The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-06-13
DEMOCRACY DOOMED.
The "Err0rs of YOUTH as APP
piled to Politics.
Whom the Gods Would Destroy They
First Make Mad" Youngsters
RuIiur ami Euiuiur,

First Make Mad" Youngsters
, Ruling and Running.
Well, the clans have gathered, first il
sections then iu IL mass, and separated
The gladiators have INDUCED i'll singl
combat or met i'll armed array or don
both, as the case may be. Political bloo'
has been spilled and personal bile has beef
scattered right lavishly. In the midst o
prospective SPOTS there was ii genera
spelling for a fight, aud the unterritiet
have had it. The whole result may b,
summed up in the word jug handle.
by this we do not mean to imply that i
was solely the contents of the jug that die
it. Our regard for the lause of temperance
does not conflict with the cause of truth
when We admit that primary meetings
have rarely been conducted by the Ceci
Democracy with more decorum and less
reliance on John Barley corn. No doubt
the comparative sobriety of the usually
rantankerous was due Ill large measure
to the fact, that they felt that the money
would now always fetch it. and they did
not have to gulp it down on the special
occasion for fear of losing it altogether
They preferred the Doodle that buys the
dram as it is coveted, rather than the
dram when plenty was approaching
surfeit. Hence, We repeat, we can have
no reference to the jugs contents when
we allude to the jug handle. 1t is rather
the one sided condition of that essential
member of Johns tribe, -demi- john We
parison. The result was from partisan
standpoint all on one side, just us com
pletely as the jug handle is. OF the
| fellows that got lett last Saturday and
the Tuesday following, there is not even
a grease spot on the ticket. As the
subsequent proceedings indicated here
after will attest, Young Democracy
is on top, booted, saddled and spurred,
not To say bodied, straddled and
| spurned. The old fellows are callow and
saffron in the soup. How this delightful
| cOHSODtnie ton was brought about is the
tale we propose unfolding. The fact
conceded, is that lass Tuesday the
valiant hosts of 'our friends the enemy"
met IN battle array in the Court House,
place ordinarily supposed to be devoted
to the dispensation of justice, aud com
mitted the most overt acts of violence
aud outrage, ending with a well planned
telO de Sc They seemed to say to us of
the other side i'll faith and practlce-"we
are tired of ruling aud purpose to give
up the political ghost Here, you
fellows, come oyer and lit the burden
from our bier" The inscription on one
side of the tomb to be erected will be
Too much Gore man" and on the other
Thou Writ, but art not"
For many moons, as poor 10" would
say. it has been i, rviiable tnat blood
Was some " here roundabout, perhaps on
the moon : own face, and the coming
purpose to submit it To the soiled linen
process was regarded. with general inter-
NSG" i@'%ob phtui''J NV hloo toOh
place, aud such laundry scene as was
enacted would make a horse laugh.
PurISts playing PARTISAN, casuists crying
comfy, spoilsmen spoutiug the poetry of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. were few of the
multitudinOus things evolved from the
general scramble of every fellow strug-
m, ha than hiS fol and tn
seem to be better. Oh! it is funny what
influence civil service reform(?)has on the
incubating boss who invokes it for his
livery. How he deprecates his own
virtue, regrets his remorseless conscience,
plays High jerks" with the fellow who
is going to vote tother way, and acts
head burying camel when the vote is com
ing right, W hatever the voter is. and who
all the time is calling for the rocks-of
course to save him by their weight from
premature translation to the upper realm.
And the "backuumber." he who has
bossed it till reform with big "R''
bounced him, who knew all the lanes
past. who now finds ''Rsform' a lion in
his path and an III see you and go you
one better to his policy my, how the
old fellow does vince when he finds the
kicking he has all along deprecated and
mathematical is his only salvation.
Well, both these fellows were abroad
last Saturday-the old Democracy and
the new. They fought like brave men,
long and well; they piled the ground
with much lamb slain. On Tuesday
twas Boss-e'er is fell, bleeding at every
vein.
But, how about it? Well, the fact is, it
was do or die on either side; neck or
nothing for the worker. And they
came. How Rhoderick's forces responded
to his bugle horn was a caution. They
came as the winds come when forests
are rended and rolled as the waves roll
when somebody's stranded. The scene
at the North and High street polling
place was revelation of the resources of
Reform" with big "R'' aud it's COM
comitants of pull Dick pull Devil. More
Democrats were polled than were ever
polled at a general election. Few could
tell whence they came and fewer could
conjecture whittier they would 90, when
the guid pre- had been quoted. Seven
hundred Democrats went to the polls in
Eikton district alone between the hours
of 2 and p. m. and gave evidence of the
faith that is i'll them. At least a hundred
more, well known members of the party,
refused to take part in the trial OF spuuk
at the expense of party, and yet nobody
believes that the Democracy will or can
poll within ten per cent of the number
thus committed at any general election
in the next ten years. And the same
thing is true of other districts in proper
ton. One hundred and fifty "hoaters"
in the Third district, as many more in
the Seventh, like account in the First
and Fifth and Sixth aud Eighth, and
wherever else contest was threatened
between rivals for place to few and
power to fewer,-this is the picture
suggested by the calcium light of Doodle.
| Strange and sad-as sad as it is strange
and perhaps more so, that so many of the
| Nation Sovereigns-bOth spelled with a
big letter, have come to the conclusion
that the right of suffrage has legitimate
market value, and act on that conclusion.
that men who scorn bribery and despise
the briber and the bribed, will indulge
| familiar courtesies with each and become
the one or the other, as the case may
require and circumstances Justify, when