The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-19
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rare specimen of what in political
parlance may be technically termed
the whipping in" or "cajoline back
process, which to use its own lam
guage it blunderingly applies ito
three or four local politicians some
of them appointed to responsible
positions * i, but who are now
busy advertising the fact that they
are no longer Democrats, but RIM
ming around SUPPORTING the Rebu6-
hcau bayty and its candidates.
"Nlce politicians you are, aren't
you boys" it says. ''You ought
to be ashamed of yourselves, and
you are ashamed of yourselves you
may deny it as you will, you cannot
look an honest Democrat in the face;
the consciousness of your treason is
in your look, your manner, it is
kind of atmosphere all about you;
you have kind of hang dog look
noticeable by everybody"
Now lashing a party brother in
newspaper, after giving him sound
thrashing i'll party contest, is
doubtless very pleasing diversion
to the thrasher and lasher. But how
do the lashee and the thrashee rel
ish the diversion, particularly when
thew reflect, that they have been
made the victims of party practices
and party methods wholly unjustih-
able in any reasonably honest code
OF party morals?
Isn't it apparent even to the mean
est understanding, that there must
be very exceptional condition,
now existing in the Democratic
ranks in Cecil county, when the
truth will justify the organ ct a sue
cessful Democratic lasher, thrasher,
and smasher In the assertion, that
one Democrat wears hang dog"
look. another a REASONABLE man
ner," still another "shame faced"
air, while all about them the atmos
phere is tainted with their dishonesty,
since as our contemporary says they
cannot look an honestGODemocrat
in the face?
But who are the prototypes of
these local politicians(?)so anatha-
matized, and held up to public deris-
ion according to the political Gospel
of Saint John?
We shall not undertake to name
them, simply because their name
is legion in the ranks of the
Democratic party in Cecil county.
While our contemporary may have
taken as the object lesson for his
structures, prominent types OF his
party associates in Elkton, who
pass our Evangelistic brother
hourly between his offices, yet
the multiplied voices of these
party brethren are to be heard
throughout the length and breadth
of the county.
We may relish the boldness OF
our Cotemporary's denunciatian
of his recalcitrant brethren, but there
is no reliance to be placed in his
political mathematics, when he
measures the extent of the disaffec-
ton in his party's. ranks by this
little company of two or three
politicians.
But while our lasher and thrasher
of the Democrat Office is looking
for an "honest Democrat" let him
smash his own looking glass, and
like Diogones of old hunt one with a
lantern by sunlight.
Where will he most likely find a
genuinely honest Democrat?
In the ranks of the class OF his
Office seeking brethren known as
politicians, the men who set up
Primaries and pack conventions, or
among the non-office- seeking, and
generally far more reputable class
Of his party brethren?
We say unequivocally in the latter
class. And we tell our contemporary,
that the percentage of disafected
Democrats to day in Cecil is very
much larger in the quiet classes of
reputable Democrats, who believe in
clean politics, and fair play in party |
matters The reason why was
ably and distinctly stated in the
editorial columns of the WING last
week.
Prominent Democrats in every
District of the county, assert that
they have been deprived the right
and opportunity OF free and fair
expression of their preferences for
candidates upon their party's ticket,
through the manipulation and I'M
fair practices of the recognized agents
of protessed Leaders, who control
the Democratic politics of the county
for their purely personal uses and
ends.
In plain language, they believe
that they have been cheated at the
Primary, or by no Primary, and
have been hoodwinked at their
county Convention. That they
have been sold out and deceived by
the sharps O. of their own party.
In the face of their earnest convic
ton, and upon which we believe a
large percentage of tais class of
Democrats will vote this fall, how
peurile, nay how supremacy silly
sounds such chaff as this from our
contemporary:
"Another time boys, the vely
next time. it may be your innings,
and then you would not expect us to
follow your example and spoil the
game by getting mad and refusing