Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-05-03
Appealing to Prejudices.


The Hagcrstown. Mail, which has bceu
engaged for several years past ~ the
lludable. but hopeless erort to purify
the Democratic psstj in this State, in
na weeks issue takes exception TO an
sr.lcle which appeared twn weeks ago in
the ISDHPENDENr, in which we alluded
70 abe bright prospect for Republican
suecess in the State aud purer political
nsshods whish would necessarily follow
NE change. The Nail says, IF Re
pablicsn SUCCESS meant, as the ISDEPEN
rssT says, pEer political methods, this
State would have been Republican years
ago. But il is the absolute horror with
which our penple regard Republican
domination, which has made them will
iag to submit to boss rule republicans
may protest aud deny as much rs they
~hOse, but il With BE- hard to, cunViBcc
the people that Republican rule in Mary
lsn4 do-sno meanrnegrorulc in greater
I.ari Of the State anil mixed schools all
c'er IT," 10 making s1ch declarations
'hs Mail is following. 10 may be blindly.
but certainly, the course marhed out by
the boss rulers Of the State They,
Eu0wing that their chances for success at
The next State election ssre all but hope
LIS. Sre now striving tedivcrt the a ten
i.n If the Wsil, Maryland Republican,
aud ono or two other papers iE the State
that will not consent to wear tho collar
which designates all who wears il az pc
li'icsl slaves, BY appealing to their pre-
JUDGES. What surprises 10 is, that the
able heads Of those we'll conducted iourn
els cannot see that the cry is f,iSe and
unnecessary one. They should auuo
With the Republicans in the
State in deuouneng the wore
than criminal policy of trying to
create feeling Of bitterness between the
white aud oOlorQd races
What does ''ncgro rule from
democratic standpoint, mean. Devs it
mean everything that is vicious and bad
Does it mean shat all our laws of social
order will be set at,de6anco aud that the
thief and the cui-thDat will be the ru-
lsrs Of the State;. or does it simply
bsesn mixed schools; II the former it is
vile to predict such a state Of affairs; if
che latter the danger lies in the magma
ton. The colored people do not want
mixed schools. They arc thankful to
have their children educated as thorough-
ly a. possible, and'nre intelligent enough
30 know thn.'this. can best be done, in
schools seleetedsselcly for their own use.
Whit force Of circumstances brought
aDout llXeu sC1oUIe III OHlo, VIC Nv Hot
know, but j: is sufficient 10. know
that the system is failure, and That Of
isclf is guarantee that the
experiment will not be tried
hsre. Aud were such thing
possible, could negro rule"-meoning
simply mixed schools. be worse than a
government controlled by class Of
criminals such as have dominated over
this State for the pass several years. 1t
seems to us that before a party endeay-
orc to get up fright through the means
Of which they hope 10 secure votes.
it ought not to forget its own
record. Perhaps by careful
examination and a little thought
j: might appear to the sober-minded
that between a government managed by
a: Jim Buscy. Eugene Higgins. a
Butch Murphy and others OF equal
uu,avory reputation, and negro rule,
tire latter of the two evils would be far
more preferable. That mixed
schools and negro. domination will
follow Republican sureess in the State
is merely gratuitous conjecture,
bat that such. rascals as above men-
toned control and run the Democratic