The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-12

| class He is here among Us, ana the ques-
| ton is what shall we do with him? Shall
we send him to the House of CorrecuoL?
! Mary land paws bis expenses. Shall we
| keep him III ELK jail? Cecil county must
pay the sheriff, bill Shtn we turn him
| loose on the community? What will the
people who pay taxes for protection say?
| Aiioget her, it is Il nice Iuuddle that TINS
high license is bringing us to. 1t begins to
look very much if that $1,000 is going,
in paying board for vagabouds, long before
the year is out. What is to be done,
anyway?
Prohibitionists i'll Convention.
A convention of citizens who are I'M
alterably opposed to the sale OF lntoxI-
cauts as a beverage, was held in Elkton
on Wednesday. The day was selected
because Mr. Edwin Higgins who leads
the forlorn hope as candidate for Cover
| nor and w. Frank Tucker, Esq, the
State organizer, had arranged to be pre-
sent on that day and address the voters
of Cecil, There had been no primary
meetings to authorize delegations and
no effort was made to give the affair the
semblance OF cut and dried job. Never
theless, there was gathering of repres-
entative men from all parts of the county |
evidently earnest in their work, united
in their purpose, and only divided IN
views of how best to make their work |
Df >,,,A hot
las matter of principle" they ought |
to nominate full prohibition ticket.
Others thought that, as only the legisla-
ture had to do with prohibitofy laws, |
the prohibitionists should contine their
straight out nominations to candidates
for the legislature, and get in their best
work by comm anding support for their
legislature ticket by exhibition of their !
power to make or mar the fortunes of
candidates that had been set up by other
nominating bodies. Still others were of
opinion that il WAS wise, in the emer
psncy, TO nave i general consultation
and ad journ 20 fixed dag i'll the future
when, after correspondence and inter
views with representative men who favor
prohibition but are noJ ready to make
it party test, they might be able to
make ID demons ration shat would mater
ially hasten the work they have in hand
and at heart. These latter urged, with
great show of re ,son, that the cause of
temperance, instead of being advanced, |
is actu tllg retarded by these bic nninal
exhib tions of composite weakness. They
pointed to the fact that, of the six thou
three thousand are heartily and firmly
opposed to the licensing of intoxicating
liquor sales. They had no donbt that
decided majority OF Cecil voters are
ready and willing and anxious to undo
the wrong committed in blindness, or
ignorance of their own power, year
ago. To them, the question was how
best to secure the opportunity to undo
the crime which is ever worse than
bluuder. Tney argued that separate
ticket would result in the throwing
away of about three hundred votes in
hopeless undertaking, and that in con-
sequence, the cause OF temperance
would be represented, when ballots were
counted. by about three per cent of the
voters, instead of seventy per cent, as
actually would, under favorable condi-
lions, be shown. This view which had
a semblauce of reason to all except the
enthusiastic, was not allowed to prevail.
The suggestion that it is better to perish
in helplessness with good intention than
to succeed by temporizing with the
enemy, caught the crowd. The motion
to nominate full ticket prevailed by
vote nearly unanimous and, after retiring
for recess and refreshments, in the latter
of which there was no suspicion of the
cheering that inebriates, the convention
re asse NJ bled and nominated the follow
ing altogether creditable ticket:
Clerk of the Circuit Court-Henry !
Vinsinger.
Register OF Wils-Charles E. Alex
auder
House of Delegates-Joseph Scarbor-
ough, T. ]. Wilson and Daniel A. Jones.
Sheriff-Samuel II, Watts.
County Commissioners-Johu P. Will
sou, VIM. T. Miller and j. F. Roach
Judges OF the Orphans Court-E. X. |
Burlington, Thomas Fryer and William
H. Elder.
No candidate was named for States
attorney.
It. is no injustice to others nor any
| adulation to those concerned to add that
such ticket deserves, by the personal
worth of it's individual members, to sue
coed l. compares favorably, in every
| appointment with the best that any of
the parties have shown themselves able
to offer. That such ticket will poll at
| farthest five per cent of the votes which
will be cast i'll November, instead of
sixty psr cent as it on ;h5 10, in view OF
the principles it represents and the
| Gu ,racter of the represe ntatives, is
concession that obviates comment and
condition that painfully demonstrates
the wide divergence between the prac-
tcal tb It Was and the visionary that
plays martyr.
Tie convention was organized by the
selection of the virle George Balderston,
always vigorous and fearless, as Presi-
dent. and the appointment Of Kew. j.
B. Quigg, who is and always has been
forem jst chieftain III the church militant
as Secretary. In addition to these, there
were Alierson ard Mcgee and Watts of
Cecilton; Brooks and many others of
Chesapeake; Elder, Vinsinger, Alexander,
Thurston, Terrell and host more of
Elkton; Scarborough and Fryer of
Cherry Hill; Roach and cohorts of North
East; WlIs), ot Rising Sun, another
Wilson OF Calvert, Weldon, the back
number rediCiUuS, of Colora, and half
hundred others whom we failed to Lo.e
and fear to blunder upon, not the least
of whom Is our ever active coadjutor
o. Brien now of Cecilton but altogether
cosmopolitan i'll his temperance crusade.
When the work WAS done, an earnest
effort was made to prove it well done by
the eloquent Tucker who occupied most
of the afternoon in an address on the
many sides of the temperance cause. In
the evening, Edwin Higgins. Esq, made
a very chaste and captivating speech on