The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-10-24
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date for Congress. The band blew a while,
but nobody seemed to respond, save scat
tering few who appeared to be lockers on
rather than Jealous participants. The pow
WOW was to have been in the Odd Fellows
Hall, but finding that the small room in the
rear of the Insurance Office would hold the
company without crowdng, they finally
hived in there. G. W. Cruikshank, Esq,
and Hon. Fl. Mccullough were the sachems
selected to harangue the band. Mr.. Cruik-
shank had the first "big talk and an
nounced that he would not reply to Mr..
Ensor's speech, as it wasn't worth an an
swer, but we noticed that be did nothing
else, however; and the Civil Rights Bill
was subject of as much misrepresenta-
ton as denunciation, notwithstanding MIR.
Ensor said he was opposed to it.
Mr.. Mccullough had served in Congress,
he informed the audience several times and
knew whereof he affirmed. The Credit
Mobilier was the great robbery of the Re
publican party. He didn't tell his be-
nighted hearers, that Mr.. Blaine, the Re-
publican Speaker of the House, moved the
investigating committee to investigate that
concern; or that Mr.. Brooks, the leading
Democrat in Congress, was appointed one
of the commissioners to watch the Govern
ment's interest in the U. P. Railroad, and
that the investigation Of the Credit Mo-
bilier proved him to be the greatest thief
in the whole party involved in that wicked
business, and he died shortly after of re-
morse, caused by the discovery-and not
from any compunctions of conscience.
The Salary Grab =" was another count
in Mr.. McCullough's indictment against
the Republican party, and if it was his sim
cere desire to denounce that nefarious bust
ness and all concerned in it, it would have
been no more than honest to have told his
audience that 63 out of 105 Democrats
voted for it, while S5 Republicans out of
246 members, voted for the increase, a
greater proportion of their number in Con-
gress voting for the "grab," than OF the
Republican members This would have
made the matter of official stealing palmer
to those who did not already know, that as
many official thieves are found among the
present Democratic minority in proportion
to their numbers, as among the Republi-
cans. One thing is certain, that the inves-
tigating committees discover as many DEM
ocratic thieves, if not more, in proportion
to tie numbers of that party who are
placed in positions to steal, as they do of
men holding to be Republicans. The con,
fiding creature who goes to that party to
find honest officials, will be in the predica-
ment of him who went for wool and came
away shorn.
Investigating committees are kind of
committees that the Democrats never ap-
point when in power, and hence never ex-
pose their own thieves to the public. What
evidence have we that the Democrat party
will give us honest legislation if entrusted
with power? Have we any of it in Mary
land where they have had control for
several years? Last Winter the capitol
was overrun with idle fellows drawing pay
from the State Treasury, who had not a
thing to do. Every member had appointed
one or more of his home friends as clerk
messenger folder, or the occupant of some
useless or imaginary position, all drawing
s. day from the treasury, to recompense
them for their good offices in ''voting right
at the Fall election, and to make sure that
they and their friends will "vote right" at
the next election. Not satisfied with thus
pensoning their creatures on the peoples
treasury, regular brokerage was organized
and established in the capital, and the
simplest bill would not be as much as
looked at, till it had gone through this
lobby brokers' hands, and he had exacted
his fees from the parties who desired the
passage of the act. Did the lobby broker
retain all such illegal perquisites in his
possession, and occupy one of the commit
tee rooms as his exclusive Office during the
session? Who is simple enough to believe
such thingo We cite these few circum-
stances by way of preface to the question;
Is the Democratic party the place to find
honesty and economy? That party as run
by it's rings is about the least likely organi-
cation in the wide world to supply honest,
faithful public servants. A great many
corrupt men have worked their way into
place through the Republican party, but
they are sought out and punished wherever
found. The Democrat party never exposes
its thieves.
As an instance of the way their sachems
on Saturday night mixed up things, one of
the speakers charged the Republican party
with having Tweed at the head of the
District of Columbia ling, and the Presi-
dent with appointing {" this man Tweed -
chief of the Board of Commissioners after
he had been charged with corruption in
office while Governor of the District, while
VIM. NJ. Tweed was, all the time these
things were supposed to have been tran
spring, locked up in New York Peni-
Tertiary, convicted as the chief conspirator
of the Democratic ring which robbed the
city of New York. Our Elkton Democracy
orators and oracles, however, palmed their
penitentiary stripe off on the gaping little
audience as bona fide Republicans holding
office in Washington.
TRIUMPHANT STRIDEs.-What healthy
pair of eyes has not seen the names Wana
maker & Brown, Oak Hall, in some shape?
They point to the largest Clothing Depot
in America. the giant House, corner Sixth
and Market streets, on the site where Geo.
Washington lived while resident of the
Quaker City. This substantial firm, flush
ed with their triumph, announce in our
columns for the Fall and Winter trade,
some principles of business that will make
tluttering in the clothing trade, from
Boston to New Orleans. They undertake
to mark all their stock considerably lower
than ever before; to label every garment
with printed slip, naming the goods, and
specifying the only price that will buy it;
to furnish with each piece of clothing
written guarantee of its value; and to take
the purchase back, and return the money, if
rendered within ten days! In the chrome,
logical tables of 1874, there is nothing to
insert more startling than this great change
of base in the clothing trade.