The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-03-28
Negro in MARYLAND.

Editor Tue Washington Herald:
The revival OF the attempt to dis
franchise the negro by the Democrats of
Maryland should cause negroes in states
where they enjoy the right to vote much
alarm. The negro should conclude wheth-
er he is to be citizen or a subject, and
not consent TO the CrumpaCker scheme
4 10 reduce the representation. as the sole
remedy for the Acknowledgement Of the
negro voter. Many Of Crumpacker's sup
porters in Congress, who have an exceed
/ lngly large negro vote in their districts.
should take notice that their efforts 10
/ enforce section Of the fourteenth
amendment. after the Republican party
/ in convention assembled eliminated the
reduction of the representation plank from
the Republican platform, will be called
to the attention of the negro voters OF
their districts prior 70 and during the next
Congressional campaign.
The negro should do all in his power
to force the question Of disfranchisement
| TO an issue, free from the interference of
negro Judas Iscariots and Benedict Ar
nolds. If the negro remains silent at this
| psychological moment he viii surely be
doomed If doomed he must be. let him
go down with his colors flying. If the
/ negro is TO be restored to citizenship in
the States where he has been disfranchis-
ed, or II the proposed plans of the Dem
oerats of Maryland and the present Dem
ocratic Secretary Of War 10 eliminate the
negro politically as a solution for the
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Republican party must enact a federal
election law or let the situation remain
as it is
The situation undoubtedly demands the
passage OF a Federal election law which
will prescribe the qualifications requisite
for citizens of the United States to vote
for Federal officials and members of the
legislatures of the several States when
the members of the legislatures are to
elect United States Senator. Then. if
the States persist in denying the right to
vote at any election, in violation of sec
ton of the fourteenth amendment. for
| executive and judicial officers of the
States or members Of the legislature
| thereof. whose election is not provided
for in the Federal law. the representation
should be reduced in accordance with sec
ton Of the fourteenth amendment.
From the election of 1876 to and includ-
ing the election of 1892. or five Presidential
elections. the Democratic vote in each Of
the following States consistently and
steadily increased, viz: California. Con-
necticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland
Massachusetts Missouri, New Jersey
New York, Ohio. Rhode Island, and West
Virginia. For the same period the in
crease in the Democratic vote was inter-
cepted by decrease once in each of the
following States. viz: Delaware in 1855,
Iowa in 1880, Minnesota in 1892. and Wis
consin in 1850. The above results accrued
when the Democratic party was in its
normal In contradistinction TO its abnor-
NAL condition. which was brought about
by the substitution of Organism for JEFF
fersonian Democracy. In the Presden-
tiai election OF 1904 the Democratic party
was poweriess to extricate itself from the
wreekaGe caused by Bryan's free-silver
heresy, free-trade policy. sntiimperialistic
doctrine, and other Populistic theories.
although Parker. The golden shepherd
with the silver flock" declared for sound
money in opposition to the free-silver
declarations of his party in 1895 and 1900.
and its silence on the money question in
1904 at the st. Louis convention, he was
unable to rehabilitate and restore his
party to its normal condition. In 1905
Organism was again the issue that led
10 Democratic diseord and defeat.
The increase of the vote of the Demo-