The Democratic advocate., 1909-05-14
4 HuMLIATINe CONFESSION.
Republicans Admit Their Only Hope
To WIN Is with Negro Votes.


Republicans Admit Their Only Hope
To Win Is With Negro Votes.
The Washington correspondent Of
the Baltimore Sun writes to that pa
per as follows.
In the considerable amount OF talk
concerning the Maryland suffrage am
endment, Mr.. Stone, Mr.. Bonaparte
and the other Republican leaders indi-
cate, as their principal objection to
II, that 1t will. according to them.
make Maryland a one-party State. In
deed, Il may be said this is almost
the only reasonable objection urged
by them. for the others are mention
ed as of merely secondary import
ance. Us not this humiliating con-
fession for the Republican party of
Maryland? Is It not a complete ac-
acknowledgement Of It's absolute depend
ence on the ignorant negro vote and
its unwillingness to stake It's
fortune on appeal to the senti-
ment OF the intelligence and sub
stance of the State2
Now gentlemen cry out in alarm
over the anticipation OF one-party
State as IL Il was something new.
There are now and have been for long
years many one-party States, some
OF them the largest In the Union All
the New England States. Pennsyl-
vania, Iowa. Michigan and numerous
others are one-party States But
they elect Republicans 10 Office which
makes II all right However. one
party predominance would not be a
novelty In Maryland. From 1854 TO
1860 Baltimore was a one-party city.
The affiliated rufian clubs Of Know
Nothingism, with the pistol and the
dagger. took entire charge OF the cleo
tions and put In Office whomeyer they
pleased. They needed no cunstitu-
tionai amendments. no forms OF law.
for diBfranchising thousands upon
thousands Of white men. No doubt
II these worthy gentlemen were alive
today they would lit np their voices
and weep with Mr.. Stone over the
proposed peaceful and lawful dIesran-
chisement OF the negro. They were
the political ancestors OF Mr. Bona
parte and Mr.. Stone Maryland was
one-party State from 1851 to 1861.
4 The political friends Of Mr.. Stone
through unconstitutional test oathA
and Federal baynnets. diagrsnchsaed
the body. OF the flower Of the white
manhood OF Maryland. In one OF
those years the entire city government
Of Baltimore NaE put into Office By
voters agRreEatlnF scarcely one-tenth
Of thpae legally qualified To exercise
The elective franchise What did the
Republican party leaders pf Balti-
more and Maryland do in 1867, when
large majority of the voters Of the
State who had been 20 long deprived
Of their rights we're about 90 come
into their own They rushed down
here into Washington and beaouEbt
General Grant. then III command uf
the army. and The Republican leaders
IN the Senate aud House, 10 give
back 10 them the hayonot. 50 that
they--One-fourth Of the VOTERS
could once more put their feet npun
the neeks Of their fellow citizens who
we're three-fourths. To the credit Of
those IN authority here at that time
they met with cold comfort. They
were told to so home ARD fight thair
political opponents with constitution
al and legal methods. They had no
resource but 10 follow this advice.
What was the Tegultl With no bayo.
nets and no test oaiha 10 lupede their
progress. the magnificent white cleo
torate of Maryland marched 20 the
polls and rolled up a majority of forty
thousand n does not seem so very
unlikely they may do IL again
Mr.. stone appears 10 be uruftiae III
hts threats OF what the Republicans
% Maryland are golug 20 do in case
OF the adoption of the suffrage amend.
ment. They can no longer come 10
Washington aud plead for hayoBsiA.
so they will look for punitive iagiaIa.
ton 10 Congress and for the annui-
ment of tho amendment 10 the United
states courts This iB all blum. They
viii get no punitive legislation from
Congress, and they viii get no an
nulmsnt from the courts. Just 80
sure ~ tie sun shines. should the
people Of Maryland adopt the anf
fragc amendment Il will stand. BIZ.
Stone VIII get the same practical ad.
vice from here that HIS friends Kot in
1861. Give up depending upon the po-
liucal slaves now forming the back
bone OF the Republican party in Mary
land and Aght white men with white
men for the approval of an Intelligent
electorate This is sound counsel,
and to take Il would be a noble ambi-
ton. What say you, Mr.. stone7