The Afro-American. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1892-1899, 1895-10-19
HON. J. [. FINLIs I
NEGRO BUG BOO.
COsOred Republicans speak for
the Race. Election Supervisors
under Fire.

/ OAAC ASSSC~s GACcIAOM supervisors
under Fire.
The good government cry comes
up from every township in Mary
land. On the Eastern shore Mr..
German was given the cold should
er by many of his old time politi-
cal associates and the indication Is
that the Eastern Shore and South
ern Maryland will meet the West
ern section of the state with an
overwhelming majority for the Re
publican ticket and good govern
ment. In Baltimore the good gov
eminent forces are working united
ly for victory. The crooked meth
DDS of the old Supervisors as ex-
posed by the Reform League is
the talk of the town and best of
all the temper of the people made
it impossible for Governor Brown
to appoint agents Of the ring to
fill the vacancies caused by the re-
moval of two of the three members
of the old board.
The Reform League has issued
an appeal to good citizens request
ing them to be on the watch and
report all methods employed by
the ring to carry the coming cleo
ton by fraud. The good citizens
in each ward of the city are re-
quested to be on hand at each cleo
ton precinct on election day and
exert their powers to protect the
ballott-box.
The Colored Republican associa-
ton of Baltimore has issued a cir
cular in refutation to the cry of
the Democratic ring '"Negro Dom
nation. The circular demands
justice for the race and good gov
eminent as the best policy for the
peace and prosperitYof all citizens.
Attic mass-neeting last Tues
day night city, in which
$4,000 voters participated Hon. ].
L. Find ay was the chief orator.
Mr.. Findlay paid his respects to
Mr.. Hurst as a campaign speaker
and said that as Mr.. Hurst had
spent all his life in the counting
room ne was liable to make mis-
takes. "Hurst has been speaking
mostly in the counties, and his cry
seems TO be the black man." Let
me tell him something he seems
to have forgotten. 1t is popularity
supposed that emancipation dates
from 1864, but let me say that in
1860 the anti-slavery feeling had
grown so strong in Maryland that
of the $1,000 colore people only
1000 were slaves, and when the
proposition was made to sell them
back into slavery in Kent county,
"A votes out of 1902 votes in Bal
timore county, 681 out 1864; in
Carroll where
THE BUGABOo OF MR. HURsT's
was set up, only SO votes out of
1902 were in favor of such prop
osition. Applause And let me
say to Mr.. Hurst there was never
a time, before or after the war,
when there were not the kindliest
feeling toward the colored man in
this state and for his advancement.
That was always the sentiment"
Mr.. Findlay further contrasted
what Mr.. Hurst had said of the col
cred man, of the dangers he would
have the people believe confronted
them, with the sentiments of that
lofty soul who, he said, had come
up from the lowest rounds of the
ladder, and whose sgmpathies and
purposes had ever broadened and
deeper Booker Washington, to
whose speech at Atlanta a few day
ago he feelingly alluded.
Mr.. Findlay then took up the
colored police bngaboo, and again
scored Mr. Hurst. lie said Mr..
Hurst evidently appeared afraid of
the negro vote id the State, but
doesn't he know, hasn't he learned
by Bans arithmetic that two can
out count one every time? TGreat |
applause and laughter There are
100000 white q 10000 or $4,000 |
colored voters II tie state"
Mr.. Charles j. Bonaparte was
supervisor of election by T
Governor Brown Wednesday. His
associate is Mr.. Thomas L. Lana
han. Mr.. Bonaparte was the choice
0f tho Rom hfinoD f,roea uiZatioY1 ov,d +