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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05
ELKTON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1891.
The subscription price of the
WING during the campaign is rs
cents IN advance.
Remedy the Wrong.

In our local columns will be found
a detailed account of the fire which
DESTROYED row of dwellings and
business places on Main street and at
one time threatened serious cont1a
grafton. That the fire was not more
damaging is due to the condition of
the weather and the alacrity and reso
luteness with which half hundred
citizens fought it, rather than to any
decent regard for the general welfare
of the millions of dollars worth of
property gathered in the town and
deposited in finder boxes to invite
the stray match or the defective f1ue
1t has been notable for a century
that the houses OF Elkton are
peculiarly amenable to the fire hend.
Every year or two, and sometimes
every month or week or two, some
note of warning is given and some
body is burned out of house, and
home, and yet, when the seven days
of wondering and agitation have
quieted, we go on in the same old
beaten track and await the coming
of another fiery visitor, with placid
faith in each individuals chances OF
escape. Nor does the mischief stop
with such destruction as the absence
OF fit appliances for extinguishing
fir virtually guarantees. Notwith-
standing the recurring warnings that
a fire in our midst is necessarily our
master, the people go on year after
year building infammable structures
in the heart of the town and adding
magazine to magazine OF the most
combustible material For years
conservative insurance companies
have hesitated to take risks on the
property on the south side OF Main
street, from the Hollow eastward.
and, of late years. they are refusing
it altogether. Yet right along that
row, pine frame after pine frame IS
set up and even buildings of brick
are menaced by frame Appendages
such as really destroy the fire proof
qualities OF the brick walls. Some
of the most expensive buildings in
the town are huddled there in a
group, and stocked with costly mer-
chandize If increasing trade de-
mands additional room, some more
of the marsh in the rear is utilized
and more pine boxes are added in
the shape OF back buildings" All
the fire engines in Wilmington, if on
the spot, with the limited water
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05
THE persistent chirrupping OF the

THE persistent chirrupping of the
organs of certain demoralized Demo-
cratic politicians is the most SELF
betraying effort at whistling to keep
the courage up, that the humorS of
the campaign afford. The unremit-
ting attention that is paid to the cam
didacy OF the Clerk OF the Court and
the States Attorney, is specimen Of
faint heart that is truly laughable.
Messrs. Graham and Crothers feel
that their fate is sealed and they are
too much demoralized to hide their
discontinue 1t is not apprehension
of public disaster that worries these
amateur editors. They have little
care how the duties OF testamentary
the care of the
widows and orphans, or even the
care OF the county finances where
the salaries for important trusts
are disgracetully inadequate, are
dete. mined. 1t is the unearned and
unearnable largess that the Re-
corder's and the Prosecutor office
affords that worries these two
bachelors and their bevy OF hangers.
on. Better play philosopher, gen.
tlemen advocates, the handwriting is
on the wall. A Republican will still
be Clerk OF the Court. A Republican
can will see 10 il the laws are stronger
than the criminals and Republicans
will again take charge OF county
finances. This much is settled. II
you have any valor left, better work
it on cases not altogether hopeless.
"Ruby" still has need OF you and,
as for that legislative ticket, oh my
do send it to school. They will be
rather antiquated scholars ; but then,
it is never too late to learn, you
know.
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Is 1t So.

1t is the fashion TO decry politics
and politicians as being more corrupt
and corrupting than aught else that
goes to make up the conditions of
mortals on this sphere terrestrial.
When man becomes disguised
with his political fortune-and
about every other man has
political fortune in search he
is almost sure to begin system
of denunciation of politics and politi
cans. Sins that he had not dreamed
of then become black as ink will
make them. Sins that he would
readily condone, if not really APP
plaud, if they should chance 10
favor his fortune, he can hardly find
words to anathematiZe sufficiently
He denounces without stint deeds
done, in the rivalry Of politics. such
as are daiiv done in the rIval les and
self seekings Of the business word
without attracting attention. The
fact is that the world Is an arena
for gladiators and he succeeds best
in politics as in business who has
least regard for the rights of others
and is most skilfully persistent in
asserting his own right to win. The
question so often put-"Why is it
that men otherwise honest in their
dealings are neither honest nor up
right in politics, therefore loses
much of its force and appositeness
in the light of the query-is it SO !?
In point of very ct, it is not SO.
Truth is truth torevermore. Integ
rity knows no bounds and no con-
dltions. The man who betrays
himself a cheat in politics. needs
only the incentive and the opportun-
Ity to cheat in business. Politics is cor
rupting simply because the respon
sibilities that attach to transgression
are more remote than in business
affairs. The thief of the suffrage is not
likely to reach the State prison. The
thief of bread and butter or a blouse to
hide his nakedness is very apt to get
there. The penalties, thus you Sc !.
are unequal and hence the greater
proneness to be shameless about
matters that are equally inimical to
the moral law. When 1t comes to the
matter of emolument, there is not
even a shadow of a difference. With
the man of business as with the poll
tician, it is success that succeeds.
No line is drawn against the man of
plethoric pocket, any more than
against him who manipulates to win
in politics. The highwayman with
the Doodle safely filched is honored.
The poor victim OF his muscular
opportunity is full apt to be abhor
red because he cannot pay dollar
for dollar and discredited if he gives
the real reason why, 1t will never do,
at least it never does, to personally
arraign the Shyiocks. The age was
always plutocratic and always will
be. Only a poets phrenzy dares
! portray the demancer of the letter OF
the bond. Practical philanthropy dare
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

SAINT john, the Innocent, is mot
in IT," Notwithstanding that smile so
childIrke and bland, Johnny knows
enough TO get IN out of the rain. The
ticket was "not of his making" 1t was
his wicked partners" the two CHARLES,
that did it. Nevertheless, notwith-
standing, still, "allee samee,' ii that
big storm cloud had not appeared,
Johnny would have vowed that he did
1t, every Dit, with his own li.tle Ratchet.
There are times when the Stunt cannot
tell a whoopsr-and ti-n, there are
other times.
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Ir is said tuat the two Cn+rIles ire
rapidly getting what he vulgar call "a
big head" Each clam, that he is he
nnlv real, genuinr, sim"n-pure Loss ot
the Democratic patty.
Charley c., points to his Eighth dis,
trct bargain with Graham and his con
SC uuett defeat of William p. Howard,
as proof of his proves and Charles
H., points with pride to the way in
which he worked the roads Lefore the
primaries as evidence of his title.
Perhaps, the people il November
will teach both of these would-be
bosses that there Is power greater
than either of them.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

Boss SMITH, who sits IN the Com
missioners office and, with superb
GOODNESS, claims TO have Cecil county
in his vest pocket, has commenced
again to use the power of his office to boil
ster up the imperilled cause of the fac
ton of which he asser' lie is the leader.
We venture to suggest that his boss
ship ought to attend, simply, to the
duties which he was appointed TO per
form on behalf of the aOh0le people,
and that. so long as he folds public
office, he ought to try to understand
that i, is a public trust and not ma
chine to be prostituteti to The uses of a
clique.
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The Meas is suffering from paresis.
Put a little ice to its head, Dan

AT the meeting of the State Com
mittee on Thursday, the effort to elect
chairman resulted in the choice of Mr..
c. T. Westcott, who is known to be
not in accord with Mr.. Vannort, Of the
same county, who is the candidate Of
the party for Governor. His opponent
was Captain John E Wilson of Elkton.
MIR. Vannort preferred Mr.. McComas
for Chairman but that gentleman
declined the position. Mr.. Vannort is
displeased that the precedent of per-
hitting the candidate for Governor to
select the Chairman was not adhered
to and threatens to withdraw. Ii IS
to be hoped that the differences be-
tween the candidate and the committee
will be adjusted and a vigorous cam
paign be lnaugurated.
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BECOME, Ye!

Bosses Crothers and Smith base the
demand for the election of the ticket
nominated by them, upon an alleged
excellent management of county at.
fairs. How utterly uniounded the de-
manC l., we will take occasion to show
as the campaign Progresses. For the
present we co tent ourselves with this
question: Has there ever been a time
during the last twenty years, when the
highways Of the county, from the Sas-
aafras to the Octorara, have been in
such a miserable condition as at this
hour? Mile, after mile OF the public
roads have been lett unrepaired not a
dollar spent upon them; SO that a
stranger passing along them might
reasonably suppose there was no re-
sponsible authority exercising any care
whatever over them.
The whole trouble results rom the
vicious notions entertained and tn
vicious methods pursued by the aspIr
ing young boss who has rn,r nChc,:
himself i'll the e I'm .'.ii,ner's fl :
As the SAL = gas, NJ is w,rklrg
that office fJr cali 1t is worth" to his
faction. His sole dea of financial
management seems TO be to spend
nothing tor public Improvement and
thereby save everything, in order that
at the end of the fiscal year a fictitious
surplus may appear on the county
books and he may be able to claim an
economical adm inistration of affairs.
Ii is a penny wise and pound,ioolls
policy.
1t overlookS the fact that such a
policy, in the long run, will prove
tremendously expensive and will, ulti-
matey, demand a largely increased ex-
penditure 10 repair the damages re-
sulting from neglect. 1t is entirely safe
to say that if this policy is followed ior
another year the county will be re.
quired, in order to put the neglected
roads in, even, a passable condition, to
expend a sum of money that will
equal, if it does not surpass, the
famous flood account -
The young boss has another purpose
however, in the methods employed by
HIM that is far worse than the one We
have already adverted to.
His scheme and the scheme of the
iunta behind him, has been to accumu
late the public funds until the ap.
prodch OF a primary and a genera
election and then to expend among the
favorites of the ring some portion Of
the accumulations in the hope tina,
while the people will thereby be de.
ceived into the belief that the road:
are being properly cared for, the faction
which he assumes to lead will be
strengthened and his control per
petuated.
1t has been openly charged and it Is
quite generally believed that the late
Democratic primaries were largely in
h1enCed by these methods and it is for
the purpose of protesting against them
and of ending them once for all thai
honorable Democrats all over the
county intend to vote out of power in
November the clique that is responsible
for them.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

su w at command. could not have
confined / flames to the Mclntre
ht u.s.. against the steady northeast
wind OF last Sunday morning, II the
house had been built, as those all
about it were, of finder. II the
flames had leaped over the brick
walls and caught to the Kerr store
house, no power in reach could have
prevented the destI uction in halt an
hour of that and Mrs. N1lson's, Mr..
Levis's, Mrs. Halls, Mr.. Jamlson'
and, in short, every building with
all their valuable contents, clear
down to the Rudolph building.
There the flames would have been
baked by the narrow alley way and
confronted by the dead wall and
metallic roof of the Rudolph prop
erty and, if the struggling fire fight
ers had lot by that time become ex
hausted or demoralized, it might and
probably would have been hated
Our object, it must be already APP
parent in this, is not so much to
hurry along the delayed water
works, as to expose to criticism the
policy of permitting the building Of
houses in the heart OF the town OF
materials unnecessarily infammable,
and to call attention of the authorl-
ties to the unprotected condition in
which the most valuable part OF Elk
toms buildings is still lett exposed,
owing to the shortsightedness or
cupidity OF few property holders.
The town authorities have unques-
toned right to forbid the erection OF
inhammable buildings where they
menace other property, and it is
hardly questionable that they will
exercise it in the face of the recent
scare. But, is it not their power and
their duty to insist that metallic roofs
shall supersede the shingles that on
many houses invite stray spark
and threaten the property of others
who are powerless to guard against
it :? The tallest and one of the most
expensive buildings in the town,
situated right near and lowering
over, in menacing attitude, its less
ambitious neighbors, is covered
with shingle roof. Sparks from
fires breaking out squares away are
liable to lodge and ignite this root.
With this building on fire, little Of
the property in the neighborhood
would be worth the effort to save 1t.
Why is not the time seasonable and
the order reasonable for The NUM-
cipal authorities to insist upon it
that every roof top in the thickly
built up part of the town shall be
metallic or at least coated with some
incomoustible covering? This can
be done while we are awaiting in
patient helplessness the slow progress
| OF the water works, and then, if
they should be deferred yet another
season. the people of the town car
lie down at night, after a careful
guarding OF their own fires, in some
sort of security that they may not be
aroused by the wild cry of fire
started by some one else's careless
ness, encouraged by some one else's
cupidity, and enveloping their all in
a conhagration they had done their
full duty TO prevent. The man who
builds a finder pile and endangers
his neighbours goods, commits a
nuisance. Neither his personal lib
critics nor his rights as citizen are
infringed by iorbidding or abating
it. Let the citizens OF the town and
the potent town fathers put this sug-
gestion in their sapient pipes and
smoke it.
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not make the application. The
scaiper of wages the strangler OF
opportunity, The sentinel i'll the fence
corner WHO plies his vocation If
Virtual robbery by "coIncring" his
neighb rs necs ssitics and revels in
gains that violate the eighth COM
mandment, all the way except in the
letter OF the written law he it is
and such as he who robes his fami Y
in fine linen. fares sumptuously
every day and wit ers with his
scorn the helpless and mourning
victims OF his inhumanity. And he
it is, who is honored and deferred
to. He pays his debts because it
pays him to pay them and he takes
precious good care that his less for
tunate neighbor shall not pay his.
The tenth commandment does not
deter him from coveting his neigh
boris goods and, when he gets them,
the conventional world which means
1--WE, the people," never questions
the muscle. We only honor the
proves.
No, indeed, it is not true that
men otherwise honest and upright
in their dealings are not honest in
politics. The scamp is abroad all
the time and his place is always
"chief OF the corner In politics
it is generally the knave that wins.
In business it is the man who pays a
debt because it profits him to do so,
and never pays unless it does, who
is doing the 'honest and upright. "
The truly honest and upright is
either a newer of wood for him or a
fit subject for the insane department
of the almshouse.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

liz the Meas continues to appeal to
Democratic voters, for another week or
tive, p ople will begin to think, not
wlths' tnding its shrietrns c!aln that all
is serene. that nobody IN the county,
keep the bosses, intcl Is to vote the
one sided ticket of B Crptn:rs and
Ross & nI.h
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

THE Democrat is SO blue in the
face, protesting That there Is no dis
aff.cton in the D.m)cr tic rlnks, that
some of its friends fear i is about 10 go
off into a double "conniption."
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

None too soon to think of
School-time headwear for the
youngsters. Nothing jauntier
or heater than a Tam. Here
they are, and a roomful of
other shapes.
Cloth Tam O'Shanter Caps with
visor, two Styles SOC from 10, and
75c from 81.
Cloth Tams. SOC.
Silk Outing Caps, SOC originally
Sl25.
Cloth Polo Caps, SOC.
Cloth Yachting Caps, navy, white
and colors. SOC to S125.
Wool S Tor Hats, trimmed Sl.25,
Wool Kaockabout Hats, all celors,
So and ST.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

Every day now the new
corners in Dress Goods show
new graCes.
so inch Ladies Cloth. 65o in all
shades and generally sold at 75o.
A very stylish Cam"l's Hair Suiting
at 75c. A quolitv We have never
before sold under 81.
so inch Fine Serge Pltids, all navy
blue ground with ,onred cross
ings, 81 25.
so inch Scotch Cheviots. in plaids
and mixtures, at 81 so; the usual
81 80 quality.
36.inch Cheviot Plaids. in medium
colorings. at SOC.
Sc inch All Wool SuItings, in navy
blue and gray mixtures. at 81 tc.
&c inch All Wool Tricots, in Autumn
shades. at 374c.
36 inch Fancy Stripe Cheviots, at
37ic.
SO inch Came's lair Vigogne, at SOC
3S-inch All Wool Cheyiots, in grey
and brown mixtures, at SOC.
&c inch All Wool French Suitings;
in pinhead checks and neat stripes
at Csc.
4G inch Mohair Plaids, at 75c.
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The object of 1t, proprietor oetng to make
ssYHE*WHlGS

reeminently uatuaoe Jor ats Local as peH as Cen
eral Intelligence Netrs Communications ave respect
fully solicited from all sections Of the County, IN
sdd,hon to the weekly contributions OF ITS regular
corps OF correspondents. Anonymous com7'antca-
ions will receive no attention, the name of the
writer being required all cases as guarantee OF
God faith
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

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Local matter Ten Cents line for sing ssssrfton
Nrrriage and Death Notices inserted sratt!to'isfy
Obituaries piH be charged halt the usual rate OF
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Transient rates-Eight cents line for one, and
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.feigent classes Of cecil county and the adjoining
eeunfies Of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware,
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Men as q most desirable medium TOR remunerdf'pe
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All the material for a hand
some Dress and only about
half what you expect to pay
for them. Rich stuffs, hand
some garniture, nothing
scrimpeed. All the lots we tell
of are in full assortment of
Autumn colorings.
Fine French Serge Dress Patterns,
with garniture of Black Astrak han
and Silk figures, in navy, browns,
greys, greens. garnet, plum. olive
and bronze, at $12 and SIS; i'm
ported to sell at $25 ard $50
Serge Dress Patterns. with fancy
Astrakhan garniture, at $40; i'm
ported to sell at SIG.
Cheviot Dress Patterns, with Black
AStrakhau garniture al s.. so; i'm
ported TO sell at S12 So
Fine plain and plaid combination
Dress Patterns, in 81 different col
orings, at s. 80; imported to sell
at S12 so.
Conbina'i,n Dress Patterns, in
stripes and jacquard figures, at So
Sc and 81; imported to sell at 50.
$40 and $12
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

Theirs is now so little trou-
Bile in making photographs
that you can come with as little
as $40 Cor up to $500 and 60
away a photographer, with a
complete outfit. Kodaks, SIS
to $50; Hawkeyes, Premiers
and Water burys tor less.
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IL allr nah5i =.

PHILADELPHIA, Augu,r 81, 1891
No mere Saturday halt,hoh-
days this season.
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Always harvest time in the
,inens. Take Handkerchief:

1.-TWO r'tRI Soe erfR1S TIT sffS
linens. Take Handkerchief:
Mems culored border Hemstitched
Pure Linen Hsndk chiefs, 15c
each; Csc would he ab nut right
Mems plain white Pure Linen Hem
stitched Handkerchiefs, unlaun-
dered, 12ic.
Fine quality Mems Hemstitched
Handkerchief, 25c each; worth
40c.
Women's pure Linen H.mstitched
Handkerohiefs, 81 a dozen. Plain
white or with colored border
worth half more.
Fine quality Women's Hens irch"d
colnred border andkerchiefs.
embroidered corners, 15c each !;
heve been %.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

Four shades in the Boys
Indestructible Corduroy Trou-
sers at $3.50. The toughest
school rig the lad can get into.
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Racing at MiddletOWn.

The following races will be held al Mid
dletown, Del, on Saturday SepleIn Der 18th
at l p. m
8 80 Glass. Purse $1,000 $50 Glass.
Purse % 90. Three best in five heats.
Team Race, double harness and pole To
road wagons. Premium, one pair open
driving brides, value SIS 90.
RICE for Roadst. rs exclusively, To wagor s
or road carts. Premium, SET of single
harness, value $1,000.
Heats two best in three. Seven In eIt
five to start.
Entries close Friday, September 18th, at
3 n m
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Fabu(ated AnalySesot Commercial Fertilizers, May 1891

SnL kIi d ct 1885. hr ~ d on blowing i@
! pep d rTf scents ol Inlt p in M
in rpu;P Ground Bone eunET
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-05

Standard make Tennis Rack
cts at halt prices and the Ten
mis- season at its height!
One hundred 81 Rackets at 50.
One hundred So Rackets at S2.75.
IOHN WANAMAKER
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s,EHE4ii EGIk* WHIGSss
sIasllSHED IS4i.

ssIs,,saso Eysr SATURDAY. MORNING AT tlkTos.
oEoiI COUNTY, MARYLAND.
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HENRY r. TORBERT, EDITOR