The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-11-18
PURGE THE PARTY OF TRAITORS.

PURGE THE PARTY OF TRAITORS.
If the Republican party is ever to
win permanent majority in Cecil
county it can only do SO by making
itself worthy of public confidence,
and thereby attracting to it the best
men of all parties
The recent election has shown |
that that there is a large element OF
the reputable voters Of the Demo
cratic party, who will when occasion !
requires, rebuke by their ballots the
corruption of factional leaders, and
who do not consider themselves any
the less Democrats, because they |
have sufficient independence to
administer such rebukes.
The fact is, that Democratic poll
tics in this county, under the recent
leadership of men who prostitute the
organization for personal advance
ment, have become as essentially
corrupt as tne politics of New York
city or Brooklyn.
But while the majority party in
Cecil has been brought face to face
with defeat, through the disreptuable
practices of those who have usurped
its leadership, the Republican party
is not altogether clear of the same
faint OF disreputable practices by
men who claim, or have claimed
some prominence in its ranks.
When Mr.. C0the1S Publicly
thanked his Republican friends from
the steps OF the Howard House on
election night, and practically &C
knowledged that their votes had
saved him from absolute defeat, aohO
a0as he thanking 2
Mr.. Crothers was unsparing in his
denunclation of the Democrats who
had "cut" their tickets at his expense.
In his words, they were dogs,
scoundrelS and traitors"
What were the men who surrepti-
tiously "cut' Republican tickets for
his benefit
We should not under any circum-
stances, we hope, be sufficiently
wanting III self respect as to denounce
them as "dogs, scoundrels and
traitors"
But barring explosives, if the
Democrats who refused to support
MIR. Crothers were guilty OF high
crime against the Democratic party,
what is the measure Of the offense
against the Republican party OF the
men who surreptitiously "kniied"
Mr.. Haines
Now there seems to be striking
similarity between Elkton politics
and New York city politics. as
described by the local correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger.
Writing of Tammany politics, he
says:
There is an element in the Rep
ublican organization here that were
in deals and trades with Tammany,
and the party, as whole, suffers in
public confidence and respect by
reason Of the prominence of these
men. After the Republican disaster
of last year some OF them went into
Tammany Hall. but many still
remain, and it was openly charged
before the last election that one of
them had planned to sell out the
party to Tammany in consideration
of Police Justiceship. Now, If
there is ever to be successful fight
made against Tammany in a local
election, it must be by a combination
of the best elements in both parties,
and the first step in such a comb
nation is to purge the Republican
organization OF the men who have
disgraced and sold it, and to make
it worthy of public confidence.
There is ample evidence that there
IS an element of the Republican
organization in Cecil, that was in
(secreD deals and trades with the
local (Crothers) Tammany, and the
Republican party of Cecil as a whole,
suffers in public confidence and
respect, by reason of the past or
present prominence Of these men.
1t must be the hope of every
honest Republican in Cecil county,
that its ranks may be soon purged
OF the men who disgrace it, by
methods that will not bear the light
of investigation, and who cloak their
political perfdy, under the garb of
protessed devotion to Republican
! ism,
Lei tf:sss22 -purGc themselves. by
becoming right now, the open ad-
herents OF the Crothers Democracy.
But for their treachery, both inside
and outside the ballot box, the repu-
table and honest voters of Cecil
county would not now be impatiently
waiting the result OF a judicial canvass
of the ballots cast at the recent
election.
Mr.. Haines would have been
triumphantly elected by majority,
the suficiency of which would have
needed no judicial canvass to vindi-
cate It's character.
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