The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1905-11-04
PEOPLES COLUMN
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the rich people who can afford auto
m bibles, run them on our public high
ways, recklessly and regardless OF
human life or rights
Now Autocrat Crothers, in running
his machine, has directed its movements
for many years in the name of the
Democratic Party, oiling its journals
and bearings at the public crib, and
still endeavors to steal the name of that
time-honored party for which your
writer has the greatest degree of re-
verence. But Mr.. Crothers, two years
years ago, assumed the attitude of Die
tator, by calling and holding primaries
at which none but Judges of his own
selection, save in the First district, were
allowed to preside, And what a spec
tacle! What a farce! Primaries at
which good, decent Democrats were not
allowed to vote; primaries at which all
Democrats and Republicans alike, who
would pledge themselves to vote the
Autocratic ticket were permitted to cast
their ballot, for venal or mercenarv
Republican was, by the Autocratic
Judges, considered more eligible to vote
at that Democratic primary, than a
| ~,
against Autocrat Crothers' ticket. And
this was the method largely by which
Autocrat Crothers carried the primary
four years ago. the Vaccinations of
which proved his undoing at the general
election. At that election decent Demo-
Gratis, who had been ardent supporters
of their party for years, openly de-
nounced the manner in which the
primaries had been conducted, and en-
ptasized their dsapproval by their vote
and Mr.. rothers reaped the benefit of
his perfdy and political prostitution of
his party.
| That primary was an outrage per-
petrated against the best element in the
democratic Parry, and perpetrated for
what? For the selfish ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
OF one man, Austin l.. rothers. His
decree was at that time, as it is today,
| IT l am to be wrecked politically, |
will pull down the edifice that has
nurtured me, and by which | have
grown sleek and fat, that we may meet
a common fate, save that | have fed
many years at the crib, and have sue
ceeded in obtaining full share of all
its gamers contained"
The Political Oligarchy, of which
Autocrat Crothers is the Head, evil
IDENTITY conclude that all good citizens
have not forgotten the outrage that was
perpetrated against the Democratic
Party two years ago, for they have been
closely scrutinizng, the Registry list of
each district, and where there is a voter
whom they have reason to think will not
vote for Crothers for State Senator, they
instruct their lieutenants, the officers of
Registration to remove them, if they
can manufacture the most trfing reason
for 50 doing. Thus this fungous growth
on the body polite of Cecil county is
using all the arbitrary power at its
command, to deprive citizens of the
i rights and privileges guaranteed to
them by the onsttution of Our
Country.
Citizens, stop, think, consider! ! his
! is the entering wedge Of the Crothcrs
| Oligarchy, and vino knows, or can pre-
dict with reasonable certainty, what the
outcome of the perpetuation of his
Autocratic power will be? That tie
ounty Commissioners Office is largely
run by Autocrat Crothers' advice and
instruction, is he not largely responsible
for the enormous increase in our taxes?
lhink of it, one of the Republican
commissioners working hand-in-glove
with Austin l.. Crothers, and both
working with the Penn r. X. Company.
Now, citizens, taxpayers of Cecil
county, do you wish your rights and
privileges further invaded, do you wish
your taxes further increased? If you
do, vote for Austin l.. Crothers, give
him another lease of power, whereby
he can continue to perpetuate his
management and dominate the politi-
cal and financial affairs of Cecil county.
But if you care to protect yourselves
from further invasions of your rights
and privileges, as citizens, vote to bury
the Crothers' Oligarchy 1t is true, it
may be hard for some Democrats to
break away from what they falsely i'm
agine to be party alliances, but re-
member, by voting against Austin l..
Crothers, you are not voting against 4
Democrat, but an Autocrat, one who
has not for years respected or regarded
the wishes of the Democratic party.
The same reasons should constrain you
to vote against Crothers' man Friday,
the candidate for the House of Dele