The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-10-16
Whereas and Resolves of the County Com
miSSiOuerS,

Whereas and Resolves of the County Com.
missiOners.
For the liberal offer of the County Com
missioners to open their Office for investiga
ton, we return our sincere thanks. The
magnanimity of the offer will be appre
ciated when it is remembered that, as an
office of public record, the public has al
ways enjoyed the right of access to the
records of the office. The present most
excellent Board of officers have. however,
appropriated as personal to themselves,
what was meant solely to apply to the office
as public trust. We have, on several
occasions, commended the management of
the present Board, and never condemned
any of its acts except in the matter of the
insufficient levy for school tax, which in an
economic view, might be said to be "erring
on the better side" The present Board,
to its lasting honor, was the first and only
Democrat Board that ever snubbed the
Elkton Ring, and had the independence to
do the business without it's dictation. For
this alone it deserves and receives the thanks
of the public. Our remarks which have
been painful to the Board, were intended
to apply to the practice which has been fol-
lowed by every Board that has administered
the office, at least for several years-cer-
tainly the practice was not originated by
the present Board-of publishing no proper
statement of accounts. Certainly no bal
hot
office. A levy list is published, based on
the bills presented to the Office for pay
ment, with an estimate to cover insolven-
cies and other hypothecated liabilities for
the ensuing year. This Appropriated state
ment is published at the beginning of the
year, but no balanced account is made pub
lie at the close of the years business. Here
is door standing wide open, always has
been standing open, inviting abuse. How
many sundries could be pushed in, and
what large amounts of money could be
drawn out, by dishonest Board and their
clerk, as has been done in some of the coun-
ties. Who of the public, without a tedious
personal, we might say impossible, exami-
the hands of the Collectors at the years
end, what the Clerk receives for his ser
vices, or how much of the appropriations
is actually paid to the Aims House, or
whether all, or what part of any appropria-
ton is paid. All these things of the first
Importance for the public to know, and
many more of similar character remain
entirely unknown. 1t is this wretched sys-
tenn which obtains in our County Commits
sioners' Office, which needs overhaulng and
reforming. In thi. respect the present
Board have contented themselves with a
negative course and are not in advance of
their predecessors. No reflection was in
tended, on the uprightness and very fair
management of the present Board, and
their courteous, genial and obliging Clerk.
May the latters exuberant beard be whit
ened by the frosts of seventy Winters.
The Democratic club meeting here
played out completely last Saturday night.
The band blew awhile outside and then
marched in and played a tune or two, and
no audience being present to respond, they
marched home. 1t is wholesome sign Of
increasing intelligence and independence,
when the Ring masters of party fail to be
! able to herd their party voters by the ma
chinery of clubs. There is generally about
as much inform alton and satisfaction to be
gained by listening to nine GU. of ten of the
cheap speakers who do duty at their weekly
clubs, as there is in the braying of a jack
ass. The amount of political information
dispensed is an even set-off between the
ass and his twolegged rival, and for an
open air exercise the jacks discourse is
preferable by heavy odds.
At Port Deposit the Democracy are more
rural and appear to be more lively. Mil
ton Y. Kidd brings up bowler from Bal
timore on Friday eveniugs-the Ring furn.
ishing the money, of course, to defray ex-
| penses-and the business of keeping the
party up to it's discipline is faithfully pur-
sued. Milton is in company with the Ring,
and is expecting place in the Legislature
if the Ring wins. If Democrats will look
at the absurdity of this business, and the
GhOiOuShiy SOiioh obJSSC oiihSd LHOS
will assert their independence and send this
gang of Ring treasury plunderers to grass
for living. They all know Kidd's object
in being active and bringing up block head
speakers to try and amuse them and keep
the voters from thinking for themselves;
and they ought, as men, to be ashamed to
allow themselves to be made use of to Sc
cure fat places for lazy, worthless fellows
to draw money from the treasury. The
idea of herder coming up from the head
quarters of the Ring in Baltimore once
week, to gather them up like sheep and
count them, for fear they stray, is enough
to make man, with any manhood, heartily
ashamed of himself.
Best Boots, at the lowest prices, war
rauted GLASS FRONT