The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-07
THE MARYLAND REPUBLICANS.
They Dcnounce Democracy and Cor
man i'm Particular.


Baltimore, Aug. 6.-The Republican
State Convention held here to-day
placed in nomination the following
ticket:
For State ontroller-Hermann S.
Platt, of Baltimore.
For Clerk of the Court of Appeals
Thomas Parran of Calvert county.
Both nominations were made by ac-
clamation. no other names coming be-
fore the convention. Interest, there
fore, centered mainly in the platform
and the speeches, all of which teemed
with denunciation of Democracy N
general and ex-senator German in
particular. The white supremacy" is
sue raised by the Democrats in the
platform adopted by them at last
weeks convention was ignored in that
upon which the Republican candidates
will stand, but 1t came in for its share
of unfavorable mention in the speeches.
Phillips l.. Goldsborough. chairman of
the Republican state central commit
tee, indicated clearly the course to be
pursued by his party in the coming
fight with regard to this issue in his
opening address to the convention.
just Negro Bogey.
ITO the cry that this is white
mans state said he, 1--WE say that
the negro bogey will scare no man. 1t
is disgusting. but humorous: 1t is a
sham and fraud; it is without force.
The suggestion that the more than so
per cent of the white population of the
state is in jeopardy, from any stand
point. from the less than 20 per cent.
of negro population is an insult to a
brave and intelligent people, who are
Justly proud of the glory uf
their state that as coll
ony was the first to ordain lib-
erty of conscience and freedom of re-
ligion; it remained for the present boss
governed Democratic machine, in order
to hide it's own hideousness. to conjure
such spectacle. There has never been
time when there has not been a white
government in Maryland and as the
percentage of colored people has stead
lily decreased in the state each decade
since 1910, when it was 1922 per cent.
to the present time, when 1t is but
1913 per cent, the puerility and abb
surdity of the crying aloud a white
mans government is apparent"
Mr.. German Attacked.
The platform upholds the adminis-
tration of President Mckinley and re-
fers thus to Mr.. German:
I'VE appeal to all good citizens to
unite in defeating the selfish political
bosses in their conspiracy. begun with
the extra session, to perpetuate them
selves and their methods, by one-sided
elections, and to thwart the first pur-
pose of that conspiracy by defeating
the election to the United States Sem
ate of the Democratic leader who die
tated the disfranchising election law
| to a servile assembly. Their victory
would again fasten upon our state the
reign of corruption and violence over
! thrown in 1895, enable them to intrench
! themselves for generation behind a
far worse disfranchising election law
than the un- american law we pledged
| to repeal. p y
''If we succeed we will defeat the
election to the United States Senate of
a man whose views on the tariff and
finance fluctuate with political exigen-
cies, who is stable only in unvarying
control of the Democratic party ma
chine
Other planks promise that the Re-
publicans, IL put in control of the Leg
islature, will repeal the new election
law.