The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-10-25
Mr.. Lowndes and Negro Equality.

did not Mr. Lowndes in most unequiv-
ocal Language promise in the event of
his election to make no distinction be-
tween white men and negroes in APP
pointments to office? These are his
words.
"The rights Of the colOred men, if the
Republicans carry the State, mil be
proprely protected. and il they are able
to pass a proper examination, they UW
hare the same opportunity for appoint
ments that the Whites hare In other
words, IN all public matters they ,0W
not be regarded as negroes, but as citi-
Gems Of the commonwealth and stand on
the same fOOting-no better nor no UOrse
than their White brethren"
He says you may depend on him to
carry out any promise he makes. To
get the negro vote he has publicly
promised to put them on a perfect
equality with white men as respects
appointments to of1ice-that in such
matters he will not regard them as ne
/ groes, but as citizens of the common
wealth, Possessed of precisely the same
rights as their white brethren. He in
suits every white man by calling the
negro the white mans brother; and he
/ openly and in advance of the election
gives the assurance of what his inten-
tons are should he be elected. To leave
no room for doubling his sincerity he
asserts his intention to carry out his
promise, and appeals for evidence to
show that he will do what he says he
will, to his reputation. He thus
stakes his reputation as an honest and
truthful man that he will favor the APP
pointment OF negroes to office. 1t is
idle and silly for the Baltimore Sun,
in the face of these facts, to prattle
about the negro bug-a. boo. When Re
publican candidates were more guard
ed and cautious about expressing such
sentiments in former campaigns the
Sun paper warned the people that Re
publican success meant the political ell
ovation of the negro. Now that this
same San paper has joined the Repub-
lican party and is eng ged in a most
disreputable attempt to defeat the
Democratic party, 1t seeks to evade the
real issue and to divert public attention
from the grave and momentous conse-
quences that will surely follow should
its wild and ruinous advice be followed.
Negro equality, and in many sections
of the State negro supremacy is the
overshadowing issue in this campaign.
1t cannot be disguised In the City of
Baltimore it means negro policemen, as
in Washington, Philadelphia and 9TH
er cities; n groes in the fire depart
ment, negroes on the public works and
in the street departments, and negroes
in the public schools. In the counties
it means negro Justices of the Peace,
perhaps, negro registration officers
negro School Commissioners and negro
School Trustees, and worse than all,
nlired schools. 1t will not be the num-
Der of negro children in each school
that will cause the demoralizatitG: but
it will be the fact that the children
of white parents will be subjected to
the humiliation and the degradation
of being forced down to the social level
of an inferior and brutal race, that
will produce the widespread and meal
culable damage The most casual OBJ
servation teaches US that one degraded
child may ruin whole school. If you
have negro children with their natu-
rally depraved instincts thrust into
the public schools, the morals of the
white children will be corrupted and
their finer and m re delicate impulses
will be blunted or destroyed. The Sun
paper, bent with mad fury on destruc-
ton, suppresses all reference to these
things, though the very evidence of
their truth exists in the city of Balti-
more, as the following extract from the
Baltimore Commercial Gazette, of Oc-
tober the fourth, conclusively shows:
"How would you like to see your
sweet, innocent little girl seated beside
or occupying the same desk with a
dirty, perhaps vermin-covered, niger
wouldn't. eh? Well, that's what you
will see sure if you vote the Republi-
can ticket this fall; it is nonsense to ar.
que this could not be, for are not Niger
children now going to the Mary
land institute of Art, and is this not o
mixed school simply because a niggel
City Councilman, elected from the
Eleventh ward of this city had the ap.
pointing power? To convince yourself
walk down there Maryland Institute)
you'll probably be welcomed by the
principal, and you will see the mixed
school. the effect of one Republican
Councilman. What, then, can we ex
pect If the State ticket is carried by tn,
Republican party?'
Citizens of Frederick COunfu