Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-01-18
lSAND ABOUT ELKTON.

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seF-The Anses sf Local OD'AO
n the T0wn-Tho Political FieA'
The aewsDapers, etc.
Tha town of Elkton ia situated on I'll,
Ip. w, n b, Railroad. about twent,
miles from this city. and il the count,
seat of Cecil County Previous to las
Nav when local opfion went into ett.ct
Elkton was a lively and quite n bus
Iiness nlace since thi, law has oon,
Into effect in Cecil County the maiorit,
of the merchants have suffered thereby
While many neople desire tn see liono,
abolisbed from every community. there
are others who do net desire it. IL ia y
we'll. known fact, that where no liauo,
il sold business ia seriously Unmarried
This fact has been fully nnrtrayed IN
the little town of Elkion. Tas large
number Of country people who pre.
vinuslv came m town on n satnrdav n
aka their purchases. and perhaps pe,
a little iollv' before local ortion went
into effect have ceased, TO a certain ex.
tent their visits to this place, prtferinp
to make their purch ases where liausr
ia sold Tn talking with a leading
merchant of the place. in regard 20 the
usnal uuiet ness on saturday. he said il
was ali ON account, of lo,al optiop,
The question was asked him, "Does
II ave any effect on tn. business of the
place?" He answered the question by
saving, at was a bad day on a Satur.
dnv # we did not take over 5000 before
this law went into force, and now it is
a GOOD day if we take in $50" hany
otter citizens were interviewed on the
suhiect. and they all. with one accord. i.
sav "that local option has killed the
town" OF course the social glass is
not used about the to wn except in private
families but the boys, who will drink
in snite of any thing done to prevent il.
20 to Newark and Wilmington, and
there drink to their hearts content. 1t
was stated by one gentleman that he
knew of youny men who nev. r drank a
drop of liquor in Elkton, to his knowl-
edge. that now 90 away from home and
drink freely. Simply for the novelty of
the thing, In getting az mucn liquor as
thew waited by going a few miles from
home
If men. both old and young, want to
drink, nothing in this world will stop
them as lonp AZ it is manufactured
The coming campaign il being agi :.
tated on every hand, and the political
fever will wax high at the next election
in E]kIon and Cecil County.
The county and town is largely Dem
ocratic. There are two factions in the
Republican party, which are about
equally divided. The contest for otti-
GERS of the.town, at the next election,
from all accounts, will be ID spirited
one. owing to the fact that several DO
litical issues are at stake. In the cleo
tion of town bailiffs, the main issue will
be the paving of Bow street Said street
il in terrible condition and wholly un-
fit for pedestrians to travel on. This
at rect has long been an eve sore to man Y
of thr residents. while there are some
who do not seem to think that it should
be paved at the expense OF the town.
AS they do not have occasion to traverse
this street much, their views are purely
selfish ones.
How the matter will end, remains to
be seen but an election, without the
necessary "electiou whiskey," will be
an uphill lob,
EIkton is blessed with sufficient
number of newspapers, all of which
seem TO be we'll supported.
A visit to the Wing Office found the
genial editor of that paper sitting back
=: IL: ,l;.nr;,1 ,t,;r nar,,u;,,r +ha c,l
umns of a newspaper. The writer was
made welcome, and long talk was in
duloed in Dnrinp the conversation it
was learned that the paper, which is
Renublican in rolitics. was in a -four.
ish,no condition and the proprietors
we're Concentrating the purchase of u
new press. They also are talking 80
riousIy of purchasing new engine, in
order to RIM their n,esses by steam. The
Whip is one of the KEpuBL1CAN's
most welcome exchanges
The Democrat office was next visited,