The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-06-18
THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY OF MARYLAND
ITS CHARACTER AND COM
PONENT PARTS.
Founded on Falso Prejudices-In-
stilled into the minds of the Ill
iterate COlored Voters 1T S ire
sponsible TO the Intelligent Public
Sentiment of the State and IRE.
spOnsive to it.
VALUE OF THE PARTISAN ELEC-
TON LAW DEMONSTRATED.
How 1 900 Unrepresentative White
Men in l6 Counties are enabled
to elect a majority of the State
Legislature.
A.PARTY OF PREJUDICE AND COERCION
(Published by Authority of Maryland emo
cratic Editorial Ass cla,ion.l

(Publlshed by Authority of Maryland emo
cratic Editorial Ass c,a,ionl
In an article recently published ii
was shown how the lliterate coIored
voters, who were enfranchised under the
amendments to the Constitution, have
been held together as a compact politi-
cal machine in the counties OF this State
where the masses OF them reside, by viz
tue OF false sentiment OF race preju-
dice deceitfuly and skillfully imposed
upon their credulity by few unscrupu-
1ous white men in those communities,
who have con5pired together for the
purpose OF using the compacted colored
vote for their own personal and politl
cal advantage 1t was there also shown
that the more kindly disposed OF the
colored voters who had been assured
by years of friendly and neighborly in
tercourse with their white neighbors
and friends that there was no necessary
conflict OF political interests between the
two races. and who were. therefore.
anxious to vote with their Democratic
neighbors. had been deferred from SO
doing for fear OF the ostracism OF their
own race and especially OF the resent
ment OF their own families. resulting
from the false prejudces thus scfishly
ard wrongfully aroused. 1t was also
shown that many OF these well disposed
colored voters had under the old system
OF voting found the desired opportunity
of casting Il secret vote Tor Democratic
candidates unknown to the influences
they feared but that ms opportunity
had been deliberately taken away from
them by partisan trick in the Repub
ican election law passed by the Legisla-
ture of 1895 under the disguise OF re.
form"
1t having been thus shown in fact that
the purpose and effect OF the Republican
election law is to rcconso.idate the ilit-
crate colored voters OF the State into
a compact political machine to blindiy
SuppOlt bAS A\OpuOiiNdH pdl SOliipOSCu
only of a few white men in many OF the
counties, it is now proposed to show by
statistical figures the composition OF the
Republican party in the several counties
OF Maryland and the city of Baltimore.
with a view of disclosing to fair minded
people the serious menace to the cause
OF good government in the State and
the unequal and unjust advantages
which accrue to comparatively few
white as a result of this manipula-
ton of the machine colored vote The
following table, compiled from figures
given in the Baltimore Sun Almanac,
shows the relative proportions OF white
and colored voters which go to make up
the Republican party, as it stood at the
last election, in the several counties and
in the city Of Baltimore, together with
the representation OF each in the Gen
eral Assembly: