Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-06-24
TO THE VOTERS OF WORCESTER
COUNTY.

do well to follow the example of Cecil
in the organization of amendment clubs
to instruct voters and endeavor to
secure the passage of the Poe Constitu-
tional Franchise Amendment. Our peo-
pie are thoroughly in favor of the
amendment, but there are many litter
ates to be taught how to vote for it. and
it is high time that more activity is
manifested in this direction We hope
Democrats will not get in quarrel over
the nominations for Office or allow any
other question to overshadow this all
important one of carrying through the
amendment. 1t will have better effect
on the state than anything which has
happened to it in two decades. For it
will mean the retirement from political
activity of hundreds of a worthless
class, who, as long as they feel them
selves a political factor, will not work
or in any way contribute to the COM
mercial advancement of the state. 1t
will take some of the sass out of them
and show them that the white people
are not only dominant but enjoy the
rightful privileges of people who con-
tribute to the support of the state and
county governments by their industry,
intelligence and patriotic efforts to
perpetuate the rule of the highest
civilization in the world, embodied in the
pure-blooded Anglo Saxon of the East
ern Shore.
Wherever the negro has been given a
free hand and his social and political
equality acknowledged he has become
pulled up with self Importance, is
impudent and source of trouble
to those who acknowledge him as
their equal. Philadelphia and other
points in Pennsylvania has been mecca
for the rowdies of the race. They have
been petted and pampered there until
they no longer are content to be the
equal of their white brother, but en-
deavor in various ways to give proof
that they are indeed a FREE people
free to commit acts of violence that
would not be tolerated from whites for
an instant. Yet, even negro-loving
Philadelphia is getting an everlasting
gorge of it, and the telegraph wires
brought word last Saturday of race
riot in that city wherein two thousand
young white men visited Ontario Square,
at Thirteenth and Thompson streets,
and attacked and drove out of the square
a gang of sassy, inpertinent negroes.
The telegram says:
According to the best information
that could be obtained, the riot was
started by a young negro, who made
himself offensive to a group of young
white men and girls. 1t is charged that
for some time the negroes, of whom
there are several thousand living in the
immediate neighborhood of Girard ave-
nue., between Broad street and the
Reading railroad, constantly crowd the
square in such numbers as to exclude
the whites. AS a result several out
breaks have occurred. 1t was about
$50 o'clock when the melee began Sat
eral thousand men and boys were en-
gagged in fierce riot. In five minutes
the negroes had been swept out of the
square, and the mob chased them to
Broad street and Girard avenue. Here
a stand was made. and the struggle was
renewed with a fierceness that threat
ened to result fatally to some of the
rioters. At the height of the struggle
a company of militia made its appear
ance, and, with the aid of the police,
dispersed the mob. The negroes fled
down Girard avenue, scattering as they
ran into the side streets. The whites
were after them, and a mob of more
than thousand headed down Eleventh
street looking for the fugitives. The
negroes sought shelter in their homes,
and not until every colored man was off
the streets did the mob give up the
hunt.
So the worm turns! The people who
thought they could make silk purse
out of sow's ear, find that even
Yankee ingenuity is unequal to the
task. There is only one way to treat a
negro, and that way has been proven by
noble men and women of the Southland
to be the right way. They treat the
inferior race with kindness and a gen.
erous friendship, but they demand and
receive respectful acknowledgement
of the superiority of the white man. 1t
was not always so, The ballot had to
be taken from the hands of certain
class before it could be brought to a
full realization of the true state of
affairs.
We must do this thing also. In do
ing it we will benefit both races, and
the better and more intelligent class of
colored men will not be in any manner
whatsoever effected. 1t will be only
the ignorant, worthless, shiftless non
producing class that will be made to
feel that they must rise to the nights of
moral and educational responsibility
attained by the more intelligent and
worthy of their race, before they can
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