The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-03-14

gain their unworthy ends and there
by hold us up. to the world. in deIis-
ion and scorn, as men unfit to have a
voice in our own government.
If the simple ability to READ is to
be the criterion for citizenship for
this land, then all the labors of the
philosophers and teachings of Christ
ianity have been for naught!
If honor, the possession of sound
sense, virtue, sobriety, industry and
patriotism are to be relegated to the
realm of the damned, and mans tit
ness to participate in the advantages
of our free institutions are to be re-
stricted to his ability to master the
various combinations of the alphabet,
then it were infinitely better if no
gun had spoken for liberty at Bunker
Hill, that Jefferson had never penned
the Declaration of Independence; that
the thirteen Colonies had not adopt
ed the Constitution
We have tasted of the fruits of these
noble things, we love our birth right,
and we are 10th to let them part from
us, and it behooves those in high
places to remember, that we are the
salt of the earth?''
The most inaccurate and insulting
part of all this proceeding. Mr.. Edi-
tor, is the assertion, that ''all the illit-
crate voters sell their franchise" A
more slanderous, more unkind and
inhuman lie was never uttered.
Among the list of crimes given in
the book of instructions for Judges
and Clerks of Registrations and Flee
tions, prepared by the Hon. Isador
Raynor, Coy. Smiths Attorney Gen
eral, the most careful search fails to
find the 'crime Of Hliteracy' given
as a ground for disfranchisement, but
now, at the dictation of the past mas
ter in political debauchery, Arthur
Pue German, the poor unfortunate
who was not born in the purple
nor whose early childhood was free
from the daily career of selfsupport,
must be denied the one privilege that
makes all men equal in free land,
be marked Ullcle0n and set off from
his friends and neighbors in dis
Gre lifted group with the periurer, the
rapest and the thief. And for what
end? Why this humiliating outrage?
The best legislation given to us for
years i'll Maryland was by Republi-
can administration, and we have not
forgotten it. If we have ever been
represented i'll the National Govern
ment more ably, or if Maryland has
ever Jared better at the hands of the
National Government than she is to-
day, we fail to recall the time.
The Democratic bosses are up a
tree and have no possible chance of
winning the State and county cleo
tions, this fall, or the spring election
III Baltimore under the present laws,
and in their desperation they are
only too willing to stigmatize and
criminalize the poor man, the unfor-
tunate working man, if by so doing
they can get control of the State gov
eminent and send A. P. German to
the .. S. Senate.
Hoping to disfran chise enough ne
gro voters to make them safe in the
majority for years to come, they have
no care for the poor white man. They
claim he sells his vote any how, and
by DISTINGUISHING him they are saved
the expense of paying him ON election
day-the one person above all others
that they professed, in years gone by,
to love so well. We are glad, Gov
ernor Smith, that you have let us
know the real light in which you re-
gard the poor working man; that you
have not been SO artful in your dodg-
ing this time as to conceal the fact
that to be uneducated is to be Grim
inal in your judgement and only fit
to be placed with the untutored ne
gro in a set by themselves and labeled
unfit for citizenship You and
your party are doomed.
CONSERV ALIVE.