The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-07-25
Why the Plus i?

"A republican contemporary IN
sensible and conservative editorial
this week in referring to the Re
publican county convention to be
held August nth next, says: "In
the first place the ticket to be nomi
nateu at the coming convention can
not be elected unless it receives the
full and hearty support of the entire
Republican vote Of the county, plus
the Democrats who will not support
the Democratic ticket" This is
true. Why should they receive the
bkuS? The Democrats of Cecil have
had placed before them a ticket
composed of men we'll qualified for
the respective positions for which
they have been nominated and from
top to bottom there IS not a flaw in
their Democracy Let every Demo
crat vote the straight ticket, and the
plus will come from the other side.
Cecil Democrat.
The why and wherefore of the
plus-ness ought not to be hard to
find by the Democrat That Jour
nal is altogether too old a sinner
not to realize the enormity of the
sins it is daily committing, or en-
dorsing after somebody else has
committed them. 1t fully apprecia
ties the why-ness OF the plus ness
and is not fooling even itself in its
effort to play the role OF the sinless
child. The whyness of the plus
ness has its origin in something
deeper than personal fitness OF can
didates, matter which we do not
feel called upon to consider Just now;
it goes away back to visiting OF
the sins of the parents upon the
children. The fitness of the candi-
date for office is one thing. The
claims he may have upon popular
suffrage may be totally different
thing. The best man in Cecil
county, measured by any recogniz-
ed standard of requirement and de.
sert, would stand a poor show for
party favor if he should base his
claims entirely on his fitness. He
must have that which should never
be divorced from fitness, though it
often is,-party endorsement obtain
ed through unquestioned and I'm
questionable party instrumental.
tiles. If this were not so, no man
would or could have any claim
above his fellow for any party pre-
ference. A candidate must not only
be fit: he must be acceptable and be
able to present true and firm grounds
for his acceptance. 1.-The fail in these,
his fitness would count but little for
him. Now, the fact is that nobody
believes-be he democrat or Re.
publican, Prohibitionist or Fusionist,
that the ticket recently made by
the So called Democratic convention,
measures up to the standard on
which alone it can safely rely for
cordial party vote. OF one thing we
hesitate not to make confession?
if the Republican convention, soon
to assemble, should commit similar
blunder, it had better let its ticket
"die a-bornin." A ticket made to
please one lection Of party alone,
can have no just or sensible claims
to the support of the party entire.
Such monstrous plumbers as the fac
ton that happened to win at the
recent Democratic primaries COM
mitted, are only possible to a party
that believes itself invincible. Their
very commission Is but discounting
in advance of the strength ofthe dis
satisfied, in the fatuous assurance
that enough Democrats will vote the
ticket who neither like its features
or its origin, to condone the ofense
of its begetting. A minority party
can relish no such intoxicant nor
indulge such vagary. The Re- |