The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-10-28

passed by the General Assembly o
1894, and tile passage of such legiS
Latlou zpiX be entirely zVithiu c0ntr0
of tie Senator and Delegates eIeetfl
from this county,"
Here, he not only drove in thu
license nail for another four years
thus anticipating the vote of TIT
people, but he clinched the nail BY
declaring what is the fact, that TIL
Senator and Delegates from thu
county would have entire control o
such legislation.
Now when this platform wa
adopted, 1t was very plain who tina
Senator was expected to be, ane
who the Delegates were hoped to be
Mr.. Crothers was simply saying t.
his clients. the liquor interest of Ceci
county and the Liquor Dealers
Association of Maryland, that th'
license question and its settlement
rext year would be substantially ii
his hands,
Read between the lines, tina
platform instead of being a declara
ton OF principles OF the Democrats
party of Cecil county, was only ;
professional declaration of MIR .Croth
ers, the lawyer and counsel OF th'
liquor interest in Cecil couny, to hi
clients, that they could make thei
minds easy as to the security ant
safety OF their business traffic il
Cecil county, as he would under tht
instruction of his convention have
the settlement of the license question
in 1894, practically in his owl
power.
While that is the only real mean
ing, fairly interpreted of the language
of the Democratic convention, anc
so prepared to suit, no subsequent
act or declaration of Mr.. Crothers
either verbally, so far as we have
heard, or editorially in his persona
organ the Cecil County Meas, ha:
been inconsistent with such interpre
tation.
RE submission-says Mr.. Croth
ers editorially-is required under the
terms OF the present license law. HI
and his associates would violate theil
oaths of office, if they neglected IL
secure submission. But the con
vention which nominated them wen
further and pledged them in advance
to secure re.submission."
See how artfully the real issue il
ignored in this language.
The real issue is not re-submission
No one has ever raised the ques
ton that Mr.. Crothers is opposed Il
re-submission. For him or any
other man to deprive the people o
that right under the present law
would mean their political death ant
burial beyond the hope of possibl,
resurrection.
II is the re-submisSiou Of tile Pre-
sent kazO, that is tile issue.
Has Mr.. Crothers ever said tina
he was in favor of the re submission
OF the present law2
And yet is not that the cLea,
uuequiUoeal right of the people O
Cecil county, to pass upon thi
same, un-altered, untinkered licens,
law in 1S947
Why, did not Mr.. Crothers ant
his license friends most positivel,
promise and pledge our people il
1890, that they should vote upol
this law in 1894.
What did they-the people-thel
-in-I89o-understand those prom
ises and pledges as meaning?
Why the same Aa0 of course, no
merely the same question.
But knowing that the present Law
is unpopular because it is failure
Mr.. CrotherS in his dual capacity 0
State Senator-should he elected
and counsel for the saloon interest il
Cecil, proposes to remedy and cure
its defects by adroit amendment.
pinned to it, SO as to make it more
acceptable to anti license Democrats
If he has this right, he could with
equal propriety, If elected to the
Senate, make the prohibitory fea
lures of the present law so offensive
as to procure its certain defeat mex
year.
Mr.. Crothers is shrewd.
He did right royal service for the
liquor interest OF Cecil in 1890, anc
if he can succeed in getting to the
Senate in January 1894, he can frame
such appropriate legislation" for the
fall OF that year, as will inure not
only to his credit as a cute Liquor
Dealers Corporation attorney, but
as we'll to the lasting business benefit
of the liquor traffic in Cecil county.
1t will then be indeed a lasting
business in Cecil, so lasting, as to
need generation to get rid Of
Anti saloon Democrats may under
partlzan pressure, vote for Mr..
Crothers, but they should not plead
the ''simpllcity of ignorance" when
in 1894, they feel the iniquities OF
the rum traffic fastened on them
indefinitely.
STILL MORE RRTRERV