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Friday, Sept. 9, LBB7.
Noyes the Candidate.
The Republican County Committee
met at Elkton on Tuesday last and
placed the name of Enoch Noyes,
Esq. on the Republican ticket to fill
the place made vacant by the ineligi
bility of Philip M. Groves. Mr. Noyes
it will be remembered received 22
votes at the nominating convention
and Mr.-Groves 23, and the committee
when they met on Tuesday were un
aniraous in placing the name of Mr.
Noyes on the ticket. Abetter choice
could hardly have been made. With
two such men as Enoch Noyes and
Dr. Mackall in the next legislature
farmers need not fear that their inter
est will be neglected and Cecil County
would have reason to be proud of her
delegation. There remains four other
candidates to select the third memb
er from and there surely is an oppor
tunity to select a member that will
not discredit his constituents. This
kind of doctrine is notin accordance
with the old style regimental party
pattern, but it is the doctrine that will
command respect in the future as the
voter is raised to a higher plain by ed
ucation. Men are ahead of all theories
which dream of the “principles of the
party. In competent or corrupt men
as legislators, state or national, wi 1
never exalt principle or make a party
respected or strong. It used to be said,
“principles before men,” but this was
putting the cart before the horse. If
men called to serve the public are void
of moral stamena and are ignorant of
the business they are chosen to tran
sact there can be be no advantage ac
crue to the public through theiragency
but they must unavoidably become
the dupes and convenient tools of de
signing men and prove a delusion to
their constituents.
Our legislative ticket then is Noyes,
Mackle and the best man you can se
lect for the office among the other
four. “We have learned to think and
sternly speak the truth.”
The Candidates Catechised.
The Knights of Labor of this
county have appointed a committee
to draw up and present to the can
didates nominated for the legisla
ture, a list of questions to which they
require answers. Dr. R. C. Mackall
answered these interrogations
‘ promptly and published his answers
in the Democrat andTVfarof last week.
Below we publish the list of questions
with the doctor’s answers- The an
swers are direct as prompt, with no
attempt at evasion;and we commend
the answers as eminently sensible
and proper. Some of the questions
are trifling and visionary, of no prac
ticable benefit if formulated into
laws.
Dear Sir—We, the undersigned com
mittee. beg leave to iufsrm you that,
desiring to obtain the sentiments of tin
various candidates of the different par
ties at the coming election throughout
the State in regard to labor legislation,
therefore respectfully ask your consid
eration of and answer to the following
questions:
Will yon, ir elected, vote for the Mining and
Ventilation Bill passed by the last Legislature but
which failed t o become a law for want of the Gov
ernor's approval?
Yes.
Will you. if elected, vote for a law creating an
luspcctor of mines and factories?
Yes.
Will you vote for a law prohibiting all compul
sory insurance by railroad corporations and others
other than regularly incorporated insurance com
panies?
Yes.
Will you vote for a law prohibiting the sale
tonging, dredging or sale lor plauting purpose*
outside the Btate of Maryland of oysters lets than
3 inches in length, and that tbo State be prohibit,
ed from renting oyster beds to corporations or in
dividuals?
I do not uuderstand the merits of this
question, but will give it my earnest
consideration.
Will you vote for a law making eight (3) pints
wine measure a legal oyster gallon?
Yes,
©w ill you vote for a law compelling all employers
(corporations and individuals) to pay thoir em
ployees in current money weekly?
Requires caretul consideration.
Would you forbid employees from con
tracting for monthly payments?
Will you vote to increase the appropriation for
the Bureau of Labor Statistics to $20,009 to in
erease its efficiency?
Yes, if satisfied that the Bureau is a
really valuable institution; otherwise
no.
Will you vote for a law requiring all inspectors
of mines and factories to be a practical mechanic,
familiar, under examination, with hygienic laws
and tha practical workings of such places?
Yes.
Will you vote for a bill prohibitiug the employ
ment of children under 15 years of age in factories,
mines, mills and workshops? *
Requires consideration, as it effects
the rights of parent* and support of
families.
Will you vote for a bill making eight hours a
legal day’B work for all men engaged in mechani
cal or manual labor by the State or city?
No, I do not see why one class of lab
orers should be favored above all oth
ers.
Will you vote tor a bill to collect all taxes neces
sary for the maintenance of State and city govern
ments trom the rental valuo of all bare lands, and
to abolish all taxes upon the products of labor?
No, I have read Mr, George’s hook
and am far from being a convert to his
theories.
Will you vote for a bill to strike out the word
“white" wherever it occurs in the constitution or
laws of the State?
Yea—except iu the Public School
law. 1 should oppose mixed schools.
Will you vote for a bill that shall require all
criminals in penitentiary or jail to work on State
account, the products of their labor to be stamped
aad sold as convict-made goods in open market,
and that all the proceeds over and above that
necessary for the maintainance of the criminals to
be given to or applied to the use ol the families o f
the said criminals?
Yes, if practicable.
Will you vote for a bill making the first Monday
iu September a legal holiday, to bo known as
“Labor Day?"
Yes.
Will you vote fora bill declaring every Saturday
afternoon a half holiday?
Doubtful. Farmers cannot lose half
a day every week iu busy seasons.
Will you vote for a bill to create a State Board of
Arbitration lor the adjustment of all differences
and disputes arising between employers and em*
ployees?
Fes.
Will you vote for a bill calling an early conven
tion to dralt a new constitution for the State?
This question comes before the peo
ple in November. If a majority vote
for the call of a convention—Yes.
Will you vote for a bill establishing a uniform
tonnage for digging and selling coal of twenty bun*
dred pounds per ton?
Yes.
Will you vote for a bill prohioitiug any corpora
tion or private person baviug any employee com
missioned as a constable, or invested with con*
stabulary power?
I do not understand the force of this
question or the object of such a law.
Will you vote for a bill prohibiting any employ
er from exacting or demanding from any employee
>r workman who he wishes to employ a pledge
that he does not belong to or will not join any lab*
or organization?
Cannot answer without further in
formation.
Will you vote for a bill prohibiting the exaction
of fees in any Orphan's Court of the State in any
case iu w hich the property involved does not ex
ceed $500?
Yes, and will vote for a law exempt
ing homesteads of live hundred dollars
value and less from assessment.
Will,you vote for a bill prohibiting School Boards
iu the State holding sessions in secret?
Yes.
Will you vote for a bill prohibiting the use of old
barrels for packing flour, on sanitary grounds?
Requires cousideratiou.
Will you vote for a bill compelling all contracts
tor printing and binding State laws, journals and
documents to be done iu the State of Maryland?
Yes, if practicable.
Will you vote for a bill making it punishable by
imprisonment, with no relief by payment of fine
to place on the market, or offer for sale, or sell any
article of food not fit for use by reason of adulter
ation decay, impurity or lack of standard quality?
Yes, if you will strike out the words
‘or lack of standard quality." These
words would be ineffective.
The following letter accompanied
the above replies ot Dr. Mackall:
Elk Landing, Aug, 23th, 1887.
Mr. Patrick Reedy:
Dear Sir —1 have given your circular
of questions such consideration as it is
possible to give it in so short a time,
and if my answers are not satisfactory
I can only regret it,
The questions to which I am unable
to give an affirmative answer are too
important in their scope and involve
too much to be answered categorically.
When opportunity occurs I shall be
ready to discuss them before the people
lo the best of my ability, although I
am not a platform speaker.
My interests are fully identified with
the people of my county and State ana
whatever measure may be brought be
fore the Legislature of the State, if I
am a member of the House of Dele
gates, that will tend to foster or protect
the interests of the working classes,
without doing wrong to others, I will
earnestly favor.
If I were not the friend of the laborer
I should be the'enemy of mankind.
Yours very truly,
K. 0. Mackall.
Cecil County Fair.
Preparations are being rapidly made
for the coming fair to be held on the
I, 5, 6 and 7 of next month.
Walter S. Johnson who has served
very efficiently as chief of police at the
last two fairs will act in the same ca
pacity this year.
Wednesday the second day of the
fair will be the School Children’s Day
as usual.
On Thursday the third day of the
fair a ring punching exhibition called
a tournament will be held in front of
the graud stand. Some of the best
riders are expected to be present.
On Friday au athletic exhibition is
to be given under the supervision of
Mr. Wilson L. Coudon. A Philadel
phia athletic club is expected to be
present.
A large tent is to be erected on the
grouuds, fitted with seats, where on
the 2nd, 3rd and 4th days of the fair a
lecture will be given by some special
ist to the farmers on subjects to be au
nounced 1 After the lecture it is pro
posed that those present will discuss
the subject presented. This will be a
1 very interesting feature of the Fair and
one that should be patronized by the
1 farmers especially.
| H. W. Nalile of Philadelphia will
have a large number of birds aud pets
ou exhibition in Mitchell Hall.
Oar Washington Letter-
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington Sep. stli, 1837.
The simultaneous presencj in this city
ofsucli leading Democrats as Speaker Car
lisle and Congressman Mills, at this dull
season, has given rise to a good deal of
of tariff talk. Color is given to the report
by the fact that the Speaker and his wife
are on a prolonged visit to the President
and Mrs. Cleveland at their country place.
The substance of the tariff measure agreed
on by the Administration will be a heavy
reduction in custom duties, the removal of
tobacco taxes, non-interference with the
general internal revenue system, as a com
promise for cutting the tariff rates on the
necessaries of life. In this connection it is
somewhat significant that the Bureau of
Statistics has been called upon for for fig.
ores on custom duties, to show where the
most effective reductions can be made and
how the revenues of the Governmsnt would
be effected thereby.
An International Commission, composed
of three Americans and three Englishmen,
the former to be chosen by Secretary Bay
ard, will meet in Washington ere long
to discuss the vexatious Canadian fisheries
dispute, with the purpose of solving the
troublesome problem of the boundary line
between Canada and the United States, ov
er which there has been a controversy
about one hundred years. If this matter
can be satisfactorily settled from an Amer
ican standpoint, it will naturally be re
garded as a great diplomatic triumph for
the present Administration, which the
whole country would regard with patriotic
pride.
During August Government receipts
were very heavy, aggregating $33,619,115,
againsf $32,195,326 for the same month last
year fully two millions more than in Aug
ust 1886, Internal revenue and miscel
laneous receipts show a corresponding ex
cess and the disbursements a large decrease
comparatively. A statement prepared by
the Treasury Department shows that dur
ing the month of August there was a de
crease of $737,870 in the total circulation
and an increase of #10,216,200 in the total
cash in the Treasury.
The city was honored last week by a vis
it from an East Indian Prince —a vassal
of the British Queen —who was a conspic
uous figure, and attracted general attention
by his fine presence and courtly bearing at
a reception tendered him by Secretary
Bayard and the foreign Ministers. Prince
Thakora was very much pleased with our
people and country, and declared that the
one thing necessary to complete his hap
piness was the entree to the fashionable so
ciety of our popular watering-places.
The great Medical Congress meets to-day
in several sections, as one, or even two or
three buildings are not large enough to ac
commodate the three thousands of physi
cians in attendance from all civilized na
tions, and whose presence imparts an air of
bustle and animation to the city at Its dull
est season, for, as one walks the streets of
the Capital, strange, foreign faces are seen
in unusually large numbers on every side.
This Congress will doubtless be the most
important of the kind ever assembled.
Tne latest scheme of public Improve
ment is the contemplated national roadway
to be called Mt. Vernon Avenue, designed
to begin at the Aqueduct bridge and thence
run to the home of Washington. This
grand conception is both practical and pa
triotic, and the idea of connecting the tomb
of the father of his country with its great
Capital, named in his honor, is truly poet
ic, and should be carried iuto effect. This,
together with the monumental bridge to
span the Potomac, would be regarded by
the people of the United States as two of
ihe Nation’s brightest jewels.
People Demand Protection.—Pat
ent Medicines.
What are they? As a general thing
they are prescriptions having been us
ed with great success by old and well
read Physicians. Thousands of inva
lids have bean unexpectedly cured by
their use, and they are the wonder and
iread of Physicians and Medical Col
leges in the U. S., so much so, that
Physicians graduating at Medical Col
lages are required to discountenance
Proprietary Medicine, as through them
the country doctor loses his most prof
itable practice. As a manufacturer of
Proprietary Medicines, Dr. G. G.Green
of Woodbury, N. J., advocates most
cordially,—ln order to prevent the
risk that the sick and afflicted are lia
ble 10, almost daily by the use of pat
ent Medicines put out by inexperienc
ed persons for agrandizement only,
and the employing of inexperienced
and incompetent doctors by which al
most every village and town is cursed;
and the men claiming to be doctors
who had better be undertakers, experi
menting with their patients and rob
bing them of their money and health,
—for the good of the afflicted that our
government protect its people by mak
ing laws to regulate the practice of
medicine by better experienced and
more thoroughly educated Physicians,
and thereby keep up the honor and
credit of the profession, also form laws
for the recording of receipts of Proprie
tary Medicines, under examination
aad decision of experienced Chemists
and Physieians appointed for that pur
pose by the Government, before they
are licensed for general use. He would
most freely place the recipe of Boschee's
German Syrup and Green’s August
Flower under such laws, had lie the
proper protection, and thereby save
the prejudice of the people, and avoid
the competition and imitation of
worthless medicines. —Copied from Ihe
Chicago Mail, Aug. 3, ’B7.
VISITORS TO PHILADELPHIA
DURING THE
State Fair and Constitutional Celebration
are most cordially invited, while in the city, to visit our immense establishment, which is said to be the
largest store in America devoted exclusively to retail Dry Goods.
This store is regarded by Philadelphians as ene of the sights of the city, and a visit to Philadelphia will
be incomplete if the vast interior of our mammoth building remains unexplored.
We take this opportunity of assuring the visiting public that all who call upon us will be heartily wel
comed, whether they come to buy or simply to view the vast and varied stock of Dry Goods to be found on
our counters.
We have made extensive preparations to accommodate the vast Dumber of sight-seers who will visit our
store during the next two weeks and are now fully prepared to serve all comers with prompt and careful at
tention.
Strawbridge * Clothier,
EIGHTH AND MARKET STS.
CECIL COUNTY
PAIR!
ELKTON,
OCTOBER 4,5, 0,7
$12,000 Cash Premiums!
VALUABLE AND BEAUTIFUL
Special Premiums!
COMPETITION'OPEN TO THE WORLD
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Adam R. Maoraw, Pres.
JonN Partridge, Secy. 2s4t
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Home Offiee, No. 48 Duke Street.
Policy Holders are Protected Against
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This Compauy insures Herses, Colts and Mules
at the low rate of Two pßr Cent. Alto, horned cat
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are doing a prosperous business. Give us a trial.
M. N. BRUBAKER,
Secretary.
Geo. D. Render, )
B. F. Taylor, / Agents,
Oxford, Chester Co., Pa.
/. R. TAYLOR,
Justice of the Pece,
Rising: Sun, - - Md.
Deeds; Mortgages, Bills of Sale,
Wills, and other legal instruments of
writing, carefully and correctly drawn
up and executed, at a reasonable cost.
tkgfAll business transacted before
me confidential without request. oc3o
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■ IMPORT ANT TO LAND OWNERS!
CECIL HEDgS WIRE FENCE
Company, of Cecil County,
is now a corporate body, under the laws of the State of Maryland. It has purchased the
exclusive right under various letters patent, to construct Hedge and Wire Fences af
ter the methods set forth in the patents obtained by tlie Dayton (Ohio) Hedge Co.
These rights cover Cecil County only.
We confidently assert that the Hedge and Wire Fence must in time supplant and su
■ percede all other fences.
It is the cheapest also, costing not one-half that of post
and rail or stone fences. No repairs further than
pruning it are required. The Hedge and Wire
Fence which we construct will turn all kinds
of stock, horses, mules, hogs and cattle. It
f is not only substantial, but highly orna
mental, and will add many times its
cost to the value of the farm.
In acquiring through the Maryland Hedge Co., of Frederick, the exclusive rights of
‘he Dayton Hedge Co., we have the advantage of its 25 years experience, and all its
tools, appliances and instruments for constructing the fence.
The four strands cf Wire running horizontally the entire length of the
fence , impart to it strength and solidity, and needs only to be seen to
he appreciated. It has given the highest satisfaction wherever
it has been introduced. Many orders from leading farm
ers have already been given.
I The officers of the Company are:
JESSE A: KIRK, President, GEO. S. DARE, M. D., Vice Prest.
H. H. HAINES. Treasurer, JOB HAINES, Secretary,
H. H. DUYCKINCK, Gen 1. Manager, JOHN KEILHOLTZ, Asst. GeD. M’ngr
Judge S. A. Duling, )
Geo. G. Hopkins, Calvert, > Solicitors.
• Directors : Thos. Drennf.n & Son, Elkton, )
Jesse A. Kirk, Geo. S. Dare, M. D., Henry 8. Coudon, H. H. Haines, H, H.
Pnyckinck, John Keilholtz, Job Haines.
Principal Office, Rising Sun, Md.
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