The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-11-03
United States Senator
Louis e. McComas, Ex=
Mayor Malster, of Bal
timore, Hon. Thomas
Parran and Mr.. Frank
lin w. Fort, a Prince
ton Student, Make Ad-
dresses.

The Republican meeting in Elkton on Tues.
day night crowded the Opera House to the
DOORS and the enthusiasm shown was most
encouraging evidence that Maryland will
hold her place in the roll OF Republican
states. There were many young men in the
audience who gave the closest attention TO
the speakers in their discussion OF the issues
of the campaign. The house was decorated
with American flags and the national colors,
and with inspiriting music the meeting was
characterized by life and animation in strk-
ing contrast to the Democratic gathering
there the week before. feature Of Tuesday
nights meeting was a quartet from Princeton
University that sang stirring campaign
songs to the cheers of the audience. The
Ekton Cornet Band also played several
selections. The members of the quartet
were A. G. Marr, r. A. Hunter, G. Watkins
and A. W. Reynolds. Accompanying them
was fellow student, Mr.. Franklin W. Fort,
who delivered an intelligent address showing
why the Republican party appealed to the
young man of energy and progress. Ex-Mayor
William 7. Malster, OF Baltimore, who is
native of Cecil county, was given a pro-
longed cheer upon appearing, and in his
address made reference to Cecil's growth and
general Improvement.
United States Senator Louis +. McComas
delivered a scholarly address regarding the
position of the administration and Repubi.-
can party on all the important issues which
the COUNT" is now called upon to decide
He went into every detail Of our foreign
policy and showed how the benetlcent help of
our country was building up and prospering
the people of Cuba, Porto Rico, and that the
same would be the case in the Philippines as
soon as traitors at home would be defeated
in their schemes of poisoning the minds Of
the natives there He instanced how under
the encouragement of the Republican admin
istration. our foreign trade had grown mar
velously, how our exports were upwards of
a 900, 900 day; how our factories had been
built up under Republican tariff legislation;
and in closing he paid a glowing tribute to
the vaor OF our soldiers and sailors whom
the Democratic party seeks to malign and
villify under the charge OF militarism. Sena-
tor McComas' speech was convincing and Il
direct appeal to every intelligent voter why
he should support the Republican ticket.
Hon. Thomas Parran, always an Elkton
favorite, made the closing address, and with
skill pictured the false positions taken in this
campaign by the Democratic party. His
speech abounded in anecdote and was most
favorabiy received.
The meeting was called to order by Il. II.
Haines, ESQ, of Rising SUM- Chairman of the
State Central Committee for the county.
George A. Blake, ESQ, President OF the
Elkton Republican Club, presided.
MR.. MASTERS ADDRESS.
Mr. Master spoke as follows
Although making no claim to oratory, /
have always been able to command sufficient
language to tell why am a Republican, and
why think every material interest of our
people demands the reelection of William
Mckinley as President and the defeat of Wm.
j. Bryan, his Populstic opponent. Before
doing So however, l wish to tell you what
grea. pleasure it affords me TO meet my fellow
citizens Of Cecil county. | have warm at
tachments for old Cecil. 1t is the place of
my birth. and where the early years of my
life were spent. 1t was my home, and in
some senses it is yet. The influences of
locality and neighborhood have not been in
the least eifaced by years OF residence else
where and my heart still turns with warm
throbs of retrospective pleasure to the famil
lar spot where my boyhood was spent. |
congratulate you upon the marvellous changes
and improvements which time has wrought
in your county, not merely material but
moral and intellectual improvements. l have
been and still am a workingman, and am
proud to say my pursuits in life have always
been identified with industrial enterprise. |
believe l can truthfully say that l know by
personal contact with them the needs and
wants of the laboring classes OF Maryland.
"The particular boast Of the Democratic
party has always been that 1t Is the poor
mans party. l have never disputed It, 1t
has generally made him poor and kept him
poor. 1t has always advocated free trade,
and that policy never encouraged American
manufacturers, never opened or built an
American mill. The best illustration Of this
fact in recent years is found In the industrial
contrast between the years 1892, 1893, 1894
and 1895 under the Wilson bill, low tariff
measure under Mr.. Cleveland, and the years
OF 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900 under the Nc
Kinley and Dingley bills. Under the great
Republican doctrines Of protection to Ameri-
can industries. sound currency and an