The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-31
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
THE NEGRO EQUALITY BUG-A-BOO
BA1r1MoRE CouNrY. Octoher a1th- nd

BALTIMORE COUNTY, October 27th, 1903
HeSSrS. Editors THAT the small fry with q
little ~ such as Talbot and his selected stump
speakers, should appeal to race prejudice and
thus mar the settlement of a question upon
natural lines and undertaken by men whose
greatness they can neither understand nor APP
preciate, is not surprising, but that man like
German, who aspires to the Presidency, should
evince equal ignorance and adopt such peanut
the man personally.
In New York, where the people understood
the question, and when talking to a reporter
for one of their papers he denied the existence
of the negro problem as political question but
when ne is talking to the farmers of Howard
county he asserts that to be the only issue now
before us. His object is clear, it being to divert
attention from an honest and efficient election
law by an appeal to prejudice that exists to
some extent in every white bosom, be it that of
Republican or Democrat.
Race prejudice has existed through all times
and 1t exists between the white men and the
black men of our country to the same extent as
in other ages. No white man, be he Republic
can or Democrat, feels or wishes that the black
man is or shall be his social equal The instinc-
tive feeling against all such equality is common
to the Democrat and the Republican, if he be
white. The negro aspires to and thinks of no
such equality, whatever the exceptional one
may dream of, as the exceptional white man be-
lieves in socialistic equality and uses dynamite
to establish bis Infamous doctrines.
The difference between the right thinking and
honorable white man, whatever be his politics.
and the average Democrat of 1908, is that the
former desires the negro protected in his natural
and legal rights, according TO the laws and the
constitutions under which we live, and the latter
desires to deprive him of all such rights. The
Democrats do not propose to establish schools
or other institutions for the improvement and
moral elevation of the negro, brought here
against his will by the white man, and so lately
released from slavery in which it was crimi-
nal otfense for any man to teach him to read
but seeks to improve him merely by depriving
him of the right to vote, and by locking him in
Jail whether guilty of any otfense or not.
Inc negro as man and as a voter does not in
crease in anything like the proportion the white
man does in Maryland and his vote is only Is per
cent. OF the entire vote; the idea of negro
domination in the face of this fact is nonsense
of the veriest sort, aud there is far less danger
from it now than there was when the noble white
Democrat was engaged in corrupting him Dy
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This same foolish charge of negro domination,
negro equality, mixed schools, negro police, &C..
was raised in 1895 to save the Democratic party
Honest men won and the Republicans were in
power four years and not one of the terrible
things that were to happen ever came to pass.
Voters should be men and not children to be
frightened by the ghost stories gotten up to
save corrupt political ring from the fate that
justice demands.
The negro was guaranteed the right to vote
by the 18th amendment to the Constitution.
The National Democratic Convention approved
it by plank in its platform in 1876. The people
of Maryland approved it by constitutional pro-
vision and as late as 1899 the Democratic party
platform assured the negro he should be protec-
ted in this and all other rights. What has hap
pened since then requiring this great onslaught
upon the negro? Has he gotten blaclxer or more
demoraliZed2 No, but the Democrats can no
longer buy his vote with the assurance of get
ting it and he naturally votes with the Republi-
cans to give us honest election laws which the
Democrats promise from year to year but never
give. This is the offense for which he must be
punished. W.