The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-10-31
SENATOR GORMAN SPEAKS.
He Criticises President Roosevelt
and Stevenson A. Williams.

DelatOr uOlulaH Hlduc Il SpceCL last CdC-
urday in Howard county, at the same
place he spoke thirty years ago, when he
first appeared in politics. He dwelt in
some personal "reminiscences of his entry
into politics and of the redemption of the
State in 1866, then spoke Of the present
campaign. He said
''In this campaign this question of the
negro has been designedly forced upon US.
Finding his party here disorganized and
in state of disruption, SO far as is con-
eerned the one-third of it which is COM
posed of white men-the other two thirds,
composed of colored men, are not consult
ed-in steps the President of the United
States. Just think of it for a minute!
He sends for the candidate for Governor
and asks him to take the same seat occu-
pied not very long ago by Booker Wash
ington. Then he sends for the balance of
the gentlemen who are leaders here. He
sends for Governor Lowndes, and accord
ing to the papers, he intimates that Gov.
Lowndes may become the candidate for
Vice President He takes him upon the
mountain top and shows him the Promised
Land but, my friends, he will never enter
it. Then this President sends for Brother
Gary, of this county, that he may put his
money into the campaign and control us
here in Howard county. Next Mr.. Mudd
is sent for, and, according to the papers,
he is the only one who is frank and out
spoken. 'All right, he is said to have
told the President, Il will fall into line and
make my friend Day, in Howard county,
eat crow if you will give me good Office
for friend of mine in St. Mary s county,.
And now, according to the papers, Mr..
Mudd friend is to get this good office.
''Think of this condition, my friend
this running of the politics of the State from
the Executive Mansion at Washington. 1t
is an attack upon the very foundations of our
Government, and the liberty and happiness
of our people are not safe when we have
in Washington dictator, czar, who can
send for loyal Marylanders and tell them
what to do and what not to do concerning
the management of their State affairs.
Bring your party people into line, he di-
| rects; drive up your negro voters, and sus-
tain me in my policy of equality, social and
political, for the negro and the white man.
: ''I know Mr.. Williams, the candidate
for Governor, and have had high opinion
of him as a gentleman and a lawyer. I'm
til he opened his campaign | believed him
to be Republican from principle and a
higher type of man than is usually nomi-
mated by his party. Since he began his
campaign his personal abuse of the Demo-
cratic party and the low plane upon which
he has conducted his canvass have not
made him friends. | would not follow
him nor any other man along this line. |
prefer to think of Mr.. Williams in his cool
er moments-as the man he was before he
was nominated, and when, on November
B. he is relegated to the rear and sent back
to his private life by the votes Of the white
people of this State. [ do not think any
man in the State will regret more than he
his fall from the high plane upon which
his friends expected to see him stand.
81 will deal with Mr.. Williams as a
Republican and party man. He is too
honorable man to go back on his party.
He will march to his music all the time
He would not do as have some men-ac-
cept the votes and the labors of their party
and then, after their election, persuade
themselves that they are purer than their
party, and refuse to recognize it. Mr..
Williams will not do this. He was in the
State Senate when the Federal census
frauds were undertaken and exposed. He
knew the full extent of the infamous fraud
that had been attempted, of the great
wrong which such padded census would
work upon the people of this State, and
yet, knowing all this, he stood by it and
voted with his party to bind this padded
and false census, with its false representa-
ton, upon the people of Maryland.
"Another thing he 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. He knew
the conditions in the gas-ridden State of
Delaware, and he knew what the effect
would be of the provision we had drawn
providing that when negro came into
this State he must 90 before the clerk OF
the court and make affidavit of his inten
ton to become permanent resident here
before he was entitled to vote This pro-
vision, drawn by that distinguished lawyer
and sterling citizen, John Z. Poe, he
knew. was the one way to check this col
onization of negroes within our State; the
one way to check this influx from the
South. to maintain the rights of the white
people in orr lower counties-yet Mr..
Williams, knowing this, sat in the Senate
and combatted it, fought for the negro
against the white man and followed his
party's lead, in spite of his knowledge OF
| the circumstances
uHis record is a bad one. He will fol-
low where he is led and if the power OF
the State government can be used for his
party's good Williams will use that power
I would not have believed him capable OF
some of the small things he has done In
this campaign He has complained OF the
Police Department in Baltimore being now
in politics. Does he not know tnat unuer
Governor Lowndes it was risky thing for
a woman to walk down Charles street after
dusk: that there were insults offered to
ladies upon the public highways; that the
conditions were such that one OF the best
captains of police, an ex-Union soldier,
placed in power by the Republicans told
the Police Board that if Lowndes were re-
elected he would have to resign his posi-
tion because of the impossibility of quell-
ing the negro disorders? The poor, de-
luded negroes imagine that the success OF
the Republican party gives them license
to do as they please--to break the laws
with impunity and to place themselves on
q mar with the white man. Now there is
order in the city. The negro's rights are
respected, but disorder is not tolerated.
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