The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-10-19
Notice this, Mr.. Editor.

Notice this, Mr.. Editor.
In Maryland the Republican party, when
in power, kept the schools rigidly separate.
In Pennsylvania, where the Republicans
dominate, no State school system exists,
the township system prevailing, under
which each township observing the "home
rule" idea, fixes the status of its own
schools, public roads and highways, and
assesses and collects the necessary taxes to
maintain them. Their schools may or
may not be mixed, as the prevailing senti-
ment in township may determine.
In New Jersey mixed schools have ex-
listed for years, where previous to 1865, the
Democratic party had been dominant, the
colored children having been admitted to
the schools along with the whites by an
Act of Democratic Legislature approved
by Democratic Governor.
But in New York the establishment of
mixed schools is more recent, and is a final
answer to the question of our contemporary
why mixed schools are lawful wherever
Republicans are in control. since they are
quite as lawful in New York city, where
Democrats were in control.
We presume our contemporary will not
deny the strictly apostolic character of Mr..
Grover Cleveland's Democracy, or dispute
his pure orthodoxy.
That as an honored exponent of Democ-
Iacy pure and undefled, he can be truth
fully designated as the ac redited leader
and defender of his faith, the recognised
st. Paul of his day and generation.
Yet Grover Cleveland did not scrupe to
append his signature to u bill establishing
''mixed" schools in New York city, the
great commercial metropolis of this nation,
the centre of its capital, and the cosmopo-
itan seat of It's wealth, culture and refine
ment
THE NEW YORK ACT.
The Democratic party had carried New
York by a majority of 1872, 900 in 1882. and
elected Grover Cleveland Governor over
Judge Folgcr, the Republican candidatr
In 1851 the Democrats had two-thrdS
rOt' in the Senate OF New York, and only
lacked five votes of two-thirds vote in the
lower House.
On the fifth of May, 1sS4, the Democrats
passed, by an overwhelming majority, the
following law relative to public education
in the city CT New York.
CHAPTER 2I3.
The people If the State of New York,
| represented in the Senate and Assembly
do enact as follows:
SECTION l. The colored schools in the
city of New York now existing and in
operation, shall hereafter he classed ard
known. and be continued rs ward schools
and primaries with their present teachers,
unless such teachers are removed in the
manner provided by law. And such schools
shall be under the control ard manage.
ment of the school officer of the respective
wards in which they are located, in the
same manner and to the same extent a.
other ward schools, and shall be open fol
the education of pupils for whom admission
is sought wttoM rcga,d to rdcc or color
SECTION 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in.
consistent with the provisions of this Act
are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take fl, &c,
Immediately. Signed,
GROVER CLEVELAND, Governor
This act, for which we have never heard
Grover Cleveland censured by any Mary.
land Democrat, certainly contradicts the
campaign cry now being raised in this
State, that Republicans and Republican,
alone, are responsible for mixed schools in
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