Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-07-09
THEIR ONLY ARGUMENT.

The Republican party in this State is q
large and respectable organization, in SC
far as its white voters are concerned.
Of course its white voters have in pro-
portion their share of education and intel
ligence.
AS whole it is largely inferior to the
Democratic party in education and intell-
gence, because nearly one-half of the Re-
publican voters are negroes, and of course
they are not the equal of the white man
either in education or intelligence.
These facts being true. and they will not
be denied by any one of intelligence who
will give any consideration to the subject.
Still the intelligent white contingent of the
Republican party ought to be able to give
some good or intelligent ground for their
objection to the adoption of the Consti-
tutional Amendment.
Their leaders have met in conference
and their Central Committee has met and
considered the question time and time
again, and the only objection that they
raised to the amendment has been that
the disfranchisement of the negroes will
make Maryland a one-party State.
Do they mean to say that the Republi-
can party of Maryland is so weak that it
is helpless without their negro allies; If so,
then that is conclusive argument why
the Constitutional Amendment should be
adopted. for the only inference to be drawn
from that is that the Republican party can
only control this State by means of their
negro cohorts.
That means that when the Republican
party carries the State of Maryland at any
election. that the great majority of the white
people. and the great majority of the edu-
Gated and intelligent white people. are
dominated by small minority OF white
Republicans, and a small minority Of in
telligent and educated white Republicans,
in combination with a nearly equal num-
Der of negroes. Can a worse political con-
dition than that be imagined by an intelli-
gent people.
Think of the political destinies of great
State like Maryland being in the hands OF
small minority of its intelligent and edu-
Gated citizens. in combination with an army
of venal. ignorant and criminal voters who
are forced dragooned and paid to vote as
their white Republican bosses desire.
In the face of conditions such as these.
the only argument thus far presented by
the intelligent Republican cohorts of the
piebald combination known as the Repub-
lican party of Maryland. is that if the ne
groes are DISTINGUISHED it makes Maryland
one-party State.
They do not seem to be willing to trust
to that old. false and threadbare argument
of protective tariff and prosperity to save
them in Maryland. They do not seem
willing to trust in all of the stereotyped
arguments of the national Republican party,
but rest all of their hopes on the negro
vote.
They are not even willing to depend on
the vast millions of money that the Repub-
lican policy has forced the people to pay
to the favorite and protected classes in the
face of the dire calamity that threatened
them in the State of Maryland. but send
up wall to save their negro voters, so as
to save the life of the Republican party Of
Maryland. and to save Maryland from be-
ing one-party State.
If the negro vote is all that saves the
Republican party. or if that is all that gives
it vital existence. the sooner then that the
negro is DISTINGUISHED the better, in order
that the bubble may be exposed.
The earth has its bubbles no less than
the sea.
If the Republican party in Maryland was
strong and meritorious political organiza-
ton it would be a militant party without its
negro cohorts. One thing is certain. how
ever. 1t has never been thought merito-
rious party with its negro cohorts. because
the people have never trusted it with pow
er except once. in 1895. when the people
were so disguised by the bad conduct on
the part of the Democratic party. The
real truth is. that it is a one-party State
now and has been because the Republican
party forced negro suffrage upon the peo-
pie, and Maryland will continue a one
party State. while the Republican party
continues its utilization with the negroes
The white people of Maryland will never
permit the Republican party and the ne
groes to dominate the destinies of this
State Frederick Citizen