The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-10-05

forty ways at once, and the observant
manager of political affairs did not fail
to make a note thereof" 1t was too
clever scheme for putting one over"
ON the said dailies to escape imitation.
The Hon. E. C. Darlington, manager of
the Roosevelt forces in Maryland,
promptly proceeded to caa;ienge the
Hon. lsidor Rayner, U. S. Senator from
Maryland, to a joint public debate with
the Hon. Bourke Cochran, ex-Congress-
man from New York, on the Roosevelt
doctrine of judicial recall" The Hon.
Isidcr marked his acceptance RUSH.
He couldn get 1t in fast enough When
the lime light is turned on, you may bet
your last lone copper cent that one Isl
dor Rayner is side stepp ng no chance 20
be in the centre. He will not only de-
bate with the Hon. Bourke so limited a
subject as the recall OF judicial deci-
SONS; 1t will give him unqualified de-
light to debate THE WHOLE ROOSE-
WELT PLATFORM. Seeing as how that
platform is about as long as first
class encyclopedia, this evidently means
that nothing would give the Hon. Isidor
more pleasure than to KEEP debating
on and on and on until speech eDbs OUT
with ebbing life. If you want endless
talk for public consumption Isidor is
your man, PROVIDED ALWAYS AND,
OF COURSE, THE PROPER SPACE AND
HEADLINES ARE GUARANTEED IN
THE NEWSPAPERS. Hence the Ray
ner-Cockran set to, scheduled to appear
on the boards on or about the middle of
October. lit was "a cute move on CARING
tons part (albeit not Originally and at
once John B. Hanna, of the Republican
State Committee, turned green with
envy that a novice, mere novice, like
Darlington in the political game, should
have beat him to 1t. Why should the
Roosevelt case get a lot of good adver-
tising by the joint-debate ruse while
the cause of President Taft lay 'unhor
ored and unsung'-eXcept at so many
good dollars per sing, in the form of
pre- paid advertising? Nay, nay, not at
all, no such, by no means, Whatsoever
the joint debates the thing wherein we'll
catch the conscience of the king; which
same being paraphrased by Brother Han
ma simply means I'LL sting the sordid
newspapers for a bit of free advertising,
too, under the guise of the present
frenzy for political debate" No sooner
said than done. His foe is conveniently
at hand, IN the person of Darlington
himself Somebody ought Ito eat him up
alive, anyhow, and Hanna thinks the
.ob would about suit his taste. Hence
the challenge of one John B. Hanna TO
one f. C. Darlington TO meet him in
catch ascatch can bout before the pub
H. al, ~snI
the respective seconds may agree upon
The ''wrastlin" will be over the method
of Tafts nomination at Chicago. Car
ington will maintain that it was a cold
blooded steal; Hanna will undertake TO
prove that the nomination was presented
to Mr.. Taft on a silver platter. Thus
equipped the combatants poise for the
word, the gong sounds, the rush is on,
they cl.nch, first John B. and then E. c.
the betting is fast and furious, the
crowd eggs on its champion, and they
fit and fit, and fit" No, no, We are
ahead of the game. Our imagination has
led us into picturing what is, whereas
the thing is only YET TO BE. forgive
able mistake, however. So interesting a
scene is calculated to make one lose
all sense of time and place-and ANTI
ClPATE. We. DO anticipate. The Price
anderson debate may have been a first
class snow; the Rayner Corkran debate
may promise rich entertainment; but it
is the Hanna CO rington go" for ours.
Miss it? Not while we can borrow the
price OF a carfare to the rings.de. We
expect 20 be there. We believe in en-
couraging this return to forensic con-
fcts. We are glad the spirit thereof
has awakened in our midst
Only it has awakened with such wide
spread fervor that We cannot help Won
dering whore it will end. The first thing
you know this disease will be breaking
out all over the State and every settle
ment win be turned into a red hot de-
batting society. Well, wouldn't that be
just fine? Nothing is better for the
lungs, liver or lights than that very
thing. Stagnation s deadly estate.
Let the thunder roll and the lightning
flash and the floods tof ,ratory) descend.
Everybody and everything is better for it
if IL $ NOT TOO fierce he links