The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-11-02
New Standard of the Dem
Ocratic Bosses.
To tie Voters Of Marylqnd:

1T IS alleged though without truth justice that Poe
Amendment contempates the oppression of class As mat
ter fact does nothing of the We seek merely to set
standard of citizenship the obviously unfit NAV
be excluded from the ballot box franchise from
the gutter into the eam OF common decency In the
the ignorant and depraved ballot public peril In the
hands ofthe intelligent virtuous it the SAFEGUARD Of
Our haoWed institutions The Democratic party of MARYLAND
appeals to the whole electorate defend honor the nteg
rity and the peace of this proud commonwealth"
Eloquent words these But what of the MEN WHO
WROTE THEM? What are the records of those who
gave them to the Democratic and ordered that
they be passed without change and without dissenting voice?
WHAT ARE THEIR STANDARDS OF CITIZENSHIP?
From the chief boss down Democratic ward worker and
puern of voters what they all striving for? Do tbev
not all laugh when any sincere honest man makes plea
or clean elections and honest aOs? Has been their
business Tor years, do they make business
whenever the polls OPEN put into use every trick and
every fraudulent device they invent carry the election as
they want it carried and the will of the majority?
Da not one OF these bosses mse confess 1865 that there
not had been AN HONEST ELECTION IN BALTIMORE for
twenty and that the Democrats had only won in those
two decades by ountgthemse in? How did thew do is7
Where were their HIGH STANDARDS OF CITIZENSHIP
1N Inc bosses in those daysand they have not CHANGED
To-Day ether III name or III purPosedd hesitate to stuff
ballot boxes and then after election to BURN THE RAJ
LOTS, lest evidence of their wrongdong be BROUGHT home 70
them They even went fa-these very men and others like
he-to order the police force of Baltimore rough the civ
ana 10 drive all but Democrats from the polls The constabu
larry then under their complete domination did not fail 70 b
and every election day by scenes of disorder and
bloodshed, by riots and murder AND THE POSSES
ALWAYS WOMB '
Was this on account of their high standards octzensbin
Was this because they had lifted the franchise from , +
Was this because they had taken the ballot from, +1 ~ M
theignorant and depravedm
Was this because they had safeguard OUR Hall
STITUTIONS by placing them in the hands Of te te1i4
and the vruousM!
Were they then trying to defend the honor t,e r+ 1
the peace of this proud commonwealth!M
laIS OF Haowed Institutions! WHAT SACRILEGF from,
the lie OF such as they These Bosses these men who seek NV
the passage of the Poe dment to regain the mower +
once held i'll Maryland able to do AGAIN what ~ 11
90 without lear OF punishment 20 years agoHFSF
SAME MEN care much about the halowed institutions If
Maryland as the Gar Russia cares abopt the oii f
an exile to Sibera's mines.
10 them no institution hallowed To them the ballot how
was NEVER A SACRED THING. They have always looked
upon it. they look upon today as an instrument to he
them they see fit
Honest votes are nothing them.
Honest opinions nothing them.
Honest men nothing to them.
They rule by tricery by deceit by fraud by maorites
counted but never cast by wholesale manipulation of the
votes from one end of the state the other
Lifting the franchise from the gutter WHO EVER PUT
Ii IN THE GUTTER? What these men and others of
helrk doing in the years gone by? What were thew doing
when alter they longer able ballot boxes and
vote the dead men, passed all election law which
put premium on trick ballots and authorized Democratic ST.
pervsos of election throw votes that were not cast
in favor of Democratic candidates.
what are these same doing now? Finding that even
with all this ckery they they dare to 90 one sen
further Hiding behind this plea decency pretend
ing that they would lift the franchise from the gutter and max
ing boast of political virtue not one of them possesses
they now seek to make the honest suffrage Maryland farce
to use as shutecock be knocked and forth of their
will.
This is THE NEW STANDARD THE BOSSES HAVE
SET UP.
1t IS even worse than those Of Old possible to make
them stop stung ballot boxes possible to send corrupt
election officers prison prevent the police from, allow
ing roghs to rule the city whenever the polls were opened
But give them the Poe amendment they will be able to
a none VINO 90 not swear to support them will be allowed
vote They will then be MASTERS OF MARYLAND RIII
ERS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH, SOVEREIGNS OF
1HE STATE Those who would oppose them can plead in
vain They will be Bosses, both name and in fact and will
not De compelled to use stuffed ballot boxes trick to
keep them in power for the rest of their lives
This IS the new standard of the Democratic bosses
"nAl lHlNK We OF 1T ANTI TOXIN.