Democratic messenger., 1911-10-28

politics. During the aforesaid Re
| publican Administration Howndes)
| politics were injected into the schools.
competent Democratic School Super.
intendents and Democratic School
Teachers were replaced by incompet.
ent Republicans often placed In con.
troll although uneducated and per.
sons of the lowest order socially. Do
you want this condition again for your
| children? You cannot help Il II the
Republicans get In power In the
rich and intelligent city of Philadei.
phia with 20000.000 or more white In
habitants and only 10000 negro vot.
ers. the negroes have forced complete
snrality In the schools Can you pos.
siblv expect otherwise In Maryland. n
hthe $4,000 Republican Voters get In
power. when $4,000 of these voters are
negroes. DO you want equal equality
for your children with the negro chill.
dren? Will not such association de-
| grade and retrograde the white race?
The use OF frauds in elections is an
other reason for not voting the Re
publican Ticket The greatest fraud.
however, is the Political Purest Did
you ever know the Republican Elec-
torate to have a political contest in
their 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
hfaN " a.
work under q 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
late primary in that City only gained
on the recount 40 votes. And Mr..
Lee, his unsuccessful opponent only
gained II 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 for second choice. but upon
this tremendous lrreeularity--4 Elec-
| tion Judges and two Election Clerks
one half of these being Republicans
were indicted, and among them was
VIM. r. Wheatley, for 2S years Secre-
tary of the Corn and Flour Exchange
of Baltimore and afterwards the Presi-
dent of 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 were stricken off of the
books 4,317 names. 1854 of these only
were Democrats and 2139 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. II
was found that most OF the people
that they claimed were dead. repeat
ers or noaters 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 shucking oysters down the
Bay, and have only a change OF resi-
dence brought about by the temporary
necessities OF trade. II Is a cruel In
situation, II nothing worse. to call
these people fraudulently acting vot-
ers. Mr.. Goldsborough in his speech
at Frostburg. Md. talks upon the ques-
tion 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. az
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 10 wrong
doing. as the Democrats naturally are.
To show how the negroes are be-
ginning to feel toward the Republican
Party. the Afro American-Ledger OF
Baltimore In its Issue of October 14th.
and 1t must be understood that this Is
the leading negro Newspaper In the
South, says editorially. Republicans
have blundered enough in dealing with
the black race and what this race de-
lUdtluS IL tlul cOiOTeu men Oh UIODltF
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 he given
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 N Republican Cover
nor II he be elected hv the necessities
OF the case is restricted in filing the
appointed Offices to the members of
his own party and he cannot appoint
set OF officers who will be a credit
10 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 II
Same ~ onr haaf most cultivated aud