The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-30
A OAPER ON TEMPERANCE,

1t is amusing not to say positively
comical, how terribly exercised sew
eral of our contemporaries are
noticeably the Cecil Democrat and
Cecil County MevS-lest the Repub-
lican partizan fervor OF the WING
may injure the cause of temperance
in Cecil county.
How beautifully virtuous it sounds
to hear the Democrat for instance
descant upon the Who's use and
misuse of the temperance cause to
serve its party at the expense of the
cause of humanity"
How positively heavenly, not to
say angelic, the editor OF the Demo-
crat becomes, when he gets off his
random rhapsodies or temperance
How sweetly he chirps in this
strain, ''it is the cause of public
order and good government, it is
the cause of morality and religion,
the promoter of happiness and
prosperity
When reading this beautiful Ian
guage, you could almost imagine you
heard temperance angel sing.
Indeed, it seems pity to destroy
the illusion by telling our readers
the truth, and yet this sweet temper
ance singer is technically the same
gentleman who printed for Mr.. Croth |
ers those thousands of misleading
circulars which were plastered over
the county in 1890 in the last week of
the campaign of that year, deceiving
the voters into the belief, that our
then existing prohibitory law was
fraud, and needless expense to our
taxpayers.
Now if the editor OF the Democrat
really believes that the temperance
cause is the cause of public order
and good government, the cause of
morality and religion, ally has that
newspaper ail0ays advocated tie sale
Of run IN tile county, and been lie
champion Of tile licensed saLoOu2
You can't deceive anybody, my
brother OF the Democrat by whineing
temperance, and attempting to throw
slurs upon the sincerity of the editor
OF the WING.
Alarmed at the possible, not to say
probable defeat Of the saloon candi
dates on the Democratic ticket, and
apprehending correctly, that should
the correct Mr.. Crothers and his
associates on the Democratic ticket
go down in November, that Demo
cratic ascendency in the county
might be jeopardized by the loss of
the Democratic politicians potent
agency, the rum saloon, this sweet
temperance talk is the suggestion of
mis- fears, not the expression of his
devotion.
How sanctimonious a Democratic
license editor becomes, when he fears
defeat for his party, and makes
finger board of his paper to point
1.-THE path OF duty to all Democratic
voters.
Our brother of the Democrat does
this in his last issue.
He points the path of duty" to
his party brethren, extols the Demo
cratic party, abjures those whom
disappointment has soured, threatens
those who contemplate party treason,
appeals to party honor and individual
good faith, and all for what2
To prevent Democrats who are
opposed to the licensed sale
of rum, from cutting" the names of
on their ticket whom they
kno70 are in favor of rum and the
license system.
Listen to this.
"Such cause temperance is too
sacred to be the football of partizan
politics." says the Democrat.
Doesn't that sound lovely
But the Democrat is neither sound
1or lovely on the license question.
In all the contests of these long
zone years, in the face of his rhap. .
ode; on temperance, it has stood ]