Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-06
WEEKLY LETTER oNcERNINo
POLITICAL AND OTHER
THINGS ABouT BAL.
TiMORE.
Baltimore. Oct. 4th. 1911.

" the Record says: There was more
signtneance in the speech OF Arthur
I. German, when accepting the nomi-
nation as Democratic candidate for
Governor of Maryland. than ordinarily
attaches 10 the platitudinous utter
arees deemed fitting on such oeca-
elons. Though reputedly strict or
gapisauop politician whom one would
nave expected 70 adhere TO the Gus
toms OF spouting. glittering but insin-
cere eeneralities, Mr.. German sur
pyfsed his immediate hearers and
gratiied the large circle of Demo
Gratis. who had opposed him as the
representative OF q so-called vicious
system, by particularizing just exactly
What he intended to do IL elected.
He did not merely say that he would
appoint good men to the offices which
ne would be required TO fill, but speci-
ned what kind of men he would APP
point, which means that none but the
best can expect preference at his
hands. Mr.. German also proclaims
himself a convert to the policy of
statewide direct primaries wherein
all executive officers, not excluding
governors, would be nominated with
out the Intervention of delegates and
conventions.
When a politician of the supposed
German type reaches this conclusion
one cannot but believe that a great
advance has been made in the politi-
cal morality Of the nation" II is also
most pleasing to the friends of Mr..
German to know that his candidacy
has been universally commended, not
only by strictly the party papers of
the State, but by all of the independ.
ent newspapers as well. With the
special commentators from leading
metropolitan papers of other states
on his remarks made at Fair View
when accepting the nomination.
1t is rather amusing to hear of Mr..
Goldsborough's claims of what he will
do when he becomes governor From
his acts it would seem that he never
expects to fill that exalted office, Ger.
tainly not by an election in Novem-
Der next, because while he has tacit.
ly resigned the responsible and we'll
paying Office OF Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue for Maryland, Della.
ware and District OF Columbia, he has
so arranged this resignation with
President Taft that II simply means
a holiday for campaign purposes, with
reinstatement after the campaign is
over, with all the authority and emol.
uments of the resigned" position
To some OF our friends who are
talking about what the Republican
party will and can do IL it comes into
office we would say not to overlook
the negro in the wood pile" and
that the African brother is only wait.
ing for a reinstatement OF an admin.
iStration similar to the Lowndes
regime to become the offensive citi.
zen of the. State to white gentlemen
and white ladies. Indeed, it is al
most impossible to conceive the airs
a negro can put on when he thinks
he has little power or influence back
OF him, and one peculiar feature about
the negro character is that as soon
as he gets his head up he gets toe
good to associate and affiliate with
other negroes, usually classed by the
upper ten of colordom as good-for.
nothing. low-lived niggers." This is
exemplified in a report that recently
comes from Texas that Booker Wash.
ington, good man as he may be, al
though he has never been able TO
quite explain that New York "circum-
stance" in which he was battered up
for following a white lady. While
travelling through Texas recently he
positively refused to ride in the cars
with other negroes, as required by
law in the Lone Star State, but to
keep himself exclusive and away from
his colored constituents and fellow
race people, he chartered a whole
Pullman car to ride the short distance
from Austin to Temple in that State.
One strong point in Mr.. Germans
candidacy is the remarkable array of
legal talent, really the brightest and
best lawyers in the city, backing him
up and without an exception il seems
that the financial men and the whole
sale merchants, who look to the South
for the principal parts of their trade,
are behind him to man, and claim
that the loss of the State to Mr. Colds.
borough and putting 1t under Repub-
lican domination would disrupt many
of their Southern financial and com
mercial relations and change them
from Baltimore into other channels.
Another cause OF congratulation to
those managing Mr.. Germans cam.
paign is the number of German, Har.
rington and Poe clubs which are be.
ing formed all over the State and the
very active interest which is being
taken by the young men of the State
in the election of the Democratic can.
didates.
We do not like to bring the negro
into too much prominence, but it
would be well to consider before de
Gliding to vote the Republican ticket
what the future of the negro will be
II raised in the social scale under
Republican administration The city
of Philadelphia furnishes most strik.
ing illustration of what the negro
Is or becomes with social equality.
Surely anything but a productive or
progressive citizen. Since the time OF
the Emancipation Proclamation by
President Lincoln the negroes in
Philadelphia have had absolute social
equality, intermingling in every way
with the white people. The children
attend the same schools, they eat at
the same tables in hotels and other
places of public entertainment, they
sit beside each other in churches, the
aires and in public assemblies. and to
all outside appearances are homoge
neous with the white race in every
particular.
In that city there are $4,000 negroes
and notwithstanding all the advan.
tages they have had, as named before.
a recent canvass of these negroes
rbOac that only AEn nf thar, bod 1-ov