The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-11-19
An Open Letter to the Baltimore
Sun.

To THE Sun EDITOR: Good Democrats,
4. e., the large majority of our party in this
State, feel under obligations for your good
work in partial redemption ofour State from
radical, red bonnet Republican Imperialists,
throug h your influence over the heretofore
strayed sheep of our party. They believe
that there is still Democratic blood in your
veins, since it has lately demonstrated itself
They, also, believe that you are in favor of
"a white mans government" in our State
and they are pleased at that.
They are also satisfied that the Evening
News, i'll our late campaign has shown itself
more Republican than Democratic; more
Governed than patriotic; more cOlored than
white, and more selfish than representative
Otherwise they are pleased at the fact that
the News has proven by its conduct in the
campaign that it is not and never has been
under the present management Democratic
but has been trying to run with the hare
and holding with the hounds" Yet to make
it palmer have held with majority no mat
ter how secured, and Notwithstanding it was
or is negro ''balance of power" constituted
that majority.
Your course, however, has demonstrated
you have taken the white mans side of the
question, as soon as it was necessary to do So
Besides this, to maintain your position, you
should reconize the fact that with all your ill.,
huence you could have elected a Democratic
Congressman in this State, if it had not have
been through the votes Of the Silver Demo
Gratis who periodically voted for Gold Demo
Gratis to prevent disruption of their party.
Again, to be just, had it not have been for
fool slerites, who i'll trying to immitate the
Gold Democrats in our last presidential cleo
ton, and who by their folly have endangered
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election, we would today have six Democrats
from Maryland instead of two, and had the
Silver Democrats have acted as the gold ones
did, then, we would not have our two repre-
sentatives now.
These two results of these two facts should
be impressed upon the minds of all the good
white citizens of our State, irrespective of par
ties, or financial fanaticism, for the reason that
the time has arrived when respectable white
men should stand together to govern and con.
troll this State, as both right, and prefer
-ence, over negroes and their white skin allies.
In using the words "degraded white skin al
les repeat them, in order to emphasize
them can hardly believe them white men,
so-called) otherwise than degraded who pro-
pose to foist an inferior race upon an equality
with the superior one. The Almighty God
made both the difference and distinction"
have so little sense, or Self-respect, as to at
tempt to interfere with His work of creation
Let me suggest that in the future, it is the
duty of all good Democrats to stand together
at the primaries and elections, in the choice
of good men and to permit neither currency,
personal prejudices or anything else to sepa-
rate them, since every person must know that
'house divided against itselfmust fall r. |
feel satisfied that IA great paper like The Sun,
made great by the support, for years, of the
Democracy, which means the people, would
not wish to deliberately destroy the rights of
the people l mean the white people How
long could The Sun exist if dependent upon
the colored people alone? How long will
Baltimore, itself, continue to prosper with
the ''outside WORLD should come it to know
that $4,000 or more negroes controlled its
politics and that their choice of its officials
had to handle its finances? Where would
Baltimores credit be, and who would buy
her bonds? To maintain our city's credit and
reduce her taxes white men must manage her
political and financial affairs. G. C. W.
Baltimore Nov r. 1898