The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-10-11
ENOUGH SILLY TWADDLE.

ENOUG7 SlLLI WADDLE.
With the closing ofthe registration
books on last Tuesday the first acti in
the fall campaign was over, and
politicians are now busy clearing the
stage for the final scene. Many
party men have labored assiduously
to have the books what they should
be, true registry of the bona fde
voters of each precinct. The work
has been done more carefully this fall
than ever before; especially is this
true of the Democrats. In each
neighborhood the non-registered
voters have been looked up and their
names properly recorded. So far as
we can learn, the Democrats have
made very substantial gains, but
there are yet some cases which will
require legal adjudication.
1t is now time for the Democrats to
go to work. The election is less than
one month off and much remains to
be done. There is plenty ofenthusiasm
throughout the county, and all it
needs is a little stirring up. The
Democrats were never in a better
shape to go into fight than they
are now. The ticket is one of the
best that has ever been nominated in
this county and shows the wisdom of
letting all the people participate
directly in the primary contests. 1t
is a safe maxim that mine times out
ften the people are right" No
convention could have made such a
ticket as the one which was taken,
it might be said, haphazard through
out the county. The geographical
location could not have been better
had it been so planned and there is
not a weak spot in it. The only
thing for the Democrats to do now
is to go to work and help electit. 1t
is personal matter with each party
man and requires the concerted action
of all so that the victory might be
that much more complete. We have
not the slightest doubt as to what
the final result will be. 1t is simply
a question of majority and we must
make that majority as large as pos
sible.
An effort is being made to hood
wink voters as to what the true
issue is. If we follow their local
organ it would seem that the only
points to be considered this fall are
the Almshouse and Hollingsworth
Mill Road. We have viewed their
silly struggle with much amusement
and been watching how far they
would GO before they exhausted
themselves. They now seem pretty
we'll tired out on these two thread
hare subjects and we hope that they
will put up some plausible argu.
ments, if they have any, why their
ticket should be successful. We would
be very glad to enter into an intelli.
gent discussion of the campaign, but
it is not our purpose to attempt to
answer any such silly twaddle as
that they have recently been trying
to disgorge upon theintelligent people
of this county.
There is only one fight this fall so
far as we can see and that is the
question of race supremacy. The
Democratic State Convention threw
down the gauntlet when they incor-
porated this in their platform, and
their wisdom has been endorsed by
every true citizen. If they can show
a single solitary reason why my
ignorant negro is entitled to a vote
when he can neither read nor write,
and, therefore, could possibly have
no interest in State or National
matters, we would be glad to hear
from them. If they can prove that
their great leader, Abraham Lincoln,
was wrong when he said that the
negro should not be given the right
of franchise until he had been suffi-
GENTLY educated to understand its
true meaning, now is a most excel
lent time for them to enlighten the
public. If they can prove that the
privilege of voting has not made the
negro ten times worse than he was
in slavery days, now is the time to
produce such evidence. If they can
say that thegovernment ofLousiana
and North Carolina was a success
under the control of the negro voters
and the white renegades, this would
be a good time for them to speak.
If they can in any manner produce a
single solitary consistent reason why
a negro should be entitled to the
same privilege as white man, the
voters of this county would be glad
to hear from them.