Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-28

PoNtFs A4e0 o2,tUU or tleSe NOLerS are
negroes Do you want equal equality
Tor your children with the negro chill.
dfenE VIII not such association de
grade and retrograde the white race2
The use Of frauds IN elections is an.
other reason fog not voting the Re
pubhcan Ticket. The greatest fraud.
however is the Political Purest. Did
you ever know the Republican Elec-
toFate 10 have a political contest in
eheIr own party where the grossest
frauds were not practiced. Give them
the political machinery. then good bye
white man. Just now the cry comes
from Baltimore. Wolf, Wolf! Election
frauds, in which both the Democrats
and Republicans have been concerned.
But the investigation of the ballot
boxes on a recount after three weeks
work under a biased Grand Jury Fore
man, who broke the sanctity of his
Grand Jurors Oath by stating publicly
that before he got through the work
of his Jury, he would smash the
Democratic Ring" of that City, which
meant the Democratic Party, after all
the buster, after all the sensation up
to Saturday night, Oct 14th, Mr.. Cor
man, the successful candidate in the
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on the recount 40 votes. And Mr..
Lee, his unsuccessful opponent only
gained "a votes Mr.. Lee has never
intimated that he was cheated in any
way. In one Ward, the 18th, 10th
Precinct, German gained by the re-
count for second choice and Lee
gained 2 for second choice, but upon
this tremendous irreguIarity-4 Elec-
ton Judges and two Election Clerks
one half of these being Republicans
we're indicted, and among them was
VIM. F. Wheatley, for IS years Secre-
tary of the Corn and Flour Exchange
of Baltimore and afterwards the Presi-
dent of a Trust Company, and known
far and wide, as one of the most hon
est, reliable and upright men the city
ever produced
In the new Registration in Balti-
more which Republicans and Dem
ocrats alike agree, leaves the voting
books of that City cleaner than ever
before, there We're stricken off OF the
books 4,317 names, 1854 of these only
were Democrats and 2,139 Republi-
cans, and of these Republicans 1,404
were negroes. a great deal has been
said in Baltimore about the voting OF
repeaters, fioaters and dead men.
Upon an investigation of this list as
presented by the Reform League. it
was found that most of the people
that they claimed were dead, repeat
ers or floaters were actual citizens,
regular legal voters, who at the time
OF the spring election were in the
country, picking strawberries and
peas, and are now engaged in catch
ing and shocking oysters down the
Bay, and have only change of resi-
dence brought about by the temporary
necessities Of trade. 1t is a cruel In
situation, if nothing worse, to call
these people fraudulently acting vot-
ers. Mr.. Goldsborough in his speech
at Frostburg, Md, talks upon the ques-
ton of the Wilson Ballot again and
speaks of the election supervisors in
the Wilson Ballot Law Counties. one
third of whom are Republicans, mem
bers of his own political family, as
men who annually violate their oaths.
II seems to us that the Republican
supervisors in these Counties should
be as indignant at Mr.. Goldsborough
in this sweeping assertion as to wrong
doing, as the Democrats naturally are
To show how the negroes are be
ginning to feel toward the Republican
Party, the Afro-American-Led OF
Baltimore in its issue of October 18th
and il must be understood that this is
the leading negro Newspaper in the
South, says editorially, Republicans
have Numbered enough in dealing with
the black race and what this race de-
mands is that colored men of probity
be placed in charge of the political af-
fairs Of the race, which means that
with Republicans in power the
negroes will demand as they have a
right to demand. that they be given a
proportion of the public offices and
political management equal to their
vote representation. EX-Attorney Gen
eral William Sheppard Bryan, one of
the most thoughtful men in the State.
recently said "a Republican Cover
nor If he be elected by the necessities
of the case is restricted in filling the
appointed Offices to the members of
his own party, and he cannot appoint
a set of officers who will be a credit
to the State of Maryland, or who will
give satisfaction to our people because
he has not the material within that
party from which to select good ap-
pointees."
'The Republican Party has in #
some of our best, most cultivated and
high-minded citizens, it also has a
great number of negroes, both worthy
and unworthy, and also large mum.
Der of white men of the basest sort
who are active in politics and who
try, through controlling the negro
vote, to be active and influential in
Republican politics, but undoubtedly
/ maintain the vast mass Of the great
respectable producing class in our
State. which gives the moral tone to
every community and from which the
officials to be appointed by the Gov.
ernor to the minor public positions
should be selected, is conspicuously
absent from the Republican Party
Therefore for these places and many
like them a Republican Governor
would have to go to Gus Barney or
Solomon, who have been active in
securing the negro registration or in.
fuential in controlling the negro vote
at Republican Primary"