The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-10-07
THAT SPECIAL LEGISLATION BUSl-
NESS

NESS.
In 1890 when the auti saloon and
anti license voters of this county
were given the deluSive assurance,
that they would have the opportunity
to express their choice at the polls
between prohibition and restrictive
license system, through the influence
OF money used in its behalf, the
present license law was adopted by
an accredited majority of Esq votes.
The people of this county were
then told, that it was well regulated
high license law, and upon the issue
of that law, the county was carried
against prohibition. For three years
past it has been on trial in this county.
1t has proved in every sense
miserable failure.
Its restrictive features are a traves-
tie upon high license.
Violations of it are numerous and
prosecutions rare, and the demorall-
zation resulting from it, is conceded
by every impartial citizen in every
community of Cecil county.
Now having had ii on trial for
three consecutive years, with the
general result as stated, we claim
that the people of Cecil county have
the right to vote in 1894, upon that
identical law, untouched by amend
ments and untinkered by the touch
of any legislative hand.
But our Democratic masters inform
us, that special legislation will be
needed to resubmlt the question OF
license in 1894, and ask besides,
recognized antl-license Democratic
voters to aid by their votes in send
ing to Annapolis Mr.. Crothers and
his political associates, all of them
known to be pro license men III
sentiment, that they may shape and
direct this needed special legislation.
We assert that this is fraud upon
the people of Cecil county.
Our qualified voters in 1890 passed
upon the present law, and they have
a clear and undisputed right to pass
upon the same law in 1894
By what authority of the people OF
this county, do the license and saloon
managers OF the Democratic party,
if they can secure a delegation OF
their own at Annapolis, propose to
put before our voters every four
years, sort of patent progressive
license system, amended and i'm
proved to suit the purposes of their
clients
They clearly have no such right.
But it is clear, that if Mr.. Crothers
and his legislative associates on the
Liquor Dealers Association ticket
are elected in 1898, that the law
which will be resubmitted in 1894,
wiX not be tile present lar, but some
other Iav, framed with the hope
and expectation of perpetuating the
license system in the county, under
what its friends will claim is better
regulated law than the present one.
And yet with this contingency, no
not to say certainty, before the anti
license voters of the county, anc
whom we believe to day, constitute
large majority OF the reputable
citizens of the county, we are told by
Mr.. Crothers and his newspaper
organs, that license is not an ISSUE
noy, that he and his party ar,
pledged to resubmission in 1894, anC
that is the end of it.
But if anti-saloon and anti-licens'
Democrats allow themselves to b.
beguiled into electing Mr., Crother
under the hollow assurance that h
and his associates on the Liquo
Dealers Association ticket are il
favor of what they are pleased tt
term fair submission Of the question
of license, they may also rest assured
that such election will prove tn
beginning of long and compare
lively endless term CT license iniqui
ties in Cecil county.
This certainly is certain.