The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-01-15
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ELKTONs JANUARY Is, 1916.
WE have not considered lightly the

ELKTON. JANUARY Is, 1876.
WE have not considered lightly the
amount of labor and attention incident
upon the successful editorial and bust
ness management of "The Wing -
Therefore we shall neither indulge in
Juvenile journalistic Enthusiasm,
nor allow inexperence of the business
we have in hand, to suggest the proba-
bility of failure With the hope of
commanding the respect of our patrons
and the public, we shall not predicate
success upon any overweening conf
dence in our ability, but upon the reso-
luton and endeavor to secure for our
paper the highest attainable standard
of excellence, by pursuing a manly and
dignified course on all subjects legiti-
mately within the province of the jour
nalist. We regard this a laudable
ambition, an indispensable incentive to
exerton, and its realization our highest
reward While we do not expect to dis
play any special originality Of thought,
or unusual faculty of expression, nor
vet to be like mime ancient Iago.
nothing if not critical" yet we hope
in all emergencies to have at our COM
mand sufficient bold and vigorous An
glo-Saxon with which to advocate the
true, and condemn the false We hope
to avoid the error still too prevalent,
Of regarding the columns of our paper
as the sole and proprietary vehicles for
the expression of the merely individual
Ideas and opinions of their owner
Regarding the fact that The Wing"
represents respectable and intelligent
constituency, it shall be our business to
know, that it is fully in accordance
with, and truly represents that con-
stituencv upon all matters of public
concern. That its influence, whether
extended or limited shall be exerted
towards the building up of an enlight-
ened public sentiment. A sentiment
which by the force of popular express
sion checks bigotry and sectarianism in
the churches, and tends tc evangeize,
harmonic and unite Which gives
tone to communities, excites to indi-
vidual liberality shapes and directs
our popular charities, fosters and pre-
serves the general morality, elevates
the standard of individual honesty in
business and politics, and controls leg
islation by giving voice to the public
conscience
The Wing" will be the outspoken
and steadfast friend of Education and
the Public Schools, and the maintain
ence Of the Common School fund, intact
from, and removed beyond, sectarian or
UNCONVENTIONAL influence and control.
The advocate Of progress, it will
warmly espouse the cause of every
practicable measure, calculated to con-
tribute to the moral improvement, ma
terial growth, and general prosperity of
the county. Devoted to Republican
principles in broad party sense, but
not partizan or prejudiced, it will aid
by every honorable means in its power
the successful accomplishment of the
objects Of the Reform movement now
organized in the State. The Purifca-
ton of the Ballot Box, the Primary,
and the general machinery of politics.
The elevation of a higher and better
class of men to positions of honor and
profit. The Inauguration of wiser
and more economical administration in
State affairs. The honest appropriation
OF the peoples money for public uses
only. The enforcement of strcter
official accountability, and the reduction
Of debt, and the burthcns of taxation,
by just and equitable reassessment
of the taxable property of the State.
In the conduct of The Wing" as a
political paper, while its Editor holds
that the records of public men are the
property of the public, and as such are
the proper subjects of individual or
editorial comment, censure, or criticism,
vet he disclaims the intention of indulg-
ing at any time in mere personal dia-
tribe, vituperation, or abuse Cherish
ing no personal resentments, he hopes
in turn to provoke none, assuming that
the public ordinarily feels but little con-
Germ in the personal differences of men.
either in their public or private capaci-
ties.
In our desire to render 1.-The Wing "
so far as may be practicable, popular
with all classes of readers, we bespeak
for it the support and patronage of the
people Of the county, to whom its col
umns for all proper purposes shall al
ways be open.
THE message Of retiring Governor