The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-10-13
TIP oEOIL CAMPAIGN.

Az mill he seen in our local CO
! umns, Hon. VIM. =. Baker, III
Republican Congressional candlda'
in this district, viii begin next wee
It a series OF public meetings in tn
county.
Now the fact is that Cecil count
'r' is not by any means to be coun;e
as a certain burrow (9) for MIR. Ere
Talbot.
We have no other than polite
IS IS crow to pick with Mr.. Talbot.
O6 Personally he is a clever gentlems
using that word in its America
IN. and not English, sense-and BEN
=. Democrat for revenue only, h
ua undoubtedly looked industrious
nd after the spoils seeking interests
ne his partizAn constituency.
nut In word, we feel no dlspositiF
he to belittie Mr.. Talbot to gloliiy NJ
ia Baker, or to draw invidlous pe
DE sonal comparisons bet" cen them
no no the expense OF the former,
10 There is enough to say 10 &c to
intelligent elector in the dist
out even personal thew zen.
either candidate: subjects OF pub
o., as The opposit'
5ns resent alclaim it would be a great
o oS lie .ecfo Maryland's manufacturing,
ses ricultural and general business
interests, to have full representa-
ton in Congress favorable to the
protective principle
Col. Singerly never made more
serious mistake in his life than on
Saturday night last, when, in open
ing his Pennsylvania campaign, he
gravely announced that protection
as a principle is dead"
We say "gravely announced" for
his face must have worn a funereal
expression when he made so ridicu-
iously deceptious declaration.
If he had modified his statement
and added-"so far as the free trade
Democracy of the South could kill
it." his declaration would have been
strictly true.
But to say that protection as |
principle, is dead is to misconstrue
the meaning of recent political his
tory.
What do the Democrats really
mean, in the face of recent-nn.1
paralleled Republicapma ;orities
fsldslSsd from number of States,
noticeably, Maine. Vermont, and
and which States like
New York and Pennsylvania will
shortly re. echo, and which the gen
eral trend of political events all over
the country point to--when they
concede that this is their of year in
politics2
They really mean that the prin-
ciple of protection, the political club
that their own Mr.. German used to
slay the present administration, is
the live active principle underlying
the present campaign, and that the
people, recognizing the
fact that this economic principle
built up this nation, do not intend to
abandon or surrender that prin-
ciple at the behest OF the Southern
free trade Democracy.
This sentiment is no less active
in Maryland than in other States,
whose prospective prosperity de-
ponds upon the fostering and devel-
opment of their local manufacturing
industries.
This is particularly the case in
whose inexhaustible nat
ural beds of bituminous coal, the
best strengthening fuel in the
world. constitute so valuable a pos
session for industrial prosperity.
Therefore, she should be represen.
ted by men who will be In line and
touch with the Coming p protec-
ton majority in the Fitty-tourth
Congress, to which every indication
now points.
To represent constituency made
up in the Second Congressional Dis
trict largely of the industrial and
manufacturing classes, no sane man
certainly would argue that Mr.. Fred
Talbot, the free trade professional
politician and ring vice manager,
would be either so timely or SO efflc-
lent man as VIM. B. Baker, who is
actively identified with the industrial
interests OF this section OF the State