Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-08-20
This statement is easily proved. When

land it was on platform the main issue
of which was the Acknowledgement of the
negro voter, and after an exhaustive can
vass, during which this was practically the
only issue discussed, he was elected by a
majority of $4,000. The amendment was
submitted in form which many of the
people of the State considered was danger
Gus to the suffrage of some of the white
voters, and for this reason, and this reason
alone, was defeated. The election of Gov
ernor Crothers followed on renewal of
the promise of an amendment to eliminate
the negro vote, showing that the objection
to the first amendment was due to its form
and not to the idea. The submission of
this amendment is an answer to the re-
peated mandates of the people of this
State.
Nothing in all history equals the preju-
dice, the unreasoning prejudice. with which
the attitude Of the people of this State and
the States south of it on this question is
regarded. No people in the world are more
kindly disposed toward the negro race than
the people of the South, and especially
Maryland. speak for every decent man
in the State.
mo white man in this State has any feel
ing of enmity toward any Woodworking,
self-respecting negro. We like to see him
do well, and he has a better chance of do
ing well in Maryland than in any State
north of the Mason and Dixon line. But
we do not believe that it is written in the
Book of Fate that he shall continue to par
ticipate in the government. No greater
wrong was ever done race than when
the misguided friends of the negro in the
North forced the Southern States to give
him the franchise.
Where there are only few negroes,
and they are regarded as curiosities, they
are pampered, and the low white politi-
clans run after them for their votes No
negro you ever heard of could help being
made fool of by that sort of treatment. 1t
makes the negro bumptious, disagreeable
to the white people and uppish. This en-
eenders feeling of real race hatred, which
is absent in the South. Then when one Of
the race commits some crime, the white
people do not content themselves with the
same measures that would be resorted to
in the South, of hunting out the criminal
and Furnishing him, but they blaze forth
at the whole race.
This doesn't happen in the South, be.
cause down there they treat him kindly
and keep him in the place God and nature
intended for him. This prejudice exists
in the minds of our critics, rather than in
the minds of the Southern people them
selves.
ut is strain on our people to keep the
negroes down. You know how our womer
have to live. Nearly all of the trouble ant
danger is caused by the participation o.
the negro in politics. The joining of thu
negro politically with the Republican part,
has time and again forced the white peo
pie to vote for the candidates on the Dem
ocratic ticket, against their will.
| THE only door to the suffrage for tn,
negro which can recognize is the proper
ty clause. If it were not for the bad effec
of the example there would be no objec
ton to this. When a negro finds, though
that another negro can vote and he can
not, simply because he has not as mucl
property as the other negro, he is very ap
to say to himself, I've got to stop takin
dope and shooting craps and get down t
work, and so the condition of the negr
will be improved.
II want to say just word about tn
objection so freely raised to any disfran
chising amendment that it will make Mary
land a one-party State. Making ii one
party State may have the same effect tina
it has had in other Southern States-forc
ing every white man to take part in tn
primary elections and when this happen
no boss rule can last, for no boss can bos
the whole people. If he can, it ought to b
satisfactory. for to boss the whole peopl
he would need to be a very good boss, in
deed"
Mr. Marbury here made a move to ceas
speaking, but cries of go on r. from a
over the house forced him to continue.
Il never was a violent partisan, he sale
smiling at the political leaders behind hin
but | am glad to see the party right o
this question of equal representation.
Then there is another question al
deeply interested in. This Legislature wi
elect United States Senator. My friend
it would be a shame to send a Republica
Senator down to Washington at this tim,
especially as the Republican party has ju.
demonstrated its incapacity to govern tn
people. Never since the days of Samu,
J. Tilden has the door of opportunity oper