The Baltimore County Union

Correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only.
March 27, 1880.
Messrs. Editors:—Politics in the Democratic and Republican parties in Baltimore county would run smoothly were it not for the "sore-heads." Certain nincompoops who have eaten a few political crumbs have thereby had sharpened their appetites to such an extent that nothing short of a fat, lucrative position will ever satisfy their "longing for the flesh pots." Full of conceit and egotism they demand positions which they are not capable of filling, and when their aspirations are not attained they commence abusing their party, rally around them all the other "sore-heads," and set themselves up for reformers!
Politics, it is true, "makes very strange bedfellows," but never in Baltimore county was presented the spectacle, alike disgusting and amusing, of a little "banty" cock and a fowl whose tribe is distinguished by its hissing propensities, scratching together in the same dung hill! We have had a great deal of "boarding-house hash" in Baltimore county politics, but this "tops the climax" and proves conclusively what we've long believed—that in politics there is no honesty.
There are many men whom one could safely trust with bags of uncounted gold who will deceive in politics. The only way we can satisfactorily account for this is simply that men do not consider it morally wrong to misrepresent, deceive and even lie in a political fight, or to assert that all politicians are moral idiots. We believe the former, for we knew men who are strictly honest in every relation of life except politics. To-day there is a gentleman, whose personal character is above reproach, aspiring to go as a delegate to the National Democratic Convention who in 1878 rode around in his carriage with the opponent of the Democratic party and made a very active canvass also in behalf of the said gentleman (Mr. Milligan.) Remember this was a National contest, a fight for supremacy in the House of Representatives. Now this gentleman boldly steps to the front in the Democratic ranks as a solid Democrat. Would it not be more consistent to make his application for a seat in the National Convention to Mr. Milligan and his supporters and not to the regular Democratic party?
Organization in each political party is absolutely necessary, for in "unity there is strength."— But when any one throws in the ranks an "apple of discord," when opportunity presents let justice be done though the heavens should fall.
SYDENHAM.