Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-01-29
CARDINAL OPPOSES
DlSFRANCHISEMENT
Washington, Jan. 80.

Cardinal Gibbons, as per telegram
from Baltimore today, expressed him
sell as opposed to the proposed amend
ment to the state constitution of
Maryland, which will be submitted to
the voters of the state at the next gen
eral election and which is known as
the disfranchisement" amendment
There has been little attempt to con-
ceal the fact that the purpose of the
amendment is to deprive the greater
part of the negroes of Maryland Of
their votes, and the cardinal bases his
opposition to its passage upon his be-
lief that only the negroes will be dis
franchsed and they should not be
thus Disseminated against
He also expressed the belief that
the objections to their exercising the
right of suffrage could be overcome
by other If less prompt, methods, such
as the education of the race and the
strict enforcement of laws looking to
the publication Of elections. 1t has
created CONSERVATION among the DEM
ocratic leaders and an equal degree of
exultation among the Republicans to
learn that he, one of the leading &C.
clesiastics of the world, had publicly
defined his attitude on the question
The amendment as proposed is SINH
lar in its provisions to the laws now
in force in many Of the Southern
states that have taken away from the
negro his right to vote. Two years
ago it was defeated at the polls, many
of the prominent leaders opposing it,
and also the governor. 1t is admitted
that the complexion Of the new gen
eral assembly which will choose a suc-
cessor to Senator Rayner, will depend
in great measure upon the fate OF the
amendment, hence the fight will be
more bitter than usual in this state
of close elections.
What is known as the "independ-
ent" vote is largely aginst the amend
ment, because it is contended that 1t
will result, if adopted, in taking Mary
land out of the doubtful column and
placing it on the list OF one-party
states.
Cardinal Gibbons confirmed class
of 112 at st. Mary's Catholic church
today, besides preaching the sermon
and delivering a special address to
those who united with the communion
of the church at Annapolis. Upon his
request all the boys gave their pledge
that they would abstain from intoxl-
cants till they became twenty-one
years of age. He said II they aD-
stained that long they would not likely
become Incorporate.
Delegate William H. Andrews OF
New Mexico, introduced the following
bills:
Granting pension to Joseph b.
Watrous. captain in General Romero's
regiment, New Mexico Volunteer In
fantry, of $50 month. Sybllle eros
sart. widow of F. w. Grossart Co. G.
41st Regiment and Co. D, 22in Regl-
ment Veteran Reserve Corps, New
York Volunteer Infantry at $56
and continue for her daughter
Mildred NJ, now 13 years old, at w
per month, until August II, 1910.
For the relief of Theophilus L..
Keen, that the secretary of the treas
ury be and is authorized and directed
to pay out of any money in the treas
ury of the United States not so 9TH
wise appropriated to said Theophilus
L. Keen, of Roosevelt county, territory
of New Mexico, $S,400 in full compens-
alton for loss of property sustained
by him at the hands of the Kiowa
Indians in the fall of 1892. !