The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-11-04

FOR County COMMISSIONER
T. IRWIN ZIMMERMAN. Sd District.
WILLIAM w. BOYCE, 8th District.
JACOB PETERS, 18th District.
For House of Delegates,
ROBERT E. MERRYMAN. 5th District.
ROBERT GARRETT, 9th District.
WILLIAM J. DAVIS. 18th District.
TALBOT JONES, 18th District.
ELEcr1oN-TUEsDAY, NOVEMBER Z, 1905.
In DORCHESTER county the Democratic Board |
OF Election Supervisors decided that the RE
pudiation" ticket was in proper form and that
it should 60 on the official ballot. The men
whose names appear on this ticket were paid
by the Democrats to allow them to be used.
And yet such rascality as this is openly tolera-
ted in Maryland What do honest and fair
minded men think of it?
AT THE head of each group of candidates on
the official ballot you will see printed the
words 'Vote for One" "Vote for Three"
'sVote for Six" etc. Be particular to observe
these instructions. If you should mark your
ballot. for example, for tUo Registers of Wills
or for four County Commissioners, it will not
count for any name on the ticket and will be
thrown out by the judges.
If YOU shosld mark too many candidates on
the ballot that you will hand to the judges
next Tuesday your ticket will be thrown out
in the count. For example: You are entitled
to vote for SIX candidates for the House of
Delegates. If you make mistake and vote for
seven YOUR BALLOT WILL NOT COUNT
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MARKED. Bear this in mind and vote for
the proper number only.
SUCH ABLE lawyers as Messrs. John G. Rose
and Edgar H. Cans tell us that if the Poe con-
stitutional amendment becomes law more
than 10000 WHITE MEN will be DISTINGUISHED
in Maryland. How can any fair-minded man
support this amendment with such fact star
ing him In the face? Certainly no foreign born
American citizen can vote for this amendment
when he knows he may be voting away his
own rights as well as those of thousands of
others who are in the same position as himself
Give this matter careful and earnest thought
before you vote next Tuesday.
VorERs SHOULD study carefully the official
sample ballot that is printed on the fourth
page of The UNION today. The names of the
candidates and the amendments are printed ON
this ticket exactly as they will be on the Off
cial ballot that you will vote next Tuesday.
Each candidate is designated by the word
Republican, Democratic" etc.. following
in the same space with his name so that those
who are able to read should experience no
difficulty in properly marking the ballot.
Read the ticket over carefully and familiarize
yourself with the names and their designa-
tons. There is no reason why you should
make mistake if you will observes little care.
Mr.. LEWIS NJ. BACON ex-Clerk OF the Cir
cult Court, and for many years active in the
ranks of the Democratic party of Baltimore
county has come out squarely in opposition
to the Poe amendment. He wrote letter to
THE UNION embodying his views on the SUBJ
ject, but it reached us too late for publication
this week. In the concluding paragraph of his
letter Mr.. Bacon says: with the present
condition as now existing in our State be-
lieve it to be the sacred duty of all who oppose
the Poe amendment to vote for the Republican
nominees for the House Of Delegates that we
may have a ballot law so plain that every
legal voter may record his choice and have it
so counted"
An IMPORTANT election will take place in
Maryland next Tuesday, November 7th, and
the polls will be open from A. NJ. to 6 P. N.
In Baltimore county the Republicans have an
excellent ticket to vote for and this should be
sufficient incentive for them to go to the polls
and cast their ballots for it. In addition to
this pleasant duty they should also not fail 10
mark their ballot against what is known as
the Poe amendment. This is chapter SO on
the official ballot and to vote against it all
you will have to do is place cross (X) mark
in the very last box on the right hand side Of
the ballot. In order to be on the safe side.
however-if you think there is any doubt
about it-you had better vote against both
amendments and then you will besure to have
hit the right one.
REPUBLICANS OF Baltimore county should
turn out in their strength next Tuesday and
vote for the candidates that were selected by
their county convention. They are capable
and worthy men and there can be no reason
why they should not command the solid sup
port of their party. Mr.. Mccullough. the
nominee for State Comptroller, is an excep.
tionally good candidate and all should take
pleasure in giving him hearty support. And
then there is the Poe constitutional amend
ment that every Republican should feel it his
duty to vote against. Democrats will tell you
that if this amendment wins it will be the best
thing that ever happened to the Republican
party in Maryland; that in few years, with
this amendment in force,) the Republican
party will be in the ascendency in this State,
and much other similar rot They don't be-
lieve a word Of it. When did you ever hear
of Maryland Democrats doing anything that
might help the Republican party? Never
and you never will.
In AN editorial article on 1.-The Honor of
Maryland" the Baltimore american says:
= 1.-THE honor of Maryland is at stake
in this campaign. A State that does not con-
duct its elections in an honest way, that does
not safeguard its suffrage as a sacred thing,
that does not protect its citizens in their rights
cannot expect to be counted worthy member
of the American Union. Yet this Poe amend
ment proposes that the Maryland suffrage
shall beso restricted that successful opposition
to the Democratic ring shall be henceforth
impossible. but that the bosses shall be made
supreme in the political affairs of the State. 1t
is useless for them to seek to hide the issue. 1t
is useless for Senator German, as he did in his
Ellicott City speech, to ring the changes on
the danger of negro domination in Mary
land and to assert that this amendment is SIM
ply plan to insure white domination in the
State for all time to come. Senator German
knows as we'll as anyone, and better than most
people, that negro domination in Maryland is
an utter impossibility and that the words are
being used by him and by other Democratic
bosses to hide their scheme for power and pelf.'s