The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-05-22
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ON, MAY ID, 1875.
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selections of the Fittest" The Democrat
AXES the clowns advice in getting back
from its Darwin theory of "Selections of
the Fittest," which was to run back, jump
back, tumble back, crawl back, or go back
backwards; any way SO as to get back. 1t
didn't mean to select "the fittest.' 1t
meant something else entirely different. 1t
"meaut the selection of the fittest from a
party fit to select from" We have had
some sorry selections from that lot-that
''party fit to select from" This new doc
trine of Tile Democrat turns out to be only
little ring buncumb. The " tittest" be-
ing the nominees put forward by the wire
pullers, and called the ticket. The Demo-
crat doesn't dare propose to scratch one
from that anointed list, although he be
known to be the verest scamp and thief in
the county or State. There is no use in
the attempt to kick up dust and vow that
no Republican is fit to be elected to office,
and that such candidate is not to be
thought of. There is as large per cent of
honest, faithful and capable Republicans III
the county, State and nation, and who have
been found patriotic and faithful to every
trust reposed in them by the people, as ever
existed in any party. And on the other
hand as great thieves and scoundrels have
been voted into office by the Democrat
party, and warmly supported by The Cecil
Democrat as ever went unhung.
1t is bit of the cheapest clap trap to
charge the Republican party with commenc-
ing the civil war. Everybody knows-and
Tie Democrat may as we'll own the corn
that the Democrat party who followed
Breckenridge, whose death is announced in
to-day's WAig-and The Cecil Democrat W as
among the crowd-was the party which
commenced the civil war. The Republican
party ended ii. Our neighbor has got the
cart before the horse in his new role of
Darwinism, and in his splutter to get back
to the ranks of the ring, lest he be accused
of straying OR suggesting heretical doc
trine. Here is a sentence every way worthy
of that miserable old Bourbon the Due
suitable material in the Radical party to
select from, never entered our Imagination
Indeed, it is not a possible idea for a
Democrat to entertain" Our suggestion
which so frightened The Democrat was,
that the black sheep on its ticket might be
replaced with better men from the Republi-
can nominees, or by candidates not placed
in nomination by the party machinery, or
their places left blank; but the g tittest y
selections are whatever the "wire pulling
politicians choose to set up. This is re-
formation very similar to all Democratic
reforms. That party always protects as
far as possible its own thieves. The Demo-
Gratis idea of selecting the fittest would
square remarkably we'll with Plus IN and
the Infallibility doctrine. The party keeps
its conscience, and the inner rings dictate
its course, name its candidates, and push
it share of the spoils for implicit obedi-
ence; and this is the sum and substance,
the Alpha and Omega of its indie pendence-
it's " fittest," its "well of TRUTH and
water lOl lcdOclS uo ldiN-
GUS Squire to the knight of La Mancha,
thought it bad policy to "look the gift
horse i'll the MOUTH or question the san
ity or perfection of his master. And with
Panza, The Democrat takes its quid pro
quo, and obeys without question or MUIR
muir the behests of its wire-pulling mana
gers; declares its ticket is made up entirely
of angels, advocates and votes for Greeley
or John Morrissey with the same alac-
rity and unmurmuring obedience. This is
"selection Of the fittest - and independent
journalism with vengeance! A good sheep
would be ashamed to show such servility
and cewardice as The Democrat publishes
in it's declaration (of WANT of principle last
week.
THE DIREFuL EFFECTS OF LOCAL OP-
TON IN CAROLINE CoUNTY.-The Ameri-
can Union, published at Denton, gives
something like the following account of
Local Option in that county:
cat the late sitting of the Grand Jury
for this county there was not single case
of assault and battery before them, nor
single complaint of a violation Of the pub
lie peace. Our Jail is without tenant and
has been for the past six months. At the
recent session of our Circuit Court, had it
not been for the old business which had
accumulated under the whisky reign, the
term would not have lasted three days"
This is bad state of affairs to be sure:
Jail without tenant; not single case
of assault and battery before the Grand
Jury-court only three days in session.
What's the use of having a court and Jail
and Grand Jury? And all the result of
having nothing to drink. How can our
court be expected to sit on the bench and
suffer from thirst, when it has plenty of
good liquor at home, or folks to fight worth
cent, or the Grand Jury to find true bills
while parching with thirst . We were
always sure Local Option would bring
about some such disaster.
fE- The Connecticut Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, one of the oldest, best man.
"SSu ohu ihooe III GULL
panies known in the history of life insur-
ance, had its beginning in 1876, and its
assets to-day are over forty millions of dol
lars. OF all the money it has received it
has paid to its policy holders in various
ways $43, 143, 1886, equivalent to 5O.14
per cent of its receipts, and its present sur
plus is very nearly four millions. Its bust,
ness is conducted in a manner at once con-
sentative and enter prising and at an e1-
pense of less than nine per cent per annum
of its receipts, and the dividend for 1874
was over forty per cent of the annual pre-
miums. In Maryland and Delaware the
Connecticut Mutual has acquired immense
interest and popularity which brings it
to constantly increasing business. Mr.
Walter S. Wilkinson has been appointed
general agent for Maryland and Delaware.
Mr.. Wilkinson has been for several years
the general agent here of the John Han
cock Mutual Life of Boston, a company
which by his exsrtions has secured a re-
markably large and satisfactory line of
business. We must congratulate the Con-
necticut Mutual upon having secured such
An excellent representative as Mr.. Wilkin-
son. His experience in insurance, his ad
mirable business IN a lifioatiopc and i 10 hill,