The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-03-23
SENATOR HAYES IN CECIL

AS will be seen by the report in our local
columns Senator Thomas G. Hayes, of
Baltimore, was the guest of the Cecil Farm
er's Club at its regular monthly meeting
on Wednesday.
The discussions of the Club not being
limited to agricultural subjects alone, but
extending to all economic questions in
which the personal and property interests
of all classes of our citizens are involved,
the question of taxation is one which has
frequently been considered by it.
The presence, therefore, of the able and
distinguished Trainer OF the Hayes Reassess-
ment Bill, which through the persistent
opposition of the corporate interests of the
State, backed by powerful and corrupt
Legislative lobby, has three times defeated
re-assessment at Annapolis was an occasion
of interest, the social pleasure of the meet
ing on Wednesday not being its least
agreeable feature.
Senator Hayes is thoroughly conversant
with the subject of taxation, and being a
clear cut and ncisive speaker, his address
was listened to with marked interest.
implicitly his arraignment of his own
party in Maryland was as severe as his
denunciation of the influences which have
stood in the way of an equitable and equal
lied system of taxation in the State.
Pledged to the people of the State for the
passage of a re assessment bill in the CAM
paign of 1890. the Democratic legislature Of
that year, framed and succeeded in passing
bill which, in violation of his party's
solemn pledges to the people, Governor
jackson, succumbing to the corporate and
lobby influences at Annapolis, inconsder-
ately vetoed.
Again in 1892, substantially the same
reassessment bill was passed, the campaign
of that year being made on the same issue,
and "Farmer Brown" haranguing the
farmers and property owners of the State,
from the Allegheny mountains to the
Wicomico river, beating himself upon his
breast, and shaking the hayseed( p from his
hair in the phrenzy of his zeal for the tax
burdened and suffering farmer, dramatically
acting his part to the sweet accompaniment
of Mr.. McNulty's rich brogue, 'the Farmer
Brown" hoodwinked the people into a
majority of thirty thousand in his favor.
De-.
lunged before the people, proved weak in
nerve, bowed his knee to the corporate
Baal and initiating the evil example of his
predecessor again vetoed the Hayes Bill.
Again in 1894, the same inevitable issue
was raised before the people, and the Dem
ocratic party of Maryland sent an over
whelming majority of Senators and Dele
gates to Annapolis, solemnly pledged to
give the people the Hayes Assessment Bill
or its substantial equivalent, that should
drag invisible but productive stocks
securities, and bonds from their hiding
places, and their owners he made to share
the burden OF taxation with the farmers
and home owners of the State as they Justly
should
The Senate redeemed its promise, and
again passed the Hayes Bill, but the House
succumbed to the pressure, of what Senator
Hayes on Wednesday pronounced the
richest and corruptest lobby, that ever dis
@raced Annapolis, and defeated it the third
time.
Upon such a stultifying record DELHI
erately made, in violation of its solemn
pledges given the people Of Maryland, upon
what earthly ground can the Democratic
party ask the property owning voters Of
the State, to trust it for the fourth time on
so important an issue.
The people of Mary land have so often
been imposed upon, cheated and betrayed,
by the false Democratic cry of an 'honest
assessment" that they have no more conf
dence in the promise, than in the men
themselves who make such promises.
They may have confidence in the ability
and sincerity of Senator Hayes, but not in
the party behind him.
They would be fools indeed if they had