The citizen., 1911-09-22

stop, look, ana nSIcu, " sec VIM ~ -
and what party it is, that raises these
issues
For if these issues were raised by
ticket composed of men of such an ex-
alted station and political life and char
acter, and were the candidates OF polit-
ical party whose past history in the
State of Maryland or elsewhere was I'M
macula,e and without taint or blemish,
and whose record was such as to
indicate that only the public good had
been their inspiring motives: and the
only objects thai their party had ever
had in view in all the dark past. then
these issues that they present to the
people. would be of great force and
effect. But are the nominees of the Re
publican party on the State ticket men
Of this exalted political character, aud
is the Republican party the high-toned
organization that has always in lhe past
had only the good Of the people in view,
and for its inspiration only the good
government of the people, Tins is the
same Republican party hat gave the
people Master for Mayor OF Baltimore,
and Lloyd Lowndes for Governor, to-
geiher with Legislature that has been
the shame and dlshonor of the State
from then until now. This ticket is not
one whit better or purer than was that
of Lowndes and Master They have
not refined or changed their political
morals or their politics since eighteen
hundred and ninety-ive, nor their polit-
ical affiliations. They are still following
the black heifer-the negro voter. That
is their hope and political salvation.
There has been no change came over
the dreams of the Republican party and
there has been no change in its character
nor any betterment in its intentions.
1t is the same Republican party that
forced upon the electorate Of the State
Of Maryland the fifty thousand illiterate,
preiudiced. and utterly incompetent
negro voters upon all absolute equality
with the white man.
The only object in this debauchery Of
the franchise, and the only purpose that
they had in view, as Henry Winter
Davis proclaimed. was to increase the
Republican votes in the ballot boxes.
These fifty thousand negro voters,
largely criminal. and ihree.fourthS venal,
that have debauched the franchise Of the
proud old State Of Maryland since
eighteen hundred and seventy All of
our sister States OF the South. save and
except unfortunate Delaware and Mary
land. which are still under the degrading
conditions OF negro ignorance, negro
criminality and negro venality at the
ballot box.
This condition is the direct act of the
same old Republican party that has nom-
mated the present Republican ticket. and
the ticket and each candidate on the
ticket is a Republican, and neither one
or the other, is any better or worse than
his party. Each and all of them stand
for the debauchery Of the electorate by
fifty thousand illiterate, ignorant and
venal negro voters with all that it i'm
plies. Suffice it is to say, that it does
not lie in the mouths of the Republican
candidates nor the Republican party to
raise the question of honest election
laws. They have corrupted every ballot
box in this State, and made every cleo
ton in this State corrupt by their fifty
thousand negro voters, three-fourths of
which were venal. and by this act have
forced the white men of the State by the
highest law known to man-the law of
necessity to neutralize the venal negro
vote, and he has done it by the only
means in his poverty money and the
Wilson Ballot Law. These same Re-
publicans have used more money than
the Democrats, because they have had
more, and because the negro could not
be controlled without it. The only
trouble with the Republicans is the SEN
egambIan in the wood pile, and the Dem
ocratS want to divide him. and they will
divide him, if not in one way then in
an other. for self preservation.