The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18
WHITE MANS GOVERNMENT IN
MARYLAND

A distinguished gentleman was in
Wilmington on the eve and during the
revolution in November. He told US
that Baltimore would soon or late have
some such experience as Wilmington
was passing through. He thought it
inevitable as like causes would produce
like results. The race issue in that city
is becoming critical. The race preju-
dice is getting to the front. The demo-
Gratis in the eyes of the republicans
who use the negro are to blame. They
will cause trouble says one of the toot-
ers if they persist in a given course. 1t
says, however, that there is IAN ugly
negro element in certain sections of the
city" See special in n. Y. Tribune of
April 9. If you would see who is to be
censured read this from the special to
the Tr..bune:f
"a few nights ago a policeman, in
attempting to make an arrest, was at
tackled by negro rowdies, beaten with d
club and stabbed. Recently Captain
Ward, of the southern police district,
received a note from one of this class
/ threatening to "shut him UP like they
did Captain Baker in the northwestern
ulSII1Ct. was 1C
| ceived at tbs northwestern district po-
| lice station a short time before con-
tanning a threat to kill Captain Baker,
| Sergeant Plum, the committing mag
istrate and several others. A few days
| before the receipt Of the note a num-
| Der of laWleSs negroes attacked Ser
| geant Plum and two other officers at a
| patrol box, using bricks n stones as
| weapons"
l Won COO how Ia vvlacS thic tsI1o1u pIn-
ment' is. Can they be allowed to have
| their own sweet way and to defy law
| and murder at viii These are the
roughs and brutes who insult and bring
on race troubles. The great mass of
the negroes in Baltimore and in Will
| mington and all through the southland
are we'll behaved and law-abiding. 1t
is to their interests as much as to the
| whites to have all Iawlessness sup
| pressed and all DULLES and rowdies
punished. Here is an expression of
| public sentiment that is not to be mis-
| taken We quote again from the Tri-
bune's special:
Ex-Governor Frank Brown, presi-
lent of the democratic association
which conducted the mass-meetins
| the other night at which the cry this
is a white mans city" was raised, says
the white people Of baltimore are in
the saddle. He declares that this Will
be a memorable campaign, and thai
he believes that white men,, both DEM
ocrats n republicans, realize that the
crisis is on and hat the future of the
city is at stake"
The republicans in Baltimore build
their hopes of success and supremacy
upo using the negro vote. They are
simply Mortified, they pretend, to hear
democratic leaders using plain speech
in public meetings and declaring for a
white mans government. 1t is pla:n
enough that the white men of that large
city are resolved as they are in North
Carolina, to have no more negro rule
Another quotation from the same spe.
cial viii interest:
Thomas G. Hayes, the democratic
candidate for mayor aid tonight that
absolute and well-fortified white su.
premacy was essential to the best typ,
of local government. He did not NEAR
that the negro should be denied a single
right or should be hampered in tn,
exercise of his franchise, but he be.
lieved that the best interests of thi:
city demanded a government in which
. the negro influence, either direct or in.
direct, should be wisely eliminated"