The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-09-14


% shall be registered, in order to |
t. liable il to carry every election dis |
l. rict and voting precinct in the State. |
The said amendment, by trans
parent and impudent pretense, pro-
fesses to aim at protection against
an Ignorant suffrage yet it pro-
vides the power and the discretion to
/ permit the most ignorant illiterates
/ to vote if they shall give assurance
| that they will vote as those who ad
minister the law shall require, and
endangers the suffrage of the most
enlightened citizen who desires to
vote and who dares to give an init
nation of his intention to vote as his
Judgment and conscience may die
tate.
The said amendment, while profess
sedly aimed chiefly against what its
sponsors pronounce as the evils of ig
norant and corrupt negro suffrage,
gives no hope that in its administra-
ton the ignorant negro will not be
accorded as much consideration as
the colored man who, by dint of en-
terprise and energy, may.have acquir-
ed an elementary education, as well
as that interest in government which
comes from the acquisition of proper
ty. 1t gives. no reasonable assurance
that the corrupt negro, to whom pO-
litical party principle is a stranger,
may not be preferred to that element
of the race who may be found, with
honest loyalty. and good faith, TO pro-
fess allegiance to the party for time
being in opposition to that which APP
points and controls the election Off
GERS.
1t affects the right of suffrage of
many more white men than there are
colored voters in the State; imperiIs
the franchise of all citizens of foreign
birth or parentage; imposes an in
sulting and amending restriction on
g., all the young men of the generations
to come, and by the power to pre-
scribe preca-ious and oppressive re-
Quirements as to the evidence upon
which the ancestral title to vote un-
der the so-called grandfather clause
may depend, opens the way and pro
vides the opportunity to jeopardize
the right to vote of any or every cit
izen of our State.
nF nc
grayely pretend to fear an influx OF
negro population from the South, in
case this amendment should be de-
, feated, and yet the fact is that under
: car pet-bag constitutions, adopted il
nearly all the States of the South
, prior to the 1st OF January, 1869, IN
" der which the negro had the RICH ttC
vote and actually did vote in those
States in the Congressional election
Of 1868, the whole cOlOred population
OF that Southern section of our cOun
try who shall, before the end of neX1
= year, arrive at the age of 81, will b'
! empowered, under this amendment
=, if they should migrate to the State o
Maryland, to vote here after the re
:. quired period of residence, withou
the educational test prescribed TO
" our native colored population anC
without the educational test that viii
- be prescribed for the young whit
, population of this State after the en'
of the next calendar year.
:, The Republicans of Maryland d
- not feel it incumbent upon them t
:, make any reply to the partisan wa
- cry and senseless sham and shibbolet.
= of negro domination. The Reput
lican party of the State of Marylan
favors no social equality among tn
races; faYors no negro dominatio
over the white people here or else
~ where, and can be depended upon t
= guard against the establishment c
~ either of these conditions here
! Maryland with equal safety and wit
greater sincerity than partisan OF
ganization that wears the mantle an
~ usurps the name of Democracy, a
., understood in its best and broade'
~ sense in this land.
~ The Republicans Of Maryland poir
with confidence and pride to the wis
and conservative administration {
the late lamented Lloyd Lowndes, til
four years of whose incum5ency i
= office witnessed the enactment of sue
~ non-partisan legislation of far-reacl
- ing utility as will constitute sufl
cient answer for all men of commo
=. fairness and common sense to I'll
~ silly, yearly cutlery about negro don
Id nation and social equality, and a
nd of the attendant train of imaginar
of and fabricated evils that party e1
at pediency can conjure up to serve til
- exigencies of a desperate political o
'e ganization.
In recognition of the paramount
d. and predominant character of the i
ad sue presented by this propose
= amendment, and with view to a.
10 centuating the Importance theret
ed and concentrating the energies of OF
]S, party toward a movement for tt
M preservation of that right preservi
- tive of all others, and without whic