Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-21
THE CAMPAIGN AS SEEN IN BAL.
TIMoRE.

| publican Party, seems to be a real
nimble quick, in mind, as we'll as in
action. In his speech delivered in
! Leonardtown in St Marys County last
week, finding that his shafts of satire
I at the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, Mr.. Arthur p. German. were
| falling on bad ground, even in an audi
ence largely composed of negroes, he
reverted to Ancient Historic be-
smirch the brilliant record of that
noble son of Maryland, the father Of
the present Democratic candidate, the
| Hon. Arthur Pue German, the late
United States Senator from this State,
who has crossed the shining River, re-
| GREETED and missed by more sub
stantial citizens of the State than any
other grand public man which the
State has produced.
Mr. Goldsborough is alleged to have
said: "The policy Of the Democratic
Party, under the elder German was
to curtail the ballot, to practice tricks
upon the voters and to restrict the
| privilege Of voting in every possible
way" This statement is probably the
most uncalled for aspersion ever made
upon distinguished deceased states
man by fellow citizen of the State,
| to say nothing of its bad taste, the as
sertion is without foundation, in fact.
Every one in the State who is capable
OF knowing anything, can easily re-
member that during the 80 or more
years United States Senator German
was at the head of the Democratic
forces in the State, there was no cur
tailment of the ballot, and instead of
| his using his influence and prestige TO
practice tricks upon the voters and to
restrict the privilege of voting, that it
was his political hobby to get those
legally entitled to vote on the Regis
tration Books, and then to get them to
the polls to vote on Election Days
The United States Senator CO. man
always claimed that Maryland was
white mans State, and a Democratic
State, therefore the more people who
voted, the larger the Democratic ma
jorities would be, and that is the exact
condition today, and those who are
managing his sons campaign have no
fears about too many people coming
to the polls, because going back to the
traditions left by the Senior Mr.. Cor
man, they know, the larger the vote,
the larger the Democratic majority.
But Mr. Goldsborough also said. "The
Republican Party has been the one party
in Maryland fighting for fair elections and
a uniform ballot" In this statement he dis
| tinctly slurs both the Prohibition and So
| cialist Parties and so far as the Democratic
| Party is concerned, he is entirely wrong,
| and to convince him of this error, we refer
| him to his own record in his own home
| County Dorchester, where he is the Boss
of the Republican Party, composed largely
| OF ignorant, black people, and to his man
agement of Uncle Bill Jackson's Congress
sional Campaign in the First District, In
| which $4,000 was spent to secure votes
and is the worst political record known,
even when compared with Winconsin where
Republican United States Senator Stephen
son is charged with spending 100000 to
secure his election as United States Sen
ator, because Mr.. Stephenson had. whole
| State with a population of 100000 per-
| sons to cover, with an area Of $4,000 square
miles. whereas Mr. Goldsborough, for Uncle
| Bill Jackson, only had a District contain
ing about 100000 people with an area of
| about 1000 square miles the most Of which
is water covered. Mr. Goldsborough is con-
| tinually cabaling about the Wilson Ballot
| Law, in vogue in the Counties where there
| is a large negro population. In the Wilson
| Ballot Law Counties, Anne Arundel, Cal
| vert, Charles, Dorchester, Kent, Queen
/ Anne, Prince George, st. Mary's, Talbot,
| Somerset and Worcester, eleven out OF %
| Counties which only contain 100000 persons,
| and these brought down to a voting basis
| are 39.36S whites to 20,450 negroes, and this
| in an area of 1927 square miles, or over
| one third Of the area OF the whole State, but
| with assessed values of only $S1,000.00 for
| State Taxation, as against S35O1OO for
/ the other two-thirds Of the State, leaving
| out, of course, Baltimore City. These fig
| ures tell the story why the Wilson Ballot
| Law is necessity far more explicitedly thar
| oratory. Prior to the Wilson Ballot Law
| restricting negro domination, these sec
| lions were practically governed by negroes,
| and while among the most productive Of
| our lands, and the white people refined and
| intelligent, there was no progress and the
| territory did not produce its just proper
| tlon Of the States Revenue. Something had
| to be done, and it has been proven that
| the Wilson Ballot Law was the best thing
| 1t gave the white people control in their
| public affairs, and since its adoption there
| has been great progress and renewed thrift
/ in the Counties named. Further, the VIII
son Ballot Law is in every way legal and
i has stood all the tests in the Courts.
| IL Mr.. Goldsborough wanted to go to
| Ancient History. why did he not refer to
the time when the Republican Party was
| in high day in Maryland, when Charles C.
i Fulton, John L. Thomas and James A.
| Gary controlled its affairs and when, even
/ by the grace of this trio, a white man was
not as good as a negro. and a white woman
always open to insult from both males and
| females OF the Colored Race. This is not
a Fairy Story. Ask any white man with
i gray hair, as he sits around the country
stores in the Wilson Ballot Law Counties
| for his "reminiscences of post bellum times.
Mr.. Nimble Goldsborough is also trying
| to make mountains out OF mole hills OF the
recent assessment in the State. This is all
wrong, as there has not been one suit to
| the County to change the decisions of the
| County Boards OF Review, and 1t is a fact
4 that this assessment has been the fairest