The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-10-21

turpltude OF both.
1t pillages the citizen of dear
right, and it crucities liberty, in the
house of its fathers.
The Shiboleth OF civil rights is the
vote OF the people.
Tie test of the vote is the ballot
box.
The gueldon OF it, is free choice,
and fair count.
What despolls it OF either, is con-
ceived in cupidity, and nrrtured in
assassination.
The dirge of buried hopes of
Constitutional guarantees in Mary
land, is chanted in the f1ippancy
with which crime so choleric is con-
doned.
The traces of governmental decay,
are written all along the lines OF out
ragged ballot boxes, whether in talsl-
tying their outcome or poisoi ing the
fountain.
No matter how we look at it, the
Observation-Disclosures that it is
hydra, headed.
No amount of familiarity with it,
can rob it of its hideousness.
The orgies of the drunken that
only half perceive the foulness OF
their own enormities, is the nearest
approach we can conceive OF to the
pertness that seeks to minimize its
efrontery.
1t is hardly doubtful, that no man
of correct instincts was ever so per-
verted by its temptations, as to laugh
heartily, no matter how merrlly he
may laugh, over the crime OF Bribery
The rape OF the ballot can lose
none OF its grossness, save to the
actual debauchee.
1t is doubtful if any fascination,
can lure the workers OF such toulness
to a decent regard for their own
misdoings.
There is something startling in the
composure witnessed in these dark
ening days OF partizan politics in
Cecil County, in the inhuman com
posure with which certain gentlemen
of high personal pretenslons, con-
template without an emotion, and
admit without murmur, their
acquiescence in work so abominable.
1t suggests Jack Ketch, uncon-
scious of the need of a mask.
We could bring the blush of shame
to the well washed cheeks of Demo-
cratic gentlemen who reside near us,
by the recital of their share in the
nefarious work right near their
homes in Cecil county.
There is no help for the apo,o2ist
OF such iniquities, that does not
vindicate the doer of them II this
shoe prove a close fit to some local
political dissemblers, they may find
it an instrument OF increasing torture
to their already scared consciences,
as the hours OF the campaign roll by.
Only in the complete crushing of
the Doodle Boss" and the polluter
of the ballot, is there hope OF the
future in American politics, national
and local.
1t is test OF endurance between
free and independent sovereignty and
its sappers and miners.
1t is struggle to the death.
They cannot live together.
The Bride giver and the Bride
taker can only prosper in the decay
of human rights and liberties.
If liberty would retain her throne,
there must be an end TO the pestifer
Gus political gang who are playing the
cormorant to exhaust, and the p0lit
ical CAD fly to multiply and devour.
Too much depends on the fate Of
the ballot-raper in Cecil county, to
treat bis turpitude with indifference,
or minimize his menaces.
He must go to the wall, or the
people will have no choice.
If he prevails as he is most assidu
ously endeavoring to do, there is an
end to the true intent of suffrage.
Judging from what occurs around
US, winked at by many who once
scorned it, INDUCED in more and
more with each passing year, there
is reason to apprehend, that the
monster is developing at a fearful
rate Already it has masked its
deformities. and in a little while,
custom may accustom us to it.
When that day comes, our people
will cease to ponder, and when they
cease to ponder, they will cease to
govern.
This is our timely protest against
a danger which everybody must
recognize is growing right here in
Cecil county.
We have spoken as vigorously as
we feel the need of speaking on
vital topic.
We do not again asseverate what
no one has had the hardihood to
deny, that the politics that now
prevail in our midst, as demonstrated
at the recent Democratic primaries,
and which have given tone and color
to the ticket which honest and high |
toned Democrats are expected to
support, ARE THE POLITICS OF Bril-
Berry.
We have spoken freely in hopes
to catch the eyes of men who are
not yet prepared to accept purchased |
votes, or stuffed ballot-boxes as the
palladium of their liberties.
1t affords no answer sufficient tor
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