The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-06-26
THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY OF MARYLAND.
IT'S CHARACTER AND COMPO-
NENT PARTS.
Some Press Opinions on the Second
Article by the Democratic Edi-
tors Association.

tors Association.
Oakland Democrat
1t discloses some startling facts in connec-
ton with the new election law, which the Re
publican party has enacted for its own parti-
san ends, and shows, among other things
how a little over H. ,0G0 unrepresentative
white men in 16 counties, by combination
with more than two and one-half times their
own number of the iliterate machine colored
vote in said number of counties are enabled
to elect a majority of .the State Legislature
and thus make the laws of the State. Such
condition of affairs should not be allowed to
exist in great and progressive State like
Maryland, and the remaining number of more
than 2020 900 registered white voters of the
State should see to it that halt is called in
this direction before matters have gone too
far and the State is hopelessly within the
grasp of this irresponsible and constituencies
element.
Cambridge Chronicle.
We publish another political article, pre-
pared by the Democratic Editors Associa-
tion. which we commend to the thoughtful
consideration of all the readers of the Chroni-
ce showing as it does the component parts of
the Republican party in Maryland and de-
monstratng that said party is irresponsible TO
the intelligent public sentiment of the State
because of the irresponsible elements that
compose ii. The article is worthy of the care
ful perusal and serious reflection of voters.
Raston Ledger
Not fact therein stated can be contra
dicted. No Republican writer or speaker, no
Republican newspaper, no Republican poiti-
clan, will attempt to do it.
The Ledger challenges them all to attempt
it, if any one of them dare.
It is fact that IL 900 unrepI esentative
white men in sixteen counties elected a ma
iority of the Legislature of Maryland last year
and made it Republican. The registered
negro vote in sixteen counties of the State is
29 O39, and the total Republican vote 39,325;
and these IL 1856 white Republican voters have
an aggregate representation of sixty in the
General Assembly
How long can a popular form of govern
ment stand such blow as this
In these sixteen counties, which are named
in the article in today's Ledger referred 10,
every white Republican has B actual votes
How long will popular government stand this
strain?
Centreville Observer.
A little over one-nineteeth part of the 213,-
304 registered white voters of the State, con-
sisting largely of non-taxpayers not materially
interested in the economical government of
the State or their counties, are enabled to
combine with more than two and one-half
times their own number of the machine eel
ored vote and elect majority of the men
that make the laws of the State.
These facts are shown by the figures of last
falls election and the registration made last
year. Were the registered white vote aug
mented by the $1,000 white Democrats who
failed to register last year and the Republican
vote diminished by the Democrats who voted
for Mckinley on the financial question, but
who will not longer affiliate with that party,
the comparison would be stronger still.
A glance at the cold facts revealed by the
above statistical table proves at once that the
whole stock in trade of the Republican party
in Maryland consists of the unbroken ranks
of the fifty odd thousand colored voters of the
State, maintained as a political machine.
This machine broken, and the Republican
party in Maryland, as in every other Southern
State would sink into immediate and abso-
Lutte insignifcance Were the negro vote
divided evenly, or at all, between the two
political parties, as it ought to have done long
ago and would have done under normal con-
ditions, and the l 900 white men in sixteen
counties, who are now vested with the power
of naming a majority of the law making
branch of the State government, would at once
become an entirely insignificant factor in the
politics of the State as well as of the counties
in which they reside.
Port Tobacco Times.
The colored voters having been. under the
systematic teaching of race prejudice so we'll
known in this section Of the State, consoli-
dated into an unreasoning machine ready to
do the bidding of a few white men by whom
they are controlled and constituting, as these
colored voters do, almost the preponderating
voting force in n majority of the counties of
the State, as shown by the tabulated statement,
these few non-representative white men in
the counties where the colored voters are
most numerous really constitute the Repub-
lican party of Maryland.
As is shown by the figures, a | tile over
1000 Of these white men, by the manipulation
of the machine they have built up, are ena-
bled to elect one fourth of our law MAX
ers, while II 200 of the same class, by the
same meuns actually elect a majority of the
State Legislature. These white men, in
these counties, by the mere fact of their Stoop-
ing to the deceitful and dishonorable role of
working up the prejudices of the colored pop
ulation and arraying them in unnatural polti-
cal antagonism to the substantial white men
and taxpayers in the communities where they
live, thereby assume an attitude of defiance
aud irresponSiveneSs TO the intelligence and
substance of their respective counties an, of
the State at large, which is illustrated in the
record of their party whenever and wherever
they have had the administration of public af-
fairs-State or county
1t is not surprising that a party resting on
such false foundation should have proved
recreant TO its trust wherever it has been en-
ta1 u-Ifb u-ba of
the Republican party throughout the South
and its composition in Maryland is duly con
sidered, the intelligent voter will be to some
extent prepared for the record it has made in
this State in the past two years
Prince Georges Inquirer
1t seeks to point ont upon what an insecure
basis the party now dominant in Maryland
rests, and how, if this power is perpetuated,
the State may suffer evil consequences. The
article presents strong and udeniable facts
that deserve the serious attention of both
white aud colOred citizens who have the well
fare of the commonwealth mt heart. If the
cOlored voters of Southern MARYLAND could
feel patriotism enough to rise above party
when the occasion demands it. they would
soon realize what advantages they are deny
ing themselves and learn now often they stand
i'll the way of their own Advancement, by dis
playing the partisan spirit which seems so
universally to inspire them.
Cecil Democrat
The second production of the Editorial
Committee is devoted 10 the "Republican
Party in Maryland" 1t analyses that party
and shows from statistical figures that over
forty per cent. of it are negroes. Further
that in eight countless represented by thirty
votes in the legislature fourflths OF the Re
publicans are negroes, that in eight other
counties with legislative representation of
sixty votes the proportion is very little less.
Thus showing conclusively that the Republican
party without the negro vote would scarcely
be factor in the State. The main object Of
the article is to show how a comparative
handful of white men are enabled to dominate
the State by their absolute control of the ne
gro vote.
Annapolis Republican.
While the article states no facts which have
not challenged the attention of all thinking
men ever since the right of franchise was
given to the colored race, it presents them in
new and exceedingly forceful manner.
The table showing the relative proportion of
white and colored voters which go to make
up the republican party is specially worthy
of attention. 1t should be carefully studied.
There is no juggling with figures in this
table 1t presents the very strongest case
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