Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-10-30
Gov. CROTHERS
AND DR.. Herring
Addressed Immense Meeting In
The Court House Last Tues
day Afternoon.

last Tuesday when Governor Austin l..
Crothers and Comptroller Joshua W.
Herring addressed the people of Worces-
ter County. The seats in the Court
room were all taken a half hour before
the speakers arrived. The aisles and
doorways were packed and jammed
with people and great many were I'M
able to get inside the room.
Senator Moore called the meeting to
order and introduced DR.. John w. Pitts
as the chairman of the meeting. DIR.
Pitts then introduced Governor Crothers
while the audience applauded and the
splendid Pocomoke band played inspir-
ing music. II would have been impos-
sible for the Republican party of Wor-
cester County to have held such meet
ing. There were many ladies present
and they appeared very much interested
in the speeches. Governor Crothers
plunged into his speech with an earnest
ness that caught his audience at once.
He hit straight from the shoulder and
said this was no time for Democrats to
be giving complimentary votes to Re-
publicans. He said that il was the duty
of all Democrats all men who believed
in the supremacy of the white people of
Maryland to stand shoulder to shoulder
in solid phalanx for the Amendment
and every man on the Democratic ticket.
He said he had served in the State
Senate with Senator Moore and knew
him to be valuable senator. He said
the Republicans would be powerless to
accomplish anything for our people if
any of them were to be elected, but as
there was no probability of any Republi-
can being elected in Worcester County
he would dismiss that subject without
further thought.
Governor Crothers declared that if
the Amendment was passed that white
men would have less trouble to get
registered than they now do and that it
would effectually remove from our
electorate the shiftless ignorant negro.
The Amendment will protect every
white man in his right to vote and it
will be as free to him as the air he
breathes.
Governor Crothers further said:
This is, indeed. great and import
ant campaign, and our party is aroused
as have seldom known it to be because
of the great interest in the gravity of
the issues involved. We are making
our fight boldly and openly. and are ad-
dressing ourselves to the intelligence
and consciences of the people of the
State.
II have regretted to see the attitude
of the Republicans in this contest. They
seem to rely upon abuse and villfication,
and to indulge in scare-crow arguments
and misrepresentation of the real issues
of the contest as their only artillery in
this fight. While want to speak with
perfect respect of our friends on the
other side, no man can observe the
character of the campaign they are
making without being driven to the
conclusion that they are willing to adopt
any method that can possibly tend to
their holding on to the illiterate negro
vote, notwithstanding that it blocks
progress and is menace to good
government, solely and purely for the
narrow purpose Of political power. We
are not disturbed by this, because we
have the greatest confidence in the
integrity and intelligence of the white
people of the State. We are not dis
turbed by their abuse, because we real
ize that that always Injuries the party
that INDUCES in it more than the party
abused. A good cause doesn't require
it: bad one is never helped by it, The
man who patiently and thoughtfully
reaches his conclusions is always tolerant
of those who differ with him, while the
man or the party whose motive for
political action does not square with his
Judgment or conscience is apt to resort
to abuse to try to make up for the weak
ness of his cause.
"There is nothing that would contri-
butte as much to the moral welfare of
the State as the adoption of this amend
ment. There is nothing that could be
done that would be really as helpful and
beneficial to the negro himself as to
turn his attention to industrial persuits.
and not intoxicate him by keeping him
in politics. for which he is entirely unfit. I"
"Our party in this campaign feels
confident of victory, because it feels in
view OF the wise legislation that it has
adopted and the carrying out of the
promises it made in the past, such as
the passing of splendid Corrupt Prac-
tees act, that will attract to its staaI-
ards the moral sentiment of the State,
and with the other wise and constructive
legislation that it makes its promises in
this campaign to the people, and points
to its splendid record in carrying out its
pledges in the past. 1t has promised to
give increased representation to Balti-
more city, and it is going to carry out
to the letter that promise, which means
so much for the progress and benefit of
that great metropolis of the State.
"Our party is united, as never before,
because its triumph means so much for
all classes of our people. The laboring
classes will unquestionably be the most
benefited, as the adoption of the amend
ment will keep back the large influx of
the negroes of the States in the South
where amendments have already been
adopted. who have been waiting to see
the result here before making up their
minds to come in upon US, and these
are infinitely worse than those we now
have"
At the conclusion of Governor
Crother's speech, DIR. Herring was intro