The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-11-06
THE RESULT IN CECIL.

ELATON, NOV EMbER D, 1910.
THE RESULT IN CECIL.
The people of this county have again
entrusted to the Democrat party the con-
troll of their affairs; but the result, though
not, in all respects, what we expected, is
far from being discouraging. We carry
the county for Mr.. Harris for Governor by
a majority of 154. and elect Mr.. Cooling,
Sheriff. The majority for the balance of
the Democrat ticket is not such as to
render further effort hopeless, but rather
to encourage our friends throughout the
county to a more vigorous and earnest
struggle for that honesty and good govern
ment which must and uiH come in the near
future. The number of "split " tickets
cast is conclusive of the fact that "the
party whip" is losing its terror, that in
tolerance and partnership are being rele-
gated to the past, and that independence is
asserting itself in the support of integrity,
in the overthrow of SANDER, and in the
vindication of straightforward, manly con-
duct.
In regard to the rebuke which the people
have administered to Mr.. Shippers, we do
not wish to add one word which will in
crease his modification, but we must say,
that, in the election of MIR. Cooling, we
recognize, and we think Mr.. Shippers will
also, the success of consistency of action,
and the triumph of the sober, upright, God
fearing men of the county. We recon-
mend, in all seriousness, the verdict to Mr..
Shippers IS reminder and for his future
guidance. In Mr.. Cooling the people will
have an excellent officer, and a polite and
honorable gentleman. We know of no
reason why we should not express the same
sentiments for most of the gentlemen who
have been chosen for the other positions in
the county, and we shall be glad if, at the
eud of their respective TERMS we find no
cause to revise our present judgment
On the whole, therefore, there is in the
result much at which to be gratified, and
at nothing more than at the death blow
which has been given to the grovelling,
sycophantic cringing to party dictation
which has, heretofore, been the prominent
characteristic of Democracy.
t% The Democrat saw fit to close the cam
paign with the charge that it had been the
most 90 inscriptions " one on the part of
the opponents of the Democrat party it had
ever witnessed. AS far as The Wing or the
Citizens Reform Party are concerned, we
pronounce this charge false; as to what
individuals may have done, we know not,
nor is the party accountable for such wrong
acts, if any such have been committed.
The fitness and unfitness of candidates
were openly and freely discussed from the
rostrum and in the press. There was no
appeal to either the political or religious
prejudices of the people; on the contrary
the intention or desire to do so was pub
licly and persistently disavowed. If any
candidate was opposed merely for his relig-
ious or political opinions, it was matter
solely Of individual action. That it was
unsafe to place the affairs Of the State in
the hands of the men who were nominated
by an Infamous Ring was plainly shown.
That the ticket of the same party in this
county was the work of trading, scheming
politicians, who were to be benefited by it's
success, was as definitely charged, and the
future will fully sustain it. No mans pri-
vate character was touched; but the public
acts of men were openly ventilated.
1t was an unusual campaign-made so by
the interests involved. On the one side was
the Ring, determined to hold on to power,
that it might continue to plumber the peo-
pie: while on the other side were the men
of both pariies-who, for the time, sunk
all party differences-joined to rid the State
and county of the incubus of taxation that
is grinding the very life out of our people,
and from the stigma of loaferism and row.
dyism that is entertained abroad and which
is driving the better part of our young men
from our borders and preventing the COM
ing among us of enterprising people from
other States