The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-24
DEN0UNCES AMENDMENT.
George alfred Townsend Scores Poe
Amendment.


resides at Gapland, Washington coun-
ty, was in Hagerstown this week on
shopping trip, and while there gave
his views on the Poe DISTINGUISHING
amendment to the Hagerstowu Norm
! ing Herald.
"If | am familiar with Maryland
/ history" said Gath 1.-The itch. TO
/ disfranchise some useful element is as
old as the province. The Catholics
were put down for 20 years until they
were reduced, says McCherrY, to one
thirteenth of the population. The
Jews were lot allowed to be citizens
of Maryland till 1886, and humane
/ legislator who tried to help them to
! suffrage was defeated for reelection
/ Yet the Jews sold out of Baltimore
last year twenty million dollars of
manufactured clothing, said to be
the chief article of that city's wealth.
Is Senator-elect Rayuer, of Jewish
stock, going to be the Maryland
/ Pharoah? What Catholic, Dragging
/ about Maryland and liberation, is
20 take away from another element
the safe guard of all his rights? What
says the liberal Cardinal Gibbons?
! The Quakeis, who produced Johns
Hopkins were declared to be an I'M
lawful assembly in Maryland from
1892 to 1902, till the British restored
their rights
The city of Baltimore was disfran-
chised or refused its legislative quo
/ tum of delegates, till revolution in
1887 forced a Republican Coustitu-
| ton. Next, all foreigners were driven
from the polls in Baltimore, and riots,
murder and manning continued till
! 1860, when the Legislature made a
Police Board to turn out Mayor
tom" SWANS police. Said the
Methodist, Rev. Francis Asbury, in
/ 171G: i was fined near Baltimore f5
/ for preaching the Gospel The anti
/ Federal riots in 1912 killed General
Tingan and gored out the eye of the
father of Gen. Robert E. Lee so that
he died from his injuries The riots
against the solidery in Baltimore at
the opening of the war had a recipro-
cation in the State Constitution
which caused the very men to wall at
their Acknowledgement who now have
mr. n+ hnr isc,a +loy, 70 IL,
The melancholy conclusion of the
observer must be that little or no
| progress has been made in respecting
the rights.Of others; wkile intolerance
to religion has been the custom of all
nations, deprivation of citizenship is
unusual and contrary to the humane
process of all the nations for the EN-
pires and the kingdoms are now dem
ocratic, while the Democracy of
Maryland is despotic and re-enacts
the Dred.ScOtt decision for the TWEEN
tieth Century-that black men have
no rights which white men are bound
to respect. They say fancy did not
say that, but they do now say it, and
take away from the electors of 235. 900
cOlOred people in Maryland their only
right which indentifes them with
representation. For what? Has there
been a negro instruction? Cannot
the negro learn to read! The census
shows that negro illiterates in this
State are only six to four illiterate
white. The entire number of Mary
land illiterates is 1873, 900 less than all
the blacks in the State. So there
must be 172, coo educated colored peos
pie in Maryland. The man who
would de,citizenize that plumber of
his neighbors is black himself, he be-
longs to the dark ages.
What is the the motive for such a
late move in our State history:
ITO keep the offices. Maryland
bad become a debatable State and no
issue was left but race prejudice. The
cOrruptions of the Democratic party
in Baltimore had driven German from
the Senate and Rasin and others from
the spoils. A Republican Governor
and Legislature and two Republican
Senators two or more Republican
Mayors of Baltimore, a Republican
Congressional delegation sometimes,
alarmed the coterie with the fear
that the great North would settle
Maryland by the growth of Washing
ton city and would assimilate Balti-
more, also, to modern thoughts and
enlightened mutually of kindness.
The late slave must be deposed from
his 40 years of the enjoyment of the
ballot. meditated crime the greatest
of all the crimes of the party which
for years crammed the ballot boxes
and miscounted the votes. History
must be searched far back for such a
persecution.
What are some such cases in his.
tory?
II can think of two-the Jews in
Spain and the Protestants in Poland.
The Jews had been tolerated by the
Arian Cloths till thew turned Ortbo.