The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-23
SATURDAY, JANUARY %, 1886.
Mr.. German and His Enemies.

A stranger coming to Maryland during the
campaign last fall, would have supposed that
the Democratic party of Baltimore city was
divided and demoralized that Senator Cor
man was a corrupt and wicked politician, and
that the party throughout the state was about
to go to pieces. In Baltimore there was an
independent ticket, made up of selfstyled
Democrats and Republicans. Three daily
papers and several weeklies supported the
ticket. Great meetings were held, brass bands
PLAYED inspiring airs and eloquent orators
drew on their imaginations and pictured The
affairs of the city and state in dark colors,
while Mr. German and the recognized leaders
Of the Democratic party were held up to the
people of the city and state as the worst types
of political demagogues, ballot-box suffers
and corruptors of public morals.
In due time the municipal election III Balti-
more was held, which resulted in the success
of the entire Democratic ticket by large ma
iorities. The result was such surprise that
the independents were dumbfounded. They
subsidized completely, and did not offer any
excuse for their defeat. Fraud was not even
charged. A few days later, when the general
election was held, Baltimore gave larger
Democratic majority than for a number Of
wears previous, while in the balance of the
state nearly Is clean sweep was made. Coun'
ties that had been uniformly Republican for
ten and twelve years went Democratic. The
Legislature chosen was nearly unanimously
Democratic, and the Democrats were unani-
nous for the reelection of Senator German,
as shown by the caucus nomination and by
his vote on the reelection.
All this shows that the large meetings IN
Baltimore last fall were the result OF curiosity
on the part of the people to hear what the
sneakers had to say The leaders of the in
dependents mistook the curiosity for deep
sympathetic interest, and imagined there was
a great revolution in public sentiment, and
signal success was to follow their efforts.
They believed themselves to be great leaders
of the masses, and for this reason their down.
fall was the greater. Not one in ten of them,
in fact, had single thought or feeling in sym
patty with the people, and this the people
knew.
The whole movement was born of envy and
jealousy, and the leaders fairly dashed them
selves into such a fury that they could not see
any good in anything Democratic. Not salts
fed with their own oratory, and the gratuit-
GUS support of number of papers, they filled
the columns of the Sun with their gall and
venom at twenty cents line. They were
in whirwind of excitement, and imagined
that political blizzard would CONCEAL Sena-
tor German and the Democratic party But
it was all noise and bluster-a most ridicu-
lous farce, as the sequel shows. Senator
German has just been reelected Senator, a
higher honor than any man in the state has
heretofore received, while the names of Wal
lis, Bonaparte, Cowan, Marshall, Brown and
Findlay have all passed from public notice.
The Democratic party is stronger to-day than
it has been for some years-stronger without
its protested friends who last fall openly
fou0ht IT.