The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-11-04

tice, but simply did plain act of JUS
tice to the electors Of Cecil county, in
correctly stating the issue involved in
this campaign.
Mr.. Crothers we'll knew, that his
"previous record" on the license ques-
ton could be truthfully used as very
effective weapon against him IN tn
present campaign. .S.esss s.
He knew as Cody else K
Lat next year-1S94-the life and
death struggle for license will occur in
Cecil county, and for the antl-saloon
and anti license people of the county,
to send him the kN07vn enemy of PRO.
Aibition, the paid attorney of the
Liquor Dealers Association of Mary
land, and the active lawyer and adviser
of the Hotel and Saloon Keepers
Association of Cecil to Annapolis, to
legislake for the temperance People
and b10Ai6ifoniSts Of Cecil, would be
one of the most stultifylng acts they
could possibly commit against prohibi
ton, as we'll as against themselves.
MIR. Crothers knew that people
ordinarily do not seek to so stultify
themselves, and therefore when the
WING correctly stated the issue, his
best endeavor was to deceive temper
ance Democratic voters into the belief,
that we were raising the license issue
simply to gain some partizan RepublI-
can advantage in the county.
But it was noticed by these same
temperance Democrats, that while MIR.
Crothers was ready enough to deride
the WIG and abuse its editor, in his
personal organ, the CeciIC0unty Meas,
he nevertheless did not undertake to
answer the WHO'S argument.
Mr.. Crothers did not answer it, be
cause he could not
The WING charged, that Mr.. Croth-
ers was lodging the issue, in simply
asserting that he favored re-submission
without committing himself by saying
exactly what he meant by re.sub-
mission.
When the WIG asked him to tell
the temperance people and voters of
Cecil what he really did mean by
re. submission. whether he meant re-
submission of the license question or
re-submission of the breSent La0V, ne
was as silent as grave yard.
Yet, he could have settled the quss-
ton in single line, by saying that he
was in favor OF the submission of the
bycsent AaaO, which he knew was what
the anti license voters of the county
understood resubmisslon as meaning.
But Mr.. Crothers has never said he
was il favor of resubrnitting the pre-
sent law, because he knows, that if the
present law is re-submltted next year,
it will as certainly be defeated as that
he breaths Gods bountiful breath of
life.
He could'nt say so, for another
reason.
He is employed, or will be employed,
and retained by the liquor and saloon
interest of Cecil, to do another thine
vhen lie gets to annapolis, and for
which, when he performs the service, he
will be handsomely rewarded for doing2
What is this service, for which in
the event of its rendition to the liquor
interest of Cecil county he will receive
SO rich a professional fee7
Why simply to frame and have
passed at Annapolis, such Inappropriate
legislation" as will SAFE tie life Of the
license system IN Cecil county next
year, and perpetuate for the wholesale
liquor interest of Baltimore, the com.
mercial value OF the retail liquor traffic |
in the county.
Now, Mr.. Crothers Is unusually well
equipped if he can succeed in getting |
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