The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-10-24
Mr.. Wallis on Senator German.

During the heated canvass of 1875, Mr.. S.
Teackle Wallis was very severe on Hon. A.
P Gorman's management of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, and his political methods in
MARYLAND. In 1880, as attorney of the Canal,
he eulogized Mr.. German. Following is an
extract from Mr.. Wallis speech, which APP
peared in the Baltimore Sun at that time: In
the argument of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal suit for the appointment of a receiver
in the United States Circuit Court of Balti-
more city, Mr.. Wallis, who appeared as one
of the counsel for the Canal Company, said :
IA revelation that was made to me justifes
me in saving what no man will suspect me of
saving insincerely, that in that campaign in
which | was candidate for attorney general
in 1875 there was no man who more under
rated than | did the ability of the president of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Senator A.
p. German |, and | say it here now, not be-
cause | am his counsel or the counsel of the
company, bit sdyit because al is due to truth,
and / ask your honors, after you have read the
record in this case and seen the testimony
upon this point, to judge whether | am right
or wrong. Taking the testimony which Mr..
German has given himself in this case, tracing
the history of his administration from the be-
ginning to the end, and if your honors do not
find in it the traces of BROAD, a MANLY and
al
with which NO GENTLEMAN WITHIN THE SOUND
OF MY VOICE STANDS UPON so LOFTY PLANE
as to Justify him in looking down on, then L
am much mistaken. With thorough com
prehenson of his position, able and persistent
in the defense of what he thought was right,
with a thorough appreciation of every detail
of the corporation of which he was the pre-
siding officer, and animated by steady pur-
pose, do not say it for your honors to adopt
it as the statement of counsel, BUT READ IT,
say-read it for yourselves-and let anybody
within the sound of my voice read it and come
to any other conclusion if he can. And when,
in the reflections that have been made upon
this gentleman, hear man like Mr.. Colston
sitting down and saying that if this canal had
been managed like the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, according to his notions of business,
it would have been much better thing, |
cannot help saying-and what is the fact
that there has not been solitary collision
between the Baltimore and Ohio Company
and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal since it
has been under Mr. Gorman's administration
where Mr.. German has not had the advantage
of the controversy. | do not know one soil
tary case of competition and business rivalry
between the two great companies IN which
Mr.. German was not triumphant. Go through
the testimony go through every part of the
legislation which has been had, and | say,
may it please your honors, there is a purpose
in the case not merely to treat him as a man
who has paved his road to preferment by dirty
practices, but an attempt to dwarf the intelli
gence, the ability, the administrative capacity
of ONE OF THE VERY ABLEsT MEN OF THE STATE.
l say it on my own responsibility, so far as l
am able to Judge of it, and leave it for your
honors to Judge whether have done it with
that impartiality which ought to belong to
counsel -