The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-10-29
G0RMAN.


speech in Howard county, was to
make the race issue even more com
pletely 1.-The whole thing" in the Dem
ocratic campaign than it has al
ready been. That he will succeed in
his object we do not believe And we
do not believe it because we feel as
sured that German cannot put him
self forward in such a speech as that
without reawakening in the breasts
of thousands of independent Demo-
Gratis that resentment and disgust
which was the dominant note of hon
est politics Tin this city and State for
the twenty years following the rape
of the ballot-b box by German and Hig-
gins and the lesser tools in the cleo
ton of 1872. That was the wear in
which Teackle Wallis and Henry NJ.
Warfield-Southern gentlemen who
had suffered in Federal prison while
German was in Washington, making
the beginnings of his sleek career in
politics-were cheated of the offices to
which they had been elected, in order
that German and Rasin might obtain
their twenty years of unbroken DOS
session of power in city and Stare,
and amass the wealth which they are
now enjoying. From that time I'M
til the elimination of the revolt in
the splendid victory of 1895, Germans
name was synonym for fraud in ell
ections, dishonesty in legislation. and
cynical disloyalty to party principle.
1t was German who was the enemy
of the Australian ballot reform. of
civil service reform, of courageous
dealing with the silver question in
the critical days of 1898 when Grover
Cleveland put the country on the
road to sound money by bringing
about the repeal of the silver-purch-
ase system of the Sherman act. He
has been throughout his career the
very type and symbol of political
trickery. 1t was Cor his benefit that
the shameful trick ballots were made
IN 1901. No one who has a memory
can forget that the degradation of
Maryland politics for twenty wears
was due to his domination and that
OF his partner Rasin. When a man
whose power in politics has meant
the suppression of every honorable
ambition and the prevalence of every
form OF corruption and low intrigue
INDUCES in sanctimonious pretenses
OF virtuous motives in his political
tricks. the spectacle he presents is
his own sufficient answer.
There is however, one feature of Mr..
Gorman's speech that deserves spe-
clflc attention. After speaking of the
census frauds in Southern MARYLAND
in connection with which he seems to
have preferred not to mention that
the Republican rascals who committed
them were prosecuted with the great
est yigor by the Republican District
Attorney, and that the chief of them
is still in jaIl-Mr. German went on
to say: Another thing he (Mr. Viii
liams) knew he knew that there had
been an influx OF negroes toward our
State from the Southern States. In
West Virginia they have captured
the State almost beyond redemption. ;"
AS to Maryland, it has been pointed
out again and again that. the ratio
OF negro to white population has not
been increasing, but on the contrary
has steadily, though not rapidly, dim
inished. The facts about West Vir-
| ginia, however are not so we'll known.
The total number of colored males
above the age of 81 years in West
! Virginia in 1900 was IA, 841, as against
206,65 white males of voting age!
McKinley's vote in that same year
was 119, 842, against SO, 705 for Bryan,
a plurality of 81, 1877, or very much
more than the entire negro male pop
ulation of voting age. These figures
alone would serve to make Germans
statement grotesque. But when it is
added that the total increase in the
number ofcolored males of voting age
in West Virginia in twenty years
from 1880 to 1900 was 1927, while the
corresponding increase in whites was
1882, we get still better gauge of