The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-06-24
WASHINGTON. June 81, 1905.

be modified, for it is literally true that Repub-
licans of marked prominence do not hesitate
to express their sympathy with the movement
which causes so much pain and distress TO the
new Secretary of the Navy, the chairman OF
the Republican State Committee and all the
other Republican leaders of Maryland. VI
course. when their expressions are TOR pubic
Republican leaders here will
rave lust like the Republican leaders in Mary
land, but that is something else. No doubt
as The campaign progresses it will be easy to
induce Republican Congressman and orators
from the outside to take part and talk precisely
as Mr.. Bonaparte and Mr.. Hanna are talking.
Next winter, after the so called Poe amend
ment is adopted, unquestionably there will be
a lot of fiery defamation in Congress IN the
same strain. That will be all. The move.
ment to couine the suffrage TO substance aud
intelligence will go on, and it will, as II does,
the approval of the majority every
where But yesterday a Western Republican,
said to me IN the presence of number oil
others, all of his own party, he hoped to see
the day when the negro would be eliminated
from the suffrage in every State OF the Union.
Not one of them dissented. You can hear
any day in Washington Republicans saying
there ought TO be Jim Crow cars on The street
railways.
NEGROES UNTITLED III WIZ.
The Republican politicians in Maryland
may tear their hair aud beat their breasts to
their hearts content But they have a mo
nopoly OF the fan. and no one outside wants
to iiyid- with them. Anyone here of judg
nent aud experience who cares 10 exercise
his faculties can see as be that the national
Republican parry has abandoned the negro to
his political fate Why? Because 1t is in
evitab!e. and because it is Just. defy Nr.
Bonaparie or Mr. Hanna. or any OF them, to
find one rational man OF their party nui OF ten
whose views possess any vaiGe or influence
who will not admit the establishment Of negro
suffrage to have been u blunder. If not a crime.
Indeed, 1t is a matter which has passed out of
the realm of argument. Il Is an ad2iiiied
fact. No word painting no flights Of lmagi.
nation, no heights nor depths OF Remuneration
can alter the plain, naked fact that the negro
is no more ct for the suffrage today than he
was on the day il was conferred upon hun.
His political slavery Of the last thirty hVe years
has been worse than his preceding bodily
slavery; il has been vicious, demoralizing, de
grading in the extreme The blind mule In
the treadmill displays every whit as much IN
telhgenee as does the negro ia his exercise Of
the privilege Of the elective franchise. For il
is a privilege, one TO be given and one TO be
taken away. aud in no sense 8 right The
negroes of Maryland voted for the first time al
the Congressional elections Of 1870. They
voted the Republican ticket in s uiass. They
have been doing 1t ever since. Where i the
intelligence, the discrimination, the weighing
OF issues in this Why, you might as we'll
carry the horses and the dogs ot Maryland 10
the polls and vote them for the Republican
ticket. |, j. natural, perhaps, Cor Mr., Hanna
and Mr.. Stone TO want to bold nn 10 such a
political asset rs this. bat, for the hte Of me,
don't see hos il can commend itself 10 the
body Of the people Of Maryland, have said
the national Republican party has abandoned
the negro 10 his fate because II IS night. HoV-
ever, there Is another reason more determining
in its effect GA the minds of practical Poiiu'
Clans than any mere question oi right or
wrong ! know al about The establishment
Of negro suffrage ! was here IN the midst q
things Shen Il WHs conceived and when u vas
hAfehed.
How TIE xEGEo BEcGNE a cFTixEy.
The people mainly receive their impressions
Of legislation through shat takes place IN the
open | make no doubt, even At this day,
there are sentimental persons wh0 wouid b.
moved TO iears OF sympaihy over The high spgn
aud high flown arguments uttered on the h,,oTs
Of Congress 10 favor Of uegTo suffrage Hos
differently would they feel Il they could have
heard What ioak place "a esacps' II was not
by Congress negro Suffrage Was fastened uPon
this country. bn, BY Republican Senatorial
caucus sitting lsehsud closed doors Congress
merely registered the eiiet q the Caucus
This caucus decided for negro suffrage by
bare majority Of one. BY shat argameuis
vas this obtained Not by the beautiful tail
about the Falhsgbood 81 God and iha brother
hood Of man, and al thsi sart 81 thing. Oh.
H. - .sassN
again and again thai the negro ~ould b. Ih-
permanent political vass4l Of the RepgbitcAn
party. Even then Il repaired the moss ar--
peraie appeals 20 pArie loyalty and party IN
teress to secure this pi,ifal majority OF one.
For there we're many kspaeHffr senators
Who tnxgei hard xith their eonse1esces before
they could ges their own consent 10 ;Hsiea this
Autal curse upon the inssituiions of this coEg.
try. Il never wAs put there eoasiiluii0usliy or
lawfully, Tor il was not ratified b. the FREE ~ill
Of the States. II BY any possibility the Sa-
preme Court eoald be brought face 70 lace
With this question II could Dot decide other
wise Unfortunately, there Is no hoI'r q this.
Well, the scheme worked for = Ehii>. The
Republican party. with is hossirs Ut negro
vAsSals, placed lis cArpeihag allies ia control
IN the South. The sickealng story ui that
sAsurnalia OF crime and Lust and rapiae made
the whole nation SILVER aud shsdier and thril
with horror. What saved Maryland from a
similar fate Ouly the accident thai rs ne
grues were not 50 numerous a. "a The States
10 the South. The South, IA mA1dsned d-s-
persiion. rose aud bursl It's feiiers There
was talk, as there will be again, hai there wRS
no attempt from Washington Ia forge the
chains aaew. The Republican leaders con.
Guided negroes we're no longer irusaps. and
day by day from that time 10 thus they are
more and more convinced 10 this effect.
Therefore. ia their hearts they are really bid
ding G0dspeed to such movements As thai ia
progress now IN Maryland cannot tell boa
long in the most Influential Republicans circles
the feeling has been growiuR that the party
will be IN infinitely better condition 70 b. rid
OF the negro. the Maryland Republicans 10 ,hc
contrary Notwithstanding.
REPUBLICANS AND HONEST ELECTIONS.
read that Mr.. Hanna said for thirty years
the great struggle Of the Republican party in
Maryland has been TO get aud keep honest
elections This was not always the case With
the Republican party ia Maryland. There
was 4 time anterior TO this thirty years of
which he speaks when honest elections we're
Just what the Republican party of Maryland
didn't want. From 1861 10 1857 the Repub-
ican party was IN absolute eoairol Ia Mary
land, and there was not al honest election in
all that peF1od- III mere had been the kepuh-
hcan party would not have been in control
Mr. Bouaparie and Mr.. Hanna are much
frightened about honest elections. II is only
in Maryland, however, that they demand
honest elections. Philadelphia IS only hun
bred miles from Baltimore, but their political
vision does not seem TO extend that far. The
Republicans Of Maryland, according to Mr..
Hanna. have been struggling for thirty years
for honest elections. The Republicans of
Philadelphia for the past thirty years have
been struggling against honest elections aud
have succeeded. There has not been an
honest election in Philadelphia in more Than
that time. The people of Philadelphia have
very recently risen in their wrath aud swept
out the Infamous Republican TiHg-perma.
nently, it is to be hoped, although some fear
only temporarily. In the meantime the mem.
beers of this ring have leisure, and il might in.
duce change Of heart if they we're invited
over to Baltimore to hear Mr.. Hanna lecture
on honest elections.
| am loath to credit the confident claims
that thousands of Democrats will vote against
the Poe amendment | cannot see by what
process of reasoning. As to this time will
tell. But if any credeace is 10 be placed in
reports constantly coming here, thousands Of
Republicans will vote for il, and this seems
more likely Ii is fervently to be hoped the
Democrats in Maryland will accept Mr.. Bona
parties challenge and make the question Of
the amendment the one Issue of the campaign.
Y. I Il. Il.