The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
OVER THREE HUNDRED SUBSTAN-
TIAL CITIZENS,
Represent the Anti-Race Track GAM
bling Sentiment at
ElktOn.

and determination, and citizens were present
from each of the nine districts to voice their
condemnation of the race track and its
attendant evils as now carried on at Iron
Hill, Singlerly Barksdale and Elkton at GER
tain periods. 1t was meeting for work, and
the discussion of ways and means, whereby to
accomplish such a reform, and which took
shape in the appointment OF Il committee of
twelve known us the committee of public safety
to conduct and manage the anti-race track
gambling campaign. The committeeman who
were vice presidents Of the convention, are:
William ]. Duhame, First district.
H. II. Brady, Second district.
DR.. John H. lamar and Henry r. Torbert.
Third district.
Rev. ]. p. Jones, Fourth district.
j. Wesley Falls and Rev. w. H. Wise, Fifth
district.
NJ. Z. Kirk Sixth district.
Wilson Coudon and L. G. White, Seventh
district
DIR. S. Z. Roman. Eighth district.
A. J. Mearns, Ninth district.
The committee will now use every effort to
secure the amendment or repeal of the law
as to prohibit race track gambling under any
form and at all times and places within the
limits OF Cecil county.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The resolutions adopted by the convention
are as follows:
"WHEREAs. The fair name of our state
and county are dishonored by race track
4 in itc
WHEREAS, Its adherents, driven from other
States, have in large numbers settled here
with the avowed purpose of fastening on us
this evil. and
"WuEREAs, Its baneful results are seen in
the brutality practiced upon horses, the de-
mOraization, moral and financial of men.
the corruption of women and girls, the grow
ing familiarity Of our youth with open and
hidden vice, and the manifest tendency to
bargain away responsibility and deccncy for
money; and
"WHEREAs, These results proceed from the
presence OF ii law on our statute books so
worded as to permit and sanction the said
evil and to allow its expansion to such an
extent limited only by its proftableness, and
W HERIAS, llt 7itlu INV .lllusl Dt EtptHlttl
by the same authority from whence it came.
the sovereign people of this State and
WHEREAS, That opportunity will be pre-
sentcd at the coming session of the LegisIa-
ture: therefore. be it
"Resolved by this convention. non-parti-
san in character that the said law should be
repealed or 50 amended as to prohibit race
track gambling under any form within the
limits of Cecil county, and he it also
"Resoved. That the men who shall be nom
mated by the respective parties to represent
Cecil county in the Senate and House of
Delegates. at the session of 1893, should be
men whose character and standing in the
community. and whose opposition to and
freedom from any and all connection with
race track gambling and its attendant inter
ests, shall be so manifest that their election
will be Il sure guarantee of the repeal Of the
said law so far as it permits track gambling
in Cecil county in any form; and be it also
"Rcsuvcd, That in addition to the nomi-
nation Of such men the several parties in these
nominating conventions should declare un-
equivocally and Enthusiastically against the
present law and instruct their nominees for
the Senate and House of Delegates to secure
its repeal and be it also
"ResOved That this convention urges
upon all the people of our county who have
regard for its material and moral interest
and who place its fair name above money, to
labor from this time for the furthering of
the ends sought by this preamble and reso-
lutons by such honorable means as the cir
cumstanees may require it, and be it also
'Resoved, That, to put into practical oper
alton the purpose of this convention and Sc
cure the aims above described, we commit
the management of this anti-race track gam
bling campaign to II committee Of twelve to
be known as the Committee of Public Safety:
said committee to consist of one person from
each district, except the Third. which shall
have two, together with tho secretary and
treasurer, who shall also be from the Third
district, and that this committee shall be
named by the Executive Committee which
has called this convention together.
"Rosoved. That this convention appeal to
the other counties and the city of Baltimore
for their cooperation in securing the repeal
Of this law and the enacting Of such n law as
will prohibit race track gambling in our State
or at least in Cecil county. And we request
the various papers Of our State to give pub
licity TO this appeal
The resolutions were reported to the con-
vention by the Rev. d. j.. Shaw, pastor OF
the West Nottingham Presbyterian Church,
who was chairman of the committee on reso-
lutions, the other members OF which were:
Robert J. Duhamel, First district; Wesley
Clayton, Second; h. G. Thackery. Third J.
Il. Dewitt. Fourth; Rev. A. W. Mather Fifth:
Thomas j. Wilson, Sixth; Rev. II. G. Budd,
Seventh; John NJ. Rawlings, Eighth; W. l..
Mearns, Ninth.
DELEGATES:
Among those either attending or giving
their endorsement to the convention were:-
First district-J. II. II. Price, w. j. Du-
hamel W. W. Alien, George Richards, John