Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-03-21


Baltimore Star.
There il trite saying that we
must 60 away from home to hear
the news. Somstimes ne must also
IR awsySfTom umetegetths truth.
and IN this rsspsct We bsSe before
-uEgu-iliustrstion which 10 iass 10.
the PeintoqWhile the press Of Bal
timere has apparently combined. to
obscure the real qneatiops ipyolyed
in the calling Of an extra session q
the Maryland Legislature, there are
papers abroad that bare, endeayOred
to present the situation sss is really
iss and conspicuous among these 10
the Philadelphia Record. Our Phil
adelphiA contemporary has always
been ndistinguished among those
ppblic journals that hey, 70 the
line, let the chips fall as they may,
The Record. with that persplcuity
which has always distinguished il,
is able clearly to perceive the boil
loEness ofthe Republican solieitpde
in this State for the sacred rights
of...citizenship." - SIN their furious
hostility 70, the election bill, /" says
the REGARD L. Senator McG omas and
the othsr Republican leaders vasso-
lciated With him confess that, they
hold political control Of the State
only through ignorant voters who
are sincapable, Of discbargipgb the
political duties Of citizenship; if the
Republican ORGANIZATION be- the
party Of :all the intelligence as is
SO arrOgantly pretended, why should
it's leaders 10 Maryland be 50 fear
ful concerning the, exclusion q, 8
horde, Of illiterate negro, voters from
the ballot box p To shov that our
PHILADELPHIA contemporary has .
tihorongh comprehension Of the ac-
tnali sitnstion at Annapolis. we
quote, farther from its columns.
Reduced, then, to its simplest
terms, T" - il, says, '.the oontest,in the
Maryland Legislature is between ig-
nerance and intelligence. with Re-
publican intelligence enlisted IN be-
half of ignorance, Il is admitted
that the suffrage bill is modelled on
the law Of Massachusetts,, which
make no distinction of race, or COL
or" Why, then. should, legisla-
ton which excludes ignorant voters.
,ybite and black, from tbs, ballot be
good in Massachusetts and become
bad when transferred to the latitude
of Maryland,?n the, illiteracy Of
the blacks TO be less dreaded in MAJ
ryland? Or is it less hurtfal than
the illliitteraeg oi white men in Mas
sachhlnnisetfs I - mo7 100, slr,W,.
20 II is q refreshing spectacle to see
q paper, in . neighboring city tell
ing the naked truth about q matter
concerning which there has been 80
much Of observation and misrepre.
lssesntation Of home Everybody
here knows that il the mass Of ig-
! lolGrra ip the Stats Of Msryland
should be excluded from the cleo
tive franchise the Republican party
would be left in hopeless minority.
Such q nsnmmatiop would involve
not only . loss Of some 10000 Hit
crate negroes but Of a great horde
Of ignorant whites nov congregated
in the mining districts inithe west.
ernr part OF the Stats.u .a7Y.s
ii The Republican anxiety and in
digpation In the present emergency
are, therefore, so palpable as 70 be
beyond dispute IF ignorance is
excluded from the ballot boz, and
ifiIntelligence is to control the des-
TIMES Of the State, then the hope of
Repu blicanism is forever dashed
Without their "voting cattle" SEN
ator lMcOomas and colleaders woold
be utterly helpless, and lit is no
wonder that they haEeengagedf their
most desperate RESOURCES TO defeat
any proposed change in the present
election laws. :" "F'"' 'o0 s'"b I
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