The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-08-03
THAT CONVENTION, AND THE
RACKET IN THE FOURTH
"DEESTRICk" OVER
RULE FOUR.

1t is the tell-tale dial of the soul, re-
cording with truthful touch, the feelings
of the inner man, as Col. "Bill" Kilgour
would put it.
If this be really true, and the expression
of the delegates who met in the Democratic
Convention at Elktoa on Tuesday, be any
indication of the state of their minds,
Dante's Inferno itself never contained a
more hopeless set of souls, than those who
met in Odd Fellows Hall on that day.
1t was a seriously solemn crowd that
lasted just seventeen minutes by the watch
1t is true, that rs a body of the "unter-
ritied" of Cecil, it had come up through
much tribulation.
Ever since that memorable Combine"
conference on North street, when the Writ
| lamb laid down inside the Crothers lion,
the disturbed condition of the Democratic
mind in Cecil has been something painful
to behold
While such "A lusty meal had not appar-
emily taxed the digestive powers of the
big Chief, -whose capacious nav seems
ever ravenous for the spoils-yet the polit-
zeal digestion of the average Combine
follower has been seriously disturbed of
late. and the melancholy mein of the
'deestrick brethren showed it plainly on
Tuesday.
And the reason is plain.
Things are not working well with the
rank and file.
Suspicion and distrust, dissatisfaction
and disgust pervade the ranks in every
district in the county, which the merry
peans of praise of the 'angelic" ticket
sung every Thursday and Saturday by the
"Combine" organs do not in the least
assuage.
Besides, every Combine" fellow you
meet, seems to be carrying on his shoulders
some other fellows load of trouble as well
as his own.
St. John the Evangelist who on last
Thursday travelled all the way from the
st ashore to do s,mc missionary work cat
home found the very dell" to PLAY
when he arrived.
The "Bg Chief mad it seems patched
up peace with his determined party OPP
ponent late Of the County Commissioners
Office, which the ex-senator promptly re
pu,liated, and for while it looked as
though war was again imminent.
There was hustling Of heels round tie
Court House corner, and heads of varying
dimensions were put together, long into
the night.
But on Saturday morning peace again
reigncd in Warsaw, and the deposcd Clerk
of the County Commissioners, was again
shut out in the cold, shorn of the smile of
the "Comhinc' favo".
In the meantime, the racket had
reached the Fourth ''deestrckn over the
soft surface of whose fertile fields, the biz
foot prints of thu, colossal Deputy Sheriff
were still fresh.
The little David Of Fair HILL had pre-
pared his sling again for his big Philis-
tine foe, and the way the fur flew at the
Fair Hill corner, was caution to tie
palmiest day of Katy DESSERTS.
BY a strange coincidence, it was the
fourth rule of Instructions to the Judges of
the Democratic Primaries recently issued
by the local members of the County Genital
Committee that did the mischief, and
which it is reported, the Democratic Can
didate for Sheriff refused to subscribe to
The rule reads as follows:
mo person shall be entitled to vote at these
primaries who since the first day of January.
1885, has given or has promised to give to any
voter in Cecil county II consideration for his
vote ut IL Primary Meeting"
To man or candidate of either party,
who does not practice bribery, either at the
primary or general elections, it would not
seem that the above rule ought to occasion
any trouble.
But it did all the same, and it kicked up
the biggest kind of row.
Why so just a requirement should hinder
any democrat from VOTING, the prlm
aries and the elections in Cecil are con-
Quoted perfectly honestly,-no square man
can conceive, particularly when both the
Ncws and the Dcmocrm are making Il thun
dering row because a Republican Conven-
ton at f.lkton, passed a series OF resolutions
demanding fair and honest elections
Yet right at the same hour, in which the
immaculate Editor of the Dcmocrn and
the subscrvient Doctor of the Ncms, were
giving the Republican Convention fits, be
cause it charged that cheating had been
done and bribery practiced at recent cleo
lions in Cecil, the Democratic voters, led
by Democratic candidate on the ''angelic"
ticket, were indignant at having to swa-
low rule -Four before they could be allowed
to vote, and one leading Democrat of super
ior height and standing was it is reported,
kept out of his for three hours, before he
would or could subscribe to that rule
What do you think of this Brother Ash?
How does this strike you Doctor IIowdy?
How does it strike the voter of average
honesty who believes in honest primaries
and fair elections?
Come let us hear from you.