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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02
THURMAN FOR VICE. PRESIDENT.
The Old Roman Is Stated the PI esi-
dents Running Mate.

"Ihe Ola Roman Is stated as The - esi-
dents Running Mate.
WASHINGTON, May est has been
freely whispered about for more than a
week tia the President had selected
a lien G Thurman for IL running mate
this year. 1t was impossible to believe
it until assuI ice was given to-day thar
Judge Thurman had written :: personal
note agreeing to accept the nOliiEa ton.
1t is difficult still to believe that such
a man as Thurman should be willing to
take sec ,ud place to such a man as
Cleveland. Bat the assurance that he
has written letter agreeing to accept
the nomination comes from the best
authority, aud his sou, Allen w. Thurman
is here to day. He spent an hour with
the President and another with Secretary
Whitney. Secretary Whitney subse
quently drove up to the capitol and spent
another hour in consultation with Sena-
Tor G ,rman and Mr.. Scott in the room of
the Sab Committee Finance. Cleveland
and Thurman is undoubtedly the slate at
present, and all the little Black and
Stevenson and Guy and Morrison booms
have been spanked aud put TO bed 1t is
said that the President selected Thurman
because the rival ambitions of these can
didases threatened to make trouble, and
it wss necessary to put into the field some
candidate big en- Dugh to scare the small
fry out of the fight. Thurman was Sc
lected, and while Mr.. Scott and Mr..
Whitney set to work to persuade him
that riding behind would just suit him
dilIgent inquiries were set afoot as to his
health. Some of the reports were not
favorable, but Mr.. Scott. with the lofty
spirit characteristic of his politics,
answered all ohiectien upon this score
with the declaration that it 'doesu t
make Il blauked pit of difference if he
dies i'll six months, so ne holds out
through the campaign. L. isn't IA strong
vice president we need SO much as a
Strong candidate"
The funny part of the whole business
is that Secretary Whitney is said to have
been the chief manager of the Thurman
scheme. Mr.. WhitLey's iather-n law,
Senator Payne, hates Thurman worse
than snakes, and Judge Thurman's pres
ent employment ont in Ohio is trying to
put some political henchmen of Payne
aud Mclean into the peniteuLiary. Poll
ticians here are divided into two classes;
some wondering if even the President
is strong enough to make the warning
factions of OHIO kiss and make up.
Others, taking Secretary Whitney's posi-
tion into consideration. are re minded of
the long-ago campaign in which Davis
went to good deal of trouble to have
Uriah put in the forefront of the battle.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02

The political advocates of free trade
may make what specious arguments
they please to American farmers and
laborers, but they cannot conceal the
fact from any intelligent workingman,
that the tariff question is largely with
HIM a question of employment and
wages. If duties remain as they are,
and fixed as they have been so long
European pauper competition will be
shut out, and living American wages
that give daily toilers here better food,
better clothing, better education, than
they could ever get in any other coun-
try, with some spare dollars to lay by,
will be still paid to him. If the Mills
bill becomes law, duties will be cut
and wages will drop tremendously.
Manufacturers will have to choose be-
tween offering lower wages and closing
their mills, and workingmen will have
to choose between taking the beggarly
pittances offered and taking nothing.
That is the meat in the cocoanut.
President Cleveland knows it and his
iree-trade abettors know it, but they do
not care how the masses suffer if they
can make political point.
The European workman is hope
lesslY paupelized, toiling for few
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02

The attitude of many Democratic
congressman towards the Mills bill
would be amusing were it not so PAIN
fully inconsistent. They are actually
demanding to have SO many articles
stricken from the free list and BIT made
dut1able as to jeopardize the passage of
the bill. This simply means that they
are Free Traders in theory but practi-
cally Protectionists. In other words
they talk free-trade to farmers, but take
good care to keep the duty on every
article which their constituents manu-
facture. For instance, Mr.. Raynor,
from Maryland, recently made fam
ing free-trade speech and then walked
that the present duty be kept on glass
and articles made of glass. 1t turns
out that Mr.. Raynor does this in the
interest of certain Baltimore manufaC.
turers of glass who are constituents of
his. Free-trade is well enough to talk
about, but Mr.. Kaynor doesn't want it
to strike too close to his interests. In
other words, every free trade theorist
in Congress only wants the tariff to help
his constituency-them and no more.
1t is the case of the selfish dcacon's
prayer over again: 'Oh Lord, help
me and my wife, my son John and my
son Johns wife-we four and no more.
Amen"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02

jet which to .Stata does hot teach is
the duty as well as the privilege of citi-
zership. II the two great parties could
organize their members, and especially
the young men of the Republic, in the
real science OF politics, teaching them
that in this country, where the system
of government would be as nearly per-
feet as the human mind can make it, if
1t were wisely, honestly administered,
the prosperity and happiness of the
people depend largely upon the moral
and mental fitness of those who are
charged with the responsible duty of
executing the laws, they would be doing
an inestimable service. That. however,
is wholly different thing from teaching
them that the first duty of Republican
or a Democrat is to ''vote the regular
ticket' of his party, no matter how IT.
regular may be the character of the
candidates composing the ticket. the
first political duty of all which our
young men should be taught is that, no
matter how noble or important the
principle may be, the attempt to main
tain it by the election OF incompetent
or dishonest candidates Tor public office
will fail. Inc principles OF Our Gov
eminent are good enough =; what are
wanted are men of high character and
ability to realize them.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02

shillings per week, from witch he pays
room rent, in a reeking tenement ana
BUYS coarse, scant fare, upon which MS
wife and wretched children exist the
American workman lives Ike man,
not a beast, with wages twice or three
as great as in England or on the Con-
tinent. Toilers here wear no blouSes
or class caps. They have regular
meat diet, while meat is rarity to the
toiling masses of Europe. American
workmen rent houses, or own them,
send their children to the best schools,
and the vast accumulations in the saw
ings banks prove that they save money
The tariff protects American wages
This Is its intention, its vital purpose,
its grand success. That is why the
tariff question is simply the wage ques-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02

From present indications campaign
"clubs" will play an important part On
both sides in the coming presidential
campaign. The reason assigned for
the organization of such clubs is that
young men who are about to cast their
first vote for president will be afforded
an opportunity to learn something of
of the science CD of politics, and
thereby be the better prepared to cast
their ballots 1ntelllgently. There may
be something IN this, and while we are
not prepared to deny the value of Or
ganization as a necessary means of Sc
curing the ascendancy of sound p oliti-
cal principles, yet we are disposed 10
believe that political clubs as a general
rule are better schools for teaching the
arts OF office seeking than for acquiring
knowledge of the science OF govern
ment, or teaching the duties of good
citizenship. If both parties were to
organize their members into clubs
which would be schools for the teach
ing of political science, and the duty of
citizens. to the State, they could do no
better thing for the public welfare. But
we think it can hardly be claimed that
there is much education of this kind
acquired in the average political cam
paign club, simply tor the reason that
it IS generally organized by politicians
who use it for individual purposes. We
are not to be understood as in any
sense undertaking the benefits of pub
lie discussion of political issues, but we
believe that open mass meetings con-
Quoted through the regular committees
of party organizations are a better
medium through which to influence in.
telIigent public sentiment than political
"clubs," which are desi gned principally
for parade and display. As conserva-
tive and sensible contemporary very per
tinently says: "Unless we misunder-
stand the object OF such organizations,
the principal object of them is to IN
duce young men to join them for the
purpose of campaign demonstration,
to march through the streets IN uniform,
carrying banners and torches, and
keeping step to the music of the band
There is no education in that, or, if
there is, we doubt if it is of a desirable
sort. The young men who enter poll
tics through the door of the campaign
club are rather more likely than not to
consider themselves in training for pub
lie office, and, by virtue of wearing the
party's uniform, marching, carrying a
dirty lamp and shouting themselves
hoarse at public meetings, as having
claims upon the party or leaders for
places under the Federal State or local
government. They could hardly lay
out for themselves any worse plan OF
political lite than that.
The State assumes the education of
its youth solely that it may create and
maintain a nation of good citizens, and
yet the one supremacy important sub
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02
THE VESTIBULE CARS.

Speaking of the injunction in favor OF
the Pullman Company, restraining the
Wagner people from the use of the yes.
ubule attachment, a prominent railroad
man said the other day; 1.-The vestibuie
attachment is one of the most important
improvements of the age toward the per-
lection of absolute comfort in passenger
Car construction. Several wears ago, when
the dining Car was introduced and the
practice of preparing and serving meals
on railway trains inaugu, ated, it was
found that timid people, especially ladies
and invalids, experienced great difficulty
in passing from their seats in the sleeper
to the dining car when the train was
running at high rate of speed. The open
platforms between the cars formed a gu Il
over which they feared 30 attempt pass
age in fine weather and which in wind or
storm, or both, wei impossible to people
with delicate constitutions Ii the dining
car system was to be a success, this
objection must be overcome, and the
Pullman people set themselves the task
of bridging the chasm. In order to accom-.
plish this end they evolved and developed
the idea of the ve5tibule, and in bringing
it into successful usage the railway com.
ptnies, as well as their patrons, find that
the original difficulty has not only been
completely overcome, but that Il great
many other marked advantages have
been secured i'll the introduction of the
vestlbule. One striking feature is the
additional strength created and distrib-
uted over the entire train by the close
lifting of the coaches to one another and
the consequently increased power to
Withstand the shock of u collision. Tel
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02
JOHNSON'S CLOSE GALL
How the Billiard Came Near stretching His
Neck.

HOW the SIiiZaru Came near SirechlllS II
Neck.
The day Governor Beaver respited
Samuel Johnson. alias Alex. Cuff" until
May I'd which was the day of the blizzard
The white hurricane had enveloped every
thing. 1t was the day on which Johnson
was to he hanged. Telegraph wires were
down between all points except Harris,
burg and this city.
Lawyer Bea'ley aud Senator Cooper
returned from Harrisburg, where they
had presented Governor Beaver with the
petition asking him to stay the execution.
H. two or three hours the magic words
saving Johnson again came flashing over
the wires.
The respite was granted, but how was
the negro to be informed. The railroads
were impossible At all points locomo
tives and cars were imbedded in the deep
snow drifts.
Lawyer Beaslep was well nigh frantic.
After much eloquent argument seven
locomotives were secured and attached
to passenger coach But it was impos-
sible to get to Media. The engines were
started to Chester, and got there after a
hard struggle.
Media is five miles distant. The roads
are winding and the suow-drifts were
mountainous. George H. Stuart, who
accompanied Mr.. B,asley, thought at
first the journey to Media was impossible.
At several places the two were refused
teams. Finally AN old man was found
who was willing to hire them a wagon
and drive.
In the snow storm they started out.
Johnson was to be hung before clock
1t was nearing that time. On through
the snow-drifts the horses plunged.
At the Media courthouse there was an
anxious little band of men. Sheriff Green
talked in u low voice with the reporters
and the jury. At last the door flew open
aud the two men, half dead, bearing the
respite, staggered in.
Johnson was saved
5 Ieritf Green went over to the Jail.
Johnson wore his grave character, and
was resigned to the death which he did
not know had been averted.
The sheriff told him his time had come,
and advised him to confess his crime.
johnson looked at the sheriff and said,
without tremor in his voice: 81 am in
nocent. | have nothing to confess. -
HHadelphia North American
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02
MIR. BIa:ne's Withdrawal.

No recent event has had SO important
a bearing upon the question of the
Republican nomination for the Presi-
dency, as Mr.. Blaine's letter written
from Florence in January last, i'll which
he stated that his name would not be
presented by his friends at Chicago Tor
the Presidential candidacy. The Ian
guage of that letter while bearing upon
its face the evidence of Mr.. Blalnes
reluctance to have his sfriends make a
contest in his behalf, was not when
fairly interpreted final and absolute
declination OF the nomination. When
this letter was written early in the year,
there were very many reasons why it
was not accepted as placing his nomi-
nation outside of the possibilities of the
Chicago Convention.
Mr.. Blaine has too strong a hold
upon the masses of his party to be put
out of the Presidential race, except by
his own deliberate act. VIII tever dis
ability he might labor under as a once
defeated candidate, yet there is the
ever present recollection of the magni-
ficent run he made in 1884 IN the city
and State of New York, and the indls
putable evidence of the ever-recurrent
enthusiasm which the mention of his
name excltes. Besides, while cooler
heads might be disposed to discount
the manifest influence of his bold and
aggressive Americanism, yet the fact
remains, that as gifted and able ex-
ponent of the great doctrine OF protec
ton to our home industries, and to
which we as a people owe our national
prosperity, among American states
men his equals are few, and none are
his superiors. 1t was not surprising
therefore that the possibility, indeed we
may say the probability of his nomlna-
ton, has been a continued subject of
public discussion, notwithstanding his
Florence letter, and which would have
continued, up to the very hour OF
the assembling of the National Con-
vention.
Now, however, Mr.. Blaine appears
as his own best interpreter of his
Florence letter, and by his own act re-
moves the last lingering doubt as to hi.
candidacy.
Assuming" he says, "that the pres
idential nomination could by any posi-
Bile chance be offered to me, l could
not accept it without leaving in the
minds of thousands of these men IRE
ferring to his political friends) the
impression that l had not been free
from indirectlon, and, therefore, l could
not accept it at ALL"
This language is certainly too explicit
for the most hypercritical to dispute
the meaning of, and throws new light
upon the meaning OF his first letter.
that he then intended as his withdrawal
from the active arena of American pol
ltics, in which he has long been SO
conspicuous figure.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02
DANGEROUS FOOD ADULTERATION
The Fraudulent Use of Alum and Lime il
Cheap Baking Powders.

The Fraudulent Use of Alum and Lime in
Cheap Baking Powders.
F.. If consumers prefer to buy an adulter-
at d lower price, they undoubtedly have
the right to do SO, provided the adulter
ants are not of d character injurious to
health. II such articles are not falsely sold
as pure, aud the customer is not deceived
as to their real character, the transaction
is not Legitimate.
But the great danger in the traffic III
adultei ated food arises from the deception
that is practiced 10y manufacturers usually
CHASING such goods IS pure. This is al
most invariably done when the adulterant
is one chat is injurious to health. For
Instance manufacturers Of alum aud lime
baking powders not only fail to inform
the public of the real character of their
goods, but carefully conceal the fact that
they are made from these poisonous arti-
Giles. Most of these manufacturers also
claim that their articles are pure and
wholesome while some go still further
and proclaim boldly that they are cream
of tartar goods. or even the genuine
Royal Baking Powder itself. No CON
sumner will buy alum baking powders
they are detrimental to health. The sale
of lime and alum baking powders as pure
and wholesome articles is, therefore,
criminal, and it Is satisfactory to notice
that sew raj persons engaged in such sale
have already been brought to Justice in
the courts.
The official analysts have recently been
active in the pursuit of these dishonest
;ala ,ha h,ly IF al
States have been carefully and critically
examined. The officials are surprised at
the large amount of lime and alum goods
found. it is a suggestive fact that no
baking powder except the r 'yal has been
found without either lime or alum, and
many contain both. DR. Prices baking
powder has been found To contain nearly
II pei cent. OF lime; Cleveland,s II per
cent. of impurities; the phosphate pow
ders over II per cent. of lime.
The chef service of lime is to add
weight. l. is true thai lime, when sub
jected to neat, gives off certain amount
of carbonic acid gas, but quicklime is
left-;l canstc OF most powerful rature
A small quantity of dry lime upon the
tongue, or i'll the eye, produces painful
effects; how much more serious must
these effects be on the delicate mem
branes of the stomach, intestines and
kidneys, more particularly of Infants and
children, and especially when the lime is
taken into the system day after daT. ard
with almost every meal. This is said by
physicians to be one of the causes of indi-
gestiou, dyspepsia and those painful dis
eases of the kidneys now so prevalent.
Adulteration with lime is quite as much
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02
MR.. BLAINE ROBBED,
HIS Private Papers and Correspondence
Said to Have Been Stolen.

SAID TO have Been StOlen-
New YORK, May 2S.-Au Augusta,
Me-, special to an evening paper, says:
During conversation with one of Mr..
Blaine's personal political friends last
Saturday he gave our reporter piece
of news which has never been made
public.
did you know" remarked the gen.
tleman, that Mr.. Blaine's house was
broken into some time while he and his
family were absent, and all his political
and business correspondence and private
papers, involving financial operations,
which were in bis library were overhaul
ed and portion of them distracted?
WE'LL such is the fact. The matter has
always been kept secret in the hope that
the thief might be discovered, but he
never has been, at least l never heard
that he was.
| don't think that anybody in par
ticular was ever suspected of being the
thief. The Supposition is that the robbery
was perpetrated in the expectation of
obtaining something among Mr.. Blaine s
private papers which might be used to
his political injury if ever wanted. |
never learned the character of the papers
stolen When the robbery was discovered
the floor of the library was found to be
Uttered with letters and papers which had
evidently been carefully examined
Every drawer was found to have been
ransacked and its contents either dis
turbed or dumped upon the floor"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02
FREE TRADE Is NOT THE THING.

Lo. England's trade is dying,
Her manufactures cease,
Her working men are crying
To God to bring release.
Their mystery is growing,
'Tis past imagining,
And, while they starve, they're showing
That Free Trades not the thing
But Cleveland says it's coming,
And Mills his word repeats.
And to this tune are drumming
Administration sheets:
They're all for cheaper prices
They all want duties down."
And by obscure devices
Their hopes they think they'll crown.
Fools are these politicians,
These Democratic knaves,
Who pose as wise lOyiGians,
While voters dig their graves;
For ballots thick will shroud them,
When Autumn's zephyrs sing;
They'll know, when grief has bowed them,
That Free Trades not the thing"
Rufus Rood.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02
Fiendish Amusement of an Escaped West
Virginia Lunatic.

PARKERsBURG, w. Va, May 2G-Infor-
nation reached here last night of the
horrible torture of boy named Jesse G.
Henderson by crazy tramp. Henderson
was working in field some distance
from home, near Long Reach, when a
fen1isb looking man OF immense stature
came up to him. He caught the boy and
tied him to a tree; then tying his hands,
he began to torture him. lie fastened a
needle IN IL stick and, standing Off, threw
it at the boy with sufficient force to drive
the needle deep into the flesh. When the
boy made an cutlery he would strike him
about the face, drawing the blood at
every blow. He then took large knife
and scored the lads hands in several
plac, He threatened to cut the boys
heart out; and to still further torture him,
threw his knife with remarkable aim,
pinning the boys clothes to the tree. He
would just Craze the flesh sufficiently to
draw the blood. the boy was thus tor
tured for an hour when some parties
appearing the man ran away. He was
afterwards captured, and proved to be au
escaped lunatic. His name is Isaiah Hoyt.
aud he says his home is in Columbus,
Ohio. He seemed to take the most tiend
ish delight in torturing the boy, and with
''ghoulish glee'' grinned at the child S
sutferings. The boys body is badly cut
and SCARED.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02

We congratulate Judge Davis upon
his neat little Conb-d'c tat in the
Havre de Grace Convention. He
wisely kept his own counsels, end at
the right moment threw the decisive
vote. 1t was but little paper ballot,
but to Messrs. Graham and Caldwell,
death deallng bullet, that destroyed
alike their opportunity and hope TO
help Fred Talbot. In politics, the I'M
expected too often happens.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-06-02

The ease with which men shed their
political coats is very well illustrated in
the case of Mr.. John M. Palmer, who
is now the Democratic nominee tor
governor of Illinois. Twenty-Five years
ago he was denouncing the Democrats
as TRAITORS, enemies to the country,
and rebel sympathizers, whom the peo-
pie could not trust in power strong
language that for the man who now
seeks place by Democratic votes.