Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-02
BONAPARTE.
Tells Something About the Campaign Now Under
 Way in Maryland.

Washington, Oct 2.-Concerning the action of the republican convention al Baltimore, of which he was chairman, Secretary Bonaparte has written the following letter, the publication of which he has authorized, he says, as a means of disseminating information as to the actual situation in Maryland;
 Tn the campaign now ill progress in Maryland the democratic ring relies for success, as it has relied for success in many campaigns during the part thirty-five years, upon appeals to race prejudice. To infiame this prejudice it has frequently circulated and 1t cir culates now many utterly false and, indeed, ridiculous stories as to what the republican party would or might do if entrusted with power by the voters. While these falsehoods are not only absurd in themselves, but con- clusively refuted by experience during the four years of republican supremacy in the state, while the late Lloyd Lowndes was governor from 1896 to 1900, they have undoubted weight with certain class of voters, of whom some are very ignorant and others so intensely prejudiced on this question as to be almost beyond the influence of reason.
 Some of these preposterous tales are to the effect that a republican leg islature would compel by law certain forms of social intercourse between the two races, as, for example, by estab- fishing compulsory attendance at mixed schools or obliging white chil, dren to be taught by colored teachers. Others hold out the alarming prospect that a republican governor or mayor would appoint a vast multitude of col ored officials with no regard to fitness or expediency to all sorts of public DO sitions. Of course when we had a re publican legislature and a republican governor, nothing of the kind was done, and the present republican mayor of Baltimore has made no such selections for public office; nevertheless, some people actually believe these yarns and others try to persuade themselves there may be some truth in them, so as to vote against their own reason and con- science, and, while such dupes are found, the manufacture of such false hoods continues.
 Stories of the first class form part of an outcry against social equality; stories of the second class give such color as they may to an outcry against negro domination; the resolution of the republican convention disclaiming any desire or purpose to promote either of these chimerical evils must be under stood in the light of the surrounding circumstances, as above set forth. In Maryland 1t has been so understood, and has attracted little or no comment; outside the state 1t seems to have been widely misunderstood, by reason of widespread ignorance of the peculiar conditions which prevail with us.
 T ought perhaps, to add that al- though I am the presiding officer of the convention I did not appoint the committee on resolutions, was not a member of that committee and did not suggest or advise the adoption of the resolution in question. do not, there fore, speak for the convention, but, in speaking for myself on the subject I feel perfectly confident that I voice the sentiments of all sincere and earn est republicans In Maryland"