The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-02-21

cans, thirty years ago. what the
State managers planned, they plan
ned in q cOrner-Off in some quiet
room in the old and unused City Hotel,
or hidden away in the back office OF
some Baltimore lawyer. Now Sunday
is the high day of council, and the Gu
he rnatorial Mansion and the State
House the meeting-place of the new
cabal that governs the State of Mary
land. Gu Saturday Congressman Wei
lIngtOn comes over from Washington,
Judge Sloan drops down from Cumher-
land, Governor Lowndes and Speaker
Mudd are already here, and the quar-
tette is ready for business. From what
follows in the Legislature, the plans
for the week are laid out, and the
whips drive the Legislators in to the
work So far 1t has been SenatOrship
and caucus or no caucus, and in su-
preme effort in which Gov. Lowndes
came down stairs into the halls of leg
islation to view the ground himself,
TO see if he could get a police bill
through the Legislature that made
him Car and gave him power to
make the whole board of Baltimore.
He received the cold shoulder on this,
and now the Republicans are trying
to hitch this police bill on the Civil
Service Bill for Baltimore City, and
thus force Senator Bruce to vote for
the Police Reorganization Bill, or let
his pet measure die. Senator Bruce
declares he will not be brOw-beaten
that way.
POWER VANISHING.
The appearances are that the Gov
ernOr and his council will be less able
than at present, after the appoint
mentS are made, to manage legislation.
He should have gotten in his legisla-
tive work first, for there will he an eX-
plosiOn of the most stupendous char
acter when the green bag is sent down
to the cold atmosphere of a Democratic
Senate. The Legislature itself is, on
the Republican side, composed half of
applicants for Office, and with their
own disappointments and those of
their friends, placed by Governor
LOwndes himself, in a public speech
here, at twenty-four for each office,
then the ability to hold the members
to vote for measures they have no heart
in, will be gone. So direful is expect
ed to be the tornado of abuse in store
for the Gov. when his appointments
have been made, and they must be all
in under the Constitution by tO-mor-
row, that DIR. Wellington, political
ed that Gov. LOwn des shall go to New
York to witness the drama, THE
Heart of Maryland" 1t would have
been wiser to have looked into the
heart of Maryland before making his
appointments, if he was really
the great Moses of Reform that the in
dependents pretended to believe him
TO be.
THE NEGRO HAS NO SAY.
Had the Republican party the aver
age intelligence of the Democratic par
ty, one principle they have adopted in
appointments would relegate them for a
decade to the rear-they will not APP
point a single colored man to any office
of profit or trust. Without hope of
success unless the fifty thousand negro
voters had been kept solidly in line by
their preachers and wives Gov.
Lowndes said so recently in one Of
their churches here. the negro has
been relegated to the positions of soul
lions and closet keepers, and one office
made to do for two or three, and the
white mans per diem of five dollars
is divided up between three colOred vo-
tiers. The offices they have gotten so
far do not number half a dozen.
But the colored man is suilen and per-
sistent, and even his Grateful Excel
leucy is annoyed at the insistent man
ner in which the race has urged the
appointment of a colored coroner in
Baltimore Gov Lowndes says he
does not know how it will take, as the
colored coroner would likely have to
investigate the causes of death of white
persons. This gives the culOred man
right away by his most Gracious Ex-
cellency, who owes il all to them.
This too is the Democratic theory of
forcing the colored man beyond what
the times have made for him. The
two races have no mutual habitat.
For political purposes the Republicans
have given ballot To the colored man
to elect white Republicans to office,
and they taboo him in all social rela-
tions, except when he has a vote to
give and then it is disgusting to see
the sudden and temporary fellowship
they have with him. If the colored
man had any spirit, he would resent
IT, but he Is simply political span
lei. But it seems enough for them to
shout victory after an eection-the
lowest of the negroes, meniand women,
To be insulting and insolent for a few
days after an election, as they were
particularly in Baltimore and Annap-
oils, grumble for while at not get
tlDg an ONCE, ana then by the time
the next election rolls around, he fero-
ciously eager to lick the foot that
kicked them, in the vain idea that
now they would have their social
rights, and that the white men would
have to Miss" their women.
Since our last letter To the CITIZEN.
the following local legislation has been
enacted for Frederick County: in the
Senate Senator Norwood introduced a
bill To sanction the bequest of Van b.
Swearingen, deceased, to the Evangel-
zeal Lutheran Church, of Middletown,
Frederick County. In the House, Mr..
Crum obtained leave to introduce a
bill to provide that a claim of con-
signor of goods to a commission agent,
who may become insOlvent before the
consignment should have been settled
for, shall he considered lien upon the