The Washington bee., 1907-10-19
NEGRO ITS BIG ISSUE
MARYLAND'S PROBLEM,TO SKIN
OR NOT To SKIN?

NEGRO ITS BIG ISSUE
MARYLAND'S PROBLEM,TO SKIN
OR NOT TO SKIN?
NATIVES FAVOR AFFIRMATIVE
Republican Standard Bearer Seems TO
Have the Best Show Personally but
Democracy's Stand Against the Black
Vote Is a Stronger Card - Good
Breeding Is an Asset.
(From the Heraid.)
Baltimore, October 7.
Niggers skun disturb no more;
Maryland, my Maryland.
Peel the niggers to the core;
Maryland, my Maryland.
Black Republicans amy roar,
Let 'em holler till they're sore,
Well tan coonslins on our Smokehouse
door;
Maryland, my Maryland.
Maryland's Democracy, not wholly
clear upon national enthusiasms, has an
issue upon which it is sure of itself. In
the lame and knouy transcription above,
the war song of the Democratic hosts
not vet officially in the hands of the
printer, is roughly set forth. If the
verse form here adopted does not trace
exactly the course of the campaign, It
IS within easy seeming distance OF the
trail along which the hunt will be dl-
rected.
With other satisfying information con-
cerning the preparations for war, 1t Is
told that nothing goes but pure primer
ple. nothing of debate but reflections on
constitutional truth, no personalities, nc
invectiye. no unpleasanness for candi'
date or orator. In a contest over rip
} ping off the negro's hide, the gentleman
or darker hue must, of course, take th'
fortune of war. White gentlemen, Sc
thew say, will be dainty, gentle and cere
nonious toward each other. Senate
Whyte declares that the campaign mus
be one of mutual courtesy and comPil
ment for the tickets and stately argu
l,,,a,, on the questions. Gov. Warhel
likewise calls for hostilities fairly eXhal
= ing dignity and velvet-coated with III
banitv They mean il, because they thu
smoke the minute the Republicans ha
treated their gubernatorial candidate
Judge Crothers, as one PanckS treate
:. Casbv in the Dickens story. Pancks,
will be recalled, rudely and suddeni-
>, N view of the a5sembled populac
:. sbeared off the venerable locks and tn
brim Of the patriarchal hat, transform
= ing his fatherly philanthropist into
\ cheap hypocrite. Judge Crothers IS NJ
= changed to a cheap man or hypocrlt
:. The press has not discovered a crlll
: or serious shortcoming, but acu
: Democrats realize that the Judge 5
.f longer venerable or impressive; that
= strength of his party, himself rankin
= as an ordinary courthouse politician ar
nj lawyer from fair to common IN abili
n and ardor for reform.
- Sfatg'S Condition Unique
=. Now. this means something, for Il
,Ie supremacy of the leisure and educat'
ID classes is no joke in the State whic
re solitary in the Union, voted Tor Wh
- candidate in Buchanan's year. Nobo'
# saws So for publication, but udewat
II Marvlanders like to think that their pr
20 lie men are gentlemen; by which ter
70 fhev mean, not the bare honesty OF i
- and goodness of heart which pass
i most sections, but established social Il
of inc scruple of deed, polish OF speech a
H. distinction Of manner. Gather, Repu
ed Hcan nominee, has Crothers at dlsa
= vantage here, so that, after the Baltimo
News had reduced Crothers to the n'
- nal human dimensions of commc
. Mace country lawyer of rather thick 81
ss- and an eye for sordid gain, it was woi
rrh;,a n, the Democratic side TO make
- - nartv and not a personal fight Fr'
80 sanitary standpoint, the war VIII
"a as clean as the Dutch houseWii
the kitchen.
~ q, the issue of white and black,
- Democrats have a big start. Ihey Ok
- - their own party solidly, and half OF
=. present generation of white Republic
IA IA nav h. counted as secretly with the