New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-30
cRASrNG TRr BoGrE mAN.

We referred the other Gay 70 the efforts being
made by Democratic leaders and managers TO
inject the venom Of race prejudice into Mary
land politics. The Democratic State Conven-
zion adopted this year rs the chief plank in fits
platform q declaration that white supremacy"
must be and should Doe preserved. Il proclaimed
as @ paramount AID vital issue The fantastic
md irrelevant doctrine shat the political des-
''tiuies q Maryland should he shaped ana con-
''trolled by The white people % the State" IT
was easy enough TO account for the Democratic
organizations eacerness 10 faunt the foolish
spectre of negro domination" 81 the face OF the
average white voter. With no issues on which
10 appeal Cor popular support except the dis
credited ones on which the last two campaigns
Tor the Presidency were lost. the Democratic
leaders welcomed with avidiry the chance 10
exploit e non-exlstent peril--to helabor an i'm
Dgiuary black destroyer Of Maryland instftu-
lions and Maryland ideals
We did not think that so grotesoue and hypo-
critical a camD0lgn cry could be taken seriously
even by the hard pressed politicians who de-
~lsed g. L is a disappointment. therefore 10
md 50 reputable and intelligent Marylander
as Mr. Edwin Warfed. the Democratic nom
inee Tor Governor, emphasizing and exngcerat-
ing THIS humbug issue In his first campaign
speech. To the committee which rad come 10
INFORM him OF his nomination FOR Governor. he
said last Saturday at Mount Airy:
The great ana pressing problem OF the day.
not orly IL Maryland. hut in every section az
our common country, North as wei as South
last as wei az West. is the negro question
y e growing more AND more urgent every wear
IN this State. u cannot be put aside. i e upon
We and must he met IN 6 manly way The cues
ton presented. ana which the voters must
decide ~ this election. IL plain pra ctical bust
mess ono. and goes home 20 every white house
holder and taxpayer IN Maryland. II Is whether
the government OF this great commonwealth
shall be trtrlsted 70 party more than one
half OF whose voters IS composed Of this ieno-
rant race on 20 the party comprising 81 its ranks
q vast majority OF our white people.
30 statement OF the issue before the voters OF
Maryland could well be more misleading. II
there is such an issue as the Democratic candi-
Date Tor Governor thinks be has discovered. IL
Is certainly not growing every year more UP
gent" Census statistics absolutely disprove
such q contention. The census Of 1893 showed
that OF Mar lands total population Sc 49G
Were white and 2l5G57 were black The census
~ 1900 showed that the white population lad
grown 20 So 424 wlile the black population
had grown 10 235064 Tic whites had increased
10 pc- cent and the blacks only 9 per cent
The percentage o. negro population II the State
has been decreasing Tor many decades. The
negro problem there Is not an intensifying, but
a vanEl.ing. one
Equally misleading Is Mr Warhed's asser.
rioa that tie negro furnishes more than one
half" u tho conference.-the vote in Maryland
According % the census Of 1900. there were IN
Maryland 32l.S03 males OF voting age. o.
these 0o.4oG were colored. In the Presidential