Box 5

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Arthur Pue Gorman Papers Gorman's papers highlight the workings of Maryland's Democratic Party machine, especially its decline beginning about 1903. Two issues which reveal waning Democratic Party regularity were the Panama Canal Treaty, 1903, and the Poe amendment to the Maryland Constitution which proposed to disfranchise Negroes and foreignborn.Gorman was the minority leader in the Senate and a member of the committee on inter-oceanic canals when...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Arthur Pue Gorman Papers Gorman's papers highlight the workings of Maryland's Democratic Party machine, especially its decline beginning about 1903. Two issues which reveal waning Democratic Party regularity were the Panama Canal Treaty, 1903, and the Poe amendment to the Maryland Constitution which proposed to disfranchise Negroes and foreignborn.Gorman was the minority leader in the Senate and a member of the committee on inter-oceanic canals when...