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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
A CABINET OF BUSINESS MEN.

The selection of the material for his
Cabinet, %ives the country wholesome as
surance that President Mckinley intends
to organize a business administration to be
conducted by business men.
1t will be difficult, ii not impossible, to
point to any Cabinet from which the poll
ticians have been so vigorously excluded as
from Mr.. Mckinley's. John Sherman and
General Alger, it is true, are politicians,
but Sherman is the one politician whom
business men have long looked up to as
their champion, while Ayers politics has
been an incident and diversion to his career
in business. Secretary Bliss is eminent in
New York commerce; Secretary Gage is a
banker; Postmaster-G Gary has been
heretofore more successful in business than
in politics; Attorney-General Mckenna is
fresh from the bench; Secretary Long went
out of public life years ago Disguised with
politics, and Secretary Wilson insists that
he is farmer.
In short, the Cabinet is far from being
made up of political brains." Most of its
members are men whom the politicians will
not be prone to admire. They are not
skilled in party management. They are
nearly all rich, substantial and respectable,
and if the key to the puzzle Of the principle
Of selection on which they are chosen is to
be found, it must be unquestionably in the
desire of the new President to organize a
business rather than political adminstra-
ton. This readily explains some things
which otherwise would seem obscure or
incongruous.
That other distinguished business man
the prop and pillar Of the administration
Marcus A. Hanna, is doubtless largely re-
sponsible for the unusual preponderance of
Of the commercial and financial interest in
Mr. McKinley's official household.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
MISDIRECTED ADVICE ON THE
RACE TRACK QUESTION.

When q man is walked in the middle OF
house, if he has any sense, he doesn't waste
time and effort trying to discover how the
thief got into the house.
He promptly addresses himself to the
serious business, of getting the lawless in
truder OW of his castle.
This is precisely the position, the people
OF Cecil county hold to-day, towards race
track gambling.
As matter of ancient history, it may
be interesting to, as we'll as necessary for
gentlemen of the legal fraternity, to be
"up' in the history of race track legislation
in Maryland. as indeed in all other legsla-
ton
But it is not Necessary, that the mass Of
our people should possess this technical
information.
The live question now, with all citizens,
who value the good name of our county,
and who regard its good order and morals,
is not how legalized race-track gambling
got mto the county, but how it can he got
ont of it.
Therefore the WING thinks, that the
captious communication, on which our
contemporary of the Cecil News" bases an
editorial in its issue of Wednesday, is al
together irrelevant and not the point.
What if the resolutions adopted by the
convention of Tuesday be not tcchnicaIly
correct, so far as the history of race-track
gambling legislation is concerned?
What, if, the repeal OF the act of 1891
Chapter 232 under which ortlawed .aciug
and gambling are now being conducted
would subject the people of Cecil, to racing
"without intermission upon every race
track in the county and State for every day
in the year."
They wouldn't be more stigmatized than
now, nor would the moral standard of the
county he further lowered, so far as it could
be affected by race track gambling.
But the honest opponents of race track
gambling in Cecil county, do not propose to
1
limit their aim and endeavor, merely to the
amendment or repeal of the act of 1894, or
to any other one general statute under
which such gambling can be inflicted upon
Cecil county.
They propose to abate the local nuisance
Of race-track gambling, under any and
every existing law, by electing to the next
Legislature Of Maryland, Senator and
three delegates, who will secure the pass
age of law exempting Cecil county from
the provisions of any existing general law,
that allows race-track gambling in any
form, and which law will positively pro-
hibH it on the soil of Cecil
That is just the plain, open and direct
purpose they have in view, and which by
the help of God, and the unpurchasabe
votes of Cecil county, they expect to
accomplish
| In view of this avowed and declared
purpose, the advice contained in the Ncws
of Wednesday, that ''those who attempt to
inform the people, should first inform them
selves" is entirely gratuitous.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
Tour to California via Pen sylvania
Railroad,

In Southern California is found the realiza-
ton of Il dream of the ancients. Here are
the Golden Apples of the Hesperides, y
ripening beneath sky more beautiful than
that of Rome. and in a climate more perfect
than that OF Athens. Never in the widest
flights of his imagination did either Homer
or Hesiod ever conceive of Il garden richer in
verdant beauty, more productive of luscious
fruit, or set amid more picturesque and
lovely surroundings.
The last of the Pennsylvania Railroad tours
to the Golden Gate will leave New York and
Philadelphia March y, stopping at Chicago,
Omaha. Denver, Colorado Springs and the
"Garden OF the Gods" and Salt Lake CITY.
Tourists will travel by special train of Pull
man palace cars going and return on regular
trains via any route within nine months.
Round-trip tickets, including transportation,
Pullman Accommodations cone double berth).
meals, and other tour features going, and
railroad transportation on regular trains re-
turning: and one way tickets, including trans
portation and all tour features going, will be
sold MT thp fplIbu,ip,,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
CECIL AT THE
INAUGURATION.
One of the HandSomeSt Ladies at the
Inaugural Ball a Cecil Countian.

AS we stated in our last issue. while Cecil
county did not send any organized clubs to
the Inauguration yet many Cecil Countians
were in attendance. In addition to those
already named, prominent among those from
this county were, Hon. VIM. T. Master and
Misses Florence N. and Sarah R. ]. Master,
Captain and Mrs. Talbert j. Her, Of Chesa-
peake City; Miss Elizabeth H. Hazel and Mr..
and Mrs. Robert b. Jones and Miss Margaret
Her Jones. Mr.. Master with Mr.. and Mrs.
Jones attended the Inauguration Ball, Mr.
Master being on the Committee of Reception
Mrs. Jones was elegantly costumed in white
peau-de-soie and brocade, with duchesse lace
and diamond ornaments. and was universally
recognized as one of the handsomest women
on the floor. We congratulate Mr. Master
upon the neat compliment paid him by Presi-
dent Mckinley AS the Presidents carriage
passed the stand of the Columbian Club
which was erected in front of the G. A. r.
Hall, opposite Wizards Hotel, President
Mckinley turned to Mr.. Cleveland and said,
there's Mr.. Master, of Baltimore and
raised his hat to him. SO Cecil county did
not go unrecognized even by the President.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13

of THE Maryland statute was intended
to facilitate legitimate horse-racing only, it
has clearly missed its object. 1t allows all
year-round race-track gambling. 1t has
made one section OF Maryland Mecca for
gamblers. 1t has brought disturbance,
disquet, vice and lawlessness into hitherto
respectable, law-abiding community, to
the great injury Of its respectable residents
We wish the movement for the cure OF the
evil, godspeed. 1t deserves to succeed, and
will succeed and make this very hurtful
species of race-track gambling as impossi-
BILE in Maryland as it is now in Pennsyl-
vania or New Jersey.
'And the punishment is deserved, is it
not, we gentlemen who make and unmake
laws ?'-Phila Press.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Citizens Want a Bridge at FrenchtOwn
StatiOn-Claims and Bills Paid.

The Board Of County Commissioners was
in session on Tuesday and Wednesday. All
tho members were present.
William Steele of the Seventh district,
appeared before the Board and asked that a
bridge be built Mt Frenchtown Station.
The Board examined election bills, bridge
claims, road claims, a number of which were
passed and paid.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13

Local Matter Ten Cents line for single
insertion.
Transient Rates-Eight Cents Il line for one
and four cents IA line for every additional
insertion. One inch of space counted us
twelve lines. Special rates for regular adver-
tisements furnished upon application.
Marriage and Death Notices inserted graz
tuitCusly. Obituaries will be charged half the
usual rate of transient local matter.
The circulation of the WING being among
the most intelligent classes of Cecil county
and the adjoining counties of MARYLAND, Penn
sylvania and Delaware. the proprietor conf
IDENTIFY recommends it to business men as II
most desirable medium for remunerative
advertising.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13

Inc 1oHOWlnP schools having raised over
$40 each for library purposes, the treasurer
was ordered to pay $40 to each. viz. No. l.
First, Elizabeth Husfelt, teacher, pay to trus-
tee, Daniel Husfelt; No. 3, Seventh, Ella NJ.
Staats, teacher, pay to trustee, Levy J.. Patter-
son; No. 6. Sixth, NJ Ella Haines, teacher,
pay to trustee, NJ. L. Kirk.
John S. Writ resinged us counsel to the
Board.
On motion of Mr.. Kirk, II. NJ Mccullough
ESD, was appointed for the remainder of This
school year to August /, 1897.
Miss Rhoda j. Burns was confirmed as
teacher of school No. /, Ninth Bay View.
The Board ordered that in the future adver-
Using of school affairs shall be in the Cecil
Democrat and Cecil Wing only.
1t appears that John S. Writ, Esq. executor
of the estate of Bridcct Mckay, holds the sum
of Il ,3S9, II of which this Board is the legal
heir, and that Mr.. Writ is ready to pay to the Ie
gal claimant. The President and Secretary were
directed to give Il full return when said money
is paid to the Treasurer of this Board. 1t is
alleged that an unfair discrimination is now
~ II.
matter Of rates in school tickets to the High
School, viz: North East to Elkton miles,
- 81; to Por. Deposit ii miles, 1876 to
Wilmington &c miles, S7.71 per month, while
the regular rates are to Elkton, round trip, %
cents, to Port IS cents, to Wilmington 5120.
The secretary was directed to call the atten-
ton of the Railroad officials.
c. W. Wilson, the original contractor for
the High School, made an appeal to be al
lowed $3.50 for expenses incurred.
1t was ordered that all school entertain
ments in the future shall be for the sole bene-
fit of the school and shall consist of a liter
AIRY character, such as shall tend to educate
pupils, Adjourned. GEORGE B1DDLE,
Secretary.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
ELKTON, Md, MARCH IS, 1897.

WE repubish in another column an able
and timely article from the Baltimore Sun
of yesterday on race-track gambling, and
an excerpt from the Philadelphia Press on
the same subject. Both articles voice the
sentiment of condemnation so forcibly ex-
pressed by the convention which assembled
in Elkton on Tuesday.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
THE WING,

Pre-eminently valuable for its Local as well as
General Intelligence, News Communications
are respectfully solicited from all sections of
the County in addition to the weekly con-
trtbutions of its regular corps of correspond
ents
Anonymous communications will receive no
attention, the name of the writer being re-
quired in all cases as a guarantee of good
faith
To maintain its high standard as family
journal, no offensive or Objectionable adVer-
tlsements will be admitted at any price.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
A REPRESENTATIVE CONvEN.
TON.

The Non-Partizan Anti-Race Track Con-
vention which assembled in the Presby-
terrain Church of this town on Tuesday was
representative body Of men.
Over three hundred citizens of Cecil
county, representing every shade Of polti-
cal opinion, and every UNCONVENTIONAL
difference, voluntarily came to Elkton in
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13

1t is not to be wondered at that Ayers Pills
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constipation, biliousness, or any other COM
plant needing laxative, these pills are unsur-
passed. They are sugar-coated, easy to take.
and every dose is effective.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13

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the natural color, as in youth, to gray, faded
or discolored hair
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
dENRY R. T0RBERT,

Editor and Proprietor.
v. M. TORBERT.
Associate Editor and Business Manager
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-03-13
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
New Council to the Board Appointed
The County Schools Legal Heirs
to $1,389-New Libraries
in Several Schools.

There was full meeting Of the Board of
School Commissioners on Tuesday, at their
office in Elkton.
The primary department in the Elkton
school having increased beyond the ability of
the teachers in charge, it was decided to
appoint an additional teacher.
There are several schools where the attend
ance is but little above the number required
by law for an assistants the Commissioner
in charge was directed to drop the assistant
should the number fall below that required
by law.
10 falla,..i.,.. .I-c.o
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-19
BAKER UNDERMINED.
His Opponents Have Been Busy While
He was Away From Washington.


The following dispatch from Wash
ingtOn was printed in the Kansas
City Times today:
Washington, D. c., Nov. 1S.-When
Senator Baker returns to Washington
he viii have a lively campaign to un-
dergO. Since his departure last sum-
mer changes have been made which
will doubtless change the slate which
the only Republican senator from
Kansas made up.All summer the Leland
wing, under the joint direction of Pen
sion Agent Leland, out in the state,
and Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral BriStow, here in Washington, has
been secretly working to give Baker
trouble.
At the White House insidious inroads
have been made with the idea OF weak
ening his pull" It has been repre-
sented to the president that Senator
Baker is not the whole thing out in
Kansas, and that it would be a good
thing for the administration to recOg-
nize the Baker opposition. This would,
the Lelandites say do much to prevent
a possible anti administration delega-
tiOn to the next Republican national
conventions matter in which the
president is deeply interested.
AS the president was willing to break
the Baker slate in the appointment of
Purcell as register of the Wakeeny land
office the argument is used that he
should shatter it again and let Senator
Sterne experience the sensation of see
ing another man get the United States
l.
out that it has the state machine, all
the fourth class postOffices and many
of the presidential offices, and that it is
impossible for Senator Baker to do
anything in the state without its CO.
operation.
To offset this bristling array of facts.
Senator Baker has one staunch ally and
friend in the person of Assistant Secre-
tary Tom Ryan of the interior depart
ment Mr.. Ryan has been quietly tell
ing the administration, as well as the
anti Bakeries, that if Baker is turned
down he viii make it uncomfortable
for the president and the Leland men
in the senate; that he will see to it that
every Kansas appointment objecuona-
bic to him is rejected, and that he feels
at liberty to make an offensive and de-
fensive alliance with the Republican
senators who, for personal and political
reasons, intend to see that the presi-
dents policy is not given clear sailing
in that body. AS things stand in the
senate, Senator Baker may make this
bluff good. There are too many Re
publicans in the senate now who are
not in accord with the presidents pol
icy and who are opposed to his renom-
nation.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-19

which was built by the widow of the late
T. F. Bowman for the purposes of a free
kindergarten will be formally dedicated
Sunday afternoon at 2:39 o clock. Ad-
dresses appropriate to the occa sion will be
made by prominent citizens who are in
terested in Kindergarten work The hall
was built adjacent to the Central Con-
gregationa1 church West Huntoon
street and its cost was about $1,000.
Henry Derby. electrician in the en-
ploy of the Missouri and Kansas Tele-
phone company, is the inventor Of sev-
eraI electrical and mechanical instru-
ments which have proved successful He
invented an attachment for the Edison
phonograph which greatly increased the
efficiency of the transmitter and was
adopted by the company manufacturing
the instruments. He constructed a deli
cate electrical instrument for use in den
tistry in Il treatment known as cataphOr-
esis And he has constructed an Y ray
machine which is pOWerful and Efficient.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-19
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


E. B. Cowgirl is at Lawrence.
Mrs. Silas Rain is recovering from a
severe illness.
Four flags are flying on the new bridge.
The pavement is being repaired at First
and Kansas avenue.
a runaway across the bridge created no
little excitement yesterday.
George Miller is seriously i'll at his
home, 1017 North Quincy street
x; S. I. viii play the Kansas City
Medfcs Saturday at Kansas City.
Representative Johnson of Nemaha
county visited Topeka yesterday.
There are several law firms in Topeka
The street cars will have their number
on the woodwork of each vesubule.
The Elbs will hold a special session Sat
urday night in honor of the minstrel, Al
G. Field
J. c. Benedict has been issued a permit
to build a dwelling at 44S Polk street to
some milk wagons that come in from
the country are being ''vesdbuled' for
the winter.
The expenses of the Topeka insane asy-
lum for the month of October amounted
to $8.166.15.
NJ. F. Southwick is building a fine barn
at (old number) 136 Topeka avenue, which
viii cost $3.50.
Mr.. and Mrs. Loggen of 317 Locust street
win leave this week for the Fort Dodge
Mrs. G. L. Stone. wife of switchman
Stone of the Santa Fe, is seriously i'll at
J. 9. AcEIroy is building residence on
Dillon street south of HuntoOn street
which Will cost coo.
Washburn college and Manhattan col
lege will play foot ball saturday after
noon at Athletic park
The Topeka Social Democracy club is
arranging to rent a hall in which pubic
meetings viii be held
Cider Smith declares that mild win
ter is coming on. If it is 1t viii be the
third one in succession
Topeka bootblacNs object to the plan
OF the shoe dealers of Topeka giving Tree
shiEeS TO their customers
When a man gets the collection" dis
ease he will travel a hundred miles Tor a
trinket that has no value.
An effort is being made TO nave CharleS
Foster the walking law encyclopedia, APP
pointed assistant state librarian
The newest member of the T. A A is a
kitten that has the honored name OF
TON" 1t is the pet of the members
T-he. next number in the high school lee
fllre course will be q lecture by Kew.
Newell Dwight Hills on November 20
Frank Berry of North Topeka was try
ing TO get into the Jam on the top shelf-
The chair gave way and he broke two
ribs.
A petition is being circulated requesting
the appointment of CounclIInan FI4I FaIIlsoh
of the First ward as postmaster OF North
Topeka
Ben Layne, the young man. who was
dragged under the pilot OF locomOtlYe
while working on the Santa Fe bridge at
Atchison some time ago, is now able to
be about
Mr. John Whitley. manager of W s
Hart. the actor, played IN Topeka " years 5
Union hall.
Mr. J. F. Mitchell. chief clerk in the
office of the auditor OF passenger recelpJs
of the Santa Fe. went to school With
James Whitcomb Riley in Greenfield, Ind,
when a boy.
Misses Harriet and Sue Lowell have sold
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-19

the policy game on East Seventh street.
today forfeited the $50 deposit he made
for bail. Police Judge AtchisOn de-
clared the deposit forfeited and as sur
prise for some of the interested parties
he ordered the cash in the money box
which was seized by the police in the
raid, conffscated and turned into the
city treasury.
Frank Henson. a boy IS years Of age
was arrested last night by Patrolman
Murphy and the charge placed against
MIN OF runaW&y- He SAYS that his
home is in Spaulding Illinois. and that
he left home to hunt for an older broth
er who had left home as a result of a
quarrel with his father. He says that
he found his brother at HeringtOn but
could not pursuade him to return home
so he started for home himself and was
arrested here. Chief Steele has com
he will be held until word is received
from them.
Chief Steele has given orders to his
men to arrest all people who make a
habit of jumping on moving railroad
trains or cars. The railroad cOmpa-
MES are bothered much by boys steal
ing short rides in the yards in Topeka
Last evening Fred Cooper and Tom
Cooper, aged respectfully IA and ID
years We're arrested for jumping on
Rock Island cars. There is a city or
d1nance prohibiting this practice and
Chief Steele says he win make an ef-
fort to put a stop to the nuisance.
The police haven't quite finished the
November gathering of fines from is
orderly women Of the city. Last night
May Christian made a SO deposit for
the charge of disoTderly conduct and
Pearl Putnam. Minnie Baton and Flo
(Douglass) Davenport each forfeited
SO on the charge of disOrderly conduct
subscriDe fer The state Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-19
IN POLICE CIRCLES.
Contents of the Policy Money Box


Contents of the Policy Money Box
ConfiScated.
Last evening Mrs. Bud" Wade ran
to the police station and announced to
Chief Steele that she was afraid her
husband would kill her. She said he
was insane and she was afraid to stay
in the same house with him. Wade is
a coIored man who was at one time
sent to the Topeka insane asylum. He
was released as cured and has done
some work But of late he has grown
worse and neighbors of Mrs. Wade
corrobOrated her story.
Last evening PatrOlman Murphy ar
rested Wade at his home in Smoky
Row and he was locked in the city Jail
He is a large yellow man and ordinarily
is quiet, but his mania assumes a viO-
lent form when he is disturbed or be-
comes excited He viii be taken to
the insane asylum as he has never yet
been formally discharged, simply being
let go as cured, conditionally.
Sam Edgerton, the man who operated
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-19
STATIONERY.

A Bottle
of Ink
for sc
Saturday.