The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-09-29

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By reason of the number and fatality
of accidents growing out of the reck.
less driving of automobiles, and of
the danger and inconvenience thereby
occasioned to the people, we note the
necessity of amendments to the pres
ent Automobile Law, providing eff
fective penalties for such misconduct
upon the part of owners of motor We
hicles and their agents.
We would foster the interests of ag-
riculture by introducing into our pub
lie schools, especially in the counties,
modern and advanced education and
training in agriculture and farming,
/ by improving and charging the pres
ent plan of Farmers Institutes, and
by improving the curriculum and
equipment of the Maryland Agricul-
tural College with view to extending
its practical usefulness through the
rural sections of the State.
We advocate the improvement Of
the health laws of the State in all
such respects as experience has shown
to be desirable for the fullest protec-
yion of the health of the people.
We pledge the Democratic Party of
the State to do all that may be con-
stitutionally possible for the devel-
opment of the resources of the counties
of Southern Maryland, and the i'm
provement of that section commensu-
rate with other parts of our State.
The welfare of free State depends
upon the intelligence of it's people.
The education of the children of the
people is a supreme interest and duty
IF hn Wn rla m
the ample support and to all possible
Improvement in the public school sys-
TEN of Maryland, and to that end to
just and reasonable increase of the
salaries of the teachers in our public
schools.
Realizing that not only the prog
ress and improvement of the State,
but its tranquility, order and safety,
its dignity, fame and good govern
ment, indispensably and supremely
demand supremacy of its white popu-
lation-the clear and undoubted rule
of the white race, who represent its
civilization-and pointing to the fact
that the Democratic Party of Mary
land is composed of approximately
three-quarters of the white popula-
ton of the State, whilst more than
half of the membership of the Re-
publican Party consists of negroes,
without whose unthinking and undi-
vided support the Republican Party
would be an insignificant minority, we
solemnly admonish the people of
Maryland against the dangers of Re-
publican success in this State-dangers
Illustrated not only throughout our
sister States of the South until a
comparatively recent period but in our
own cherished Commonwealth during
the unhappy term of Republican mis-
government from 1896 to 1900 We
recall to the minds of the people that
in little less than one-half of the coun-
ties of this State the negro vote is so
excessively large and numerous that
in those counties Republican govern
ment Is negro government, pure and
simple, and we appeal to the intelli-
gence the justice and patriotism of
the white people of Maryland to save
their white brethren and sisters in
these counties from the evils of negro
domination.
Speaking for the Democracy of our
Commonwealth, we declare that the
political destinies CT Maryland should
be shaped and controlled, and its in
ternal tranquility guarded and pre-
served, by the white people of the
State; and whilst we disavow all in
tention to do injustice to our colored
population, we declare without reserve
our resolute determination to preserve
in every conservative and constitu,
tional way the supremacy of our race
We congratulate the Democratic
Senators and Representative in the
National Congress of 1911 that at the
Special Session they did so literally
and wisely fulfill every party pledge
We extend our Fluctuations to the
National Democracy upon the success
hat has attended the cause since the
Maryland Democracy last met in Con-
vention. In 1906 the country had only
nineteen Democratic Governors; since
then every State election has shown
Gains for our party: at the election of
1910, Maine went Democratic for the
first time in thirty years; Massachu,
sets, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, indiana and Ohio are now in
the Democratic column, and today, the
flag of the Democracy floats in triumph
from the Capitals of twentysiX States
of the Union.
All of this indicates that the trend
of public sentiment is in favor of the
election of a Democrat in the next
Presidential election, and in behalf of
our State, we ask that the Demo
cratic National Convention of 1912 be
held in the City of Baltimore, so
that the next President of the United
States may first be named on Maryland
soil.