Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-09-21
New Advertisements.
Address to Voters
DELLOW-CITIZENS

ENJOY unuer DemOCrauC control TO interest
themselves to secure our triumph.
There can be no fair doubt that a large ma
Jority of our total population prefer that there
| shall be no change in the administration of
our State affairs, and of our white people
more than two thirds are certainly and with
great heartiness on our side.
There is every reason why this should I've so.
The laws are vigorously enforced.
Good order and tranquility prevail.
Our finances are in a healthy condition.
The duty of dealing with the great practi-
cal questions of taxation and education in
! such way as to make the burdens of the
| one as light and the benefits of the other as
| large as possible. may most safely be entrust-
ed to us, for we undoubtedly represent an
overwhelming preponderance of those who
are most deeply interested in its full perform
| ance and who will suffer most from It's nepect.
Encouraged by these obvious and convinc-
ing considerations and stimulated by the
gratifying record of our work in the memora-
bic campaign of 1888, there ought not to be
any doubt as to the result Of the contest III
which we are now engaged
All we need is that the full strength of our
party shall be brought to the polls.
That this may be done we must first turn
| our attention to the vital task of making our
| registration books perfect and complete
| No name not entitled to be Oh these books
| should be permitted to he put or kept on
| them. and no name entitled to registration
| should be omitted
1t is absolutely certain that there are now
on the registers many thousands of names
which are wrongful|y and unlawfully there
and which should be stricken Off
In the counties no effort should be spared
| to purge the lists of these names.
The votes of our honestly and really quail
| fed voters should not be nullilied in whole or
| in part by the casting of ballots by persons
who are not bona .fdc residents of the State
| earnestly call on our friends in each and
every precinct in the counties to bestir them
selves i'll this most important matter. Note
| the names of all disqualified and improper
| ly registered persons Collect the testimony
| bearing on the case of each one of these per
| sons. Hand in lists of all these names at the
session of the Registration Officers October s
| and demand that they be stricken off at the
| meeting of these Officers October IS, and on
| that day be prepared with the evidence to
sustain your demand.
See to it, also, that no new names be i'm
properly registered.
In Baltimore city an entirely new Registra-
ton will be made, and this should be so
| thoroughly conducted and vigilantly watched
as to be made absolutely accurate.
| In this way the Registries will be what they
ought to be-complete and perfect records of
the lawful voters of the State
The vote cast on election day will be the
| vote of the lawful electorate, and we have no
| fear of the result.
Our amended Election Law compels each
voter to put his cross mark on the official
ballot opposite the name of each candidate he
wishes to vote for. This of necessity requires
each voter to act with certain amount of in
dependence, intelligence and discrimination.
1t does not absolutely stop bribery.
1t does not entirely put an end to corrup-
| ton.
No laws can completely accomplish these
results
But by placing each voter beyond the con-
| trolling hand and tongue of election clerks
| and by requiring each voter to act for himself
| 1t reduces to ntinjnt"m the chances and dan.
gers OF bribery, corruption and intimidation
1t secures individual freedom
1t goes far to make the ballot absolutely
| secret.
| With the reasonable assistance which its
provisions give to illterate voters, there is no
man so ignorant as to be unable to mark his
ballot us he wishes
Every Registered Voter can easily learn
| before he goes in the voting booth the names
of those for whom he desires to vote and the
number Of cross marks which he must not
exceed, and as the requirements of the law
| apply with absolute equality to all voters
| alike-to the illiterate white man and to the
| liliterate colored man on perfect equality
| there is no ground whatever for complaint of
unfair or unlawful discrimination.
We need not lose the votes of any who
wish our party to succeed for in every pre-
| cnct legitimate and proper instruction can
be had and should begiven whereby adequate
knowledge Of the proper mode of marking
the bullot may be readily ACQUIRED.
For the present | content myself with re-
| minding you that the struggle in which we
are engaged is not complicated or obscured by
| the sharply-debated questions which divided
| our people in the Presidential contests of 1896
and 1900.
We are now dealing with the relative adj
vantages of Protection or Reciprocity or a
| Tariff framed to produce such Revenue only
as is demanded for an honest and economical
administration of the Federal Government.
| In common with our fellow-citiZens all
/
| civilized world our hearts are stirred to their
| deepest depths by the awful crime which has
| deprived our Country of its Chief Magistrate
| PRESIDENT Mckinley, whose eminent and pa
| ulotlC services can never be forgotten by a
| grateful people, and whose blame. ess life
| shall stand to the remotest ages as an exam
| pie ana inspiration to all who reverence puri-
| W, integrity and honor, but we have not now
| under review the wisdom and expedlency of
me loreIgn and domestic policy of his admin
| lStration.
| we are not now concerned with the discus
sion and settlement of the great questions
growing out of the war with Spain, or the
proper policy to be pursued in fixing our
duties and obligations to the people of Cuba
Porto Rico and the Philippines. but the con-
trolling issue in this campaign is-whether
the honest, intelligent economical, conserva-
tive and successful administration of our State
affairs by the representatives of our white
people shall be displaced, or whether it shall
| he continued.
Upon this plain issue winch our political
| situation forces upon us, and which we oug hit
not to evade if we could and cannot evade if
we would, appeal to you to stand bv our
organization and vote for our candidates.
| Keep the State in safe Democratic hands
and rely upon IA Democratic administration
| for the inauguration and conduct of all needed
measures of enlightened progress and reform.
REGISTRATION Days IN THE COUNTIES:
tuesday. October 4, 1901
Sa. m. to p. IN.
| TUESDAY,. - IOnr