politicians as have assembled here thus far
after the adjournment last Friday. The House
and Senate last week, both were flooded with
bills, and by Friday the members were pretty
well tired out by the long week, the long ses-
sions and the remainder of the long days spent
10 snS az the more inportant eommittes ' at
any rate, was heavy indeed.
The Governors appointments, however, were
the fruitful theme with the gossips. Politicians
as q rule are the only people interested in who
the Governor appoints to the various Offices, ex-
cept Of course the men who aspire to fill them,
appoints an obviously unfit man for any posi-
ton. The average taxpayer. not an Office seeker
and not politician, does not care who fills the
places, and SO long as he is courteously treated
on the few occasions that he comes in contact
with the officials, 1t matters little one way or
another to him, whether the man be endorsed
But there is q broader consideration than that
for the Governor and for his administration as
a whole, and for the. dignity and credit of this
administration good men must fill the places,
and thus far there is no gaineaying the fact that
the Executive Is sending down good names.
True they are not pleasing to the politicians,
of them at least, are grumbling over their
various disappointments, for the lightning thus
unsolicited spots, but the great mass of the
public is pleased with the appointments thus
far, and even his former newspaper enemies
names which he has sent in, and have evinced
in the most marked degree their delight over
the ignoring Of Mr.. Rasin.
While this is unquestionably deserved and
while the Governors friends are glad to read
this praise. the fact remains that IL is very very
cheap, the ones doing the most Of It, doing
feat, or at least doing nothing to further his
chances of election. at the critical time when
this same Mr.. Rasin was conducting very inn
portant part Of his campaign, which with the
work of others, resulted in victory. This fact
makes thoughtful men, not blinded by their
hatred of name, the owner of which most OF
them have never even seen, a little sorry that
the Governor does not at least recognize Mr..
Rasin, if indeed he Is really not going to eventu-
ally do so.
The Governor, in making his selections, does
not seem to have been moved to any extent, by
any0ne's influence, but the personnel OF the Po-
lice Board for Baltimore city, in spite OF that
fact, is beyond all question, not hostile to MIR.
Rasin. Both of the Democratic members. J ames
II. Preston and George K: Willis, are men OF the
minority member, but both have always been
friendly to Raisin; but-and here is the point
With the Old Man. This TINS Iae 1 naI n1Tn1nG TO
thing that he can console himself with Is the
thought, that although they were friendly to
him that did not prevent their appointment.
Every man to his own opinion, of course, but
the preponderance of opinion here, even among
the most conservative, seems 10 De that courtesy
might move the Governor. II nothing else would,
to consult the one man to whom, more than to
anyone else, he owes the position which he now
occupies, when making his selections for i'm
portant party appointments.
Among the Governors closest friends who
wish him to show up with all classes in as fine
light as possible, this feeling is even more pro-
due to the fact that Ras1n has not IN
truded in any way, shape or form, leaving it to
the Governors own sense of fairness to see the
wisdom of consulting him on some OF the mat
ters in which he is most vitality concerned. Inc
friends are anxious that there may
be no question of his good taste.
Senator Biddison Will this afternoon intro
duce bill Incorporating the Towson Electric
Light and Power Company. The capital stock
is to be $780, with the privilege of increasing
to 100000.