The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-10-09
Our Ticket,

Our Ticket.
The crowded state of our columns last
week, prevented us from any more than
giving the proceedings of the County Con-
vention, and the names of the gentlemen
selected.
We ask every voter to compare the two
legislative tickets. The one pledged by its
record in the last spendthrift Legislature
to extravaganza, and unheard of squander-
ing of the public money, the other to a
course of economy and retrenchment in
every department of the government. The
Copperhead party, fearing to so before the
people of the county with any of the pres
ent Board of County Commissioners, in
gloriously and ungratefully cast them off,
in the hope of deluding them into voting
for other men whom they will hold to the
work Of appointing the same, or similar
set of cormorants to eat up the county funds.
This waste and stealing Of the public mon
eys arc inherent to the Democratic party,
and no set of men who are indebted to that
party for promotion to power, can prevent
it. The present Board of Commissioners
have been loudly condemned for misman-
ngement, and the horrid condition of the
public roads, and the enormous expendi-
lures Of money which necessitate heavy
taxation, but the Commissioners were
powerless beneath the pressure brought
upon them. Supervisors exceeded their
allowance, and threatened suit against the
county if the bills were not paid. The
Democratic office-holders Of the county,
who hold under or through appointment
from the County Commissioners, but who
in reality defy them, are the authors Of the
burthensome taxes under which the people
groan, and the election of another Demo-
cratic Board will insure the same results in
more aggravated form. To the SIS, 700
taxes levied by the present Board, you may
safely add $14, 600 in the item of school tax
alone, to the next levy-$7,000 called for
by the present School Board for the year
1869, and which the County Commissioners
refused to levy, but which the next Board
will be compelled to do under mandamus.
to make up deficiency, in addition to 20
cents on the 800, for 1870. One Of the
present Copperhead road members has an
unpaid bill against the county app oaching
$1,000. We don't pretend to even approx
innate the sums that will be to pay out of
the next years levy which legitimately be-
long to the present year, but under Cop
perhead management it is bound to exceed
100000. Last year the levy was over
500, 900. Think Of State appropriations
by single Legislature amounting to over
$4,000, 900, and a county levy of 800, 900,
or within fraction thereof, and then COM
pare these expenditures of public money
with preceding State and county admins
trations of the Republican or Union party
The Annual Reports of the Comptrollers
of the Treasury, from 1861 to 1866 inclu-
sive, during which time tho Union or Re-
publican party had control of the State,
and in which time the war expenses amount
ed to s4,212, 40, the entire appropriations
foot up $12, 1877, G60.67, and for two years
of profound peace, those of 1867 and 1868,
the Democratic Legislatures appropriated
$12, 523, 1926. We do not appeal to party to
take note Of these things, but ask every
voter and property owner to look at the
figures, and then consider the endorsement
which the Democratic party in this county
has given these enormous OUTLAWS by nomi-
mating three Of the identical men who served
in the last Legislature. and helped to sad
die this debt on the State. Can the leaders
OF that party whose aim is to gorge the
public money, bind and enslave the will
and common sense Of its members, till they
bow submissively, like the beasts that per-
ish? We think the rank and file of the
party have independence and self respect
enough to say like men that they can't be
used as tools by designing demagogues who
cry Democrat! Democrat to brighten
them into mere political automatons.