The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-21
To the Political Supremacy OF the
Whites I'm Maryland, and may
D. Never BE.
Facts DiSprove Claim
~ the Democrats that Disfranchise-
~ ment of the Negro is Necessary to
Conserve the Government of tho
State to the> Whites.
(Horace D. Slater

} "'o IAdL 'IHe .COlOreQ vote
us not menace in Maryland. In
only one county Of the state-Charles
| IS mere near approach numeric-
ally or the colored to the white non
Juiatlon In that county, there are
! more white than colored register
go voters. In the whole state there
are $40 white voters to eyerv COL
| ored voter.
IN baltimore, there are at least
5000 .colored men entitled to- regis-
'iatloIi, whose names do not appear
On the books. For reasons hest
known TO themselves, they have de-
chned to avail themselves Of their
rights.
The impression is daily gaining
/ ground that the hidebound organiza-
Itlon Democrats who are urging tho
talsIranch1sing amendment, have AS
their object the Depreciation of
'nelr ohgrachy. They are not seek
ing to correct the evils they COM
plain OF and which do not exist but
10 buMd up one-party state. Sc
crstiy they believe they will be the,
winners, whether the amendment ia
rejected or approved. If approved.
they Will have everything their wav
FOR generation or more. IT defeat
ed, they can justify their past and
1uture resort to the cry of Neero
domination in the state government
ana III the government of some Of
the counties, by claiming that thew
dld all within their power to elm
mate. the colored vote by legal
means
!; u 4; Figures demonstrate that reliably.
speaking, the white population = ID
galning2 perceptibqy over the colored
AS Time goes by, colored vote, If ev-
ef menace, becomes less and less
a menace. From 1890 to 1910 the
colored population Of Maryland grow
faster than the white. In the later
year, out of every 1000 Marylanders
3S2 had African blood in their veins.
Since 1910 the whites have steadily
gained on the colored population
IN 1900, out Of 1000 dweMers in the
state 500 were white and only 1913
were colored
During the entire forty years
from the administration Of George
washington to that of Andrew Jack
son there never was a time when
maryland could not muster two
"nlte inhabitants to every colored
man. When William Mckinley was
elected the proportion of white to
colored men had risen more than
five to one.
In 1900 Maryland had a quarter
Oh million more people than it had
IN 1880. OF this increase more than
~ per cent were white The white
population during the half century
from 1890 to 1910 increased onlv a
little over SO per cent. In the so
years from 1910 to 1890 it grew
more than three times as fast, In
the ten years from 1890 to 1900
more whites were added to the Doh
ulat1on Of the state than in the whole
half century from 1890 to 1870. The
white population grew slowly until
In the fifties the great flood Of ELL
ropean immigration began its flow.
Ihen In the decade from 1910 to
1890 there were almost as many
white people added to the popula-
ton as in all the preceding half
century.
Inc argument is made that. color
cd people are coming into this state
from other states. That is true. JC
is also true that whites are coming
here. In 1900 the white natives OF
pennsylvania living in Maryland ex-
ceeded by upwards of 5000 all tho
oolored inhabitants of Maryland
born outside Of the state The
white foreign born population Of
Maryland IN 1900 was about three
and half times as numerous as
we're the colored people here resi-
dent, but born in Otner states or tor
rltorles or foreign countries. The !
census Of that year shows that for
every Co!ored man who had come i
into that state more rhrn two had
gone out Of it. On the other hand
there were $4,000 more white peo- |
pie born elsewhere residing in the
state than there were native Mary |
landers living in other states
SO long as the whites continue to !
come into Maryland from foreign /,
countries and other states of the
union in numbers as great as they
have been doing for the last so !
years the cOlorCd man must steadily {
become less and less numerically inn :
CONyINUED On PACE FoIrp