Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-12-02
BALTIMORE REAPS WHAT SIZE
SOWS.

Elsewhere is reprinted an editorial Of The
Baltimore Neos in which the fate of Balti-
more is bewailed for having published in
the New York morning papers accounts,
first, of the clashes between election super
visors of Charles county and the Federal
court authorities of this State over the
conduct Of the recent election there under
the Wilson ballot law, and, second, of the
fact that the residence section Of Baltimore
city is being so threatened with negro in
habitancy that the West ordinance is being
pressed to stem the tide.
So serious is the latter problem that a
staff correspondent of the Nesos has been
sent through various leading cities Of the
South to study conditions there, with the
result that this correspondent Of news
paper which opposed the Poe amendment
and the Straus amendment has reported
to its readers in Baltimore. the very center
Of opposition to the disfranchisemen of
the negro, that since the elimination Of
the negro from politics in the South there
is no manifestation in these southern cities
of the '.neeros desire to force himself into
white residential districts" and to be, as
is in Baltimore today. "a constant men
ace to the social quietude and property
values
1t is equally patent that, although the
negroes individually and collectively are
most injuriously affected by Republican
tariff law which the people in every other
Congressional district in this State repudi-
ated on the eighth instant, yet the ne
groes in Southern Maryland are SO numer-
Gus, ignorant and unmindful of their own
interests and the interests of their neigh
bors that they succeeded in sending to the
House Of Representatives a "standpat"
protege Of Sidney E. Mudd to represent
the Fifth district of Maryland in Congress
for the next two years. The old recon-
struction spirit Of this type Of Republicans
is so strong that the first act of this newly
elected standpatter is to appeal to the codi-
fed remnant of Federal statutes, enacted
for the subjugation of the white people of
the South, during period Of our country's
history of which every decent white Re-
publican is now heartily ashamed, as a
basis for Federal court aid in the re-en-
slavement Of the white people Of the East
ern Shore and Southern Maryland
No one supposes that the white people
Of Southern Maryland or Of the Eastern
Shore relish the Wilson ballot law or be-
lieves that they are unwilling to abide by
the will of the majority of the white people
there; but everyone knows that negro
domination is a curse both to the negro
and to the white man. and some of the
hrainest and most conscientious lawyers
a this State are convinced that negro en-
reimbursement is in violation of that part
Of the Constitution Of Maryland which the
other States of this Union cannot legally
infringe under the guise Of amendment to
the Federal Constitution or otherwise.
The opposition to relief from the negro
in politics has come from Baltimore, where
the negro question has at last begun to
pinch. and to pinch in two tender spots
the home surroundings and the financial
values Of property.
The sympathy of the State goes out to
Baltimore in her sad plight. The Nescshas
no hope for solution by the West ordinance
The NesOs has proven that negro disfran-
chisement has solved the same question
in the South. The NeIos does not approve
the Wilson-law plan Of negro disfranchise-
ment. Is it possible that the Nesos regrets
its opposition to the Suaus amendment
Our esteemed contemporary is entitled
to credit for its intelligent and progressive
stand on other questions, and we yet hope
to see radical change in its former atti-
tude on negro franchise in consonance
with the published results of its own in
vestigations.