The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-16
Discomfort Among colored Voters.

A spirit of dissatisfaction is spreading
among the colored voters of Maryland. They
are learning their position in the Republican
party, and are realizing that they are mere
voters whilst the handful of whites control the
party and hold all the offices. There has
been an out burst of discomfort on the Eas-
tern Shore, two more on the Western Shore,
and the colored people of Baltimore city have
started q paper to further their interests.
The celored people of the first congressional
district, including all the Eastern Shore
counties except Cecil, resolve to demand
due proportion of honors and Offices for their
race. In Prince George county the colored
men held Il meeting to protest against the ac-
ton of the Republican School board in ap
pointing white trustees for their schools.
Their preamble sets forth that the Democratic
school board permitted them to select persons
of their own color interested in the education
of the race, whilst the Republican board has
appointed white trustees who to say the least
are Indifferent to their educational interests,
and they resolved that their treatment is I'M
Just and unrepublican, and that they will no
longer support for office any man or set OF
men who will so soon forget their pledges to
them.
On Monday about fifteen hundred colored
people met at Ellicott city. Col VIM. MUIR
rell delivered an address that was warmly APP
plauded, in which he referred to the numerI-
cal strength of the colored vote IN Maryland,
and explained how insignificant the handful
of white Republicans were without their sup
port. He then proceeded to show how the
white Republican leaders of the various fac
tons had been using the colored voters mere
" for a tool and how the latter element,
which was really the Republican party OF the
State, was not recognized when offices were
to be distributed. 1t was high time for the
colored Republicans to assert their manhood
by taking hold of this question for themselves
They were the majority of the Republican
party, and should control rather than be con-
trolled. A State convention should be called
at once and the issue squarely defined and
clearly met There had been enough decep-
ton practiced toward the black man by his
pretended Republican friends in Maryland.
At the conclusion of the address series OF
resolutions were adopted. The resolutions
call for state convention, and county con-
venton to elect delegates to the state conven-
ton was arranged for.
The TiRdicdtOr is the name OF the paper
established in Baltimore in the interest OF the
colored race. From the first Issue are the
following editorials items: 1.-The white Re
publican bosses have sent out their negro
emissaries to squelch the Independent spirit
that is so strongly taking root among the col
ored voters. But the tidal wave is too
powerful. The 'b-hoys' are being hit hard
on every side by the sentiment: We are free!
and aiming for higher realm of citizenship
than we have found in serfdom."
"Holton wants the Republican nomination
for governor. Can he getit? Has he deserved
it? If he gets it, can he be elected? There
are 80, 900 registered coIored voters in this
State nearly 10000 in Baltimore city alone
who have formerly voted the Republican
ticket. Take the hint, gentlemen =