Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-11
The MARYLAND Suffrage.

The Baltimore American Of yesterday,
in all editorial entitled faint or ehe
Trick Ballot" made this statement:
There is small room to doubt that If
thu intent of those who had legal r1gnt
to vote in Maryland at last Tuesday
election were duly and according TO the
voters intent registered in the ofhciai
returns, George R Gather and the other
candidates for official positions that We're
voted for all over the state Wouiq De
indicated as elected by the offlclal re-
turns In other words there is the hiisnl-
NJ suspicion resting upon the result as
ndicat ed in the official returns. that II is
a trick-ballot victory; that the result
would be different if the votes of all OF
the voters who were disfranch1Sed on last
lection day were registered In the gen
,ral result as they ought to De-
And what IS true of the state ticket is
probably true also of the legislature. A
fair poll and an honest count would have
brought in a republican majority in the
assembly. Instead. by means of trick de-
vices for confusing voters, white and
black. and by frauds in the count, leg
stature with a democratic majority large
7nough to do as it pleases will meet at
Annapolis.
In a Baltimore special to yesterdays
Star appeared this statement:
THE democrats are now solidly in
trenched in power, the old guard in the
saddle and will prepare an amendment
or dlsfranchisement before the legisla-
ture-
This amendment Is being prepared by
IS" Loeb Straus. the incoming attorney
r.n=ral. and will be passed by the legis-
atura for submission to the voters and
he suffrage fight of 1905 is on again.
TIE democratic leaders acknowledge that
they will pursue this policy. At the same
time. they claim that they will eliminate
from the proposition Objectionable points
n the Poe plan, which, In part caused its
defeat two years ago by nearly 5000
ma jority. A conference will be held
shortly in this city and prominent repub-
Hcan leaders in the state will be asked
to attend and aid in framing an amend
nent that will be acceptable to both
PARTIES
That is to say, an attorney general
lected by fraud on the suffrage will
prepare an amendment for purifying the
suffrage, to be voted on by legislature
also elected by fraud on the suffrage!
Could fraud go further? Could impu-
dence mount higher?
But, We are told, in order that every
thing may be regular and no complaints
be made later, the republicans are to be
called into conference and asked for sug-
gestlOns. Is it possible that the repub-
licans can be persuaded to confer with
such men such matter? Do they not
know what the real object is, and the
men who have the business in hand? Are
not these men the political legatees of
Mr.. German and Mr.. Rasin, and are they
not inspired by the records and memories
Of the two old leaders, who in their life
lime played politics for everything under
heaven but the publication of the suf-
rage? Surely the republican leaders of
Maryland will not walk into that trap.
An intelligent and incorruptible cleo
torate is to be desired everywhere 1t Is
the ideal toward which we all should
labor. But we shall not attain it any
where by setting elections thieves, or the
beneficiaries of elections thievery, to
wedding out ignorant men from the suf-
erage for partisan advantage only. That
way lies a complication so foul that 1t
would be certain to add to our troubles
and make our last state worse than the
drst. If disfranchisement for partisan
ands is to come in Maryland the repub-
leans should not in any way assist