The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-10-28
LET NO ANTI-SAL0ON VOTER BE
MISLED

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the WH1G as in duty bound to the
constituency it represents, denounced
the open and undisguised bribery of
voters, through which the Crothers
ticket, now asking the support of
anti license Democrats, was nomi-
mated, and appealed to the intelligent
sentiment of the reputable voters OF
the county, to rebuke this defiant
debachery OF our voters, by refusing
TO endorse at the polls its political
benehciaries.
The facts upon which we based our
denunciation of the methods resorted
to, to secure the nomination OF this
ticket were undoubted, for we sup
plemented our declaration of them
by the confession of the Cecil Demo.
Graf, a partizan Democratic organ, as
we'll as the protest of the Perryville
RNco,d, a non-partizan Democratic
jour nal
" hile the vindication OF the purity
of our elections in Cecil was thus
involved in the present election, it
was no less apparent to every
reflective voter, that the saloon was
the potent agency and medium of
this political debauchery, and that
as long as it held full sway in the
county, the effective purgation OF
our local politics, was a matter OF
comparatively hopeless accomplish
ment.
This position involved of necessity
the question of license or no license
in the county, which by existing law,
was to be again submitted to our
people next year.
Now, it required no extraordinary
acumen to see, that although the
vote of the people of Cecil on the
question OF license was not to be
taken until 1894, the first steps to
that test of public opinion, were to
be taken in this year, 1898.
A Senator and three Delegates
were to be elected this year, to
represent the people of this county
in the Legislature, not this yea, but
next year, the year in which this very
important question was to be acted
on by them.
1t became therefore not only a
matter of intelligent inquiry, but one
particularly pertinent in 1S93-what
kind OF men we are to send to
Annapolis in 1So3-since to them
will be WholIy Entrusted the prelimin
airy legislation on this important
local question of license.
And why do we say wAolLy in.
trusted to them?
Simply because tile Shate in WAicA
tile question 0oiH come ub IN 1891, IS
solely a0ithin tie discretion of the
.SenafO, and Delegates eLectedm 1893.
If the Legislature of 1890 had sbec
ideally provided in the present law,
the exact and definite form in which
the question would be resubmitted
in 1894, then nothing would have
been left to the discretion of the
Senator and Delegates elect, and
their necessary legislative work
would have been purely mandatory
and perfunctory.
But the law does not so specify the
definite shape in which the question
will be resubmitted in 1894.
Listen to the language of the law.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted that the
question whether or not any person
or persons, house. company, asso-
citation or body corporate, as herein
after described, may be licensed in
Cecil county of this State x
shall be submitted to the registered
qualified voters of said county, on
the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November in every
fourth year thereafter, at the election |
to be held therein.
Thus it will be seen that the law
only provides for the resubmissiou |
Of tile question every four years, or
whether or not any person, &c, may |
be licensed, the form or SLATE in
which the question will be submitted,
being left to the Senator and Dele.
gates from the county, elected in
1898.
Now Mr.. Crother's Democratic
County Convention fully compre-
1ended the situation, or rather the
of the provision of the
,recant law and the action nj thot