The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-10-30

The Republican mass meeting in
Elkton on Friday night of last week
was very successful affair. There
was a large attendance from all parts
of the county. Because of unavoidable
delay en- route the State candidates
were somewhat late in arriving and
the meeting was slightly late in start
ing. the band meanwhile entertaining
the audience.
Chairman H. M. Mccullough, of the
State Central Committee, called the
meeting to order and presided, intro
ducing each of the speakers in pleas
ant and effective manner. Robert F.
Duer. the candidate for State Comp
troler, was the first speaker. Mr.
Duer, who is an Eastern Shoreman,
spoke of his pleasant associations with
Cecil county and then launched into a
thorough discussion of the States fis-
for his failure to take the people into
his confidence as State Comptroller,
and to let them know how seriously
the State was running into debt.
While Mr.. Duer was speaking Mr..
Weller arrived and was warmly greet
ed. After being introduced by Mr..
Mccullough as the "neXt Governor of
Maryland" Mr.. Weller talked to his
audience in an easy, frank and bust
ncss-like way. Mr.. Weller, being
purely a business man. man more
given to "doing things" than to talk
ing about them, makes no attempt at
oratory, but does impress his hearers
with his straightforward. business-like
way of discussing the problems which
confront us. Mr.. Weller said in part.
"The eXponents of the Democratic
machine have conducted this cam
paign with a striking absence of can
dor in the presentation of the issues
to the people. They have been evas-
i've in the discussion of real conditions,
and their arguments have been, for the
most part, specious. | believe that
the people of the State are beginning
to realize how transparent is the char
acter of argument which has been
placed before them. The machine ad-
vocates have depended upon innuendo
as their principal means of persuasion,
and | submit that they have failed to
deal in a straightforward manner with
facts and conditions.
The entire burden of machine
claims for further admission into
power has been the fact that they
have appointed a commission to inves-
tigate and make recommendations re-
garding the question of useless Offices
and economy. They are trying to
make it appear that the appointing of
this commission is a guarantee that
the pledges of the Democratic plat
form viii. be fulfilled. They have
paraded under the names of the gen
tI"m"n who compose this commission
and endeavored to assume for them
selves the reputation which these gen
,!emen possess.
Not TO BE Trusted.
"The maxine sponsors have made
10 reference 20 the fact that the chair
mau Of this commission has accepted
the post with reservation that it was
only preliminary body, without
power or authority to act. The gen.
tIcmen Of the commission, no doubt,
realize the anomalous position which
they occupy, and see the pretense un-
der which the Democratic machine is
parading
")o the people of the State not
know that in every State platform for
years past the same promises of eco
n"mic reform have been made and un-
hushingly broken? DO they not know
that able commissions have repeatedly
made recommendations to the legisa-
I, re and thai their recommendations
nay bcSn so mutilated as to render
the lcsr rs of their work practically
worthless? Do they not know that
a. work Of any commission in the
future, if consigned to the manipula-