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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08
II. E. Lees.
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Umpire, Lionel Adams; scorer, y. A. Bene-
dict, r. E. Lee Club.
The p. Kuhn ana A. 8. Badger clubs met
yesterday In Algiers, and the Kuhn nine were
defeated by score OF 10 to SO.
Another challenge from the Kuhn to the
Badger boys has been issued and a return
match Is probable.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Searching il the Debris Of the Fallen Build
ing at Cheyenne.

CHEYF SNE, Sept. 6.-The debris of the
building which fell last night was cleared
away to-day, and the bodies of Mrs. Bells
boys, and 6 years OF age, taken out. It is
are doing well, and 1t is thought that none
ere fatally injured
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08
SPORTING NEWS.
The Beacon Park Races.

BosTaN, Mass, Sept. g. The inaugural
meeting Of the Boston Driving and Athletic
Association at Beacon PARK was to-day
brought to successful close, in the presence
OF fully five thousand persons. The following
are the summaries:
2:25 Glass Friday and Saturday; purse
$2000-diHid iHided-S12O0, 5000 and $500; mile
heats three In five in harness:
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08
FRANCE.

PARIS, Sett. 7.--Baron Isidore Taylor. the
TeIl-knowE traveller and author, Is dead.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08
The Morgan Railroad.

Owing to bad weather the Morgan line only
advanced two miles west of New Iberia dur
ing the past week.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08

If you want gas fixtures cali on Barnes 4
Miller. No. Is Natchez street.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08

AoaAl COttti- .3S9
Inc Liltenthal cup was won for the third
and final time by Mr.. John X. Renaud, who
now holds 1t as his own. His totals were 200
yards, 20; 500 yards. 81. Grand total, Al. The
totals OF the others who shot for 1t yesterday
were as fOIIous.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08
a LARGE FIRE AT QUINCY. III,.

CHICAGO, Sept. THE particulars have
peer received here Of a fire at Quincy, ILL.,.
yesterday, which destroyed the Academy OF
Music, board OF trade rooms, telegraph office,
Masonic Hall and number of other build
ings. The loss is s125,c00. One man was
killed by a falling wall.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08
BURNING ,eF ca EMIcAL WORKS.

New YORK, Sept. 6.-S Adler q Sons chem
lea1 color works, Gold and Tillery streets,
Bfooklyl, We're DANA ged tonight to the ex-
teEt OF $35, ,0oG by fire
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-08

The following communication has been sent
to the DEMOCRAT, and we cheerfully give
s,1a 70, IL
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
WHAT IS LOCAL OPTION.

The law passed in 1873 for Kent county
which is the law proposed to be passed
for Cecil, gives to the people the right to
saw by their votes whether there shall OF
shall not be license for the sale of intoxl-
eating liquor. The law does not pro-
hibit the issuing license. 1t does nothing
but leave to the people to say what shall
be done. Who dares to deny to the peo-
pie the right to settle this question? The
constitution, the very charter OF our
rights and liberties, is adopted in this
way. At that election every citizen Will
have the right to vote as his conscience
dictates. He is no more compelled to
vote ssno license than he is to vote foi
Hamilton OF Gary. The law leaves every
man free. Again we say who dares te
deny to the people this right?
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
GOV CARROLL PLEADS GUILTY

It is refreshing to witness the peniten-
tial moods of some of the Democratic
leaders. the half-confcssed misconduct OF
the "party" managers. In his speech
ON the Goth ultimo, Governor Carroll
speaLs out in meetin', and says:
eve will need economy and retrench-
ment in our expenditures, the looping on
of MANY useless officers, and a new regis
tration law by which perfect fairness can
he secured at our elections. The people
will also demand an absolute change IN
the present system of the inspection OF
tobacco and such a modification OF our
school system as will guard more securely
the interests of the public.
The mood comes on generally about
| election time. We need, but never get
this. We requirs, but nerer realize that
reform. The people haze sickened OF
Democratic promises. They prefer to
trust the management of public offices t&
other hands. They expressed this pref
GRANGE for Mr.. Harris as Governor, IL
1875. but were cheated out OF theii
choice. And now the very man who
co,.doned the felony, pleads for honesty
and economy. The confession may re
lieve the soul of the ..GGfessor, but thu
people can only obtain relief by a s.-riifgg {,
! in State and county ADMINISTRATIONS.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
Total erpen,e of roads and bridges by years:

If will be seen that, as usual, when
1866 is past the inevitable increase be
gins. which finally eliminates III 1868 III
the muniliccnt sum Of $4I, 2oS,s4 spent
by the Democrats in one year. IN 1910 inc
nresent road system was introduced, ul-
der which some saving of money has beeh
accomplished, yet at figures still far above
those expended by the Republicans While
in mower. 1t is true that, under the pres
ent system, the same opportunity Tor
creed may not occur FOR oilers and partl-
san cayorites to make time on the pubic
roads. But the system, which Its pro
;ectors have so much extolled, if admin
istored much longer as it has been, Will
very soon, in many sections Of the coun-
ty. leave the people of those sections
without what, with any regard for truth,
can be called roads. Instances OF most
reckless expenditures for individual benc-
| fit can be readily furnished from the
records Of the county, particularly dur
inn the wears 1871 and 1872. Damages
were awarded to individuals almost sole
" benefited by newly opened roads, t'
sums reaching twelve and fourteen hun
dred dollars. Dams were constructed
bordering on public roads, for individual
benefit, and grass grown roads construct
ed at the county's expense to graft.
partisan favorites.
Next compare the expenses oil the Cir
cult Court in the following years:
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
increase under Democratic management,
as witness:

True as the needle to the pole, the
Democratic tendency is upwards. The
highest amount the Republican Commits
sioners ever charged the county for their
official services and expenses was $967.-
90. These petty figures don't suffice for
Democratic financiers. In 1868, that levy
court charges the county with $3.30S.04.
There are other minor items of county
expenditure that furnish ground for un-
favorable criticism, noticeably the ",iail
job, that cost Cecil county many more
thousands of dollars than it should, and
for which we are carrying bonded debt
of $40, 100000, on which the taxpayers
pay annually $4,000 interest the
partisan manage::..cul of the almS-house,
by winch Democratic favorites become
purveyors for the county supplies at
prices of their own fixing, and other
matters of public interest, to which we
will avert in the immediate future. The
comparative exhibits we have made, GER
tainly display reckless business admin
istration upon the part Of the dominant
party. We make no extended comment
on these figures. They are more elo-
quent, mathematically, than would be
our mere rhetorical figures. They indi-
cate what we all know, that all parties
long in power become, if not corrupt, at
least careless of the public interests, and
ought to be changed. That the general
prosperity would be promoted by change
in the party administration of county
affairs, is, we believe, the honest convic-
ton of every man in Cecil county other
than partisan Democrat.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11

You can draw the line here again at
the same year-1S67, the Demo-
Gratis gained the ascendency in the State,
and find the figures grow before your
eyes. In 1868, with all the exceptional
demands Of war times and prices, $20,-
1885 is the highest amount levied upon
the county by the Republicans, and but
one notwithstanding it. AS SON
as the Democrats Gene into power the
twenties won't enumerate the figures,
1871 witnessing the sum of over $50, 000.-
90 paid by our people into the State
Treasury, and that on top of the exorbi-
tant amount levied for county purposes.
Nor must the important fact be over
looked, when considering the tremendous
annual increase in the amount of taxes
collected since the Democrats came into
power, that during the years in which
the Republicans made their highest
levies-$75, S05.34 being the maximum
reached by them in 1867, including the
sum of SIG, 302.22 for the public schools,
that Cecil county farmers were selling
their wheat at $3.50 and 50 90 per bushel,
and hay, oats and corn at corresponding
rates, with gold as high as $3.50 pre-
MUM. Now, while the Democrats in
crease the annual taxation about one
hundred per cent, the farmer sells his
wheat at $1.00 per bushcl, his hay, oats
and corn at proportionately low rates,
and gold is at par. The conclusion is
apparent that, while the farmers pro-
duce was high, he had, under Republi-
can rule in the county, the lo1est rate of
taxation; while now, that the prices of
agricultural products are the lowest, he
has, under Democratic rule, the highest
rate of taxation. Do not the figures
show it?
The examination of the county record
in these items of expenditure should be
peculiarly interesting in hard times to
those who have to foot the bills. The
amounts Of taxes levied for, and paid to
the sherifs for series of years, furnish
food for reflection, the reader not forget
ting that these sums were paid in addi-
ton to other fees collected from individ-
,a1e
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11

The reader will notice that i'll 1861 the
foes collected from the county double
those in the years Immediately follow
ing. In that year we had Democratic
sheriff. Mr.. James f. Oldham, then hold
ino the Office After his term the amount
diminished until the Democratic tide be-
gins to rise again in 1s67-high water
being reached in 1873, when the enorn-
Gus sum of $5.355.45 was paid to the
sheriff in one year. Democratic economy
eliminated in that year. And how?
Simply by constituting our county JAN a
temptinc asylum to board and lodge,
dine and sup, every passing tramp at tho
,o,ntu's rrDensr. 1t is difficult to decide
while considering these figures, which
more to admire, the humanity or the
cup;dity that inspired tho system. That
tramD board bill for 1873 is bright
fncerpost that marks the deH'roIe"ce OIL
county officers, for which other people
paid.
The outlaws for roads and bridges, rec
ornizcd as the most important of all pup
lie expenditures so far as the general IN
terests are concerned, furnish almos
equally suggestive figures.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING.

The Republican mass meeting, under
the auspices of the State and county
Executive Committees, which will be
held on the base ball club lot, near the
depot, in Elkton, on Saturday, the 18th
inst, promises to be one of the largest
held in the county for many years past.
Eminent speakers of National reputation
will be in attendance to discuss the
political questions of the day, and all
those who are tired of the burdens i'm
posed upon them by the corrupt Ring
that has used the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal, the Fish Commission and the
Oyster Navy for their personal aggran-
disement, and to perpetuate political
power are earnestly invited to attend.
1t is hoped that every Republican in the
county will take enough interest in the
success of his party to devote day to
this mass meeting, rs it is the only one
that will be held in the county during
the campaign. Then, honest farmers,
artisans, and mechanics, throw aside
your tools and implements, and come
from the hills of the Susquehanna and
Octoraro, and the slopes Of the Elk and
Bohemia, to aid by your presence at this
meeting the cause of municipal reform
and good government.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
THE RECORD OF LOCAL DEMO-
CRATIC EXTRAVAGANCE.
Facts and Figures for Taxpayers to
Consider,

Every tax-paying citizen of Cecil coun-
ty has direct, personal interest in secur-
ing an economical administration of coun-
ty affairs. There never was probably
time when the burdens of local taxation
were more oppressive than now. The
depreciation of real estate, the low prices
of every agricultural product, the diff
Guilty that our farming classes everywhere
experience in making :" both ends meet
render the demand an imperative one,
that the public expenditures shall be re-
duced in keeping with the general shrink
age of values. 1t is fact that under the
prevailing and compulsory reduction in
the domestic and business affairs Of every
voter in Cecil county, there has not been
a corresponding reduction in county ex-
pcnditures. While the farmers of Cecil
county are realizing the lowest prices for
their grain. While the mechanic is re-
duced to the lowest rate Of wages per
diem. While every employe has felt the
hand Of retrenchment severely in his an
nual earnings, yet the individual contri-
button of every property holding citizen
in Cecil county towards the expense of
his local government, bears no compare
tive reduction, from the amounts he was
called upon to pay when the prices Ct his
products, his wages, and his salary were
more than double what they are now.
We propose in this article to present,
for the information and inspection of the
taxpayers of the county, the amounts
assessed and collected from them for
series of years, beginning with 1861, and
to draw such conclusions from the exhibit
as are warranted by plain statement of
the figures furnished by the record of the
County Commissioners Office. The man.
agement of the business affairs Of the
county has been continuously in the hands
of the Democrats since the Fall of 1866.
And while we make no sweeping charges
of individual dishonesty against those to
whom in recent years the business of the
| county has been entrusted, still We do
claim that the interests Of the taxpayers
have been seriously overlooked and dis
regarded, in the too often reckless and ex-
travagant expenditures of the public
money. 1t must not be forgotten that
the Democratic party came into power in
the county, clamorous for low taxes and
economy, and we propose to show, by
| figures taken from the county records,
| whether OF not they have kept their
| promises. The taxable basis of the pro-
! perty in the county from 1861 to 1867
was about eight millions of dollars, while
| the levy of the following year, 1868, was
| laid on a new assessment of fourteen mil
lions, which latter sum has been reduced
| by more recent assessment to the pres
ent taxable basis, viz, $13, 903, 234. The
records Of the County Commissioners
office show that the following amounts
| have been assessed and collected for
county expenses, for the past nineteen
years, during thirteen years of which the
| Democrats have had absolute control of
| the county affairs:
o. no
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
CHOOSE THE BEST MEN,

The present campaign is an important
:, =, - ut - -. :. ~ = -;
one. and of unusual f..crcst to the people
of Cecil county. We are about to elect
county officers to whose hands the pusi-
ness interests of the people are to DC
entrusted. The Republican candidates
for these offices are we'll known business
men of the highest standing, whose es-
necial fitness for the positions for when
thcy have been nominated even their
opponents concede. County matters Ill
Cecil need reforming. Gu ropponents are
clamorous for place and spolls. 1hey
nromisc reform OF anything else to be
continued in power, although they can
refer to nothing in their past record to
Justify their pretensions as reformers.-
The pressing necessities of the times re
m,ire radical reforms. We can only secure
them by change in county admlnlstra
ton, or in other words. by eleetlng the
best men. These the Republicans nov
offer the people.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11

.r-s- Yen, u. sc pucinD.i ~, i~'J.
WHEREAS. The Constitution OF Maryland de-
elarcs that all government of right originates
from, the people is founded in compact only. ana
Instituted solely for the good of the Wnois: ana
tq,y have ut ali times the inalienablsrgnt 10 a'er
reform or abolish their form OF government IN sueh
Inrnnvr as they NAV deem expedient: and
WHEREAS The Court of Appeals OF Marylano
in Inc case OF Hammond rs. Haines and Fell rs the
state have solemnly declared that law Wnlch
.riycs TO the citizens the right to say by their pal
ts whether licenses shall be granted for the SAFE
ui snritnous or crmented liquors is constitutional
and valid: therefore,
PcS0Iref That the determined and persistent re-
fusaI of the Legislature OF Maryland to allow inc
ritzeps of this State to say at the polls whether
licenses shall lie issued for the sale OF intoxicating
iipuurs is contrary to the leterof the Constitution
and destructive Of the inalienable rights oil the
people. hx This
Convention as Delegates to the Leg are
hereby instructed if elected to use their best o.
ferts to procure the passage OF an act Whicn SI"
give to the people TO right to say ny their Dalou
what shall be the future policy OF Maryland upor
this subject and whether the present license
shall or shall not be abolished. -
R,yJlred That failing to procure the passage
such an act for the whole State they shall endeavo
by all means in their power to secure tne ehac'
uient of law which shall authorize the lesa
voters of Cecil county to decide at the polls Nhethe
licenses to sell spirtuous or iermentcd ilquoIs !
th;= county shall shall not be granted. oal
Law To be similar in terms to the act chaptc
i6l Tor Kent county;
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
THE CECIL WING, EIKTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER II 1870

its. 1t were well for our taxpayers if it
did. Their pockets have been drained
by an additional and increasing demand,
in the shape of direct State taxes. Look
at the figures for each year, and add each
aggregate to the corresponding amounts
levied for county purposes, and so law
ishly disbursed. Since the year 1862 the
taxpayers Of Cecil county have paid
into the treasury of the State the follow
ing sums, beside, and in addition to- the
amounts above enumerated by YcarS VIZ ::
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11

THE Democratic party allowed South
ern traitors to make their plots and get
ready for war. The Republican party
saved the Union by war. Buchanan saw
no way by which he could "Constltution-
aIIy:' save the Union. Lincoln showed
that it could be DONE The Democrats
cursed the greenbacks because they fur
,,ished the "snews of war" to the Union
army. The Republicans first made the
oreenback a redeemcr of the country ana
then redeemed the gresnback. The Dem
,,crats after the war, prospered in hard
times. and tried to inflict on the peop,e
worthless paper. The Republicans made
the paper as good as gold, and not only
Good times but flush times have come
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
Next compare the expenses oil the Cir
cult Court in the following years:

As in the other items above recitcd,
when the year of Democratic jubilee il
reached-lS67,-t tidal wave OF III
creased and extravagant expenditure be-
gins, Of course,
Nor does tho increased levy Tor tho
County Commissioners, under Democratic
rule, show any exception to the general
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11

"THEY will run that club into the
ground" was the sentiment OF some gooa
Democrats who attended their club meet
ing at Vinegar Hill on the evening OF the
Bird instant, because Charles Carroll and
Aleck arc so alarmed about their own
success that they are now ready to sacrl-
flee the whole ticket for their gain. Any
thing to beat the Dutch Trade odd OF
even: any way at all.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11

IMPORTANT TO TAXPAYERS.
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11

The Cecil Democrat comments on Mr..
las. 4. Davis being at Hamilton meet
ing and wonders whether Mr.. Davis Will
,-oto for Mr.. Hamilton. Wo are not
answering conundrums about this tlmo,
but We know many Democrats who Will
vote for Mr.. Davis.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11

THE Republicans of Baltimore county
opened their campaign on Monday even
ing last by 4 large and enthusiastic meet
ING at Woodbury. James 7. Mccullough,
ESQ. candidate for Clerk of the Court OF
Appeals, was one of the speakers. 1t II
proposed to hold meetings throughout
She county,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-10-11
ORDER NISI.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS

STEPHEN ]. WOODROW AND WIFE.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county. In Equity.
No. go.
ORDERED. This 7th day Of October,
" 1879. that the sale made and reported by
Robert c. Thackery. Attorney for the sale OF the
real estate in the proceedings in this cause men
toned, be ratified and confirmed unless cause to
the contrary he shown on before the 18th day OF
December next; provided, copy of this Order be
county once q week for one month before the 18th
day OF November next.
Tho Report states the amount Of sales to be
81 ,225.0o. A W. MITCHELL. Clerk.
True COPY: test A. W. MITCHELL.
Oct lin Clerk.