The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-29
MARYLAND MAKES
 WAR ON THE NEGRO
Restriction of Suffrage is Dem-
 ocratc Battle Cry
IS A CONTINUAL MENACE
Negro Vote of State is Ignorant and Corrupt and is Blind Instrument of Unscrupulous and Selfish
 Leaders.

Baltimore. September 2s.-At the demo- cratic state convention of Maryland, which was held here today Comptroller of the State Gordon T. Atkinson was nomi- mated and platform adopted, which. ex- cepting a paragraph 4indarsias tlfe exoel- lent business administration of tho pres ent governor. is wholly devoted to the proposed constitutional amendment to re- strict negro suffrage, which will be voted upon at the November election. yrhe platform declares as follows:
 By common consent, the only issue in this campaign is whether negro suffrage put upon us against our will by force. shall be restricted and it's power for evil destroyed. This democratic convention representing two thirds of the white peo- pie of the state, reaffirms the declaration of our party in our platforms of 1899 and 1903 upon this subject, and now proclaims anew our resolute purpose to maintain the supremacy of our race and its control by all lawful and constitutional means of the administration of the political affairs of the state.
 Relieving that the constitutional amendment will operate as an effective remedy of the evils of our situation with out prejudice or injury to any race or class regarding it moreover as a complete response to the clearly expressed man date of the people, we unreservedly com mend and approve it.
 We make 1t the single issue of this campaign.
 We declare. 1t to be our battle cry.
 "The negro vote as 1t stands today is a perpetual menace to the prosperity and peace of Maryland-a menace to our very civilization-for 1t is ignorant, corrupt. the blind instrument of interruptions and selfish leaders,
 Call for German.
 Just before the convention was brought to a close, there were loud calls for Sen ator Arthur Pue German, who was pres ent, but had taken no part in the pro- ceedings
 Senator German responded with a brief speech, in which he said:
 T use the expression of Henry Winter Davis with whom I differed politically as widely as the poles. When denounced by the Maryland legislature, he said: | consider 1t decoration of honor. I so consider the abuse of republicans and
 mugwumps' when they denounce me for joining you In an endeavor to lift the black pail which hangs over our fair state.
 q have been fighting the same struggle under various conditions during the last forty years, and I say now that If in November next we can lift, as I believe we will, this pail from the state and restore to the intelligent white men the untrameled right to control our own af- fairs, I will agree never to seek place and will die happy man. But I promise this If life and health be spared, that if by any corrupt combination with disaf- fected democrats or reformers the ne- groes and their white republican allies should defeat us in this election, I am still a soldier and will fight on As white men never surrender, but always fight for liberty and their manhood, we will fight until csere is not one left to accomplish | an object so necessary for the welfare of | the state. I am with you for that as long | as 1 live"