The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-06-16
A CHAPTER OF INCONSISTENCIES.

A CHAPTER OF INCONSISTENCIES.
The meeting of the Republican
State Central Committee, which was
held in Baltimore on Wednesday of
last week, was the most excellent
example of cringing that has been
exhibited in the ranks of the Repub-
lcan party for sometime. From the
biggest Republican in the State down
to the little fellow who holds small
position upon which he is dependent
for his daily bread, all joined in wor-
ship Of the heretofore displaced god
who has lately come into prominence
by being set up as one of the chief
idols in the temple of Republicanism.
Until the appointment of Postmas-
ter Harris in Baltimore, there was
scarcely a Republican in Maryland
who had not at some time or other
found occasion to criticise the acts
of Charles ]. Bonaparte. In fact, he
seemed to have succeeded in getting
himself at odds with every member
of his own party, and has always
been a very uncertain quantity.
Reared i'll the lap of luxury, Mr..
Bonaparte had shown very little re-
gard for the rest of his fellow crea-
lures, especially if there was the bar
rier of poverty. He bears the name
of one of the proudest houses of
France and has always done all that
he can to maintain his inherent arts
tocracy. Early in life he allied him
self with the Republican party,
doubtless because it stands for the
classes rather than the masses. BY
coincidence, he officially met another
man fond of his same pet hobby,
civil service reform. This was no less
a parsonage than Theodore Roose-
welt, who is today president of the
United States.
1t is an open secret that Mr..
Roosevelt desired to honor Mr.. Bona
parte by appointing him to some re-
sponsible position, but no one
thought that he would recognize this
imp-acticable leader in the distribu-
ton of patronage. The appointment
of the postmaster of Baltimore City
showed the error of this assumption.
The conclusions from the above facts
are easily drawn. 1t is apparent
that Mr.. Bonaparte will control the
patronage of this State so long as
Mr.. Roosevelt is in the White House.
No wonder the Republican chiefs, big
and little, bow down to him in alb
ject subjugation. They are waiting
for the plums in the way of Federal
appointments and know that they
must be in the good graces of this
Americanized French aristocrat, who
now holds such a responsible posi-
ton in the Presidents official family.
In his speech at this meeting,
it cost Mr.. Bonaparte a sacrifice of
past consistency to bring his mind to
accept the teaching of the doctrine of
Voltaire that "a good citizen needs
no grandfather" He even went fur
Their and said that he, like Abraham
Lincoln, believed in the common
people.
Such expressions coming from Mr..
Bonaparte will cause the common
people" to smile. They have no
doubt but what Mr.. Bonaparte
would not draw the line On the
masses when it came to mental re-
quirements, but when the ordinary
associations of life are considered,
and in those conditions when "a
mans a man for a that" he has in
the past shown his utter disdain and
contempt for those who do not be-
long to the silk stocking aristocracy.
No doubt he believes that there is
not much distinction between the
common people" be they white or
black, and he, of course, cares very
little for grandfathers so long as
grandsons vote the Republican ticket,
which the negro invariably does.
But there is in Maryland a sturdy
growth of manhood through whose
veins course the good rich red blood
of honesty. They are the bone and
sinew of the State and will resent the
herding with the negroes that Mr..
Bonaparte contemplates when he
speaks of the Common people" 1t
is this character of citizenship that
will give sufficient support to the
proposed constitutional amendment
as to make its adoption certainty