The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-09-26
A Question or two for Mr.. Gra-

We listened attentively and respect
fully to Mr.. James T. Graham-who
wants to be Clerk-while he spoke at
Odd Fellows Hall on Wednesday
evening, and while he was telling his
Democratic brethren, how proud they
ought to be of the business record OF
his party in Cecil county how economi
cally it had discussed IN past years the
money of the taxpayers OF the county,
we felt like asking him:
Why he didn't tell the people how
our county debt had acCumul ;ted to
over seventy, two thousand dollars from
1867 to 1887, and 10 meet which we
were compelled to 60 to the Legislature
to get relief and part Of which in the
shape of bonded county indebted
ness, the property holders of Cecil are
now annually paying off, nd:
H000 TO SAFE tie county from bank
rubtcy, the voters of Cecil county in
the year 1887 defeated the Democratic
party, and pu; in a board of Repuoh.
can County Commissioners
How that Republican board found
on assuming the duties OF their office,
county Indebtedness of just s72 $780,
OIL, forty five thousands of which was
bonded Indebtedness, and ST. 1876 OF
floating Indebtedness, not one cent
Of 0hich had been leaned Ior.
We ask Mr.. Graham while he is
assigning reasons based on past records,
why his party should be continued in
power,-how this Indebtedness had
been incurred?
We tell him, because successive
boards OF Democratic County Com
missioners had for partizan reasons,
been making insufficient LeUies from
year TO year, and acre carryiug a
deficiency from one year to another,
and which didn't appear in the pub
Iished annual statements.
And while Mr.. Graham is pointing
with pride to past Democratic records
In Cecil county, we ask him whether
he remembers the sensation among
the tax payers of Cecil county, when
under date OF April 20, 1880, and over
his own signature, the late R G Reese,
one of the best accountants Cecil
county ever produced, and himself a
Democrat, and one Of Democratic
board OF County Commissioners ad
mitted, that ,S22, 200. 90 had been paid
and dis6ursed to date, ovey and a6ove
tie amounts annually Levied and COL
lecfed for county expenses 2
Is Mr.. Graham too y0ung Demo
crat to remember these things, while
he is painting the pleasing partizan
picture OF purity and PERFECTION in the
public record of his party since 1867 ?
And while he is calling our attention
IN such poetic phrase to the pretty
school houses with which his party has
dotted every hillside in Cecil, will he
please tell US, why in some years our
county schools have been open only
six Gin 1880, in others eight, and in
others only nine months of the year2
And while he is about it, wont he
please be kind enough to tell US why
his party didn't renominate the pres ent
board of County Commissioners?
He tells US this board has gwen Us a
grand administration of county affairs !;
that the county taxes are only sixty
three cents on the $500, his party
organs repeat the same story, aad yet
his party "bosses" kick these gentle
men out of Office after their splendid
record, when there is no law of Mary
land forbidding their denomination, and
which would have been the highest en-
dorsement which their party could give
them.
Why is this Mr. Graham3
| Why have Messrs. Price, Anderson
and Cameron been substituted for
Messrs. McNamee, S rele and Willis,
as nominees for the Office of County
Commissioner, while you and your
associate managers SO Justify sing the
praises of the former gentlemen
To which of the young bosses were
they distasteful, that the reasonable
endorsement of denomination should
not have been accorde themP
We reserve for the present other
questions pertinent to the issue, and
relative to county administration, which
we shall be glad to have answered
either by Mr.. Graham or any 9th, r
young Democratic boss be he saint or
sinner.
LEADING and infuenti. i Democrats
charge, that the recent Democratic
primaries were carried by the young