Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-28
WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 28, 1903.

leading republican paper OF Baltimore
was auxiously engaged in an effort to
find out what was Mr.. Brysu's position
as to the negro vote. Of course Mr.
Bryan pays no attention to impudent
queries from any source, and certainly
he would not accept the Sun as his men,
tor or allow il to be made his father
c)pfessor. 1t was we'll known two months
ago. ss it is we'll known nov by every
one, that the negroes are going to vote
the republican ticket to the very last man
of them. This they have always done,
and they will continue to stick together
on Tuesday next. 1t can be stated In
all truth, this they would not do II
amenable to reason, and like their
white friends divide on political matters.
But it is Just as impossible for the negro
to get rid of his silly prejudices as it is
for him to change his color. Democrats
mske 10 effort to coerce the negro as
rich manufacturers do their white en-
loyees. Mr.. Murray Vandiver, chair
man of the democratic committee OF
effort to get the negro vote, and the Bal
timore republicans so admit, and Judge
Taft says the negro vote is solid. OhSi :
man Vsudiver knows the negro well,
and be has not forgotten, for we think
we have read more than once in the
6un the famous remark of the late and
former Senator Governor Hamilton, OF
MARYLAND, as true as iriie, that "the re-
publican parry in Maryland cast sixty
thousand votes before the polls
opened" meaoing that sixty Thousand
negroes would vote the ticket just as 1t
was handed them, regardless of whose
names or how many names were on the
ballot, and it can be safely predicted that
on Tuesday next the whole black race will
vote straight, and of the eighteen or
nineteen thousand in Baltimore all that
vote will wear the republican tag. The
Sun nov asks:
Is Mr.. Bryan in favor of extending TO
MARYLAND the restriction of the suffrage
adopted in the south?
We cannot speak for Mr.. Bryan, but
believe he is, and this is more thsn we
would venture as to the Suns position,
as it opposed the 1905 amendment and
has not given its support to the demo-
cratic ticket three and half times In
twelve years. Some weeks ago the
Montgomery Advertiser commented on
Mr.. Bryan's apparent silence on the
race question by saying:
II there is one thing more than an
other which should bind the south to
Mr.. BRYAN, it is his refusal to join in the
hue and cry against the southern states
for their determination to regulate the
suffrage and to rid themselves of vote
that menaced the people of this section.
Left to regulate this important matter in
their own way, IS the northern states
do. thew can assure the supremacy of
white government and the peace and
order of society, which can be done in
no other way. The republicans are for
ever rsntiDg on this subject, and do 1t
for political ell, Ct aud nothing else.
That plank of their platform was de-
signed and adopted solely to catch the
negro vote, which is their only object
in coddling the cOlOred race. Mr.. Bryan
is pursuing the proper course in not dis
cussing this matter. The Denver plat
form makes no mention Of it and he has
no call to refer to it.
No one need have any doubt as to tie
negro vote, for whatever may be the out
come of next Tuesdays election the
Sun and its allies can use the words so
familiar during the war-The coloIed
troops fought bravely.
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