The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-10-08
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MEETING OF ITS EIGHTEEN H
STATE CONVENTION AT
ELKTON.

MEETING OF ITS ElGHTEENI /
STATE CONVENTION AT
ELKT0N.
Interesting Preliminary Meet
ings, and IL Full Attendance o
Delegates. The Hospitality o
ElktOn People AccOrds them 6
Hearty Welcome.
The assembling of the Eighteenth
Annual Convention of the Woman
Christian Temperance Union OF Mary
land which began it's sessions in the
Presbyterian Church of this town OF
Thursday was heralded on "Wednesday
morning by the arrival of the StaLe
officers and superintendent of the Mary
land Unions. consisting of Mrs. Summer
field Baldwin, of Baltimore, Mrs. Mar
garet Lake, of Mt. Washington, Md.
Miss Mary Small. OF Hagerstown, Miss
Fanny Cathcart, Mrs 8. H. Martin, supt
of Railroad Work, Mrs. Clara ID. Abra
hams, of Woodlawn, County President oil
Cecil Unions, Mrs Alice Robinson, Pres
dent of Baltimore City Unions, Mrs
Sarah Tudor, Supt of State Literature
Mrs. Mary Hasiup, State Organizer, Mrs
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Almshouses, Mrs Franklin Dix and
Miss Kate Dix. Supts of Kinder
gartens, Mis- A. T. Nelson. Pres of Queen
Anue County Unions, Miss Sarah E
Trump of Carroll County, Supt of work
among colored people, Mrs. Mary E
I Brown, Supt of Prison Work, Miss r. B
Morey, of Baltimore, Supt of Juvenile
Work, Mrs. II. NJ. Holiingswosth, OF
| Hartford, Supt of State aud County FAN
Work, Mrs. Daniel Pope, Supt of Press
Work, Mrs. Sarah Miller, Pres of Mont
gomery County Unions, Mrs Strickland
the newly elected president of Caroline
County Unions, Mrs, II. T. Woodrow,
| lOS vi 1Idi iolu SOuh51 VII - LIZ
NJ. Corey, Pres of Kent County Uniors,
aud Miss Ida G. Crew, County Secretary
and President of the United ''Y" of Kent
| county, which numbers ninety three
members, forty OF whom are young men.
| These officers who constitute the cxecu
tive committee of the state organization,
mo farm 1lu nt nfplnalr nd
arranged the plan of work OF the Unions
| of the State for the coming year.
MEETING OF WELCOME
A large audience assembled at Odd
Fellows Hall on Wednesday evening to
| tender Il welcome to the delegates in
| attendance, and which was presided over
by Mrs Summerfield Baldwin of Bal,i
| more. The stage was handsomely dec J..
rated with flags aud notices, couspicu.
GUS among the decorations being the silk
! banners of the organization. The pro-
gram opened with devotional exercises
led by the Rev. |. L. Wood, and the
singing Of a hymn, "God Bless Oar
Home" by the audience. Miss Laura
Lam bert of North East, gave au effective
recitation, which was followed by a
pleasing duet by Misses Bessie F. Scott
and Mary Harlan. George A. Blake,
Esq, President of the Town Council,
welcomed the delegates upon the part of
the ctzens of ElktoD, in the folio wing
admirable address
Madam President and Delegates to tho
State COR0ention.
1t gives me pleasure, on behalf of the
citizens of Elkton, to extend cordial
welcome to the visiting friends who are
with US tonight. 1t is our desire t4at in
the sunshine of this welcome and the
full enjoyment of our hospitality and
shelter you shall for the time, forget
that our homes are not yours.
From the cities, town and hamlets of
our State, you gather here an uusstish
band-guests whose very presence is
an honor to our town.
Yours is Il NJ ssion OF mercy and you
are inspired by the Hottest motive that
can move the heart Oh sway the will OF
man-the rescue of your fellows.
No commercial considerations or mer.
ceuary euds bring you to our doors: nor
do you como to do US hurt. While you
are with Ia with your messages of love
and hope, every babe will sleep more
sweetly in his cradle and every mother
feel more secure OF her boy.
To our town government, your coming
brings no anxious fears of impending
disorder or lawless riot: nor as a precau-
tionary measure, have We increased our
police force to check your advance.
You are the wearers of the white ribbon,
the messengers OF peace: you come not
THi j, III; he si9p OF the sword but the en-
blem of the dove.
We welcome you to a County, rs1ssrr.
profusion, with natures most boa[itif u
stores. Fertile fields, great rail roads
broad water ways, manufactures, variet
and extensive, commercial interests O
largest character are ours: to peopl
intelligent, progressive, generous an,
brave: to public spirit, eager to keel
pace with the swiftly advancing marci
of modern events.
If to this abundance of material pro
gress, we welcome you, what lack w
yet? If mills and banks, water WORKS
and the electric light, all springing W
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lions of sweeping progress, where vii
its ear marks be found?
But shall l confess it, there is ty ii
the ointment, there is skeleton III The
closet, conceal it as we may For wha
though there be church and schoo
house on every hill, there is saloon il
the valley. On the subject of temper
ance, this county OF Cecil, with it's reach
ing progressive .men:its brave hearted
women, its sweet faced boys and girls,
has taken a backward step and the
GLORY has departed from Israel" While
we COME it, let US hide our faces il
shame, and mantle ourselvesswith sack.
cloth in the presence of these good
women who must pity our misery
through they condemn our guilt.
| Two years ago | could have welcomed
you 10 town and a county free from
the curse OF the licensed traffic in iutoxi
eating drinks, whose voters ten years
before, gave greater majority for pro
hibition than votes for license, victory,
so notable, that its echo sooa rang from
the hills of Hartford to the plains OF
Kent. A victory repeated six years
later, lesser in numbers but far more
| emphatic i'll degree. But alas? we
| slum bered and slept. In the night au
enemy sowed tares in the wheat. This
stronghold of prohibition, lulled into
fancied security, in an evil hour surreu.
dered-yes, basely surrendereG-to the
rum power, almost without firing gun
Whose fault was it? Was it the sup.
plant politician with Bonded knee, only
too ready to bow low before the liquor
vote? Was it the mercenary taxpayer,
coolly willing to send souls to hell in
exchange for a fanced petty reduction
in his tax bill? Was it that secret tipler,
tired with the difficulty of getting his
dram, under prohibition? or was it
yonder luxurious madam, wanting easier