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Rh will be next year. The politicians of his party may advise him that the solid negro vote (for in voting they are indivisible) holds the balance of power in the great central States of the Union, and that in the States of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois it is essential to his party's success.

"In Maryland, where the negro vote constitutes two-thirds of the Republican party, it is an absolute necessity, for without it the State is hopelessly lost for the Republicans.

"Unless I mistake the temper of the people of this country, there will be the same revolution in public sentiment and the same protest that was recorded in 1892 by the white people of the entire Union against the administration of President Harrison for his attempt to force negro domination upon the South, and thus destroy that section and paralyze the industries of the whole United States.

"We are told that the President has declared to Senator McComas in unequivocal language that the forthcoming election in Maryland was not a local event, but one of National importance. In other words, the election of Mr. Williams as Governor of Maryland would be an indorsement of Mr. Roosevelt's administration.

"So this issue is forced upon us by the President. He has made the gage of battle, and we must meet it as becomes Marylanders."

Baltimore, Oct. 30.— Chauncey F. Black, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, and lately