Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1895-04-19
voters Be Not slisled.

and faithful effort to promote the good
Of the whole county in every respect
We have endeavored to deal fairly with
all questions and with all people. III
any error was committed, it was from
mistake of judgment. and not wanton
pur ,ose Of bad heart. We have favored I
the supremacy of the Republican party
because according to our be-
lief its policies we're for
the best interest Of the people, and /
We have laboreG for its success in every
way, sometimes almost alone, when
others from disappointment due to defeat
and other causes, SUNK away from
the scene of conflict losing all hope Of
the grand old party coming again to
the front. Our sympathy and kindness
whenever the same could be exerted
without initiating against the com mon
good were, and still are, for the lowly
and poorer classes ofour people regardless
of color And we have given our adj
vice to them on political and public
questions freely and frankly, whenever
the occasion demanded, based
upon conviction of right
and hoping to advance their interest
in particular and the good of all cur peo-
pie generally-and without meaning to
be egotistical we say in the
language OF great Roman
General, mo act Of mine has
caused another to put on mourning"
Now an important question confronts
US, and again we tender our advice
to our political associates and friends
The common good demands that the
county seat should, in keeping with the
advanced times, be located at a
place on railroad possessing all the
modern conyeniences of rapid transit,
telegraph, etc, and as La Plata is the
only place having such advantages, vote
for it,
The fundamental principle of the Ro-
publican party is progress, and upon
the idea of advancement OF the material
as well as the moral welfare Of our peo-
pie, it was founded: it has aurtured, it
has grown, and through the enforce
ment Of its wise policies i, mas made
this the grand nation it is--the grandest
on the globe, and now it stands before
the world, in the zenith of its glory, the
admired Of all parties, and the party
looked to for further Advancement We,
the Republicans of the county, few IN
number as we may be. compared with
the countless thousands that make up the
party, are branch of the party, AID
we should live up to its teach
ings. Let every Republican
then espouse the cause of progress and
lend helping hand to every progress
sive movement. To put our county
seat on the railroad is in that line, and
let us to man support La Plata. A
pretty summer resort and nothing else
Chapel Point will make To have such a
place in our midst is progressive and
and let US to man give to it willingly
and cheerfully the support such a
place in its infancy needs
There are class Of people in our coun-
ty to-day, who are misleading the
ass6cIaton where tEqt69 qPg9 ah aqgpq s4y
virtues to be admired, falsehood
serving their evil purposes better
than the truth, they are stufiDg
every listening ear with deceptive argu-
ments. Driven out of their political par
ty BY force OF public sentiment, ostra-
cised by all intelligent people, they,
IN their desperation are filling tie air
with ISLANDERS against the advancement
Of our county and resorting to every
artful device known to human ingenuity
to put our county seat at place where
many of them frankly and boldly ad-
NIT it should not 60.
We appeal to the good
sense of majority of our people to
steer clear of su,h persons. and turn
their back upon such dangerous associa-
ton
The latest scheme in the catalogue of
vicious designs, planned to defeat the
chances of La Plata for the
county seat is to capture the colored
vote.
Can any self-respecting colored man
who values the political rights he pos
sesses afford to ally himself with
that class, who favor Chapel Point for
the county seat? Who are they? They
are he same set who for years have
been seeking to cry them down
the colored 70 tiers by ridi-
Guile. and if not directly, indirectly
deprive them of their right of suffrage.
The party to which a majority of them
be!ong-the Republican party, has in
terms of sneering contempt been
by them called the ''nigger party"-a
party of ignorant negroes and incom-
petent white men," Year after year or
gained efforts were made by tne same
set to strike from the registry lists as
many of their names aa possible to stop
them from voting. not being able to do
SO otherwise, to say nothing Of the
crime perpetrated against them in 1885,
when by the corrupt use of money, the
will of the people was thwarted, and
in 1891, when they were cheated out Of
their votes. The leaders of the same
tribe were the promulgators of the infa
nous Australian ballot law, one Of them
remarkiDg when in Annapolis engaged
in the work Of getting their bill through
the legislature that lit was cheaper to
buy ballot clerk, than to buy votes.
And nov they are appealing to the same
people they have so cruelty stigmatized
as negro dominators. whose sense ofH
justice it was deemed by them
no harm to outrage. and
for what purpose? Not to do a public
good. If SO, they might be excused
1t is to help them to crafty vindictiye
ness and spleen, against individuals
who have refused tc longer serve as tools
doing their wanton bidding
Colored voters then stand on your dcui.