The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-09-29

relinquish their most strenuous eX-
ertions. The battle is not yet won
and it will require all their efforts to
win victory.
THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC MEET
ING IN FREDERICK.
The Democratic candidates fired the
opening gun of the State campaign at
Frederick city, on Thursday of last
week. There was an immense out
pouring of people, who were feasted
in the market house, great street
parade, with fireworks and speaking
at night.
Col. John Walter Smith, the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor, showed
the fallacy of Republican promises of
reform.
''They called themselves reformers.
he said; "they promised nonpartisan
government, both in the city of Balti-
more and in the State. They said,
take the Judiciary out of politics; take
the schools out of politics; place the
city government on IL business basis;
they promised to behave themselves.
They know their record OF the past
would make the people skeptical as
to their intentions for the future.
They knew they rested under cloud.
They knew the people locked with
suspicion upon them. Their anxiety
in this regard was most apparent.
They protested too much. What have
they done p
Col. Smith reminded his hearers
that the Republicans had deliberate
| ly violated the law which provided
| for the election of United States
| Senator from the Eastern Shore when
| they elected Wellington. The next
thing they did was to repeal the
Eastern Shore law by a trick.
They can claim no credit for keep
ing in Professor Prettyman as Secre-
tary of the State Board of Education,
for the Democrats had kept Professor
Newell, g Republican, in the same
position for twenty years. He charged
| the Republicans with introducing
politics in our public schools, even
going SO far, in his county, as to try to
| purpose of replacing them by Repub-
licans.
Col. Smith declared that outrages
and crimes by negroes have been
more frequent during the last four
| years in this State than ever before in
it's history, and he attributed this to
the fact that the colored population
believe political influence will shield
them from punishment, because the
| Republican party is afraid to offend
them, since the colored people supply
nearly one half of the Republican vote
in the State. Without their aid ii
would be impossible for the Repub
lican party to elect a single official.
Hon. Isidor Rayner reviewed the
condition of the State under Republic
can rule. He said
II assert, without hesitation, that our State
is not safe, but is in peril in the hands of III,
| Republican party; that every county that il
| dominates is retarding ana suffering under Ill
| environment; that the overwhelming majority
Of its voters manifest no interest or conc IN il
any question whatever that appe rtains to RooC
government, and t. at four years more OF he
publican rule means an era OF crime and Of
lawlcssresS that will become q blot and stair
upon the progress and advancement of the
State. The condition of the counties is utterly
dep!orablc. The supremacy of the Republican
party has lowered over them like pols,l
hight chilling the rising aspiration of thei
people. In isolated sections of the State n
times reign Of terror prevails, worse than Il
wild beasts had been let forth in their savage
fer ocity to prey upon the community. Cover
ner Lowndcs, with the best and highest inten
,ion cannot assuage this contagion of violenc.
of the Republican party, ard is laboring unde
the unfortunate delusion that 80 long as tina
party rla.,"Ius If power, so long will 1t be en-
Titled to Inn unity and protection"
Mr.. Rayner said that the claim O.
the Republicans that they passed the
assessment bill, the election law ant
the free school book law is false. Thu
Senate was in the hands of the Demo
cratic party when all of these meas
ures were enacted, and both branches
of the Legislature were Democratic
when the Australian ballot law wa
passed.
He charged that the Republican
party is entirely responsible for the
race issue, because without ever hay
ing done ths slightest thing in thi
State to elevate, morally or political
ly, the coiored race, they lash them Il
the polls at every election, G0,00l
strong, by infamous practices and de
captions, afraid to give them intellect
ual or political freedom, because from
the moment they do that the Repub
lican party would crumble to pieces.
As to the Republican House O
Delegates of 1896 and 1898 he said
Never were such dsgraeeful scenes enacted
he State that reaches the these
ers, aud there was not an hour in the day tina
they could not haveb EN- brought to the bar O
Justice under its provisions. With some rart
and notable exceptions they entered the Gen
eral Assembly fer the sole purpose of market
ing their votes and making whatever prof.
they could out of the transaction
Mr.. Edwin Warfield, who was Col
Smiths chief competitor for nomina
ton, spoke gracefully of the contest
and of his defeat and said he was a
the meeting because he is Democrat
and wanted to see the ticket elected
DIR. Herring, Democratic candidate
for Comptroller said:
1.-The logic of the present situation demands
the return of the Democratic party to power
| while there are thousands OF Republicans il
the State of the highest type of citizenship II
| Is not wholesome Tor the state to be admins
tered by party which depends for so large q
portion of its vote upon the negro population
and whose policy must to some extent h
affected by an influence so Irresponsible"
BALTIM0RE'S MUNICIPAL ELECTION
The Bearing of the Result i'm May on
the Result in November.
Following is copy of a circular is
sued last April by the Baltimore City
Republican Committee soliciting cam
paign funds from persons not residing
in Baltimore. 1t will be observed
that the circular emphatically says
that 1.-THE party losing in Baltimore in
n l.. L.