The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-03-09
NUTS FOR TAX PAYERS TO CRACK.

The investigation of the State House
repair job drags its weary length along
at Annapolis, and if the proverbial
bucket of legislative whitewash is not
ready for the brush, it is not for want
of the materials to mix it. The items
of expenditure, so far developed, are
interesting, particularly those relating
to the gas fixture branch of the inves-
tieation, and which, paradoXical as it
NAV seem, throw more real than arti-
fetal light on the entire transaction.
1t is hardly necessary to inform tax
PAYERS that we have an ambitious Gov
ernor in Maryland, although $4,000
voters at the last gubernatoral elec-
ton refused to crafty this gentleman :
political ambitions, and voted against
him. This scion Of Maryland nobility
has nice sense Of the proprielies. He
determined that the Governors room
at least should be brilliant, whatever
contrast it might present to its de
facto occupant He made it gorgeous
and the fitting retreat of the Centen-
NAL Governor of old Maryland We
mention a single item that adorns this
aristocratic boudoir \ chandelier that
costs $3.50 How its mellowing rays
llumine that iovian front. We can i'm
agine an impecunious Bourbon Granger
from Cecil: one of those honest, debt
paving, mortg age-murdered men Mr..
Coudon writes about, gazing lovingly
at the crystal toy. Anyiously he asks
its cost. But trifie, the flippant
tongue replies-only $3.50. Nervously
he clutches his pocket-book, as his mind
instinctivcly reverts to his own tallow
dip beside the Pickering fame of which
he has often read of 81 Democracy, econ
omy and retrenchment.'
Among the items of interest wa,
the fact that the raw silk curtains
had been called from Paris " SO the
correspondent Of the Baltimore "Sun -
informs us Imagine the effect of this
intelligence upon the nervous systems
of Democrats like Fields of Caroline
Can it offend the taste Of Democrats of
refinement and culture, to know that no
American ware house could furnish the
drapery, against which to outline the
forms and figures of our graceful and
gracious rulers? But old habits and
associations will assert themselves
Democracy, although surrounded By
such appendages of refinement, still
loses none of its distinctive marks
Boarbons must spit. Heaven spare the
curtains and carpets when wcIl-primed
delegate eXpectorates his best. After
that the deluge
ut ut&l Iltiil, therefore, tAciltS no
surprise Two hundred and thirty
four dollars for spittoons is low figure.
Evidently they are not in keeping wi h
the rest of the establishment. That
elegant drapery back of the Judges
bench, in the Court of Appeals, is not
expensive. 1t only cost $500, with as
much more for those back of the pre-
siding officers of the Senate and House.
But space will not suffice to follow in
detail the gorgeous display the consid-
crate Board of Public Works have pre-
sented the people Of the State A
splendid gift indeed, reminding Us forci-
bly, of the doting wife's Christmas offer
ing of affection, which she bought at
the store on credit and ordered in the
bill. Her husband doubtless cnioyed
this touching evidence of affection, but
which the discovery Of its cost in his
new year settlement failed to enhance