The colored American., 1902-10-18
LEADER OF MEN.
The Career ef Hon. George A
Pearre Who Represents
Populous District-The Friend
and Cha nnpion Of 66e Negro.

The date in November set for the Con-
gressional elections is fast approaching
and, while The Colored American is
watching with the warmest sympathy the
outcome throughout the country, its
keenest interest is Centered in the Sixtl
Maryland District which Immediately
adjoins the District of Columbia anC
where the Republicans have exhibited the
best political sense by renominating Hon
George Alexander Pearre This district
and the District of Columbia have man,
things in common, political, domestic
and economic. This would alone be
sufficient to account for our interest il
the present contest, but it is livelier, ant
indeed enthusiastic, when we consider
the many high qualities which fit Mr.
Pearre for the Office, and Justify his Sc
lection for the suffrage of its voters.
Mr.. Pearre was born in Maryland and
descends from good old Republican
stock. After a thorough universit,
training he took up the study of law, IN
which he has been a conspicuous sue
cess. He has been in political life
though intermitently since 1890 when he
was elected to the State senate. He
served in this body until 1904 with much
brilliancy and industry
In 1906 he made a most phenominaI
and successful canvass on the Republican
ticket for prosecuting attorney of his
native country, and continued in that
office until his election in 1893 to Con
grcSS.
Such was his personal popularity and
the confidence repOsed in him by the
voters of the Sixth District that in this
contest, for the first time in its his
tory, MIR. Pearre carried every single
county III the district and won out" by
the handsome plurality of 4,5o6. He car
rled the district a second time, upon his
denomination to the Fifty-seventh Con
gress, this time by a handsome majority.
He IS again his party's nominee, and
The COlOred American tenders to him
and to the district its earnest wish for
his success
His candidacy appeals with peculiar
force to the Negro vote in the Sixth
District. We are at the seat of gov
ernment and, as 1t were, on the watch
tower looking for our races enemies.
Mr.. Pearre is not among them. He is
our tried and true friend. He has stood
by us loyalty and faithfully, and it IS
always pleasure to command the faith
full servant
There may be a few disgrunt1ed
would-be Negro politicians living in
Washington who have no vote in Mary
land or anywhere else and who have
not been able to use Mr.. Pearre for their
Selhsh and unworthy purposes, but they
have produced no effect upon the can
vass except to rally to his support every
truth loving and self respecting Negro.
Mr Pearre is superbly equipped as a
profound lawyer and as an experienced
legislator. He is a high toned. high
princlpled gentleman, and when we add
his tne character and his esav accessi-
b1llty he is the ideal candidate.
He VIII win, hands down. The most
influential and representative men in
the Sixth Maryland District. among them
Senator MCComas, Mr.. Thomas i
Moves. and Hon. Ashley M. Gould
United States District Attorney. are Mr.
Pearre,s enthusiastic supporters.
Every worthy cOlored man from his
district who has sought Mr.. Pearre's DO
Iltical influence and has come to him
with the proper credentials showing char
acter and capacity has found in him a,
immediate and jealous friend, and h..
is tor man only because of capacity and
character