Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-11
new DISTRICTS PROMISED
COMPROMISE PRESENTED TO
MARYLAND DEMOCRATS.
Representation According to Popula-
ton, However, Is Not In
cluded in Plan.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE Md. August 1.-Two ad-
ditional legislative districts, but no. rep
resentation according to population, as
dc manded by the more progressive MEM
bers Of the party. seem to be the compro-
mise which the county de .egates to the
democratic state convention offered TO
the c ty at the Aud forum Theatef today.
This program was p city wei framed
up las, night at the meet ng of the party
leaders at the Rennett Hotel, Wnete
United State Senator John Waite Sml n
and his friends, who control the conven-
tion oppo ed the idea OF giving the CITY
any increased representation basel upon
population on the ground that it will be
unjust to the counties.
The meeting in the thaater was an en-
thus aStic one. The auditor UNI was pfac-
tcally filled State Chairman Nanu yer,
who ca led The meeting to order, made a
strong plea for the suffrage anenqme ~
and increased representa- on for Ba -
more city, though upon the more vital
point of how much added presentation
he did not express his views. he oe-
clared that the amendment IS the con
trolling issue now before our peope, and
we should declare our position on this
question in clear-cut and most emphatic
terms
Vandiver on Suffrage.
MARYLAND must do in this vital matter
what our sister states of the south have
in recent years so successfully DONE ne
said. "She must eliminate our slllterate
negro vote and thus purify and strength
en- our suffrage. Ii IS impossible to over
state the importance of this measure OF
to appeal too strongly to our people to
come cut in the tullneSs of their strength
in its support. It's adoption viii place
the mana sement of our state affalrs De
yond all peradventure in the hands or our
white people, where IT rlghiuiiy belongs.
1.-The pr sent opportunity TO put our
suffrage upon the best and sureSt founda-
lions must not be lost. and it will not be
lost if the democracy will let nothing
keep them from the polls next November.
This measure appeals to our whole
people, irresT ective of party affiliations
and should be supported by democrats
and republ cans alike, for its deliberate
purpose is to rescue our suffrage from
the palpable and acknowledged evils and
perils of unlimited illiterate negro suf-
frage.'
Crothers Chairman.
Chairman vandiver nominated Gov.
Crothers as permanent chairman of the
convention, and there was d burst of ap
plause as the chief executive arose to
say few words of encouragement to the
democratic party upon the coming cam
paign. He declared that they must have
no division of opinion upon the excellent
candidates which they are about to nom
mate. but that above candidates and
political ambition they must remember
that they We're assembled principally to
form a platform which Will be acceptable
to the sentiment of the best people of the
state.
II want to say" he declared, that l
doubt if there has ever been democratic
convention assembled upon which rested
greater responsibilities than upon this
Before the assembling of the conven ion
it was practically certain that Joshua w.
Herring, the present incumbent, would be
renominated unanimously for state con-
troller. No other candidate has been men
toned. This was the only ate Office to
be flied.