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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26
No Sulking in New York

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-In view of the
evident reluctance with which ex-Seua-
Warner Miller attended the State Repub-
lIcan Convention, his appearance at yes
terday's rally of downtown Republicans,
and his long speech in behalf of the State
Repu blican ticket and in eulogy of the
Harrison Administration, is something
of political surprise, and indicates that
the man "who fell outside of the breast
works" still considers himself in the
fight. Considering the fact that he has
not shared in the fruits of last year. VIC
tory, the ex-Senator's command of him.
self is in many respects remarkable.
Other men, with less mental equipoise,
might have snlked, like Archilles, in
their tents, but Mr.. Miller wisely hides
his disappointment, and enters into the
canvas with full armour on. Two or
three paragraphs in his address to the
instance, this: "The Republican party
cougratulates itself to-day that it has
bean an Administration which is fully,
frankly ard squarely Repu blican Ad-
ministration, and if there may be any
soreheads or any discordant members of
the party, if there are those who are dis
pleased with the distribution of what
they may see fit to call the spoils. GER
tainly that sentiment will not be found
here among the business men of the city
of New York, for your interests in this
election are bound up, and controlled and
founded solely aud simply in the great
principles of the party and not in its
petty patronage" 1t is evident that the
ex-senator does no intend to rest under
the imputation of being a ''sorehead,
and, though defeated for Governor and
left out of the Cabinet, and not consulted
in the distribution of the ''spoils," he
desires to be still recognized as an ear
nest Republican. 1t is said. moreover,
that harmony" being very desirable,
Mr.. Miller's activity in the campaign has
been secured by promise of his renomi-
nation for Governor,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

In the present as in past political
contests, the Democratic leaders rely
upon the manufactured majority of Bal
timore city to overcome the honest
maior1tles obtained by the Republicans
in the counties of the State. Every dis
honest means has been resorted to in
the past to increase the Democratic
majority in that city, until the frauds
practiced upon The ballot box became
so open and hagrant, that Baltimore
elections became bye word and a re-
proach all over the country. Indeed it
is doubtful whether an election has been
held in that city for years past which
could be truthfully considered an hon.
est expression of the peoples will. For
ten years past, says one of our Baltl-
more exchanges, "a proper registration and
election law has been promised by the
Democratic party and on number of
occasions candidates have been selected
with the intention of impressing upon
the public the sincerity of the party's
promises.
Two years ago the most solemn and
specific promises were made by the
Democratic State Convention. Demo-
cratic members OF the Legislature who
innocently believed that they were
made in good faith, offered bills that
would have given the people fair cleo.
tons but almost the entire session was
consumed by the Democratic majority
In fighting these bills and passing others
that the public had never asked for,
and knew would not secure the object
promised. Legislation of highly i'm
portant character. in which all the peo-
pie were interested, was neglected in
order to oppose laws that would give
the community fair elections and sup
port those that would not do so. The
same promises, in the same fashion,
have been made again by the Demo-
cratic party, and does any moderately
intelligent voter, unsaturated with polit-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26
Fair Harvard.

Not for the first time-when on Satur-
day last her Seniors elected a negro their
Glass Orator, thereby comforting upon him
outranks all the rest-did Harvard nobly
earn the title of Fair" Her anti slavery
record, her war record, written in the
blood of her students and alumni,
are among the fairest of the fair, yet it
may justly be questioned if Harvard has
done anything more honorable in all
the long years of her existence than
that of frankly recognizing, despite the
JUDGES which that implies, the scholastic
superiority of the poor barber and son of
the slave, Clement Garrett Morgan. In
choosing him to stand in the place of
highest honor as the fittest representative
of the Senior Glass of the oldest seat of
learning in the country, they have done
infinite edit, not to themselves only,
but to "Fair Harvard" as we'll.
But the honor is not all Harvard's and
her sons. Something of it belongs of
proved right to this man of ''ruined
blood, who, banned by ignoble prejudice
of color, who only generation removed
from slavery and from all the ignorance
of mind and soul which that implies;
who, stepped in poverty to the lips, was
forced to ply his hnmble trade to buy
the scholars midnight oil, and who, set
all apart by the untoward accidents of
race, birth and previous condition, by the
sheer force OF mind rose above all these
hindering circumstances. pushed them
aside, as we'll as all competitors, and
gained the greatest honor of all by best
of all deserving it. Strength of individ
ual character made itself felt in the
case of this poor scholar, but, as was
proved the other day, when negro was
refused admission to Baltimore medical
college, solely because of his color, the
race is not always to the swift nor the
battle to the strong. Prejudice in this
latter case was stronger than fairness,
but it is to be considered that in the
Harvard case the scholar had proved his
right to the first place, and all colored
men regretting the barriers which are
raised against their preferment, should
be able to feel that whenever they can
prove and establish their right to the post
of honor, fair minded men will not DENY
it to them. A race cannot raise itself
en-masse; it can do it only through the
intelligence, energy and probity of its
individual members, each asserting his
own strength of mind and purity of
character.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

ical bias, believe that the result will be
different il the candidates of the DEM
ocratic party are returned2 Is there
any more reason now than for the last
ten years to believe that the discipline
of the party leaders will not be again
applied as soon as the legislature is Or
ganized2 Are there not stronger rea-
sons than ever for thinking that the
same old farce of "trying how not to
do it, will be repeated1
This being the condition in the State
under present Democratic leadership,
the conclusion is inevitable that only
by the election OF Republican major
ity in the Legislature can the legislation
needed to secure tar and honest cleo
tons in the city of Baltimore be OBJ.
tanned. The hope of this majority lies
IN the counties of the State ana we
appeal to Republican voters in Cecil
and all who value a pure ballot and g
fair election, to see to it that our Re.
publican Legislative ticket receives the
full party vote at the approaching cleo
ton.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

Two hundred and ninety two thou-
sand three hundred and elghty-eight
dollars and sixteen cents, 1922, 1886,
spent by the Democrats on the roads
and bridges IN Cecil county from 1881
to 1887 inclusive and besides floating
Indebtedness of $54,978.67 accumu-
lated. This is the record. And yet
we are asked to believe that their adj
ministration OF county affairs was SO
economical that the voters of the coun-
ty should turn down the present Board
of County Commissioners, and put a
"loya" Democratic board in their stead.
Outside of all political considerations
it would be against their interests to do
any such thing, and they will not do it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

Forty-one thousands, seven hundred
and seventy-one dollars and twelve
cents-S41,771.I2,-as the yearly cost
of roads and bridges to the tax payers
of Cecil County under Democratic
rule Those were the happy days when
the jolly road commissioner reveled in
fat pickings. When ffty-cent plank
IN a county bridge cost the taxpayers
five dollar bill, and a small bridge was
charged at the price of small lumber
yard. Happy day then tor the tax
eater. The present Board of Commits
sioners spoiled all that fun, and the tax
payers pocketbook is thereby the heav
Ter and his heart thereby the happier.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

You know how it is with the
newspaper people. When a
knight of the shears wants to
call special attention to any
thing, he draws a blue pencil
over, under or around it, and
makes his remarks in the same
indigo color.
We've been blue-penciling
Black Dress Goods. Certain
kinds there are too many of,
and we've marked them down
con-well, you'll see just how
much.
Black Dress Goods being
standard stuffs it isn't the Gus
tom to cut prices in them, and
no doubt this move will create
a commotion. We mean it to do
it because we mean to make
quick work of the clearing.
What do you think of 40
Inch Cancels Hair Serge, size.
grade cut down to 65c.?
4o-Inch Camels Hair, on
Foule Ground, marked down
from ooc. to 75c.
42-Inch CamePs Hair Foule
marked down from $I.25 to 81.
42-Inch Cancels Hair Cheviot
marked down from $1.35 to 81.
46-Inch Cancels Hair, de la
Torde, marked down from So
to SI.5o.
42-Inch Stripe Bourette,
marked down from $3.50 to
SI.25. From So to $I.5o.
42-Inch Plain Bourette,
marked down from $I.5o to
75c.
4o-lnch jacquard On Serge
Ground, marked down to 65.,
75c. and 81.
4o-Inch Stripe Serge. marked
down from 85c. to 6oc.
4o-Inch Sideband with
Mohair Ribbon Border, marked
down to 75c. and 81 &c.
44-Inch Atwood Surah,
marked down from 75c. to Coo.
46-Inch Atwood Henrietta,
marked down from S5c. to 75c.
4o-lnch Silk And Wool Drap
d'Alma, marked down from
$I.75 to $I.25.
Black Combination Dress
Patterns, in Velvet and Plush,
Striped and Figured. Ten
different styles. At SIS each.
Above are all desirable
Black Stufs, and all the re-
auctions are actual.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

lily disguised hope, that the pestiferous
seed he sows, may find Judgement in
some bosom already fostering with the
rank growths of race prejudice and ne
grophobia.
Now the simple fact is, that if Dem
ocratic ascendancy in Maryland is only
to be maintained by such unworthy and
miserable appeals, it is for this if for
no other reason, high time that 1t should
surrender its power to ADLER and better
hands. The negroes in Maryland con-
stitute about one fifth of the population
of the state, the registration OF voters
showing last year out of a total regis
tered vote OF 24o,I9I, a colored vote
of 4e,532.
Outside of the numerical superiority
of the white voters of Maryland, are
Democratic editors and orators prepar-
ed to admit that five white men cannot
cope in the race of life successfully with
one colored mani
Are not such appeals based upon a
humiliating concession of the inherent
weakness OF the white race, if nearly a
quarter of a million of white citizens OF
Maryland, are in danger of political or
any other dominance by one fifth OF
of their number of colored men1 And
how is this threatened ascendancy to
be accomplished The National Gov
eminent has conferred upon the colored
man his fullest constitutional rights, and
it is plain that any other civil or politi-
cal privileges that he aspires to, must
be acquired through the medium of the
states. Upon any issue involving race
questions, what could colored minor.
ity such as exists in Maryland accom-
plish3
There is no race issue in Maryland
and the Democratic editor or orator
who attemps to inhame race prejudice:
by assuming that there is, is as un'
worthy the confidence OF the coloreo
people, as he deserves the contempt o.
his own color.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

The Cecil Democrat IN its last issue
gave US little dose of the latest and
most approved Democratic campaign
howl in Maryland the "Negro Suprem-
acy" cry. Now if we are correctly in
formed our neighbor of the Democrat,
last summer attended lecture delivered
by colored gentleman in church in
this town, on which he commented
very favorably at the time. The lee
turer we are told, advised his hearers
not to consider themselves bound by
any obligation to either of the political
parties, he thought they should not all
vote with the Republican party but
should divide their forces, and to all
intents and purposes made very ex-
cellent Democratic speech. So far as
we are informed his utterances were
very favorably received generally by
Elktor Democrats. Measured by the
facts of this case, the Democratic OBJ
lection to the colored man rests not so
much upon the question of his own
complexion as upon that of the ballot
he casts. III other words if the color
ed man will only vote the Democratic
ticket he will be welcomed at the polls,
the "negro supremacy" cry being only
raised against him as Republican.
"To this complexion hath it come at
last" vote the Democratic ticket and we
bless him, vote the Republican ticket
and we damn him, casting the former
he IS our friend to be fostered and
cherished-on election day-votlng the
latter he is our enemy to be ostracised
and authenticated.
Now is this not the true measure of
the attitude assumed towards the col
ored man by Democrats in every other
section of the state2 He owes all the
political and civil rights he enjoys to
the Republican party, and because he
possesses the instinct of gratitude and
supports 1t by his ballot, for this act
alone, creditable as it is to his charac-
ter, he is ostracised by the Democratic
party, and every breath of race preju
dice is tanned into fame against him,
because as a factor in politics he is
generally beyond the reach and control
of Democratic influence.
Viewed in any light the NEGRO su-
premacy" cry in Maryland is unwlse, i'm
polite, and public injury, because
its inevitable tendency is to excite race
passions that should be allayed by wise
and conciliatory party action. Any
course of public policy, calculated to
excite class jealousies or to quicken
race prejudices, is detrimental to the
public welfare, and a menace to the
peace and good order of society, and
cannot be justified BY any consideration
worthy of the civilization we boast.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

Our well-known fellow townsman
Daniel Bratton, Esq, an enterprising
and ambitious politician of the Dem
ocratic persuasion, doubtless appre-
eating the possible advantages Of
having an "organ" of his own, has
succeeded DR.. James H. Frazer as
editor and publisher of The Cecil
County Meas. Personally and in
a business way we wish our new CO..
temporary unlimited success and
which he promises to achieve by de-
serving it. Politically, how soon
this modern Daniel may come to
judgment, or into what "den" of
tribulation his aspirations may lead
him, cannot, in view of the present
mixed condition of Democratic pol
itics in Cecil county possibly be pre-
dicted. He promises, however, to
give his party supporters a reliable
Democratic paper-a great blessing
to the falthful-and which doubtless
in his present frame of mind he SIM
cerely means to do. The rash po-
litical prophecies which he INDUCES
in his initial issue, are of course COM
forting to his brethren, whatever
discount they may be subject to in
the field of current county pol
itics. The crank of the new "organ"
grinds little stlffly of course this
week, but a little machine" oil will
soon ease that, and we may reason
ably expect in the near future. some
fantastic factional figures cut to the
merry music it will make.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26
The King is Dead Long Live the King!

A despatch from Lisbon, of the 10Th
inst. says that the King OF Portugal, who
has been i'll for some time. died to-day.
His death occurred at IL o'clock this
morning.
The Duke of Braganza, eldest son of
the King, who succeeds to the throne,
will assume the title of Carlos L.
The Premier waited upon Don Carlos
and presented the designations Of tie
Cabinet Ministers, which the King de-
clined to accept. The elections for mem
bers of the Chamber of Deputies will
proceed Tomorrow, as fixed before the
death of King Louis, as there is not now
time to postpone them.
The Queen was present when the King
died, and kissed her husbands corpse.
She then embraced Don Carlos, saying:
Il bless you as monarch. l hope you
will prove as good King as you have
always been a son."
Louis the First, King of Portugal, whose
death is announced, was the son of Queen
Maria II and Prince Ferdinand of SAKE.
Coburg. He was born on the 31st of Oc-
tober, 1888. While holding the title of
Duke of Oporto he held the grade of cap
tain in the navy, and commanded the
steam corvette Bartholomew Dias. Upon
the death of his brother, King Pedro V,
he assembled the throne on the 18th of
1861. He was crowned on
the 23d of December of the same year.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

You can't pick up partizan Demo
cratic paper in this state to-day without
seeing it asserted over and over again,
that Republican success at the polls
this fall means negro ascendancy in
Maryland. Not only is this cry the
meat and drink of the average Demo
cratic editor, but it is as we'll the burden
of the song of the campaign orator,
who bowls it from the stump with the
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

The Cecil Democrat charges that
the accumulation of a cash surplus OF
$I1,691.a5, is an evidence of bad fnan-
ciering upon the part of the present
Board of County Commissioners. The
CECIL WING charges that the accumu-
lation OF a floating Indebtedness OF
S54e78.67, over and above the amounts
annually leyled for current county ex-
penses by Democratic Boards of Com
missioners, is an undoubled evidence
of worse financierlng. Let the voters
of the county decide between them.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

The last Boards of Democratic Coun-
ty Commissioners spent on an average
$4I,77I.12 on roads and bridges yearly.
The present board expended for the
year ending June goth, 1850, little
over one-half that amount or S22, 1872 81
Do the roads show the difference in the
expenditure We claim that they do
not.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

"Were the roads ever in worse order
at this season of the year than they are
this October 1'-CecH Democrat.
Yes. wherever they are bad now, they
were equally if not more so under the
doubly expensive system in vogue I'm.
der recent Democratic administrations
of the commissioners office. With just
allowance for unusual conditions of
weather all the year through, the roads
are as good now as when their main
tenslce under Democratic boards cost
the taxpayers of the county twice as
much money.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26
Wanamaker's.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, Oct. Il, 1889.

Half-dollar Dress Goods!
Have you any notion what
heaps and heaps of them we
have in Fall and Winter
weights? Better stuffs than
you've been used to seeing
at 5oc-fner qualities, choicer
styles, richer colorings. Take
the Serges:
ombre stripes hair line stripes
cluster stripes jasper stripes
Pekin stripes pin stripes
graduated stripes
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

Hon. Green B. Raum, of Illinois,
has been appointed Commissioner of
Pensions, vice Tanner, resigned. The
appointment is generally regarded as
an excellent one. Gen. Raum is
prominent Grand Army man and an
ex Member of Congress. He was
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
from 1876 to 1883, and during that
period he collected SS5o,ooo,ooo and
disbursed $50, 600 without loss.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26
No better evidence of their dread of

No better evidence of their dread of
impending danger to Democratic super
macy in Maryland is the frantic howl
of "negro ascendancy" raised all over
Maryland by the Democratic leaders.
The hope is to drive enough white men
into voting the Democratic ticket, by
this disreputable cry, to save the party.
And yet for every colored man in
Maryland there are five white men, the
latter with every condition IN their favor.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26
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eounties of Maryland, Pennsylvania and DeidtDare,
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family Journal no offensive Objectionable Gdper-
tYements ,ciH be admitted at any price.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

which if continued under the present
management will make the rate of tax
alton lower than it has been for the
period named. We believe that suf-
icient number of Democrats will this
fall vote for the present Board of Com
missloners and re elect it, because they
they have proved competent and capa-
BILE officers, and because 1t will be to
the interest of the people of the county,
to have them re elected.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

Cecil County farmers love( p to pay
interest on county debt with wheat at
rs cents a bushel and corn at 80 cents.
don't theyl And yet they are now pay
ing it out of hard earned revenues, to
meet the extravagant and reckless ex
penditures Of Democratic Boards OF
County Commissioners whose judicious
and economical financial methods our
contemporary of the Cecil Democrat
loves to recall. What merry mockery
that F!
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

We want the fact kept before the tax
payers of the county, that the surplus
of SI1,6o1.25, accumulated by the
present Board of County Commission
ers, means that amount of money saved
to the taxpayers out of an amount
levied for county expenses upon Dem
ocratic estimates. That's the fact.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26
POLITICS AND TEMPERANCE,
The Question of Whether or Not They viii
"Mix"-A Difference of Opinion.

sMix"-A Difference of Opinion.
MEDIA, Oct. 20.-There was a largely
attended temperance meeting held at the
court house here this afternoon under the
auspices of the Hicksite Friends Meeting.
Miss Belle Shortlidge. of Concord. who
was one of the speakers, reiterated her
argument advanced at the recent W. c.
T. U. Convention in Philadelphia that
politics and temperance would not mix.
Lewis Houeh, the third party Prohibi.
ton orator, dissented from Miss Short
lidge's views, and his remarks ELECTED a
lively retort from Miss Shortlidge, who
ably defended the stand she had taken.
Ex-Judge Broomall was also one of the
speakers.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-10-26

The tax rate in Cecil county this year
is sixty-seven and a quarter cents on
the hundred dollars. If the tax payers
see proper to continue the present
Board of Commissioners in Office, next
year the rate may be below sixty cents.