The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-19
WHITE SUPREMACY FIGHT IN
BALTIMORE.

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terest iii the campaign that was waged
in North Carolina for white supremacy,
and rejoiced with us in our great vic
| tory. Now Baltimore is in like
struggle. A Baltimore correspondent Of
the New York Tribune gives some idea
of the situation and the contest as is
shown from the following paragraph in
long special from Baltimore:
"A few nights ago a policeman. in
| attempting to make an arrest, was at
| tackled by negro rowdies, beaten with a
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
| district" A communication was re-
| ceived at the northwestern district POI
| lice station short time before CON
| tanning a threat to kill Captain Baker,
Sergeant Plum, the committing magis-
trate 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
patrol box, using bricks and stones as
weapons"
"Ex- Governor Frank Brown, president
of the Democratic association which con
Quoted the mass meeting the other night
,at which the cry. This is white mans
city was raised, says the white people
of Baltimore are in the saddle. He de-
clares that this will be memorable
campaign, and that he believes that
white men, both Democrats and Republi
cans. realize that the crisis is on and
that the future of the city is at stake.
"Thomas G. Hayes, the Democratic
candidate for mayor, said tonight that
absolute and well fortified white SUI
premacy was essential to the best type
of local government. He did not mean
that the negro should be denied a single
right or should be hampered in the eX
ercise of his franchise, but he believed
that the best interests of this city de-
handed a government III which the ne
gro influence should be wisely elimi
mated.
The news columns of yesterdays Bal
timore Sun contains two columns de-
voted to incidents of negro rowdyism
in that city. and the attempted outrage
Oh White WolileH. 1He leellHS mas SIuNH
so great that the women of the city
are organizing to help restore White
Supremacy to Baltimore. In a speech
made at a grand citizens mass meeting.
Hon Isaac l.. Straus discussed negro
domination, saying:
There is another aspect of the ques-
ton of good government that is too seri-
Gus and foo palpable to be ohscured. |
refer to the danger of negro domination
that is indissoluhly connected with a
continuation of the Malster contingent
of the Republican party in possession of
the city government. In the aspect men
toned this is not a race question. 1t is
but one phase, and a most vital phase
of the good government problem. Mr.
Master is the representative OF po-
litical machine that is the mortgaged
vassal of twenty thousand black votes
without the solid support of which it
would not weigh as a feather in the
political arena. These twenty thousand
colored voters constitute the bone and
sinew, the strength and the substance
of the Malster wing of the Republican
party. Without this force. consisting
of Baltimore. that faction could not car
ry single ward or precinct in the entire
city. Just in the proportion that these
| twenty thousand voters outnumber the
remaining five thousand white office
| holders and few other white Republi
cans who make up the balance of the
| faction mentioned, does their influence
predominant; and as certain as the sue
| Of Iax nd nteht Ist 10
| of government furnished by the Malster
| faction exhibit the inevitable results of
such a pefvading influence.
| "But the senior Senator from Mary
| land Travelled here from Allegany coun
| ty to tell rs that this is not a white
| mans city. In one sense the Senator is
| right As long as the Master organi
cation has control of it Baltimore is not
| white mans city. But in every other
sense the Senator is wrong. lnasmuch
| as the white residents of this city rep
| resent its intelligence, enterprise and
property, bearing the burdens of taxa
+! ton and constituting its moral strength,
| il is a barefaced error for any one to
assert that this is not white mans
| city Nor do we. as the Senator sug-
| gests, find the negroes 'bowing before
| the majesty of the law The pull they
have with Republican politicians makes
them defiantly Indifferent to the law.
The uncontrolled ebullitions of negro
| rowdyism under the present Republican
| regime is leading count in the indict-
| ment that the people find against it.
| The conservative Baltimore Sun,
which is heart and soul in the fight,
says:
Republican politicians, i'll fact, while
deprecating the race issue. seem to be
| assiduously forcing it to TIC front by
| deliberate appeas TO race prejudice.
| This all reads like chapter from
| the campaign in North Carolina in
| 1893. Think of it! Twenty thousand
negroes. controlling the destiny Of the
| leading city of the South 1t will not
| be tolerated there much longer than
il was in Wilmington North Cardinals
| chief seaport